The Greatest Gift For All
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 December, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: All . For . Gift . Greatest . The
Christmas is a time of traditions. If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the Christmas tree has ancient roots, at the beginning of the 20th century only 1 in 5 American families put up a tree. It was 1920 before the Christmas tree became…
Read more »Guilty When Charged
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 December, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: american prisons . christmas season . conviction rates . felony indictments . police evidence . self incrimination . yale university law
While enjoying the Christmas season in the comfort of your home, take a minute to say a prayer for the wrongfully convicted. American prisons are full of wrongfully convicted persons. Many were coerced into admitting to crimes they did not commit by prosecutors’ threats to pile on more charges. Others were convicted by false testimony from criminals bribed by prosecutors,…
Read more »Rendition Unto Caesar
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 December, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: american officials . american secretary . bush administration . extraordinary rendition . foreign countries . foreign nationals . illegal detention
The spectacle of an American Secretary of State being sent to Europe to reassure America’s allies that the US does not torture prisoners has brought an end to America’s moral grandeur. America stands revealed before the world as just another unaccountable police state. Condi Rice’s declaration that the Bush administration is too morally pure to engage in torture was just…
Read more »Condi to Europe: “Trust Me”
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 December, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: "Trust . Condi . Europe: . Me . to
Secretary of State Condi Rice is off to Europe to neither confirm nor to deny that the US government in an operation known as rendition kidnaps people, often the wrong ones, and flies them to foreign countries to be tortured. “Trust me” is her line. According to Reuters, “Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said Rice told him in Washington she…
Read more »Don't Confuse the Jobs Hype with the Facts
[See also National Data: November's Job Numbers: Good for immigrants; Bad for the Rest of Us] The November payrolls job report was announced Friday with the usual misleading hype. Spinmeisters made the most out of the 215,000 jobs. Looking beyond the glitter at the real facts, this is what we see. 21,000 of those jobs were government jobs supported by…
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