Politics

NOVANEWS …by Jonas E. Alexis The issue of Jewish money scandals on a massive scale brings us to a point which can no longer be ignored: the relationship between capitalism and usury. From early centuries, usury was viewed as a sinful enterprise by the Catholic Church because it led to the destruction of economic progress in any society. Usury leads to compound interest, compound interest leads to economic collapse, and economic collapse leads to massive suffering (something proven by history and the recent economic collapse around us, most specifically in Greece).[1] For example, the illustration is used that “if Judas Iscariot had invested his thirty pieces of silver at just a few percentage points compound, repayable in silver as of today, the amount of silver required would be equivale...

NOVANEWS “In any given period of history, a culture is to be judged by its dominant philosophy, by the prevalent trend of its intellectual life as expressed in morality, in politics, in economics, in art. Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.”--Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual[1] …by Jonas E. Alexis Michel Foucault One can say with certainty that the 1960s and 1970s were a watershed moment in America and much of the Western world. Social critic Roger Kimball declared that those periods shocked “the moral and intellectual fabric of our society.”[2] Speaking of the 1960s in particular, Jack Kerouac, who played a central role in that movement with the publication of his book On the Road (now made into a ...

NOVANEWS “What do you think of usury—what do you think of murder?” Cato, Roman Statesman, 234-149 B.C. … by Jonas E. Alexis As we suggested in the previous article, capitalism makes usury not only sophistically alluring for the rich and powerful, but makes it legitimate, and for this purpose it has received widespread criticism.[1] Capitalism is not just “wealth” or economic exchange in the free market. Soon or later usury is going to sneak in—the exclusion of ethical or moral values in the pursuit of usurious contracts. As Israel Shamir rightly puts it: “A capitalist may wish to sell drinking water, but Mammon wants to poison all water in order to force everybody to buy drinking water. A capitalist may build the mall; Mammon wants to destroy the world outside the mall, for the outside wo...