America's Superpower Status Coming To An End
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 February, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: america's pressure with super power
The U.S. economy is headed toward crisis, and the political leadership of the country—if it can be called leadership—is preoccupied with nonexistent weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. The U.S. economy is failing. The afflictions are serious. They could be fatal even if diagnosed and treated. America is losing the purchasing power of its currency and its ability…
Read more »Bush Outfoxed By Bin Laden
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 February, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: George Bush . Laden . Outfoxed
President Bush’s invasion has turned Iraq into a recruiting and training ground for anti-US terrorists, according to CIA director Porter Goss in testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 16. Goss’ report was supported by Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Jacoby told the committee that “our policies in the Middle East fuel…
Read more »Sycophantic Media Abandons Professional Standards
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 February, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: arnold schwarzenegger . conservative media . financial scandal . hearts and minds . impeach president clinton . republican politicians . sensible person
The conservative media will never recover from its role as Chief Sycophant for the Bush administration. Journalists who demanded that Clinton be held accountable for a minor sex scandal (Monica Lewinsky) and a minor financial scandal (Whitewater) now serve as apologists and propagandists for the Bush administration’s major war scandals. The Republican House of Representatives saw fit to impeach President…
Read more »The Great American Job Sellout
Americans are being sold out on the jobs front. Americans’ employment opportunities are declining as a result of corporate outsourcing of US jobs, H-1B visas that import foreigners to displace Americans in their own country, and federal guest worker programs. President Bush and his Republican majority intend to legalize the aliens who hold down wages for construction companies and cleaning…
Read more »More Bad News On The Jobs Front
The January jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics continues the bad news of the past four years. During President Bush’s first term, the US economy had a net loss of three-quarters of a million private sector jobs. Despite three years of economic recovery, fewer Americans are employed in the private sector today than when Bush was first inaugurated…
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