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The Need for Deindoctrination from the State Religion

On the Lion Zone podcast with Steve Johann, I dispelled state propaganda about a wide range of topics, including US foreign policy, “public health” policy, and economic policy.

by Jeremy R. Hammond

Aug 26, 2026

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I had a great conversation recently with Steve Johann on his podcast The Lion Zone. It was my introduction to his show, and you never know how it’s going to go the first time with a host, but Steve and I hit it off and saw eye to eye on every topic raised. It made for a very enjoyable discussion, and I hope you get a lot of out our exchange of insights.

The focus of the show was how to avoid being deceived by state propaganda. As Steve said while introducing me, “I like to educate people on how not to be deceived, and you're a perfect guest for that.”

We talked about the psychology of why people choose to be deceived and a broad range of topics including the US role in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Trump’s war on Iran, occult symbolism in Washington, the history of US imperialism, myths about Abraham Lincoln and the misnamed “Civil War”, the government-enforced medical cartel masquerading as a “health care” system, the vaccine religion and systematic violation of the right to informed consent, censorship of truth, and how the Federal Reserve system exists to economically enslave us.

This is a conversation you don’t want to miss!

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Interview Summary

Specific topics we discussed include:

  • How government propaganda creates a “state religion” that facts and logic struggle to penetrate.
  • Why questioning your own beliefs is essential to breaking free from indoctrination
  • How the public school system teaches myths about the role of government in US history
  • How the US has consistently waged wars on false pretexts, from the Spanish-American War to Trump’s ongoing war on Iran.
  • How the government created a pharma-centric medical cartel that masquerades as a “health care” system
  • How medical licensing serves as a weapon against physicians whose practice challenges the medical establishment
  • How “vaccine misinformation” is used as a euphemism meaning any information, no matter how factual, that does not align with the public policy goal of achieving high vaccination rates
  • The core fallacies of Keynesian economics
  • How the Federal Reserve creates economic bubbles and effects an upward transfer of wealth from the masses to the politically connected financial elite
  • How the government caused the housing bubble that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis while regime propagandists like Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman blamed the free market
  • How US foreign policy in the Middle East is largely centered around preserving US dollar hegemony
  • How what most of what people think they know about the Israel-Palestine conflict, from its origins during the Mandate era to today, just isn’t true
  • How the US Constitution was a worthy experiment—but ultimately a failed one
  • Why the fundamental premise of the “state religion”—that we need the government to organize our society for us—doesn’t withstand scrutiny
  • Why we need to instead organize society around the principle of non-aggression and voluntary exchange for mutual benefit

Highlighted Clips

People Live in a Bubble of Self-Delusion

Lincoln and 'Civil War' Mythology

"Vaccine Misinformation" Is a Euphemism

The Fallacy of Keynesian Economics

The False Pretexts for Trump's War on Iran

The "Civil War" and Failure of the US Constitution

The Fallacy of the State Religion

Americans' Belief in Zionist Mythology

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About Jeremy R. Hammond

About Jeremy R. Hammond

I’m an independent journalist exposing the state propaganda that manufactures public consent for criminal government policies.

My work examines US foreign policy, market interventionism, and so-called "public health" policy through one consistent lens: an uncompromising application of the non-aggression principle that transcends the narrow linear spectrum of "left" vs. "right".

Read about my mission and core values →

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