"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
--Thomas Paine

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1. Top-5 Articles
2. Focus on the Tenth Amendment
3. The Populist Quarterly - New Edition!
4. Coming soon....
5. How You can Help Today

Excerpts:

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"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."
--James Madison

Table of Contents:

1. Join the Populist Pledge Program
2. Top-25 Articles from 2006
3. Flyers, Bumper Stickers and more!
4. The Fed: Jekyll Island Monster
5. Help the Populist Party Grow! 

Featured Commentary Excerpts:

The Fed: Jekyll Island Monster 
by Stephen Neitzke
With the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, Congress and the President unconstitutionally delegated Congress' specifically assigned duty to coin debt-free money secured by its precious metals.  They delegated that duty to a privately owned corporation whose expressed intent was to print debt-based, fiat money secured only by thin air, and whose many other expressed intents were the interests of private financial corporate ownership, not the interests of civil society or its Constitutional governance.

There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the give-away or delegation of any expressed duty/power to any other branch or institution.  The Federal Reserve act was unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous from its first moment of existence -- and remains exactly that today.

As with the unconstitutional statutes that overturn the constitutional rights of citizens in the I&R states, the Federal Reserve Act is a federal statute that overturns the constitutional rights of citizens at the national level.  This hundred-year-old trick of the super-bigoted class-race elite, their corporate sleaze, and their predator politicians is purely unacceptable.  In today's mega-corruption the old trick is a growing enterprise.  The 2-party, 3-branch, Bush-Cheney Usurpation has made it a chief tenet of their political science.

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government."
--Thomas Paine

Table of Contents:

1. The Constitution, the Executive, and the Powers of War
2. Help the Populist Party Grow!
3. Contract with America: The Bill of Rights
4. NEW! Bookstore and Supplies
5. Democrats, DU, and more

Featured Commentary Excerpts:

The Constitution, the Executive, and the Powers of War
by Franklin
The founders were absolutely clear in their demand that the country would only go to war upon the collective decision of the representatives of the People. 

Contract with America: The Bill of Rights
by Steve Osborn
The American People signed a contract. An agreement between the Governed and the Government. It is called the Constitution of the United States. The first ten amendments to that Constitution is known as the Bill of Rights.

As Justice Hugo Black stated, "It is my belief that there are absolutes in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be 'absolutes.'"

Think about it:

"This Constitution is said to have beautiful features, but..they appear to me to be horribly frightful...Your President may become king...If your American chief be a man of ambition and abilities, how easy is it for him to render himself absolute!"
--Patrick Henry

Table of Contents:

1. The Tyranny of the Executive Branch
2. Can Republics and Democracies really co-exist?
3. Help the Populist Party Grow!
4. Focus on the 10th Amendment
5. Impeachment, Iraq and more

Featured Commentary Excerpts:

The Tyranny of the Executive Branch 
by Franklin
An honest and logical study of the executive branch will show even the most casual observer that it has always been a source of the People's oppression; from its support of slavery, to its extra-judicial impositions in the war on drugs and the poorly-named war on terror. 

It is the principal evil we face today, and in the future.

Can Republics and Democracies really co-exist?
by Matthew Moseley
We all know that the Constitution was created to define what the Federal government could do and the Bill of Rights defined what they could not.  I believe by and large that the Founding Fathers (at least the Anti-Federalists) believed that it would be enough to define THE ONLY THINGS that they could do.  But it didn't last long.  Starting with the Second Continental Congress, cases like Marbury vs Madison, right up to today's Supreme Court defining the "Spirit" of the Constitution, the Republic has been beat down and turned into the whipping boy of a tyrannical oligarchy.  But were we really surprised?  When asked "What hath ye wrought?" Ben Franklin stated: "A Republic, if you can keep it!"

Iraq: Rape without a morning-after pill
by Ben Tanosborn
There is no morning-after pill that we can offer Iraq as we do the right thing - cut and walk - but there will be opportunities for us to make amends. We could not begin to compensate Iraqis for the incalculable pain and suffering we've caused them, but we can certainly show contrition by footing the cost of a reconstruction program; designed by Iraqis and implemented with help from competent international organizations, not us.

Impeachment is Not about Getting Revenge
by Steve Osborn
Nothing could have denigrated the office of the President more than letting a liar; thief and crook walk away from his crimes, unpunished. That sent a signal that any well placed two-bit crook could gain the office of the President, do anything he wanted, then walk away with no consequences.

"Government is the only institution that can take a perfectly good piece of paper, print some noble words on it, and make it perfectly worthless."
--Ludwig von Mises

Table of Contents:

1. Outing the Constitutional Criminals
2. Election 2006: The Real Winners and Losers
3. Help the Populist Party Grow! 
4. Special Report: Bill of Rights 
5. From the Midwest Populist Party

Featured Commentary Excerpts:

Outing the Constitutional Criminals
by Stephen Neitzke
We'll talk some details. But, in the last analysis, Aaron Russo's film, "America: Freedom to Fascism" is a force of nature. It rips through the secret society corruption culture's history, from 1913 on.

Election Results Provide a Big Boost to Big Government
by Harry Browne
As a result of Tuesday's elections, we can expect the growth in government to continue unabated - and probably to accelerate. We can be reasonably sure that the new Congress will pass a flood of bills that intrude government ever-more-deeply into our lives, as well as make government more costly (and even more inefficient).

How can I be so sure? Because the winners in the congressional races are virtually all advocates of big government.

Field of Screams: The Real Election Winners & Losers
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Forget political correctness.  The revolution has NOT arrived!  Bush is still president.  The corporate state is safe.  The Upper Class has little to fear.  Lobbyists will be writing different names on checks.  Winning Democrats will entertain more than they will produce historic restorative reforms.  Did Republicans deserve to lose?  Of course!

However, Americans who thought their votes would bring much needed change to our political system also lost.

Democrats' Turn to Dispense Placebos
by Ben Tanosborn
Just what illusory "major change" is the nation, or the world, contemplating? America's foreign policy will stay rigidly in place, even if there is some superficial cosmetic surgery to change the imperial dragon's appearance. Perhaps some new approach as to how the US might exit Iraq; forget about "victory". just exit!

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
--George Orwell

Table of Contents:

1. Featured Commentary (see below)
2. The Military Commissions Act
3. Volunteers Needed!
4. Foucault; Power; and American Empire
5. Six Things You can do Today!

Featured Commentary Excerpts:

Progressive Civil Disobedience
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
We tend to think of exercising power through the application of force or by strong overt action.  Another, perhaps more Eastern, way of seeing power is through withholding something or through denial.  For effective patriotic behavior today we must deny the corrupt political and economic system of what it wants from us - our participation.  Through denial we can remove credibility and legitimacy and open opportunities for fundamental change that no exercise of traditional raw power can achieve.  Populist power is the goal.

The Illusion of a Two-Party System
by Ben Tanosborn
For at least two generations we have been living the entrenched lie that ours is a two-party political system where the choice is one of substance, not of vestments. In a very simplistic way voters view the Republican Party as representing conservative ideas and values, while they see the Democratic Party as the advocate of liberal and progressive causes. In both cases we have it wrong: totally, completely and unequivocally wrong.

Organized--Unorganized
by Stephen Neitzke
We the sovereign people are powerful beyond imagining, if we're organized for anything. Not just casually organized for anti-war protests, flash mobs, NGOs that prop up the failed status quo, and the corrupt political parties, but formally organized into cross-country citizen action groups for every proactive anything, as well as for remedies outside the box of mega-corrupt representative govt.

Pax Romana
by Steve Osborn
I grew up in a nation that had been born of the dream of freedom from foreign rule, from arbitrary despotism. It was a nation that penned the Declaration of Independence stating that all men had been created equal, with the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It declared that these men had the right to rebel and form their own nation. That government was derived from the just consent of the governed, not arbitrary rule.

Poisoning US Troops: Anthrax, Lies and Vaccines
by Heather Wokusch
The US Defense Department quietly announced on Monday that mandatory anthrax vaccinations would resume for military personnel and civilians deploying to 28 countries across the globe and even for some based in the US.

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
--Thomas Paine

Table of Contents:

1. Featured Commentary (see below)
2. Just Released - New Edition of The Populist Quarterly
3. The Butterfly of Luxembourg
4. Combatting American Empire
5. What you can do to get involved Today!


Featured Commentary Excerpts:

Erosion of Democracy and Freedom in America
by Stephen Lendman
By its legislative action prior to recessing for the November congressional elections, the 109th Congress will forever live in infamy. It shamelessly sunk to its lowest yet depths in pledging its fealty to a morally depraved president who believes no one has the right to challenge his authority, champions the use of torture, defies constitutional and international laws and norms, (law or no law) conducts secret surveillance through warrantless wiretaps or any other means, and believes dissent is an act of terrorism

State Govt Unconstitutionalities Against Citizen-Proposed Law
by Stephen Neitzke
The leadership of both major parties have been involved in creating hundreds of unconstitutional statutes that provide continual variation on the theme of lawlessness against citizen-proposed law -- so that the people will not focus on the lawlessness of any one variation.

Now That You Could be Labeled an Enemy Combatant
by Heather Wokusch
Since Congress recently handed Bush the power to identify American citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely without charge, it's worth examining the administration's record of prisoner abuse as well as the building of stateside detention centers.

Claiming a Veto over the Constitution
by John De Herrera
There is no immunity whatsoever for anyone who attempts to overthrow, by any means, even ignoring something on purpose, our constitutional form of government. We have two amendatory processes in place. One is controlled by Congress, the other is not, and Congress cannot veto the second process.

Help Wanted: More Skeptical Citizens. Apply in Person
by James Rothenberg
This is not a time to remain quiet. The heart and soul of our country hangs in the balance. We who claim to cherish American ideals of liberty and justice cannot also support a government that kills and maims wantonly, that tortures unapologetically, that disappears people and punishes dissenters and whistle blowers.

"If you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"

Table of Contents:

1. Featured Commentary (see below)
2. Midwest Populist Party - New Website!
3. Wars and Debts and Taxes, Oh My!
4. Recent News Headlines
5. Take Action!


Featured Commentary Excerpts:

Direct and Extreme Democracy in Civil Society
by Stephen Neitzke
Extreme Democracy (ED) is a set of technology- and sociology-bound political concepts being developed in hopes of changing the nature of representation. ED advocates want citizen activists to have a greater role in governance, mostly through digital technologies that can bring together dynamic, ever-changing, issue-driven majorities (as opposed to traditional, rigid, party-line, ideology-driven majorities). They want the representative govt -- the repocracy, rule by representatives, new word to take away their false claims to democracy -- to become more responsive to citizen consensus.

Rumsfeld's Guinea Pigs
by Heather Wokusch
It barely made news last week when Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne called for the testing of nonlethal weaponry on US citizens in crowd-control situations. According to Wynne, "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation."

Neo-Progressives
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
What is now apparent is that we have a whole lot of "neo-progressives," people who have no hesitancy in supporting mainstream Democrats in the name of defeating Republicans. Neo-progressives cannot resist the temptation to support the lesser-evil as a pragmatic strategy, justified in the name of saving the country from yet more years of Republican dominance.

The Third Depression
by A. Scott Piraino
To finance our current account deficits, we have to import three billion dollars in cash, every working day. Our deficits now consume 80 percent of the entire world's net savings, and our demand for debt is increasing.   This is unsustainable.

How Terrorists Profit from Drugs
by Harry Browne
If drugs were legal - if Smith Kline, Eli Lilly or Bayer could sell drugs - prices would be so low that the profit would be no larger than in computers or food. So how could the terrorists make big money in such a business?

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one"
--Thomas Paine

Table of Contents:

1. Featured Commentary (see below)
2. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism
3. Defending the Bill of Rights
4. Recent News Headlines
5. Get Involved!


Featured Commentary Excerpts:

Without a Shot Fired: The Dustin Brim Story
by Lonnie D. Story
I have fought long and hard over this decision.  At a time when I have faced the greatest challenge of my present life and future, I have battled what I should and should not share of this work.  The excerpt below is somewhere within the first quarter of the manuscript that I'm currently working on - about Dustin Brim - a 22 yr. Old U.S. Army soldier that died shortly after being deployed to Iraq - and some stuff called Depleted Uranium.  It is not my nature to share my writings premature of the final draft.  However, due to personal reasons, I have made the decision to open a crack into the book so that no one forgets what has happened and what is important.   It is my genuine hope that your heart is touched, your spirit inspired and your will ignited.  I covet your prayers, Lonnie

7 Ways to Make Your Neighborhood Safer
by Harry Browne
America's crime rate has risen almost continually for the past 35 years. Very little of the great plans to reverse the trend -- whether mandatory sentences or more cops on the beat -- has helped to relieve the worst crime wave in the nation's history. And recent drops in crime rates still leave us far less safe than we were 35 years ago. Is the situation hopeless?

Homegrown American Fascism
by Stephen Neitzke
The elevation of GW Bush by SCOTUS in Bush v. Gore created a presidential usurper, not a president. The SCOTUS decision -- in violation of the Constitution's Article 2, paragraph 2 -- is so far beyond the Constitution as to truly make it nothing more than Bush's "goddamned piece of paper". Bush v. Gore also violated the rights of all Americans to have a president elected in accord with the Constitution, thus violating 18 USC 241 -- felony conspiracy against rights.

That Pesky Convention Clause
by John De Herrera
The clause, when satisfied, is peremptory, done without debate, and Congress has no option in the matter. That's the essence of the American spirit, that we consent to be governed, and when things go bad we can alter or abolish. That was the rebuttal that made the sale, and that's why we ratified the Constitution and became the U.S.A.

Americans' Unrealized "Peace Dividend"
by Ben Tanosborn
The era of America's political chameleonic experience saw its apogee with charismatic Bill Clinton. It was during his two terms in office that the scant waters of American liberalism were forced to pass through a filter to get any and all progressive impurities out of the way. before they could be allowed to merge into the American "mainstream." The surviving Democratic Party became de facto indistinguishable from the Republican Party: the same church, a similar domestic agenda, and identical foreign policy dogma. just two different collection plates for politicians to attain power.

How About "Cut and Walk" instead of "Cut and Run"?
by Ben Tanosborn
What appears as unforgivable to the Afghan people, perhaps more so than anything else, is the indifference in which they are treated, and the whitewashing of misdeeds by the occupiers.

Open Letter to the President of the US
by James Rothenberg
In your press conference you said regarding Iraq, "Leaving before the job was done would send a signal to our troops that the sacrifices they made were not worth it. Leaving before the job is done would be a disaster..."

Your line of reasoning reduces to appealing to your past failures to justify further ones. Because the first troop was sacrificed then 'n' number of troops must be sacrificed until it reaches a state of "worth", defined by the person ordering the sacrifices. Would you claim that we're still there in part to avoid this "signal" of false sacrifice? I think not.

What if All Drugs Were Legal?
by Harry Browne
The Drug Warriors' biggest argument against medical marijuana is that it's only the opening wedge in a movement toward total legalization of drugs. So, supposedly, we have to "nip it in the bud" - in the words of Deputy Barney Fife, the nation's first Drug Czar.

Shut Up and Pay Your Taxes to the Pentagon!
by Leslie Brundige
Recently, while in New England I learned that the United States government was going to evacuate it's citizens from Lebanon.  Israel's bombs were disrupting their lives in inconvenient and dangerous ways.  Further, these hapless citizens would be required to pay their government for their very late and ill-planned removal from the war zone.  I was stunned.  Expect absolutely nothing from your government, except prison time if you don't pay your taxes.