German Politicians Are US Puppets And So Are German Journalists Oriental Review Interviews Udo Ulfkotte I have explained for years that European politicians represent Washington and not the European peoples, and that the European media, like the US media, serves as a Ministry of Propaganda for Washington. Now a German journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, steps forward to confirm the obvious. Read Ulfkotte’s interview with the Oriental...

UPDATE: Readers are asking if this is a news story. The answer is no. It is fiction that I wrote. However, I have learned that Nick Brandt has set up an anti-poaching operation in Africa. Go to this URL and scroll down to read about it. It is deserving of your support. I think sales of his book of African photographs go to the support...

Another Fake Bin Laden Story Paul Craig Roberts RT, one of my favorite news sources, has fallen for a fake story put out by the Pentagon to support the fantasy story that a SEAL team killed Osama bin Laden, who died a second time in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a decade after his first death from illness and disease. http://rt.com/usa/202895-navy-seal-shot-binladen/ This fake story together with the fake...

Guest Column--How the Big Banks Buy Their Way out of Criminal Indictments Matt Taibbi on the total corruption of the US financial system and its regulatory authorities Taibbi makes it clear that a few big banks own the government and are not subject to punishment under criminal law. When they commit a crime, they just pay a fine. Matt Taibbi, Pam Martens, and Nomi Prins...

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...