A Defeat Bred in Deceit
By: Paul Craig Roberts|27 June, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bred . Deceit . Defeat
“Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn When Bush decided, prior to September 11, to attack Iraq, he committed himself to lies and deceit. As his British co-conspirators realized, only victory could save them from the consequences. On June 27, General George Casey, US commander of the “multinational coalition” in Iraq,…
Read more »Bush's War Against Iraq Ruining America
Last Friday the price of light sweet crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange for August delivery closed 16 cents short of $60/barrel—the highest price ever and an ironic outcome for the millions of Americans who believe that cheap oil was the reason for Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Equally shocking to Americans was the announcement that China has outbid…
Read more »US Labor Force: One Foot in the Third World
By: Paul Craig Roberts|03 June, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Foot . Force . Labor . USA
In May the Bush economy eked out a paltry 73,000 private sector jobs: 20,000 jobs in construction (primarily for Mexican immigrants), 21,000 jobs in wholesale and retail trade, and 32,500 jobs in health care and social assistance. Local government added 5,000 for a grand total of 78,000. Not a single one of these jobs produces an exportable good or service.…
Read more »Washington is the Source of Terror
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 June, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Source . Washington
The US government gave the slave trade a boost by offering money for Al Qaida and Talaban fighters. Afghan and Pakistani war lords simply rounded up people who looked Arab or foreign and sold them to the Americans as captured fighters. The “fighters” apparently included relief workers, refugees, and Arab businessmen. The tribunals looking into the classification of Guantanamo prisoners…
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