Israeli Electorate Rebukes Bush and Votes for Peace
By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 March, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Electorate . George Bush . Israeli . Peace . Rebukes . Votes
Israeli elections this week swept the right-wing Likud Party from power and installed a center-left government committed to peaceful co- existence with Palestine. Ehud Olmert, the leader of the new Israeli government, told the new Palestinian government that “we are ready to compromise and evacuate, under great pain, Jews living there [the West Bank of Palestine] in order to create…
Read more »Is Another 9/11 in the Works?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 March, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Works?
If you were President George W. Bush with all available US troops tied down by the Iraqi resistance, and you were unable to control Iraq or political developments in the country, would you also start a war with Iran? Yes, you would. Bush’s determination to spread Middle East conflict by striking at Iran does not make sense. First of all,…
Read more »Jobs Update: More Jobs For Bartenders, As Factory Workers Lose Jobs
By: Paul Craig Roberts|10 March, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bartenders . Factory . Jobs . Lose . Update: . Workers
[See also National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein: A Cold February for White Workers] March 10. The BLS payroll jobs report released today lists 205,000 new private sector jobs for February. As has been the case for a number of years, the new jobs are in domestic nontradable services. The sources of February’s new jobs are: construction (primarily specially trade…
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