Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS's tax-exempt organizations division, made a bizarre invocation of her Fifth Amendment privilege not to testify against herself in Congress on Tuesday — after she had already given an opening statement denying any wrong-doing.

The scorched earth policies of the European Union continue to trigger demonstrations throughout the Balkans, as one pro-EU government after another appears to be toppling.

In an opinion piece in Sunday's Washington Post, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky makes clear he isn't about to give up fighting on the issue that provoked his 13-hour filibuster last week.

On January 6, 2012, two days after President Obama had made his unconstitutional recess appointments, and had, on the same day, declared that he would rule without Congress if necessary, Lyndon LaRouche pointed out that Obama's actions were just like Hitler.

On Jan. 14, Joan Blades, co-founder of Move On with her husband Wes Boyd, wrote in Huffington Post about a Living Room Conversation (a standard MoveOn meeting format) in California, where she, along with a group of MoveOn'ers, got together with Mark Meckle, a founder of Tea Party Patriots and his people to work on areas of agreement.

The Italian crisis is spiraling downward, toward the scenario of protracted ungovernability, financial crisis, and a planned Troika coup. Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani reported to President Giorgio Napolitano that his attempt failed, but that he did not resign—a novum in the history of the Republic.

The aftershocks of Rand Paul's historic intervention continue to be felt, as the oligarchic press struggles to put the partisan-breaking filibuster back into the two-party straitjacket. But the genie is out of the bottle, with a special emphasis on "younger" (the future) voters.

Demonstrations continued through Bulgaria on Sunday, March 3, with 50,000 demonstrating in Varna, and thousands more in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Blagoevgrad, Ruse, and Sliven. According to Reuters, the demonstrators are not unified among themselves or behind any of the parties.

The far-reaching implications of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling declaring Obama's recess appointments to be unconstitutional, most starkly identified by Lyndon LaRouche in his Friday evening webcast, are recognized in a more limited fashion by a number of Senators and others commenting on the ruling over the weekend.

The international financial oligarchy has launched a vicious campaign against Panos Kammenos, leader of the Independent Greeks party and one of the most outspoken political leaders against genocidal policies being forced on Greece by the financial oligarchy's European Union.