The Fascist Plot To Overthrow FDR

Posted in history on February 20th, 2010

Wealthy industrialists, concerned with the failing US economy during the 30s, looked to Europe for guidance. Post World War I Europe was governed primarily by dictators. The success in Mussolini’s Italy was of particular interest. Mussolini’s reign was the product of corporate control of government, and under his leadership, the broken Italian economy leapt to its feet.

FDR, elected in the hopes of tackling Hoover’s Great Depression, was spending the US into obscene debt. The final straw was FDR’s retreat from the gold standard. Bankers and industrialists believed that a currency  not tied to real wealth would destroy the US economy.

Buoyed by the prospect of a corporate/government merger, some of the biggest corporate names in the US hatched a plot to overthrow the FDR government.

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Was FDR of Sound Mind?

Posted in US government on February 8th, 2010

Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a stroke on April 12, 1945, shortly before the end of World War II.  A new book, “FDR’s Deadly Secret,” makes a persuasive case that Roosevelt’s stroke was caused by a brain tumor that had metastasized from melanoma over his left eyebrow, which he and his doctors worked hard to cover up.

The authors suggest that Roosevelt was having seizures (which were reported by his Secret Service agents) and difficulty seeing the left margin of his written speeches — indicating an advanced brain tumor — by the time he attended the Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in February, 1945.

There’s no way of knowing if Roosevelt could have prevented the Cold War if he had been at his fullest faculties.

Roosevelt May Have Had Brain Tumor When He Met Stalin (Bloomberg)

FDR’s Deadly Secret at Amazon.com

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