A New Alliance

“Pakistan and Iran need each other and no foreign pressure can hinder their ties.”

- Pakistan President Zardari

A shift in the relationship between Iran and Pakistan may cause a shift in focus on the Muslim world.

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/18-0

State vs. Liberty

Rockwell's analysis of the ongoing struggle between the forces of the state and those of classical liberalism.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller8.html

The Iran War

Robert Fisk on the saber rattling build up to an attack on Tehran.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-an-attack-on-tehran-would-be-madness-so-dont-rule-it-out-6358872.html

Selection of articles setting the scene for the 'inevitable' attack:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/iran-begins-monthlong-naval-exercises-near-strait-of-hormuz-key-world-oil-waterway/2012/02/04/gIQA80hfoQ_story.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/04/iran-military-manouveres-tensions?newsfeed=true

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/292810/20120203/iran-war-bomb-israel-panetta-attack-oil.htm

Money

"The monetary system that sowed the seeds of the Great Depression in the 1920s was a central-bank-manipulated and inflationary pseudogold standard. It was central banking that failed in the 1920s and stands discredited to this day as the cause of the Great Depression"


Talk given to the Mises institute regarding Money and the Gold Standard.


http://mises.org/daily/377/Money-and-Freedom

2050

Excellent map by Worldmapper.org recording a projection of the world population from 2050.

http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map11_ver5.pdf