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Fascism and gov’t

The reality of fascism is that monopolies control the government, who in turn control the monopolies, but in a way that favors the monopolies of course. This is the essence of how the Nazis seized power – they got financial backing from very powerful cartels who appreciated that a dictatorship eliminated free enterprise thus [...]

Con Artist Bernanke: This may be worse than Great Depression

[ Ron Paul has repeatedly questioned Bernanke regarding the analogy between the current financial crisis and the Great Depression, and Bernanke has routinely disdained Dr. Paul. Now he has the chutzpah to proclaim to all the world that he's saved us all from a second Great Depression? This is a mind game of the [...]

Fertile Crescent ‘will disappear this century’

Is it the final curtain for the Fertile Crescent? This summer, as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle, farmers abandon their desiccated fields across Iraq and Syria, and efforts to revive the Mesopotamian marshes appear to be abandoned, climate modellers are warning that the current drought is likely to [...]