Support This Website What Does Today’s “Rate Hike” Mean? Paul Craig Roberts The Federal Reserve raised the interbank borrowing rate today by one quarter of one percent or 25 basis points. Readers are asking, “what does that mean?” It means that the Fed has had time to figure out that the effect of the small “rate hike” would essentially be zero. In other words, the...

Has Kerry Gained An Upper Hand Over Neocon Nuland? Eric Zuesse offers his take on US Secretary of State Kerry’s concession of neocon positions toward Russia in his meeting yesterday with Russian leaders. Kerry was very agreeable and complimentary toward the Russian government in the recent meeting in Moscow. The puzzle is why Kerry allowed neocon Assistant Secretary Victoria “rhymes with witch” Nuland to accompany...

Kerry’s Moscow Meeting: A Hopeful Sign? Paul Craig Roberts As those of you who support this website know, the deal we made is that this is your site, and it will remain up as long as you support it. Many of you have kept our bargain. Today this website alone has hundreds of thousands of readers, and millions more from the many websites in the...

War With Russia: Alastair Crooke agrees with PCR Here is Alastair Crooke’s full article: http://www.conflictsforum.org/2015/cornering-russia-risking-world-war-iii/ Alastair Crooke, a British diplomat, was a senior person in British intelligence. Crooke has come to the same conclusions as I have: Compare Crooke: “we should perhaps contemplate the paradox that Russia’s determination to try to avoid war is leading to war” “Russia’s low-key and carefully crafted responses to such...

Fear on Demand Guest Column by Stephen Lendman The San Bernardino Shootings Were A Black Op US Government Operation Three separate eyewitnesses saw three tall male caucasians carry out the executions. Syed Rizwan and Tashfeen Malik were chosen to be the patsies and murdered so that they could not contradict the concocted accusation against them. As long as insoucient, gullible Americans accept such implausible oficial...

How Many Millions of Dollars Were the Members of the Corrupt Government in Montenegro Paid by US Taxpayers in Exchange for joining NATO? https://www.rt.com/news/325776-montenegro-anti-nato-protests/

British Diplomat Alastair Crooke Supports PCR’s Position “Moscow seems to be offered a choice between backing the ‘hegemon’ or preparing for war” Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151213/1031684785/us-russia-cold-war-isis.html

Obama State Dept Continues to Lie to the World Watch State Dept liar John Kirby be taken apart by a female RT reporter. Notice his claim that the US has great relations with the Iraq government and is there with Iraq’s blessing: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43692.htm Then read this report on Zero Hedge: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-09/iraq-seeks-cancel-security-agreement-us-will-invite-russia-fight-isis It is difficultl to imagine a government more shameful, more corrupt, more evil than...

Quarterly Call For Donations Paul Craig Roberts Dear friends, readers often ask me what they can do as individuals. My answer is that there are three things you can do that are effective. First, be aware that solutions are pointless until there is awareness. You can help to build awareness by recommending this site. If we could get as little as one, two, or three...

Would Turkey Dare Without Washington’s Approval? http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20151211/1031591091/us-defense-analyst-su-24-downing.html