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USAWatchDog: One on One with Paul Craig Roberts
Mr. Roberts, Thank you again for doing the interview. It was very well received. Here is the link: http://usawatchdog.com/one-on-one-with-paul-craig-roberts/ Greg Hunter USAWatchdog.com
Read more »Hubris as the Evil Force in History
I have always been intrigued by the Battle of Bull Run, the opening battle of the US Civil War, known to southerners as the War of Northern Aggression. Extreme hubris characterized both sides, the North before the battle and the South afterwards. Republican politicians and their ladies in their finery rode out to Manassas, the Virginia town through which the…
Read more »Special Paul Craig Roberts Interview: Decline of The American Empire 2/3
Special Paul Craig Roberts Interview: Decline of The American Empire 2/3 One on One with Paul Craig Roberts–USAWatchdog.com One on One with Paul Craig Roberts Greece is insolvent. Spain just got a big bank bailout, and Ireland wants a new bailout deal. There has been plenty of cal…
Read more »Obama blames Europe for US economic problems?
Obama blames Europe for US economic problems? On Friday, President Obama gave a speech on the state of the US economy. Significant parts of his address, however, were dedicated to Europe. President Obama blamed the Euro crisis on many difficulties America is facing now. Is this fair that five months before the election, Obama is trying to shift the blame…
Read more »The Stark Truth: Interview with Paul Craig Roberts
Robert Stark interviews Paul Craig Roberts. Topics include: -PCR’s role in the Reagan administration and supply-side economics; -How job outsourcing was engineered by Wall Street and corporations; -The military-industrial complex; -Neoconservatives, foreign policy in the Middle East, and war with Iran; -Policy toward China; -9/11; -Why we can’t take back the country by the ballot box. http://reasonradionetwork.com/20120525/the-stark-truth-interview-with-paul-craig-roberts
Read more »Collapse At Hand
Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and quantitative easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year via its budget deficits? Not long ago the…
Read more »Killing Innocent Civilians as Part of a US Covert Op. Plan to Mobilize Public Support for War Against Syria
Operation Northwoods: Syria 2012 (New York 2001?) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31122 Killing Innocent Civilians as Part of a US Covert Op. Plan to Mobilize Public Support for War Against Syria, by Professor Michel Chossudovsky The Northwoods 1962 document was titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba”. ”The Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a…
Read more »Washington’s Hypocrisies
The US government is the second worst human rights abuser on the planet and the sole enabler of the worst–Israel. But this doesn’t hamper Washington from pointing the finger elsewhere. The US State Department’s “human rights report” focuses its ire on Iran and Syria, two countries whose real sin is their independence from Washington, and on the bogyman- in-the-making–China, the…
Read more »Recovery or Collapse? Bet on Collapse
The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose. In the US the police have proven themselves to be a greater threat to public safety than private sector criminals. I just googled “police brutality” and up came 183,000,000 results. (Here are two recent brutal assaults, one deadly, by…
Read more »A Victory for All of Us
Never Give Up Don’t be discouraged by the heavy hand of the tyrannical state and the private interests served by the government. Soviet dissidents faced the most powerful state in human history, and they did not give up. Now we have had a victory. Read this and renew your hope. A Victory for All of Us http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_victory_for_all_of_us_20120518/ Posted on May…
Read more »Interview on Russia Today about Iran
Here is a link to watch me on Russia Today discussing the current situation in Iran. http://old.rt.com/v/Upload/paul-craig-roberts.asf
Read more »Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?
In response to the question in the title I can report that most of my readers are. Almost everyone got the point of the last column. They see the absurdity of the government’s claim that the identity of the tough, macho Navy Seals, who allegedly murdered Osama bin Laden, has to be kept secret in order to protect our fierce…
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The Case of the Missing Terrorists
If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead. Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warlords and sold to the Americans as “terrorists” for the bounty paid. If Rodriguez’s identity was previously a secret,…
Read more »Unz Research Reward (informational bulletin)
Dear Readers: This is an informational bulletin, not a new column. For readers with research skills and for those who would like to develop such skills and/or explore new historical data now made available for the first time on the Internet, Ron Unz, an entrepreneur who is on his way to becoming a public intellectual, is offering a $10,000 First…
Read more »Did Obama Really Kill Osama?
Dear Readers, what do you think? Did Obama really kill Osama? By Ralph Cinque http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31284.htm May 09, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — We just passed the one-year anniversary of the (alleged) execution of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. But, did he really live until 2011? Ten years earlier, in 2001, his kidneys were failing, and he was on dialysis. Do…
Read more »Does The West Have A Future?
Living in America is becoming very difficult for anyone with a moral conscience, a sense of justice, or a lick of intelligence. Consider: We have had a second fake underwear bomb plot, a much more fantastic one than the first hoax. The second underwear bomber was a CIA operative or informant allegedly recruited by al-Qaeda, an organization that US authorities…
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US student loan crisis-On the Edge with Max Keiser-05-04-2012
US student loan crisis-On the Edge with Max Keiser-05-04-2012 In this edition of the show Max interviews Paul Craig Roberts, former US treasury official. He talks about the US student loan crisis, where the student debt has passed one trillion dollars but 50 percent of the young graduates are either jobless or under-employed. Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and…
Read more »Disinformation On Every Front
Some readers have come to the erroneous conclusion that the Matrix consists of Republican Party disinformation as if there is no disinformation from the left. Others think that propaganda is the business of Obama and the Democrats. In fact, propaganda from the right, the left and the middle are all part of the disinformation fed to americans. If I may…
Read more »You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going To Do About It?
John Pilger in the article below poses THE QUESTION OF OUR TIME… April 30, 2012, “Information Clearing House” — You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center may monitor…
Read more »Make Love, then War
Dear Friends, I cannot vouch for the truth of this report. However, if Bob Dylan is accepting a Presidential Freedom Award (list of recipients) from the White House warmonger who has exterminated freedom both at home and abroad, it is very disheartening. Perhaps Dylan sees this as irony–the White House recognizing Bob Dylan. Alternatively, Dylan and Baez have grown comfortable…
Read more »Brewing a Conflict with China
Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries concerning island and sea rights in the South China Sea. Washington asserts that China’s territorial disputes with the like of Indonesia and the Philippines are a…
Read more »Military security complex is creating another conflict
The United States and Philippines are conducting military drills n the South China Sea. The US claims these drills are strictly and exercise, but China sees this as yet another attempt by America to slowly fortify the area. All this is taking place in the Palawan Province where China and the Philippines are fighting over the rights to water where…
Read more »Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence
Dear Readers: To remind. This site is something that I do for you, not for myself. Every article I post on this site further isolates me from long-time colleagues and friends. When the site started up in January, many donations came in. Donations continue to come in, but the flow is much reduced. Sites are an expense. They have to…
Read more »They Thought They Were Free
THOSE WHO REFUSE TO LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE FORCED TO REPEAT IT Americans become incensed when comparisons are made between recent developments in the US and Nazi Germany. Nevertheless, the description below first published in 1955 of Germany’s descent into a police state could just as well be a description of what has happened in the US since September 11,…
Read more »Ignorance Is Bliss
Psychological studies confirm Frantz Fanon’s analysis of cognitive dissonance and Morpheus’ explanation to Neo of why people prefer to live in a false reality. But don’t become discouraged. Remember, all change comes from a few determined people. The following is a report from the American Psychological Association. November 21, 2011 Ignorance Is Bliss When it Comes to Challenging Social Issues…
Read more »How Liberty Was Lost
When did things begin going wrong in America? “From the beginning,” answer some. English colonists, themselves under the thumb of a king, exterminated American Indians and stole their lands, as did late 18th and 19th century Americans. Over the course of three centuries the native inhabitants of America were dispossessed, just as Israelis have been driving Palestinians off their lands…
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Unplugging Americans From The Matrix
Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement, invasion, and occupation. As readers know, from time to…
Read more »Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness
The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametrically opposed. US government officials routinely criticize other governments for being undemocratic and for violating human rights. Yet, no other country except Israel sends bombs, missiles, and drones into sovereign…
Read more »What Is ObamaCare?
Growing up in the post-war era (after the Second World War), I never expected to live in the strange Kafkaesque world that exists today. The US government can assassinate any US citizen that the executive branch thinks could possibly be a “threat” to the US government, or throw the hapless citizen into a dungeon for the rest of his or…
Read more »MASS MURDERER GOES FREE
MASS MURDERER GOES FREE “Curveball,” the man whose lies were used by the Bush regime neoconservatives to create a false “weapons of mass destruction” case against Iraq,has confessed that he made it all up. Moreover, the Bush regime warmongers had to know it was a lie, because the weapons inspectors had reported that there were no weapons of mass destruction…
Read more »Empires Then and Now
Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes but Rome’s calculation that the cost of conquest exceeded…
Read more »Feeding The Homeless BANNED In Major Cities All Over America
Dear Readers: Only in Amerika. If you feed the homeless or give a homeless person a drink of water, you might be arrested. So much for america being “the land of freedom and democracy.” Amerika is the land of the crazed Police State. -PCR Original Content at: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Feeding-The-Homeless-BANNE-by-the-web-120324-37.html What would you do if you came across someone on the street…
Read more »Why Barack Obama is the More Effective Evil
Dear Readers: This is the best speech I have come across in many years. PCR Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Barack-Obama-is-the-Mo-by-Glen-Ford-120324-930.html No matter how much evil Barack Obama actually accomplishes during his presidency, people that call themselves leftists insist on dubbing him the Lesser Evil. Not only is Obama not given proper credit for out-evil-ing George Bush, domestically and internationally, but the…
Read more »Paul Craig Roberts Admits Israel Controls America Max Keiser Interview Russia Today.wmv
Paul Craig Roberts Admits Israel Controls America Max Keiser Interview Russia Today.wmv
Read more »Both The Market and Government Are Irrational
One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved scores of times, but the myth persists. For example, today (March 14) Bank of America/Merrill Lynch reported that “yesterday US markets started the day off with a strong rally after the solid retail sales report. . . . tailwinds are…
Read more »Washington’s high-powered terrorist supporters
Glenn Greenwald demonstrates that not only the president but also the Washington elite are above the law. http://www.salon.com/2012/03/12/washingtons_high_powered_terrorist_supporters/singleton/
Read more »Dennis Kucinich and “Wackiness”
US Representative Dennis Kucinich’s defeat in a Democratic primary is more evidence that americans are incapable of recognizing leadership. As the few leaders are eliminated by redistricting and by electoral fraud, the ability of americans to reclaim their liberty and economy diminishes. Glenn Greenwald’s account of the presstitutes’ view of Kucinich and what it reveals about the Washington Establishment is…
Read more »The 0% Doctrine
The Global War on Terror, with its burgeoning secret military, the elite special operations forces, and its growing drone air force, controlled in part by the CIA, should be thought of as the president’s private war. In addition, as legal scholar Jonathan Turleywrote recently, when it comes to drone assassinations (or “targeted killings” as they are now more politely known),…
Read more »No Jobs For Americans
Today (March 9, 2012) the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that 227,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were created by the economy during February. Is the government’s claim true? No. Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that 44,000 of these jobs or 19% consist of an add-on factor derived from the BLS’s estimate that 44,000 more unreported jobs from new business…
Read more »War with Iran – Obama looking for a way out?
War with Iran – Obama looking for a way out? Iran has agreed to take part in nuclear talks. The country is prepared to engage in face-to-face negotiations after feeling intense pressure from both the US and Israel to abandon it’s nuclear program. America and Israel have intensified their rhetoric when it comes to using military action against Iran, and…
Read more »Why Can’t americans Have Democracy?
Syria has a secular government as did Iraq prior to the american invasion. Secular governments are important in Arab lands in which there is division between Sunni and Shi’ite. Secular governments keep the divided population from murdering one another. When the american invasion, a war crime under the Nuremberg standard set by the US after WWII, overthrew the Saddam Hussein…
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US military complex gets rich off of Afghanistan
US military complex gets rich off of Afghanistan Description: The US is famous for going to other countries with goals ranging from retaliation to installing democracy to stopping a civil war. And quite often the US Government and the military alike are surprised at what they find: that people in those countries don’t want them there and, in many cases,…
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