Greeks Vote NO To EU-Imposed Austerity Paul Craig Roberts With 90% of the votes counted, the Greek people have voted 61% to 39% against accepting the latest round of austerity that the EU is trying to impose on the Greek people for the benefit of the One Percent. What is amazing is that 39% voted for the One Percent against their own interests. This 39%...

The latest report from Greece indicates that the privately owned Greek media have taken a stand against the Greek people and for the One Percent: Yesterday’s demonstration in favor of 'No’ in Syntagma Square of Athens had gigantic proportions and great fighting spirit. Instead, the rally of supporters of ‘Yes’ was enormously  smaller without breath and passion. Of course, with the exception of state television,...

Putin: “We don’t expect any change in hostile policies toward Russia” http://rt.com/news/271564-putin-west-russia-pressure/

Capitalism Has Become Socially Dysfunctional Paul Craig Roberts If you have not read John Perkins’ book, Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man, you should. The book is easy to read and explains clearly from the inside how US corporations deceive foreign governments into debts that they cannot service or repay and then use the IMF and World Bank as looting mechanisms and reduce the indebted...

The Fake Controversy of the Confederate Flag--And Why It Matters JACK KERWICK Reprinted from The Unz Review, JULY 3, 2015 http://www.unz.com/article/the-fake-controversy-of-the-confederate-flag-and-why-it-matters/ The war between the North and South was not a civil war. A civil war is when contending parties fight for control of the state. The South was not fighting for control of the United States. The South was forced into war by an act...

This is from John Williams' (shadowstats.com) introduction to his detailed report on the shortcomings of the June jobs and employment report. "The Good News in the Reporting of June Labor Conditions Was Not Good News. Headline June employment and unemployment numbers were more typical of deteriorating, broad economic activity than they were of an expanding economy in its purported sixth year of recovery. "Conditions deteriorated...

Greece and Other Musings On July 4th Paul Craig Roberts If you become stuck in a boring July 4 hot air speech, distract yourself with this question: Are the values that Western civilization allegedly represents still extant? You don’t need to get heavy into philosophy. See if you can find any of the professed values reflected in current events. For example, Julian Assange, the founder...

Sunday’s Vote Will Determine Liberty Or Serfdom Paul Craig Roberts According to history books, democracy originated in Greece. Of course, historians could be mistaken, but this is the prevailing view among Western populations with enough awareness to be interested to know. What we are witnessing today, July 2, 2015, is that after 2,500 years in the Western World only the current Greek government is interested...

James Galbraith Explains That The Independence of All Western Nations Is at State In Greece’s Sunday Vote James Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas, explains what is at stake this Sunday. This is an important article. Because of the presstitute Western press, Americans, Europeans, Canadians, and Australians have no comprehension that their own liberty, or what little remains of it, is dependent on...

Peter Koenig on the Delphi Declaration Peter Koenig explains the attack by international finance on Greece, an attack aimed at terminating the sovereignty of Greece and reducing the Greek people, soon to be followed by the Italian and Spanish people and eventually the French and Germans themselves, to penury. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42263.htm