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

Guest Column by John Whitehead The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech John Whitehead warns us, correctly, that we are losing both the ability to speak freely and the ability to speak intelligently as words and their meanings are being proscribed. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_emergence_of_orwellian_newspeak_and_the_death_of_free_speech

Guest Column by Finian Cunningham Finian Cunningham explains that about half of the Greek debt is due to military spending in response to the hyped “Turkish threat.” Now it is Eastern Europe and Scandinavia that are busting their budgets due to the hyped “Russian threat.” The benefactors of the “threats” are the US, UK, German, and French military industries. The victims are the dolts who...

Has Mother Earth Decided To Cleanse Herself Of Those Who Ravage Her? Paul Craig Roberts Dahr Jamail is one of the last reporters in the Western world. Be certain to read his report on the “Sixth Great Mass Extinction” here: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31612-sixth-great-mass-extinction-event-begins-2015-on-pace-to-become-hottest-year-on-record His report is also available on Information Clearing House: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42281.htm I have concluded that only the young, who have no historical frame of reference,...

Guest Column by Dmitry Orlov Dmitry Orlov has a clever way of putting things. Here he describes the self-destruction of the Western world. The Care and Feeding of a Financial Black Hole By Dmitry Orlov A while ago I had the pleasure of hearing Sergey Glazyev—economist, politician, member of the Academy of Sciences, adviser to Pres. Putin—say something that very much confirmed my own thinking....

Greece Again Can Save The West Paul Craig Roberts Like Marathon, Thermopylae, Plateau and Mycale roughly 2,500 years ago, Western freedom again depends on Greece. Today Washington and its empire of European vassal states are playing the part of the Persian Empire, and belatedly the Greeks have formed a government, Syriza, that refuses to submit to the Washington Empire. Few people understand that the fate...

Western Presstitutes Dumbfounded by Vladimir Putin’s 89% Approval Rating Guest Column by The Saker The Saker notes that the disapproving 11% are not pleased because they want Putin to take a more hardline policy toward the West. In other words, the country is unified in standing up to the West. What does Vladimir Putin’s 89% rating mean? June 30, 2015 Think Russians are tiring of...