Charlie Hebdo Update Paul Craig Roberts Readers, with the exception of neoconservative William Kristol, appreciated the questions I raised about the Charlie Hebdo affair. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/13/charlie-hebdo-paul-craig-roberts/ Europeans sent me videos and news reports from Europe. One video compares the car in which the killers escaped with the car in which the ID of one of the accused brothers was allegedly found and makes the point that...

Ruin Is Our Future Paul Craig Roberts Neoconservatives arrayed in their Washington offices are congratulating themselves on their success in using the Charlie Hebdo affair to reunite Europe with Washington’s foreign policy. No more French votes with the Palestinians against the Washington-Israeli position. No more growing European sympathy with the Palestinians. No more growing European opposition to launching new wars in the Middle East. No...

Charlie Hebdo Paul Craig Roberts The Charlie Hebdo affair has many of the characteristics of a false flag operation. The attack on the cartoonists’ office was a disciplined professional attack of the kind associated with highly trained special forces; yet the suspects who were later corralled and killed seemed bumbling and unprofessional. It is like two different sets of people. Usually Muslim terrorists are prepared...

The Police Threat Is Too High Paul Craig Roberts The hypocrisy of American police is beginning to bother even law and order conservatives. The New York Police Department is rivaling the black community in Ferguson in keeping alive the murders of their community members. We are constantly reminded of how dangerous it is to be a police officer. A total of 50 police officers were...

The December 2014 Payroll Jobs Report Paul Craig Roberts January 9. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that a quarter of a million new jobs were created in December. The reported new jobs are concentrated in construction (48,000), professional and business services (52,000), health care and social assistance (43,700), and waitresses and bartenders (43,600) . The construction jobs are in heavy and civil engineering construction...

Charlie Hebdo and Tsarnaev’s Trial: Cui bono? Paul Craig Roberts UPDATE: Well known writers Thierry Meyssan and Kevin Barrett see the "terrorist" attach on Charlie Hebdo as a false flag attack. See http://www.voltairenet.org/article186441.html and http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/01/10/392426/Planted-ID-card-exposes-Paris-false-flag Update: According to news reports, one of the accused in the attack on Charlie Hebdo when hearing that he was being sought for the crime turned himself in to police...

The Outlook for the New Year Dear Readers: The conflict that Washington has initiated between the West and Russia/China is reckless and irresponsible. Nuclear war could be the outcome. Indeed, Washington has been preparing for nuclear war since the George W. Bush regime. Washington has revised US war doctrine in order to initiate conflict with a first strike nuclear attack. Washington has discarded the ABM...

Magic Growth Numbers From The Government Paul Craig Roberts Everyone wants good news, so the government makes it up. The latest fiction is that US real GDP grew 4.6% in the second quarter and 5% in the third. Where did this growth come from? Not from rising real consumer incomes. Not from rising consumer credit. Not from rising real retail sales. Not from the housing...

Christmas Column, December 24, 2014 Dear Readers, thank you for your support in 2014. Although you have kept me working yet another year past retirement age, I find it encouraging that there are some Americans who can think independently and who want to know. As Margaret Mead said, it only takes a few determined people to change the world. Perhaps some of you will be...

PCR interviewed by Sputnik: Has President Obama delivered on his pledges? Whose interest has Obama served? http://sputniknews.com/radio_burning_point/20141222/1016121882.html