Nomi Prins in the article below addresses the destruction of the market-based Western financial system and its replacement with a casino underwritten by taxpayers. Why the Financial and Political System Failed -- Nomi Prins The recent spike in global political-financial volatility that was temporarily soothed by European Central Bank (ECB) covered bond buying reveals another crack in the six-year-old throw-money-at-the-banks strategies of politicians and central...

UPDATE: Pat Buchanan who was in the White House with both Nixon and Reagan wrote to me in response to this column: "Craig, you are dead on in what you write about both Nixon and Reagan and what they sought in their presidencies. Reagan often talked of those "godawful weapons," meaning nukes. I was at Reykjavik with him, and was stunned at Hofde House to...

PCR interview with RT TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90jiCV-9Vo&feature=youtu.be

Dysfunctional America Paul Craig Roberts If you require more evidence that the United States is a dysfunctional society, observe American elections. Election season is slander season. Each party’s attack teams focus on misrepresenting, defaming, and ridiculing the opposing party’s candidates. Attack ads have replaced debates and any discussion of what the issues are, or should be, and how candidates perceive the public’s interest. Each attack...

The Ebola Story Doesn’t Smell Right Paul Craig Roberts The federal government has announced that thousands of additional US soldiers are being sent to Liberia. General Gary Volesky said the troops would “stamp out” ebola. The official story is that combat troops are being sent to build treatment structures for those infected with ebola. Why combat troops? Why not send a construction outfit such as...

From LewRockwell.com http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/10/robert-wenzel/did-the-us-design-airborne-ebola/ Guest Column: Evidence of US Development and Testing of Airborne Ebola By Robert Wenzel Evidence of US Development and Testing of Airborne Ebola By Robert Wenzel Target Liberty October 25, 2014 It has been my contention that the recent Ebola outbreak is likely the result of US military testing of Ebola gone awry.  SEE: THE PAPER TRAIL: The US Government Involvement in Developing Ebola...

America Protects Animals Better Than Humans Dear Friends, whether this is a real letter to the editor or a parody, I do not know, but it makes the point. In the backward third world collapsing state known as “the world’s only superpower,” even fewer protections exist for the population against ebola than are operative in Africa. No government anywhere is as incompetent as the one...

Vladimir Putin Is The Leader Of the Moral World Paul Craig Roberts Dear Friends, Vladimir Putin’s remarks at the 11th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club are worth more than a link in my latest column. These are the remarks of a humanitarian political leader, the like of which the world has not seen in my lifetime. Compare Putin to the corrupt war criminal...

Washington Is Defaming Putin Paul Craig Roberts UPDATE: Here is a translation of Putin's address at Valdai: http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/23137 Today at the Valdai International Discussion Club meeting in Sochi, Russia’s President Putin correctly and justifiably denounced Washington for destabilizing the world in order to serve its own narrow and selfish interest and the interests of the private interest groups that control Washington at the expense of...