By Georges Metanomski
GERMAN ARMY IN GHETTO
Editor’s Note: It is often said by elitists, to disparage democracy, that “the people” are not capable of making the hard decisions, where they can overcome their harsh circumstances by making severe sacrifices. This testimony of a survivor of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by the German armed forces in April 1943 proves that such a statement is not only false, but a lie about the strength and wisdom of the human democratic spirit. (more…)
By Ted Becker
Mark Twain
What red-blooded, patriotic American does not love Mark Twain, without a doubt one of the greatest writers and minds to have been produced in and by the English speaking New World? Don’t we all have our personal favorites? Huckleberry Finn? Tom Sawyer? The Jumping Frog? The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?
Just about every literate American has read SOMETHING by Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain. He’s an essential part of America’s national culture and character.
But there’s a lot about his thinking and writing that very few Americans know about, much less have read. You see: Mark Twain despised The American Empire. In fact, he was a founder and vice president of The American Anti-Imperialist League. (more…)
By Ted Becker
Throughout The Last Lost Empire, we have been showing how William Graham Sumner, in his immortal article in the 1899 Yale Law Journal was eerily prescient in predicting what disasters would befall the United States for becoming a European style empire. He predicted huge government, enormous debt, government subsidized businesses to support a gigantic military…all at the expense of America’s health, welfare and liberty. Well? Look where we are now. (more…)
from “Why Afghanistan?”
Center for Study of Working Class Life
Stony Brook University
About the Film (more…)
By Connor Boyack from LewRockwell.com
This is an except from a post on LewRockwell.com on March 8, 2010 and is just an excerpt. A much fuller explanation for this being a useful strategy for the successful future of the United States is in Chapter 14 of The Last Lost Empire. (more…)
Global Considerations
Views and debate relating to “The Last Lost Empire” with Ismail Rifaat
In the first place, I wish to congratulate Professor Becker on completing a monumental task. Ted and I have corresponded and exchanged views for roughly a decade now. I sympathize with, and endorse his views. I committed to blog under the above heading, and would like to express the following thoughts in the way of initiating blogging. (more…)
Planning for Survival by Ismail Rifaat
