The Evil In Our Government
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 May, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Evil . Government
Is the Bush Regime a state sponsor of terrorism? A powerful case can be made that it is. In the past three years the Bush Regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones. US Marines, our finest and proudest military force, are under criminal investigation for breaking into Iraqi homes and murdering…
Read more »How Bush Brewed The Iranian Crisis
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 May, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns
Why did the Bush regime create a crisis over Iran? The answer is that the Bush regime is desperate to widen the war in the Middle East. What has Iran done? Unlike Israel, Pakistan and India, countries that developed nuclear weapons on the sly, Iran signed the non- proliferation treaty. Countries that sign this treaty have the right to develop…
Read more »The Real Assault on America
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 May, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America . Assault
The neoconservative Bush regime has adroitly used 9/11 to create fear of terrorism among Americans that blinds Americans to the Bush regime’s assault on our constitutional system. Americans have meekly acquiesced to the Bush regime’s brutal assaults on civil liberties, human rights, the separation of powers, and statutory law, because Americans have been brainwashed to believe that the “war on…
Read more »The Fading US Economy
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 May, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: january 2001 US economy lost
[See also National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein: April Jobs: Hispanics Up, non-Hispanics Down] The Bureau of Labor Statistics payroll jobs report released May 5 says the economy created 131,000 private sector jobs in April. Construction added 10,000 jobs, natural resources, mining and logging added 8,000 jobs, and manufacturing added 19,000. Despite this unusual gain, the economy has 10,000 fewer…
Read more »John Kenneth Galbraith: A Great American
By: Paul Craig Roberts|02 May, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns
A great American has passed away—John Kenneth Galbraith. He was 97 years old and still involved with the issues of our time. Galbraith’s most famous book is The Affluent Society (1958). In this book Galbraith argued that Americans were good at making money, but neglectful of the wider public interest. Alas, the same is true today. The environment always suffers from…
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