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...

King World News Interviews Paul Craig Roberts http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2013/10/27_Dr._Paul_Craig_Roberts.html

Gold Wars I do not know what role facts, evidence, or a desire to know the truth any longer play in American lives. This article http://www.alternet.org/media/most-depressing-discovery-about-brain-ever?paging=off confirms my experience as a scholar, journalist, public policy maker, and corporate director.  The vast majority of people believe what they want to believe. Facts and evidence have little to do with it. People believe what serves their hopes...

More on the Osama bin Laden “killing” A reader, Ole Ullern from Norway, sent in this information regarding the range of the Chinook CH-47F helicopter that allegedly made the round trip from Bagram to Abbotabad and returned with bin Laden’s body. According to Google Earth, the round trip distance (straight line) is 700 km. High mountains between the two sites would prevent straight line flight,...

Dear readers: This is not the quarterly request for donations. It is a reminder that this is your site, and it will stay up as long as you support it. As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap Paul Craig Roberts The year 2014 could be shaping up as the year that the chickens come home to roost. Americans, even well-informed ones, don’t know all of...

A Potpourri Week-end reading list Paul Craig Roberts The Man Who Usurped The Constitution Just as you think the Republicans have destroyed themselves with their government shutdown/default antics, along comes Obama and appoints a fascist murderer head of Homeland Security. RT http://rt.com/usa/obama-jeh-johnson-dhs-378/ reports that Jeh Johnson, a drone proponent and the Pentagon General Counsel who authorized the unconstitutional extrajudicial murder of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki,...