How America Was Lost Paul Craig Roberts “No legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its power, position, and prestige." Dean Acheson , 1962, speaking to the American Society of International Law. Dean Acheson declared 51 years ago that power, position, and prestige are the ingredients of national security and that national security trumps law. In the United States democracy...

Some people are gifted. Chris Floyd is one of them. Ashes to Ashes: The Downward Arc of the American Dream http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2356-ashes-to-ashes-the-downward-arc-of-the-american-dream.html

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/05/an-interview-with-paul-craig-roberts/print  This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. CounterPunch NOVEMBER 05, 2013 Escape From The Dollar An Interview with Paul Craig Roberts by MIKE WHITNEY Paul Craig Roberts thinks the Fed has backed itself into a corner. A rise in interest rates would strengthen the dollar, give the dollar new life as world reserve currency, and halt the movement into gold, but...

Fate of Dollar is the Fate of US Power PCR interviewed by Greg Hunter, USA Watchdog http://usawatchdog.com/fate-of-dollar-is-the-fate-of-u-s-power-dr-paul-craig-roberts/ “The whole question of the dollar’s longevity depends on the willingness of other countries to continue holding dollars and dollar denominated assets while the Federal Reserve prints a trillion dollars a year to prop up the big banks and to finance the federal budget deficit.” 

Note: The reports of missile destruction to which Shamir refers might be newspaper fantasy. Regardless, the main point of Shamir's article seems to be correct. Obama did stand down. The opposition of Russia supported by China, the British Parliament, and the UN and the lack of enthusiasm for another war on the part of the American people, Congress, and NATO was too much for the...

Toronto Star on Eve of Cheney Canada Visit: Arrest Him http://digitaljournal.com/article/361212 Why stop with Cheney? What about Bush himself and John Yoo. The case is strong that every member of the Bush/Cheney and Obama regimes is a criminal.

Is Paul Krugman a Voodoo Economist? Paul Craig Roberts Readers ask me if Paul Krugman could be correct that deficits don’t matter and that neither does printing endless reams of money with which to purchase the Treasury’s debt instruments that finance the deficits. If people at home and abroad who hold dollars and dollar denominated financial instruments do not care that trillions of new dollars...

Dear readers, Xinhua is a news agency of the Chinese government. The Chinese government sees Washington as a largely spent power. Liu Chang puts Washington’s loss of uni-power status very concisely. After you read the official commentary (below), read Jeff J. Brown’s commentary on Liu Chang’s report. http://44days.net/blog/?p=64 Jeff Brown is an American citizen who has worked in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and China,...

Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race Paul Craig Roberts To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even psychologists and anthropologists were roped into the government’s...