Supreme Court Rebukes Bush On Guantanamo—What Now?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 June, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: supreme court rebukes bush
On June 29 the US Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision ruled that President Bush’s effort to railroad tortured Guantanamo Bay detainees in kangaroo courts violates both US law and the Geneva Conventions. Better late than never, but it sure took a long time for the checks and balances to call a halt to the illegal and unconstitutional behavior of…
Read more »The High Price of American Gullibility
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 June, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: american citizens . Bush Administration . emotional appeals . intelligence failures . mass surveillance . peaceful solutions . what is the role of congress
What explains the gullibility of Americans, a gullibility that has mired the US in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and which promises war with Iran, North Korea and a variety of other targets if neoconservatives continue to have their way? Part of the explanation is that millions of conservatives are thrilled at the opportunity to display their patriotism and…
Read more »Neocon Plot To Nuke Iran Invites Catastrophe
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 June, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Catastrophe . Invites . Iran . Neocon . Nuke . Plot
John Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be confirmed as America’s ambassador to the UN by even the compliant and corrupt US Senate, got the job as a recess appointment. He is using the platform to push America into war with Iran. Bolton told the Financial Times (June 9) that the Bush Regime has no intention of reaching…
Read more »War Criminal Nation
Faced with mounting civilian carnage, both from war crimes committed by demoralized and broken US troops and from the raging civil war unleashed by Bush’s ill-fated illegal invasion of Iraq, the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has decided to waste another $50 billion to continue the lost war for five more months. Our elected “representatives” are so in thrall to the…
Read more »Jobs Update: The Death of US Engineering
The May payroll jobs report released June 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms the jobs pattern for the 21st century US economy: employment growth is limited to domestic services. In May the economy created only 67,000 private sector jobs. Job estimates for the previous two months were reduced by 37,000. The new jobs are as follows: professional and…
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