Triumph of Mondragon

This essay by Robert Arnow is from the far-leftist website Zmag.

Entitled "Economic Freedom", it speaks of worker-owned, worker-managed cooperatives, especially the success of the Spanish-based Mondragon cooperative. With over 68,000 worker-owners, it is the largest and most successful of its kind on Earth. The article is highly encouraging, for worker-owned coops are a key component of a Distributist society.

We at the DR, however, reject the socialism of Zmag completely. It is not the failed ideology of Marx, Engels, Lenin, G. B. Shaw, Keynes and their ilk that will help humanity...

Distributism will.

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In Praise of Small Nations

This article, put up on the American libertarian website LewRockwell.com, is from the news website Scoop.nz of New Zealand.

It is a speech by Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable. It is about how the future trend of countries is toward small nations and devolution. We at the DR wish we were so optimistic as he, thanks to the trends among the global elite to unite the world under their misrule and tyranny.

But though libertarian in tone, rather than Distributist, the speech is a good one. We would suggest reading along with it the book "The Breakdown of Nations" by Leopold Kohr. In many ways, he influenced E. F. Schumacher, author of the seminal work "Small Is Beautiful". Both of these works are considered developments of Distributist Thought, each in their own way.

And both are recommended to all interested in building up a "Distributist library".

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Red Hands Across the Caribbean

This report, written by Nancy San Martin, comes from the Kansas City Star.

Cuba and Venezuela, both run by Marxist dictators, agree to cement new economic agreements with each other worth US$ 412 million. Part of that agreement will allow Venezuela's state-owned oil company to be part of oil exploration off of Cuba's coast.

The light of freedom is dying in Latin America, thanks to poverty, corruption, moral decay, drugs and Marxism. But turning to monopolist-style capitalism will not turn things around either. An all-around moral revival, done in league with introducing and practicing Distributism, will help to revive the fortunes of both the Caribbean and Latin America.

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Counterfeit Disaster Averted!

This report was filed to the Filipino news website ABS-CBN News around April 25th. There is also a gentleman's analysis of this on the "conspiracy debate" board of the alternative medicine website Curezone.com.

It reports that the Philippine version of America's FBI arrested two British men who had three trillion dollars in phony American bearer bonds. Their intention was to head for Zurich and deposit them there.

If these bonds were ever circulated into the American economy, the economic chaos would be inconceivable. With the nation's economy already US$ 7 trillion in debt as it is - with Communist China owning a good chunk of that in bonds and other debt instruments - such phony bonds would have tipped the country into economic collapse. Perhaps - may I not sound paranoid - even into civil chaos, giving the Bush administration the excuse to impose martial law. Forever.

This is all the more reason for we Distributists to demand both government and society to end lending money on interest - putting the dollar back on some sort of commodity-based basis - to end currency speculation - for ourselves personally to live below our means and quickly pay off our own credit cards and other debts.

All these are necessary steps to reshaping American society - as well as other societies worldwide - in a saner, Distributist direction. Let us keep praying and working toward that noble goal.

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Repentance of an "Economic Hit Man"

This interview is from the April, 2005 edition of the eco-agricultural monthly magazine Acres USA. Much, though not all, of what this magazine promote and supports falls in line with classic Distributist Thought, and we highly recommend it.

John Perkins is the interviewee, author of the book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". He tells of the things he used to do on behalf of certain groups in the US to ruin the economies of Third World countries. It is a devistating read, showing what those working for the Western version of a "New World Order" can do to the suffering poor nations of the world. What their counter-parts in the Socialist and Communist Blocs, of course, is worse and bloodier.

Let this be more fuel to our fire, so to speak. Let the end result be a greater resolve to pray, fast and work where we are toward fixing the causes that breed "economic hit men", whether monopoly capitalist, socialist, communist or fascist.

Though we may never see it in our lifetimes, continue to pray and work toward a Distributist Earth!

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Good Co-op News From Thailand

This report is from the MCOT company, which is behind Modernine TV, based in Thailand.

The Thai government wants to fix up the nation's agricultural co-op system, so as to increase sales. Thailand has over 6,000 co-operatives.

Congratulations on the government recognizing the worth and necessity of a co-operative economy, especially in agriculture. Let us pray to Our Lord that this will bring Thailand one step closer to becoming a Distributst nation.

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China Shocker!

Almost by accident, I found this report from the April 12, 2005 edition of the Epoch Times. This internet newspaper has published "The Nine Commentaries", on how Communist China has perpetuated a "cult of terror" in that poor nation. (But such it has always been with socialist, fascist and Communist regimes, as well as their ideological ancestor, Revolutionary France.)

How these Commentaries ever got past the strict Red Chinese government's censorship filters is beyond me. But as a result of folks reading and spreading these Commentaries...

Nearly 829,000 people have resigned both the Chinese Communist Party and League since November, 2004!

ALLELUIA! AVE MARIA!

That is an average of between 15,000 and 20,000 people every day!

Oh, if they now could only know of the Distributism of Belloc, Chesterton and their legitimate successors, to replace the lies they were fed with for so long....

Oh, friends, the God-given possibilities!

There is also a commentary by John Patrick, director emeritus of the China Support Network, set up to support Chinese democratic efforts and remember the sacrifice of those poor souls killed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He lambasts prominent American neo-conservative pundit George F. Will's seeming "trust" in the nation's stumbling foreign policy toward Red China over thirty-plus years. Well done, sir, well done.

Friends, please pray for China, that Our Lord that save that poor land from both further Red terror and the materialism that is killing both Russia and the West.

And that they may also make that great land a Distributist State of it's own free will.

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Babies and Bureaucracy

This column from the American libertarian website LewRockwell.com is written by Rob Blackstock. It deals with a huge bureaucratic mess created by a long-ago passed law in the state of Louisiana regarding child-support by negligent fathers.

Mr. Blackstock was not the father of the child in question, but it took many weeks of bureaucratic wrangling, a DNA test and thousands of dollars in attorney's fees to fix up the mess.

When the state/provincial or national governments handle cases like this that properly belong to the local communities, Kafkaesque chaos ensues. Though the libertarians are wrong on many issues, here they have hit the nail on the head, so to speak.

And shame on Louisiana for mishandling this case. We encourage any in that state to alert your representatives to begin permanently fixing the welfare laws there so that this farce Blackstock endured won't ever happen again...ever.

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Zimbabwe In Chains

Last week, neo-Marxist Zimbabwe - the former Rhodesia - held it's latest parliamentary elections. And like those in it's counterparts in other Communist nations, they were rigged to keep the rulung ZANU-PF party in power. As reported by Tafi Murinzi of IPS on April 9, those who have warned change through the electoral process wouldn't come were vindicated. The dying West has condemned this farce, but their fellow globalists in the so-called African Union and the SADC - an economic zone dominated by neo-Marxist South Africa - have endorsed it.

As Murinzi reported, the opposition MDC has ruled out court action to challenge the results, noting the last two times they tried ended in failure. (We in America sympathize, since we have had a similar run-around by the courts in trying to keep Terri Schindler-Schiavo alive.) So continual mass-action - the type of "people power" protests that brought down the Marcos regime in the Phillipines and put in Corazon Aquino - is thought to be the MDC's one remaining weapon for change.

Yet, like in other Communist and neo-Marxist states, the police and army have been arresting and assaulting opposition members where they can. Just like in Red China, where the Communist dictatorship continues to arrest members of the "underground" Catholic Church and the Protestant "home churches", an pre-election all-night prayer meeting was shattered.

Robert Mugabe, the 81-year old neo-Marxist dictator, secure in his arrogance at stealing this latest election, had the unmitigated gall to appear at the Pope's funeral, as reported by Reuters of South Africa. He could since the Vatican - thank God - is not a member of the EU. And the nations of the EU banned him and other government officals from entering their lands since 2000. Further, through the government-controlled Herald newspaper, he invited Prince Charles of Britain to visit the country when he wished.

Fellow neo-Marxist Kofi Annan, current secretary-general of the UN, has called for "unity" within that poor nation. Fellow neo-Marxist media outlets in southern Africa have also said similar things, blaming American and British interference for Zimbabwe's troubles rather than the tyranny of Mugabe's thugs. The April 7th editorial of Angola's Lusaka Post, currently on All Africa.com's website, is a good example of such willing blindness.

How can there be "unity" when the government continues - like in other Red and neo-Marxist regimes - to kill and assault opposition leaders, arrest them on trumped-up charges, deny them food and so on. As reported by the left-wing Washington Post via the Bangladeshi newspaper the Deccan Herald, Mugabe went so far as to kill 20,000 members of a southern tribe that protested government policies - and this was back in the 1980's.

And like in other neo-Marxist dictatorships, food and fuel shortages are accute. As reported by SwissInfo, there has been litle fuel for cars and trucks because Zimbabwe's foreign currency supply os almost at zero. Food supplies, especially in corn (maize to the rest of the world), are sporadic at best. Mugabe's regime blames suppossed drought conditions, but this was a similar excuse the so-called "former" Soviet Union used to excuse their lack of food to their starving people.

It is always the weather or "foreign sabotage", never us, they say by their actions. We are never wrong. Believe us and obey, or you'll be shattered like glass.

Short of Divine intervention, it seems nothing but foreign armies - American, Western or some other coalition - will have to kick Mugabe and his murderers out. But with the West in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and other places, that may not be possible in the near future.

In any case, when Mugabe and the ZANU-PF is finally kicked out, let Zimbabwe not bring in the horrid multi-nationals and their globalist nightmare futre to take their place. Let the people learn of Distributism and the insights of Belloc, Chesterton and their legitimate successors. Only here wil they find some glimmer of hope for that poor country.

Please pray for Zimbabwe, that Christ may have mercy on her.

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Remembrance and Thanksgiving

At 9:37 in the evening, Rome Time, the Holy Father, Pope John Paul the Second died. We at the Review ask all our Catholic readers to pray for his immortal soul, that he may escape damnation and rest in peace.

And at this time, we at the Review would like to thank all our readers of the last three months. We are still a very tiny blog, average at most ten readers a day. And yet, we have had readers from...

Canada - England - Scotland - Mexico - Singapore - Estonia - Japan - Romania - Phillipines - Thailand - Finland - Germany - Australia - New Zealand

We also have had readers from the US military and court systems, as well as those from various American universities.

We are so grateful for all of you, who have busy jobs and lives, to have taken up your precious, limited time to read our reports and opinions. It is our hope that you will continue to check in on the Review, and help to do your part to promote our efforts to bring about a Distributist Earth.

One last thing. For the most part, we never get comments to our articles and opinions. Public feedback is important, so that we may know what we are doing right and wrong, on whether or no we explain the Distributist position as clearly and completely as possible.

So please, do not forget the comment section below the reports, and take some seconds to give your views.

Thank you all so much for your time and attention. May Our Risen Lord bless you and your families through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and the prayers of St. Joseph the Worker.

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