The Founding of the American Red Cross

On May 21, 1881, humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons founded the American National Red Cross, now known as the American Red Cross.

Barton, who had worked with the sick and wounded during the war to prevent secession (aka American Civil War), later went on to work for the International Red Cross by helping wounded Germans during the Franco-Prussian War in the 1870s. After she returned to the U.S., she organized an American branch of the International Red Cross in 1879, and it became the American National Red Cross two years later.

In 1900, the American Red Cross (ARC) received its first U.S. federal charter; and Barton headed the organization into her 80s. She died in 1912.

ARC, which has morphed into an NGO (nongovernment agency that is, in fact, quasi-governmental) has always received favorable press and is seen by most as a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping the U.S. military and providing disaster relief both nationally and locally. But as Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz shows in his book “Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola — Nature, Accident or Intentional?,” the ARC has a sinister history.

Soon after the ARC received it second charter — which is still in force — in 1905, John D. Rockefeller, through his associates, took over the ARC and pirated the entire blood-banking industry. It was not for economic opportunity that Rockefeller made this move; it was part of his effort to control the field of medicine in America and carry out a plan to make a racially pure planet through eugenics.

Horowitz writes:

[A]t the end of WWII, the Dulles brothers (John Foster and Allen), in support of Rockefeller alliances, arranged false Red Cross identifications for Nazi war criminals, scientists, and military officials to escape through the “rat lines.” A couple of years ago, the New York Times carried a story that explained that Red Cross officials were aware of the Nazi atrocities occurring in the concentration camps of WWII. They said they were remiss in reporting their evidence. They omitted, however, the intelligence that the entire Red Cross organization was directed, from high above, by the same devils that directed the business dealings between the Nazis, I.G. Farben, the CIA and the Rockefeller Standard Oil Company from the rise of the Third Reich. No wonder, the New York Times reported in another article, much of the Nazi-stolen gold suddenly emerged in Rockefeller’s Chase Manhattan Bank… [and later] the Laurence Rockefeller-directed New York City Blood Bank knowingly released thousands of pints blood contaminated with the AIDS-virus, HIV, despite holding secret the oxygenation technologies capable of clearing the virus from infected supplies. After developing AIDS, approximately ten thousand hemophiliacs died throughout the United States, along with countless others around the world. Likewise, in 1999, CNN reported that approximately 500,000 Chinese people became HIV infected similarly through contaminated blood. Not to mention the millions of others who received the hepatitis B, C and herpes (cancer) viruses through contaminated blood, likewise preventable, but purposely neglected.”

More recently, the nonprofit news organization ProPublica (which is supported by donations from leftist causes) detailed ARC’s bungling of the relief efforts for superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Isaac. This included a lack of basic supplies to distribute to victims in the storms’ immediate aftermath, destruction of tens of thousands of meals because “it couldn’t find people who needed them,” slow response, inadequate supplies, misdirection and misallocation of services because volunteers were not given proper directions to the most affected areas, even while President Barack Obama and the media were encouraging Americans to donate to the ARC because, “The Red Cross knows what they’re doing.”

This followed allegations of similar bungling during the emergency responses to Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 attacks, in which it also faced charges of financial mismanagement that ultimately led to the resignations of a series of chief executives.

According to one whistleblower, Richard Rieckenberg, who oversaw aspects of the Red Cross’ efforts to provide food, shelter and supplies after the 2012 storms, said the organization’s work was repeatedly undercut by its leadership. Top Red Cross officials were concerned only “about the appearance of aid, not actually delivering it,” Rieckenberg says. “They were not interested in solving the problem — they were interested in looking good. That was incredibly demoralizing.”

A Ghana-based nurse wrote last year that the Red Cross was responsible for the African Ebola outbreak because “… it is only contracted by those who receive treatments and injections from the Red Cross. That is why Liberians and Nigerians have begun kicking the Red Cross out of their countries and reporting in the news the truth.”

Still, the Red Cross remains a magnet for wealthy and corporate contributors, drawing more than $1 billion in donations last year, including at least $1 million each from Lady Gaga, Nicolas Cage and the oilman T. Boone Pickens… and donations from many Americans who continue to believe the Red Cross is all about doing good work and doing it efficiently.

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