Bush's Untrue State of the Union
By: Paul Craig Roberts|31 January, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: chicago sun times . discouraged workers . economic growth rates . geneva convention . government sector . manufacturing technology . oakland california
Gentle reader, if you prefer comforting lies to harsh truths, don’t read this column. The state of the union is disastrous. By its naked aggression, bullying, illegal spying on Americans, and illegal torture and detentions, the Bush administration has demonstrated American contempt for the Geneva Convention, for human life and dignity, and for the civil liberties of its own citizens.…
Read more »Unfathomed Dangers in Patriot Act Reauthorization
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 January, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: chart of how many people were jailed under the patriot act
A provision in the “Patriot Act” creates a new federal police force with power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV. Go to House Report 109-333 -USA PATRIOT IMPROVEMENT AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005 and…
Read more »Evidence Of A Stolen Election
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 January, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Election . Evidence . Stolen
As coincidence would have it, Mark Crispin Miller’s new book, “Fooled Again” (Basic Books), documenting the Republican theft of the 2004 presidential election, arrived in the same mail delivery with the Jan. 12 edition of the Defuniak Springs Herald, the locally owned weekly newspaper in a Florida panhandle county seat. The Florida panhandle is thoroughgoing Republican. Even Democrats run as…
Read more »A Challenge That Cannot Be Ignored
Former vice president Al Gore gave what I believe to be the most important political speech in my lifetime, and the New York Times, “the newspaper of record,” did not report it. Not even excerpts. For the New York Times, it was a nonevent that a former vice president and presidential candidate, denied the presidency by one vote of the…
Read more »A Few Moments With Paul Craig Roberts
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 January, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: faerie . few moments
A Faerie’s Farthing Flitting through the internets looking for sparkly bits. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2006 A Few Moments With
Read more »America's Superpower Days Are Over
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 January, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bush Administration . disability payments . harvard university . university budget . utter incompetence
President George W. Bush has destroyed America’s economy along with America’s reputation as a truthful, compassionate, peace-loving nation that values civil liberties and human rights. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes have calculated the cost to Americans of Bush’s Iraq war to be between one and two trillion dollars. This figure is 5 to…
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