1. Avnery: The Boss Has Gone Mad
(Newsletter)

...ough the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) and its agency the National Recovery Administration (NRA) were among Franklin Roosevelt’s proudest accomplishments, they were also among the New Deal’s...

2. 2008 Mumbai Atrocity
(Newsletter)

... 2008 As the anniversary of the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor rolls around, critics of President Franklin Roosevelt will again claim he had advanced knowledge of the strike and al...

3. Did Hitler Inspire the US Post-9/11 Tribunal System?
(Opinions/Politic)

...xample, to the U.S. Interstate Highway System, which was inspired by Hitler’s autobahn system. Or they might point to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, whose programs were remarkably similar to the socia...

4. The Phony Radicalism of Michael Moore
(Opinions/op-ed)

...ry-industrial complex was thriving. That seems fine with Moore, which puts him in the camp of the corporatists of Franklin Roosevelt’s Brain Trust, who thought free markets and competition among i...

5. David Swanson's 'Daybreak'
(Opinions/Review)

...t he said it was and got no congressional or judicial opposition to stop him. Bush and earlier presidents, including Franklin Roosevelt during WW II, showed that presidents are unencumbered by consti...

6. 'Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order:' Part 2
(Opinions/Review)

...ial cover-up. Other experts agree. The 9/11 story is preposterous on its face - concocted to hide the truth. Just as Franklin Roosevelt used Japan's Pearl Harbor attack (known well in advance to be c...

7. John Pilger on Honduras, Iran, the Media and Obama's Wars
(Opinions/Daily)

...vernment to take responsibility for those who cannot care for themselves. They want the “banks and the banksters”, as Franklin Roosevelt called them, brought to account. They have decent – I hesitate ...

8. Germany, 1939; America, 2009; And Perverted Science
(Opinions/op-ed)

... good housing, good education, good medical care, and good credit. Contrast President Obama’s attitude with President Franklin Roosevelt’s careful reading of public opinion in the Thirties that caused...

9. Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
(Opinions/Review)

... For its part, Britain intended to stay in the game, and in April 1945, Winston Churchill urged Dwight Eisenhower and Franklin Roosevelt "to launch an immediate full-scale war against the Soviet ...

10. Prosecuting Robert Kahre for Embarrassing the Federal Reserve
(Opinions/Politic)

...ey to plunder and loot the citizenry through inflation. The gold coin/silver coin standard came to a formal end when Franklin Roosevelt nationalized gold and made it a federal crime for Americans to ...