The Rosen Report

On October 14, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in leading the non-violent resistance to racism, segregation, and discrimination against African Americans. He was the youngest person to have received the award, at age 35.  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-wins-nobel-peace-prize#:~:text=African%20American%20civil%20rights%20leader,ever%20to%20receive%20the%20award. Dr. King's story has been told many times over, and is well chronicled by documentaries and Historical accounts. My wife Martha and I were politically active for 40 years, and we were fortunate to have known and worked with some of his closest collaborators, such as Rev. James Bevel, and Ms. Amelia Boynton Robinson. We learned first hand from them just how difficult the pathway of non-violence actually was, in a nation where fire bombings, lynchings, beatings, and other varieties of indignity were carried out, in the name of preserving what our current "misle...

  "To British free trade it is, as I have shown, that we stand indebted for the present Civil War. Had our legislation been of the kind which was needed for giving effect to the Declaration of Independence, that great hill region of the South, one of the richest, if not absolutely the richest in the world, would long since have been filled with furnaces and factories, the labourers within which would have been free men, and women, white and black, and the several portions of the Union would been linked together by hooks of steel that would have set at defiance every effort of the "wealthy capitalists" of England for bringing about a separation. Such, however and most unhappily, was not our course of operation."  --letter from Henry C. Carey to Schuyler Colfax, "How to Outdo England" Jan 9, 1865 Henry C. Carey,    (December 15, 1793 – October 13, 1879) was the leading [1]   19th-century   economist   of the   American School   of capitalism, a...

  Yes kids, there was a time when we had Presidents who attacked the Ku Klux Klan, rather than enabling them and describing them as "very fine people". The article linked below summarizes concisely the history and background of President Grant's personal actions to defend the 14th Amendment abolishing Slavery, by using the pulpit of the Presidency, and motivating the Congress to legislate against the terrorist insurrection which continued in the former Confederate States, even during and after Reconstruction. Like the Right Wing Neo-Confederate Militias today, they were a terrorist organization which continued fighting on the side of the Slaveowners Rebellion, with firebombings, lynchings, and a variety of other tactics designed to instill fear. These Klansmen wrapped themselves in their Confederate traditions, claimed they were Patriots, and were defending their "States Rights", using the same anti-government rhetoric and discredited arguments which to this day...

  Today is the anniversary of the collapse of the value of the German Papiermark to the level of $1 to 4 Billion Marks. Concretely, what that meant in real terms, was that a loaf of bread in Weimar Germany, which had cost less than 1 Mark, or 26 cents in 1919 immediately at the end of World War I, rose to a cost of 200 million Marks by November of 1923.    You have likely seen old photos of the long lines for bread throughout Germany, or heard stories about the dislocation, shortages, chaos and absurd circumstances which were forced upon the German people after the War, and have some kind of mental construct as to what this was like for them.  The roots of this crisis were the consequences of Kaiser Wilhelm II making the awful decisions which led to WWI, and deciding to end the Gold Standard, (convertibility of the Mark to Gold) which meant paying for the War by having the Reichstag borrow money. France, on the other hand used an income tax to finance the War. The ...

  Quote from Franklin Roosevelt in his "Fireside Chat", on the Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937-- ["But since the rise of the modern movement for social and economic progress through legislation, the Court has more and more often and more and more boldly asserted a power to veto laws passed by the Congress and State Legislatures in complete disregard of this original limitation. In the last four years the sound rule of giving statutes the benefit of all reasonable  doubt has been cast aside. The Court has been acting not as a judicial body, but as a policy-making body. When the Congress has sought to stabilize national agriculture, to improve the conditions of labor, to safeguard business against unfair competition, to protect our national resources, and in many other ways, to serve our clearly national needs, the majority of the Court has been assuming the power to pass on the wisdom of these acts of the Congress - and to approve or disapprove the public p...

  “The Miracle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt— How A Man Who Couldn’t Walk Lifted The Nation On His Shoulders  P art 1--   … “when FDR took office in 1933, the US was literally on the verge of anarchy. The 1929 Wall Street crash triggered an economic disaster of such enormous magnitude that it all but destroyed the American economy overnight. Within months unemployment hit 25%, homeless and starving people roamed the cities.   At the same time, a large swath of the Great Plains, after being 'developed' and sold by unscrupulous real estate systems to unsuspecting farmers, was wreaking a different kind of havoc across Western US. The tough prairie sod, which anchored the soil for centuries, had been broken apart for farming. Stripped of its leather tough top layer, wind and drought turned the Plains nascent farmland, literally into billowing clouds of doom"...The Great Plains became the dust bowl. Massive dust storms buried towns, blackened skies, blotted out the ...