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Podcast - Interview on Economic Warfare with Kevin Freeman, FDA
"Serious risks to the global economic system were exposed by the crisis of 2008, raising legitimate questions regarding the cause of the turmoil. An estimated $50 trillion of global wealth evaporated in the crisis with more than a quarter of that loss suffered by the United States and her citizens.
"A number of potential causative factors exist, including sub-prime real estate loans, a housing bubble, excessive leverage, and a failed regulatory system. Beyond these, however, the risks of financial terrorism and/or economic warfare also must be considered. The stakes are simply too high for these potential triggers to be ignored."
- Kevin D. Freeman, Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses – Analysis of Twenty-First Century Risks in Light of the Recent market Collapse
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Podcast - Interview with Olavo de Olavo de Carvalho
Professor de Carvalho is the President of the Inter-American Institute. Please visit the Institute's Website (link below).
www.theinteramerican.org/about-us/fellows/133-olavo-de-carvalho.html
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Podcast - Jeff revisits interview with Venezuelan anti-Marxist patriot Alejandro Pena Esclusa who was jailed by Hugo Chavez and recently released. He talks about the advance of Communism in Latin America
 Alejandro Pena Esclusa
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Totalitarianism
and the Empty Self
By J.R.Nyquist
In the concluding chapter of The Black Book of Communism Stéphane Courtois asks, "Why did modern Communism, when it appeared in 1917, almost immediately turn into a system of bloody dictatorship and into a criminal regime?" Going through the details of Lenin's career, Courtois fails to notice the obvious. One may set aside Lenin's theories as so much erroneous rubbish. One may set aside every detail of his career. The cause of Communism's bloodthirsty history may be found in the grandiosity of Communism as an idea, and the grandiose self-conception of the Communist as an agent of that idea. The successful strata of Communist revolutionaries suffer from an enormous, bloated egotism. One has merely to examine the psychology of a Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. Such are the special pampered children of history, magnificent in their own eyes, epic heroes, supreme and god-like agents of history's splendid drama. Here one finds no sense of self-limitation. There is only self-expansion. Unlike the well-adjusted human being, the aspiring Communist dictator is soaked in arrogance. From all of this flows the bloodthirstiness of the mass murderer. Identifying himself with the forces of history, the Communist leader puts himself in God's shoes. Here is a narcissism so pathological, an emptiness so profound, that nothing may come of it except monstrous crime.
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Russia's Disruptive Role
By J.R. Nyquist
On Sunday I spoke with Polish journalist Tomasz Pompowski, who wanted to give me an update on events in Europe. The picture he painted was not entirely pleasant. Russia, he said, was promoting economic and political instability.
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