by Claudio Grass | LewRockwell.com | November 14, 2014 Close alliance among politicians, bankers and big enterprises This paper summarizes an outstanding essay written by Murray N. Rothbard in 1984, which appeared the first time in World Market Perspective and later under the same title as a monograph produced by the Center for Libertarian…
by Joseph T. Salerno | Mises.org | November 11, 2014 All governments are fundamentally oligarchic All governments past and present, regardless of their formal organization, involve the rule of the many by the few. In other words, all governments are fundamentally oligarchic. The reasons are twofold. First, governments are nonproductive organizations and can only…
by F. William Engdahl | November 11, 2014 American media is fond of speaking about “Russian Oligarchs” as if Russia were the only nation that allowed accumulation of such unprecedented wealth. The Yeltsin days of dis-order and collapse indeed saw the rapid rise of many fortunes and oligarchs—persons of very much wealth. Some of them…
by Jordan Michael Smith | Boston Globe | October 20, 2014 The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender…
Information Clearing House | 10 Oct 2014 Shocking documentary uncovers the subversion of Americas democracy. I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government. Note: The first one minute forty seven seconds of this program is in…
David Runciman | The Guardian | 10 Sept 2014 The idea of an “establishment” was first popularised in the mid 1950s by the journalist Henry Fairlie, who coined the term to describe how the elite networks at the top of British society closed ranks to protect their own. The particular instance he had in mind…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | July 14, 2014 From undermining the Second Amendment and influencing elections to sponsoring color revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the ominous footprint of George Soros is everywhere. The Hungarian-born billionaire and currency speculator who considers himself a messianic figure was voted “the single most destructive leftist demagogue…
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. February 1995 « Against Oligarchy – Table of Contents “For long years, King Edward wove, with masterly skill, the Nessus robe that was to destroy the German Hercules.” – Leipziger Neuste Nachrichten, after the death of Edward VII, May 1910 “What neither Azincourt nor Poitiers could do, the genius of Edward…
by Michael Krieger | Liberty Blitzkrieg | June 26, 2014 I want to know what’s to stop this revolution from turning into a violent, destructive mess. Steele is characteristically optimistic. “I have struggled with this question. What I see happening is an end to national dictat and the emergence of bottom-up clarity, diversity, integrity, and…
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. ICLC Conference, September, 1994 « Against Oligarchy – Table of Contents There is a cancer growing on world history – the cancer of oligarchism. Between 1200 A.D. and about 1600 A.D., the world center of gravity for the forces of oligarchism was the oligarchy of Venice. Toward the end of that…