Washington Intends Russia’s Demise Paul Craig Roberts Washington has no intention of allowing the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved. Having failed to seize the country and evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base, Washington sees new opportunities in the crisis. One is to restart the Cold War by forcing the Russian government to occupy the Russian-speaking areas of present day Ukraine where protesters...

Guest Column by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute, www.rutherford.org https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/putting_big_brother_in_the_drivers_seat_v2v_transmitters_black_boxes_d The United States pretends to be a home of freedom and democracy. In fact, the US is rapidly degenerating into a police state and a worse dystopia than George Orwell imagined in his book, 1984. John W. Whitehead describes below the prison that is being constructed for all of us. This prison is the work...

US Payments to Ukrainian Thugs Higher Than Previously Reported Washington and its German puppet state paid many people to protest in Kiev in order to serve as cover for the US coup that replaced an elected democratic government with Washington’s corrupt stooges. According to Ukrainian presidential candidate Oleg Zarjow, the payments continue, only now the money is paid to Maidan thugs who beat up politicians...

Request for Help from Ukraine April 28, 2014 URL: http://de.cross.tv/blog/44686 We have heard weeks of bullshit propaganda from the Obama regime and its presstitute media, especially the New York Times, the false reporting of which has finished off whatever remained of the newspaper’s reputation. We have heard the threatening squeals from the Washington-installed stooge government in Kiev. But we haven’t heard from the actual people...

US Economy Is A House Of Cards Paul Craig Roberts The US economy is a house of cards. Every aspect of it is fraudulent, and the illusion of recovery is created with fraudulent statistics. American capitalism itself is an illusion. All financial markets are rigged. Massive liquidity poured into financial markets by the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing inflates stock and bond prices and drives interest...

 RIA Novosti World Russia to Benefit From 'Gratuitous Propaganda' of Fresh US Sanctions 23:23 28/04/2014 WASHINGTON, April 28 (RIA Novosti), Lyudmila Chernova A new round of sanctions announced by the White House will have unintended consequences and only benefit Russia, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts told RIA Novosti Monday. “The sanctions are nothing but gratuitous propaganda. Obama himself acknowledged that...

Moving Closer To War Paul Craig Roberts The Obama regime, wallowing in hubris and arrogance, has recklessly escalated the Ukrainian crisis into a crisis with Russia. Whether intentionally or stupidly, Washington’s propagandistic lies are driving the crisis to war. Unwilling to listen to any more of Washington’s senseless threats, Moscow no longer accepts telephone calls from Obama and US top officials. The crisis in Ukraine...

Washington’s Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America “Exceptional” -- Paul Craig Roberts World events permitting, I am going to take a few days off. Many of you write to me asking for financial advice or for explanations of the pros and cons of different investments. I don’t give financial advice and cannot answer such a large number of individual inquiries. However, I can call...

Privatization Is A Ramp For Corruption and Insouciance Is a Ramp for War The New York Times has acquired a new Judith Miller Paul Craig Roberts Libertarian ideology favors privatization. However, in practice privatization is usually very different in result than libertarian ideology postulates. Almost always, privatization becomes a way for well-connected private interests to loot both the public purse and the general welfare. Most...

Dave Kranzler reports on the latest manipulation of the gold price Shortly after the Shanghai gold market closed last night, the market manipulators went to work on the gold price. Gold was taken down another $20 during the morning trading in London, primarily in three HFT trading induced “mini flash crashes.” There were not any related news reports or events that would have triggered the...