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

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,...