Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston of Attack the System for a written interview.
Topics include:
Keith’s interest in alternative economics that opposes both capitalism and socialism such as distributism
Why third way economics theories have limited influence but a large potential audience
A Traditionalist critique of Capitalism
Chesterton and Belloc’s views on Nationalism, Eugenics, and Imperialism
How Marxist viewed Distributism as a Petit Bourgeois movement
The Distributist critique of the welfare state versus the modern conservative view towards poverty
Taxation policies such as a Negative Income Tax and Asset Tax
Robert Stark talks to Kerry Bolton about his book “Peron and Peronism,” on Argentina’s Juan Person and his legacy. “Peron and Peronism is published by Black House Publishing.
Ellen Brown is a candidate for State Treasurer of California for the Green Party. She is currently chairman and president of the Public Banking Institute, which is an organization that promotes public banking in the United States and elsewhere.
Robert Stark interviews Greg Johnson on wealth redistribution and related topics:
Libertarian and the Tea Party as attempts to channel white political and economic anxieties into free market policies
How the threat of the underclass should not distract middle class whites from the threat of the overclass, which is shipping their jobs overseas and importing non-white workers
Why the Right desperately needs to deconstruct free market economic orthodoxy
Why it is a good idea to cap incomes
Populism as a moral principle
Why classical republicanism require a strong middle class
Why maintaining the middle class requires junking free market orthodoxy
Why redistributing wealth as a normal day-to-day policy is a sign of social imbalance
Why wealth redistribution does not need to be part of an egalitarian, socialist policy
Why a single massive redistribution of wealth after a revolution would be desirable
How to recapitalize and reindustrialize America
Why populism requires meritocracy
Why meritocracy requires a way to ensure downward as well as upward mobility
Why political and intellectual independence require economic independence
The Koch brothers
Distributism: why we want private property broadly distributed; why we want more small capitalists and fewer big ones
The craziness of the real estate market
Why mortgage interest deductibility is a racket that creates higher house prices and benefits banks
Why it is a good idea to limit the number of houses people can own
The prospects of breaking the ruling coaltion of plutocrats, public employee unions, and the underclass
The destruction of the white middle class in California and the creation of a Third World style plantation economy
Why the antebellum South was a form of capitalism not an aristocratic or feudal society
Robert Stark interviews Ellen Brown. Topics include:
Ellen’s book, The Web of Debt;
The history of banking;
The benefits of public banking;
The reason for the illegal immigration and how the bankers looted Mexico’s banking system;
Healthcare.
Ellen Brown is an American lawyer and author who since 2008 has become a well-known monetary reformer, mostly because of her book The Web of Debt. She has also written several books about alternative medicine. She is currently chairman and president of the Public Banking Institute, which is an organization that promotes public banking in the United States and elsewhere.
In The Web of Debt she analyzes the Federal Reserve and the private money cartel. The analysis is peppered with quotes from The Wizard of Oz, which she believes is an allegory about the need for monetary reform. She explains how the monetary cartel usurped the power of the vast majority of the global human population to create money out of thin air by so-called fractional-reserve banking, and also the negative impact this has on the well-being of people. In short, the consequences is that the debt increases in the world and the banks’ power increases. One of the solutions she sees for USA, and also for other countries, is a bank system which is used in North Dakota by The Bank of North Dakota.