What changes has the shift from communism to capitalism brought for the ordinary Pole? Has life improved? What are the benefits of western-style democracy? The editors of Signs of the Times discuss these questions with Oliwer, a man from Poland who has also travelled extensively in the former communist countries.

In the aftermath of this summer's Israeli slaughter of innocent civilians in Palestine and Lebanon, the Bush Administration has adopted the extremist slogan of "Islamic Fascism" from Zionist and Christian fundamentalist propagandists. For years we have been programmed by the mainstream media to consider Muslims and Arabs as less than human, a demonisation that permits the pathocrats in Israel, the US, and Britain to kill Arabs with impunity, and without a word of protest from their citizenry. This week we discuss the significance of the move to the label "Islamic fascism" and how the term has no relation to the regimes in question in the Muslim world. At the same time, fascism very accurately describes the situation in the US, Britain, and Israel. The REAL Axis of Evil, the US, Britain, and Israel, are in fact announcing their own plans for the rest of humanity.

In October 2005, the editors of Signs of the Times sat down with John, a director of a Euro-zone bank, to discuss the state of the global economy. Ten months later, we follow up with John on what has developed. Is it possible that the control sought by the pathocrats over the rest of humanity can be achieved without bringing down the entire house of cards? What is propping up the illusory value of the US dollar? Does the doubling of the price of oil have anything to do with it? And, most of all, what can you do to protect yourself and those you love?

George Gurdjieff had two aims: 1) to investigate from all sides, and to understand, the exact significance and purpose of the life of man, and 2) to discover, at all costs, some manner or means for destroying in people the predilection for suggestibility which causes them to fall easily under the influence of "mass hypnosis." We continue our discussion of this fundamental aspect of his work, its arising in a time of war and revolution, and discuss the parallels found in the teaching of Don Juan Mateus as recounted by Carlos Casteneda. Laura Knight-Jadczyk looks at the concept of the "petty tyrant", again an idea that comes from a period of war, the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and we see how it is applicable today. We, too, face a world of petty tyrants, the global pathocracy. How can the teachings of Gurdjieff and Don Juan help us today?