Joel skousen jeff rense biography

American survivalist and author

For other persons with the surname Skousen, see Skousen (disambiguation).

Joel M. Skousen (; born September 22, 1946) is an American author of books on survivalism and candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election for the Constitution Party.^[1]

Biography

Skousen, born in San Diego and raised in Oregon, served as a USMCfighter pilot during the Vietnam War.

During the 1980s, Skousen was the chairman of the Conservative National Committee.

Joel skousen jeff rense biography

He was also the executive editor of Conservative Digest.^[2]

Skousen is the founder and chief editor of World Affairs Brief,^[3] a weekly news-analysis service. Some of Skousen's views are controversial.

He made the case that the Fall of Communism was, also as claimed by KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, a "carefully crafted deception," meant to gain Western aid and technology transfers that would eventually end in a resurgence of the Russian threat.

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