The US might not be in a Great Depression, but economic insecurity has nevertheless returned to America. John N. Gray, a distinguished intellect and retired professor of intellectual history at the London School of Economics, disagrees with the view that “the end of history” has placed humanity on a course of ethical and economic progress. History, Gray believes, is not progressing to a higher stage....

Paul Craig Roberts explains the economic crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agWgGWiUoSs&list=UUL3Dm0whUpRNEjrH2AVTbfA&index=1

Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find it, and neither can millions of unemployed Americans. The recovery exists only in the official measure of real GDP, which is deflated by an understated measure of inflation, and in the U.3 measure of the unemployment rate, which is...

Paul Craig Roberts Did you know that the latest big business is killer robots? Not only drones that can be insect size and lethal, but also Terminator-type machines that will have the power to decide who lives and dies. Of course, the way has been paved for killer robots and their inevitable mistakes, as the US military no longer differentiates between actual combatants and collateral...

In the United States everything is polluted. Democracy is polluted with special interests and corrupt politicians. Accountability is polluted with executive branch exemptions from law and the Constitution and with special legal privileges for corporations, such as the Supreme Court given right to corporations to purchase American elections. The Constitution is polluted with corrupt legal interpretations from the Bush and Obama regimes that have turned...

“What If?” histories are a good read. They are entertaining, and they provoke thought and encourage the imagination. How different the world would be if different judgments, decisions, and circumstances had prevailed at history’s turning points. Certainly English history would have been different if King Harold’s soldiers had obeyed his order not to pursue the defeated fleeing Normans down the hill. This broke the impenetrable...

Elizabeth Warren is the person Obama could not get confirmed to the consumer advocate position. She dropped out of contention and ran for the Senate and won. This shows the great gulf between Washington and the American people. Essentially, Washington is a foreign power colonizing the American people. In this video of a Banking Committee hearing of the US Senate, Senator Warren makes the point...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlWiTPn7pQ&feature=youtu.be During the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, I suggested that by softening a couple of hardened libertarian positions, Ron Paul could win the nomination. My advice was not taken, but even had it been, this video shows that no matter how many votes Ron Paul received, the Republican Party had no intention of giving him the nomination. The presstitute media would not even...