Can Lebanon be Saved?

Can Lebanon be Saved?

“Well, we can all agree that the sea took 70 per cent of the blast!” a close Lebanese friend announced to me this week, with intriguing if doubtful science. I had asked him – because I knew the answer – which of Lebanon’s religious communities had suffered most grievously from the explosion that changed the…

Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve

Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve

Continuing from the prior column,John Remington Graham’s thesis that the mis-named “civil war” was fomented by bankers who desired a large national debt that they could acquire in order to expand and contract currency and credit and thus control the economy and government, I present today with permission Graham’s analysis of the repeal, in effect,…

Shield of the Union: How the Russian Navy Protected America in the Civil War

Shield of the Union: How the Russian Navy Protected America in the Civil War

Strange things happen in civil wars: During the Russian Civil War in 1919, 13,000 U.S. troops were dispatched by President Woodrow Wilson to occupy the cities of Archangelsk in the Arctic and Vladivostok on the Pacific. Half a century earlier, thousands of Imperial Russian Navy sailors and their officers flooded the cities of San Francisco…