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Billboards are popping up outside Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune urging soldiers to disobey orders. “Marines: Not what you signed up for?” asks one. “Did You Go Airborne Just To Pull Security for ICE?” asks another one. The website urges soldiers to use encryption and offers ‘counselling’ on ‘disobeying immoral orders’. The organizations offering ‘counselling’ to soldiers include the National Lawyers Guild: a Communist organization which also defends Antifa.
The billboards are promoting a system that, in its own words, is “built to connect active duty, national guard, and reserve members of the military with key resources on responding to unlawful orders”. What that means is members of the military will be potentially discussing their orders with members of radical leftist groups sympathetic to America’s enemies.
This is not only sedition, it’s a national security threat.
‘Win Without War’, the group behind the ads, had been created as a front group full of young photogenic diverse figures by the Center for International Policy (itself created by the Institute for Policy Studies, to oppose the Vietnam War and any resistance to Communism) which has sponsored trips by members of Congress to Cuba, and is funded by Soros and the Rockefellers.
The radical leftist group also announced that it’s standing with the ‘Sedition Six’ in urging troops to disobey orders and circulating a letter stating that “we the people have their backs.”
Who is “we the people”? An Iranian immigrant who defends Iran and hates America.
The ads were tweeted by Sara Haghdoosti: an Iranian immigrant who heads up Win Without War. Haghdoosti, the author of a teen novel about ‘Islamophobia’, told MoveOn.org that “I moved to the U.S. to help start Berim, a new organization to amplify Iranian voices, get people outside of Iran engaged, and change foreign policy.”
Berim, meaning “Let’s Go” in Farsi, was billed as helping Iranian ‘social entrepreneurs’, in practice the organization served as a pro-Iran pressure group, urging Obama to meet with Iran’s leader (as part of a petition started by Haghdoosti), lobbying Congress to oppose sanctions and any action against Iran’s nuclear program. Berim cosigned letters alongside NIAC, known to many as a key part of the ‘Iran Lobby’, defending Iran’s nuclear program against America.
While Berim pretended to be a ‘grassroots’ group, it was closely intertwined with a network of leftist organizations opposed to America which became obvious when Win Without War ‘acquired’ Berim and Haghdoosti eventually became the executive director of Win Without War.
Like a lot of leftist anti-war groups, Win is opposed to America, Israel, and our other allies and supportive of our enemies. And that includes dismantling our weapons and defending theirs.
Sara Haghdoosti had claimed that opposing Iran’s nuclear weapons was a “racist trope” and revealed that President Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ would have prevented her mother from coming to visit her in America. At the same time, she has urged the dismantling of our nuclear defenses.
The incitement to treason ads escalated Win’s campaign to wreck the military into personally targeted attacks at the chain of command. Win is not a group focused on illegal aliens so it isn’t targeting soldiers because it cares about ICE, but because it wants to weaken our armed forces.
And the prime beneficiaries of such a campaign are in Haghdoosti’s homeland in Iran.
That an Iranian immigrant who has lobbied for our enemies and against our national defense can run an organization that is registered as a 501(c)(4) and a 501(c)(3) urging soldiers to disobey orders shows just how out of control the network of radical leftist groups has gotten.
Win Without War’s treasonous activities are heavily subsidized by George Soros and his son Alex through their Open Society networks. Win received $1 million from the Soros network in 2024 as part of $2.2 million over the years and its Center for International Policy parent had received $300,000 in startup costs to create the front group to undermine America.
Win is just part of a larger network of interchangeable organizations. The Center for International Policy had been set up by yet another front group of a front group whose trail ultimately led to the Soviet Union. Win has been funded not only by Soros, but other key leftist funding hubs including the Ford Foundation, Ploughshares and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Ploughshares had funded Haghdoosti’s Berim as part of Obama’s Iran Deal echo chamber.
After being pipelined through MoveOn.org, Haghdoosti is returning to the group where her husband Ilya Sheyman, also an immigrant, had served as its executive director to become its program director. Sheyman, who ran for Congress as a young ‘community organizer’ with Howard Dean’s backing on an Occupy Wall Street platform, now runs a political consulting firm with another MoveOn alum. Haghdoosti is still pitching her teen novel about ‘Islamophobia’.
Americans may not be living the American Dream anymore, but it’s still possible for two foreigners to live the dream of a million dollar Victorian house in a mostly white area, a lavish wedding and a career track of working to destroy America and the rest of the free world.
Haghdoosti is not the real issue. It’s the radical system that has become so arrogant that it can put out billboards targeting American soldiers through an organization run by an Iranian immigrant who defends her homeland and attacks America. The network of organizations and activists behind front groups like Win Without War are arrogant and they have reason to be.
No matter what they’ve done until now, nothing has touched them. Will that finally change?
