FDR

80th Anniversary of FDR’s Most Toxic Bosh

Today is the 80th anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s “economic bill of rights” speech.  Here are some pieces I wrote on that buncombe: RealClearHistory – January 6, 2023 – FDR’s Corrupt Concept of Freedom FDR’s Worst Perversion of Freedom: The “Four Freedoms” Speech Tags U.S. History 01/17/2019James Bovard  Mises Institute Franklin Roosevelt did more than any […]
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How Michael Hudson Explains America’s Annual $1.5T Military Expenditures

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On November 18th, the great economic historian Michael Hudson decimated the Nobel-Prize-winning (neoliberal-neoconservative, or pro-imperialism libertarian) economic theorists, in a conversation with the great geostrategic analyst Alexander Mercouris, by explaining something that all of those (all pro-imperialism libertarian) economic theorists (the mainstream economic theorists and pontificators) don’t even notice (which […]

Our Potemkin Presidency

Our Potemkin Presidency by James Bovard November 8, 2023 The Founding Fathers sought to create a government that would be under the law and under the Constitution. Since World War One, presidents have amassed far more arbitrary power to rule by decree. Every recent American commander-in-chief has expanded and exploited the dictatorial potential of the […]
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The Lies Behind Democracy’s Demise

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On November 1st, Christopher Black, who is one of the world’s leading international lawyers, headlined “The Collapse of International Law” and made his case that (and how) it was destroyed by the increasing hypocrisy that exists throughout The West and that is actually being applied by The West (though pervasively […]

Who are America’s allies in its long war to add Russia to its empire?

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) INTRODUCTION America’s war against Russia started on 25 July 1945, when the new U.S. President, Harry S. Truman, accepted the advice of his hero, General Dwight Eisenhower, to accept the viewpoint of the UK’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill (an admirer and follower of the imperialist Cecil Rhodes), who was saying […]

The U.S.-Allied Lies About History

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The U.S. Government and its ‘allies’ or vassal-nations lie in order to present themselves as democracies, as-if any imperial power, or any of its vassal (or colonial) nations, can even BE a democracy: that is impossible because none of the vassal-nations possesses sovereignty over its own land, and because the […]

Russia Announces Its Win-Win Model for the World Replacing America’s Win-Lose Model for the World

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) On July 26th, Russia’s RT News headlined “Putin makes Africa sovereignty pledge: The Russian president has addressed the continent’s leaders on the eve of a major summit in St. Petersburg”, and reported that, “In a welcome address to participants of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in St. Petersburg, scheduled […]

Why The Most Urgent Need, in Order to Prevent WW III, Is to End All Military Alliances Now

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) World Wars I and II were contests between empires, and so America’s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was determined that after WW II, all empires would be outlawed and all international relations (between nations) would be controlled only by a global all-inclusive federation of nations, which in 1941 he referred […]