Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 173

The Sydney Carton Party

By Patrick J. Buchanan

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

From "A Tale of Two Cities," Sydney Carton's words, as he rode the tumbrel to the guillotine, came to mind on reading [...:]

This Difficult Individual Eustace Mullins — and the Remarkable Ezra Pound

by Beatrice Mott — The Occidental Observe

Ezra Pound

Earlier this year my friend Eustace Mullins passed away. He had been ailing for some time — at least since I first met him in 2006. Hopefully he is in a better place now.

Mr. Mullins made a huge mark on the nationalist community here in the United [...:]

VIDEO: American Farmers Fighting Monsanto and Big Ag

There are 2 million farmers and 300 million consumers in the US. Standing in between are a handful of companies who control how food gets from one side to the other. 250 independent family farmers and community activists gathered for a town hall meeting to share their own experiences with big ag.

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VIDEO: Lehman Brothers Repo 105

Repo 105 is the title of a dubious financing transaction that Lehman Brothers used in 2008 to make its balance sheet look healthier than it really was. Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains how Repo 105 worked.

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Max Keiser Report: Scandals Behind Rigged Market Capitalism

Max exposes Goldman Sachs, derivatives, intellectual property rights to cooked books. They also cover how shenanigans and gimmicks are the new words for fraud… and the latest on Monsanto.

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VIDEO: Show Some Courage! Jesse Ventura Challenges Bill O'Reilly

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VIDEO: Obama Gearing Up for Iran Attack, US Disaster Looming

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An Inconvenient Fraud?

By Gerard Van der Leun – Penthouse Magazine

Al Gore and his pals in the science establishment want us to totally change our lives because of a theory that might not even be true.  Have the sacred cows of global warming been gored beyond repair?

It was good to be Al Gore in the last part of [...:]

The Rogue Nation

by Philip Giraldi – AntiWar.com…

In spite of the fact that the United States faces no enemy anywhere in the world capable of opposing it on a battlefield, the Defense budget for 2011 will go up 7.1 percent from current levels. A lot of the new spending will be on drones, America's latest contribution [...:]

The Off-Shored Economy

By Paul Craig Roberts – CounterPunch

In the 20th century, Detroit, Michigan, symbolized American industrial might. Today it symbolizes the offshored economy.

Detroit's population has declined by half. A quarter of the city–35 square miles–is desolate with only a few houses still standing on largely abandoned streets. If the local government can get the money from Washington, [...:]