The One and Only Correct Diagnosis of The Economic Crisis

Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty, Chapter 9, Inflation and the Business Cycle: The Collapse of the Keynesian Paradigm Addressed in Rothbard's other works, The Case Against the Fed, What Has Government Done to Our Money and A History of Money and Banking in the United States, is the issue of why and how an evil cartel of bankers, led by an alliance of the Morgan and Rockefeller interests created the Federal Reserve System in the First Place: To rip you off to finance wars of imperial...

Colin Powell: War Criminal

Rachel Maddow busts Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Secretary of State of the United States, as he pretends on live TV to not be qualified to know whether someone (him) would be in violation of the laws of war if that person had done what he did. He also, as The Other Scott Horton notes, acknowledges the need for an investigation - of him. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy "Why are we talking about this in the...

Fantasist Gingrich: US Should Preemptively Hit North Korea.

Newt Gingrich, citing a fictional novel written by one of his mates, fear-mongers that North Korea could launch a electromagnetic pulse attack against the US at anytime, and absurdly compares Iran/Hamas/North korea to Nazi Germany circa 1938, ...... and apparently the Hamas elite air force has just been spotted flying sorties over Texas, remember to duck and cover. Ok, that last bit was a joke obviously, but he does actually say all the other garbage, watch it - Perhaps Newt has been watching...

Robert Higgs on C-SPAN

David Theroux writes: Dear Lighthouse Reader, I am very pleased to alert you to two, very timely, upcoming C-SPAN TV programs featuring Independent Institute fellows: 1. Senior Fellow Robert Higgs will be the featured guest in an exclusive, three-hour interview on C-SPAN2's prestigious "In Depth" program to discuss his work as an author, economist and historian. With the deepening economic crisis, ongoing wars in the Mideast, enormous expansions of federal spending and power, and widespread...

Ron Paul Debates the drug war on CNN.

Ron Paul appeared on CNN and tries to answer questions and debate the drug war, but is mostly talked over by the host and other guest, he's visibly angry at the end of the segment.