Rodney Howard-Browne leads a mega church in Florida and was invited to the White House as a spiritual advisor to Trump. There are videos of Howard-Browne’s services that include the laying of hands, speaking in tongues, making animal noises, holy laughter, and worshipers falling to the ground. I know people that subscribe to his teachings and have traveled to Tampa Bay to attend his annual Fire Conference at The River Church.
The Killing of Uncle Sam purports to establish the merits of a “One World Order” conspiracy. Howard-Browne props up his claims with citations to flimsy secondary sources. I found quoted text in the book is often unverifiable, and reliance on primary sources is scant.
Although the book fails to establish the existence of a One World Order regime, the book does provide two useful insights:
1.) The primary sources that are cited reveal parts of America’s past that are rarely confronted. For example, Howard-Browne cites texts that undeniably demonstrate White Nationalism and White Supremacy guided leading American figures like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Jackson, Nelson Aldrich, J.P. Morgan, Cecil Rhodes (of the Rhodes scholarship), and many other influential elected officials and prominent leaders that shaped the U.S. And equally appalling is Howard-Browne’s condemnation of some of these figures for other reasons, yet he embraces and propagates a parallel white nationalist belief system, including a form of manifest destiny of the white race.
2.) The book is also useful for those of us interested in understanding the basis for the Christian anti-globalist ideology. Although the book lays out the conspiracy theories somewhat coherently, it does not convincingly establish that the House of Rothschild and the House of Rockefeller (through secret societies, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the CIA) are the puppeteers behind the establishment of a One World Order. Nonetheless, the reader will gain a broad understanding of the conspiracies relied on to support policies of isolationism and nativism.
I don’t recommend the book unless you’re interested in the second point above. You should also be warned that in addition to the book being racist and antisemitic (if you check the secondary sources cited in the book, many who subscribe to these conspiracies believe the One World Order is being advanced disproportionally by Ashkenazi Jews), the author is also highly homophobic and Islamophobic.
In a paragraph, the Killing of Uncle Sam chronicles many instances of U.S. domestic and global malfeasance, including such acts as toppling democratically elected foreign regimes, exploiting global resources, and war mongering. However, Howard-Browne is intent on attributing the blame to the fictional institutions of the House of Rockefeller and the House of Rothschild rather than corporate greed and government corruption by powerful corporate interests. Howard-Browne rightfully implicates both major U.S. political parties in the wrongdoing, but because of his misplaced blame on the phantom Rockefeller and Rothschild global cabals, he fails to identify valid solutions, such as reforming U.S. campaign finance laws and reducing the outsized influence of the corporatocracy on U.S. policy and regulatory regimes. Instead, he seems to side with the GOP as the perceived lesser evil of the two political parties, despite the GOP’s transparent agenda to enable the banking cartels, Big Pharma, the fossil fuel industry, and war mongers – those directly responsible for the malfeasance identified by Howard-Browne.