This article, written by William Jasper, is from the website Stop The FTAA.org.
This is an important essay that should spur us - in America, Canada and Mexico - to do all we morally can to stop the movement toward the FTAA cold. Defending the economic and political sovereignty of one's homeland is something we Distributists support. Crushing the move toward passing any pro-FTAA act will help to strengthen it throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance...thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste...if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than than Shakespeare. --- G. K. Chesterton from "What's Wrong With the World", Chapter IV "The Romance of Thrift" (1910)
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Though we Distributists and our Libertarian opponents are often at loggerheads on many issues, on this one we agree. From the website LewRockwell.com comes this timely essay by Bill Bonner, author of Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century. We suggest you read the essay and get the book, and act on both as quickly as you can.
Read more...As reported on Sunday the 18th from the left-wing Associated Press via Yahoo News, a new book just published exposed KGB activity in India during the 1970's.
According to the report, the book - called The Mitokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World - tells how Russian agents in the Indian government swayed Indira Ghandi's government to suspend civil liberties and arrest the opposition for over a year and a half. Also, as was mentioned in the excerpt printed by the Sunday Hindustan Times, nine candidates of Ghandi's Congress Party were actually KGB agents.
The Communist Party of India has denied the reports - which is par for the course for them. The Congress Party released a statement of September 19th, as reported in the Asian Age, denying it was infiltrated by the KGB, claiming it was - effectively - a lie of "Western propaganda". (NOTE: Link to article may have changed at the time of this writing.)
Thankfully, KGB operations during that time weren't always successful. As Indrajit Hazra wrote in the September 19th edition of the Hindustan Times, the book's author Christopher Andrew points out that the Soviet agents often exaggerated their achievements to their bosses in the Kremlin. This link will relate what happened when their dictator Leonid Brezhnev paid a visit to India in 1973.
The Asian Age interviewed Andrew, who is a professor at Cambridge University in England. He admitted he was "baffled" at the reaction it has stirred in India. He noted that the documents the book was based on have "been in the public domain for years".
This shows then - and now - that Communism was always a threat to the stability and harmony of a nation, whether India or America or any other. And with Russia and China co-operating further in economic and military matters in recent years, one cannot dismiss that the prospect of a Second Cold War is on the horizon.
Perhaps if India were a more stable nation by implementing Distributist policies, rather than Socialist ones, the KGB might not have made many inroads into the Indira Ghandi administration. Let this be a warning to us all to beware of pro-Socialist/Communist activity wherever we may find it.
Thanks to the American Chesterton Society's website, we bring you a essay from Chesterton's work The Well and The Shallows. It is a classic work on Distributism called "Reflections on a Rotten Apple".
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To get our minds off the debacle that is the relief effort from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, here is a series of articles from the April 2005 edition of The Angelus magazine, published by the Society of St. Pius X. They deal with the obsession for money in the current economic and political structure in America, if not the world today.
First, Ed Willock on the "Cult of Money":
Second, John Sharpe - head of Virginia's IHS Press - on "Why Money Is Sick":
Third, magazine editor and writer John McManus speaks on the roots of America's economic troubles with the "Economic War on the Family":
Finally, Dr. Peter Chojnowski reviews the classic Belloc work, Economics For Helen.
While news of the misery of New Orleans since Katrina hit it is spreading, as well as news of both accidental and purposeful sabotaging of relief efforts by the Federal government, comes this very hard-hitting column from columnist and former Congressional candidate Devvy Kidd. The new column is on the right-wing website NewsWithViews.com.
In light of what has been going on, it is apt that we listen to Mrs. Kidd's concerns and analysis. We Distributists are as concerned as every other decent human being regarding the pain and suffering going on in New Orleans. But we must, at the same time, not allow those in either big government or big business to take advantage of the pure hell infecting the "Big Easy".
We encourage all of our readers, here in America and world-wide, to pray for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, as well as the heroic rescue workers striving to cleanup the city and heal the wounded.
And again, we encourage you to visit the website of Network For Good and do what you can to aid the sick and sorrowing of New Orleans. May the Lord and Our Lady of Fatima richly bless you always.
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