Pinochet's Demonization Exemplifies Propaganda's Power
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 December, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Demonization . Exemplifies . Pinochet's . Power . Propaganda's
Gen. Augusto Pinochet served as president of Chile during a troubled period of that country’s history. His fate was to become the world’s most demonized person in the last quarter of the 20th century, and his death on Dec. 10, 2006, was met with a new outpouring of denunciation by the international left. Just as the neoconservative Bush regime had…
Read more »Is the American Political Establishment a Match for AIPAC?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 December, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: craisisg org.com
The report by the Iraq Study Group [PDF] is an attempt by elder statesmen of the American Political Establishment to take US foreign policy out of the incompetent hands of President Bush and the self-serving hands of the Israeli Lobby. The Iraq Study Group’s effort may or may not succeed. Others have expressed disappointment that the ISG elder statesmen did…
Read more »America's Injustice System is Criminal
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 December, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns
The Christmas season is a time to remember the unfortunate. Among the most unfortunate people are those who have been wrongly convicted and imprisoned. The United States has a large number of wrongfully convicted. There are many reasons for this. One is that the US has the largest percentage of its citizens imprisoned of all countries in the world, including…
Read more »How Many More Will Die For Bush's Ego—And Israel?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 December, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: how many more americans will die for israel
Last July in response to Bush-the-Evil’s enabling of Israel’s gratuitous slaughter of thousands of Lebanese civilians and destruction of the country’s infrastructure, I wrote about “the shame of being an American.” With the ongoing slaughter of our troops and Iraqi civilians in Bush’s war in Iraq, it is time to revisit that theme. As the Iraqi civil war (euphemistically termed…
Read more »Iraq War Fuelled By Extremism In U.S., Israel
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 December, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Extremism . Fuelled . Iraq . Israel . U.S.
“The real difficulty in changing any enterprise lies not in developing new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” John Maynard Keynes A ray of realism appeared in the confirmation hearings for Secretary of Defense nominee Robert Gates before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Gates himself said that the US was not winning in Iraq, a statement with which…
Read more »Bush Is No Conservative
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 December, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Conservative . George Bush
The conservative movement in the United States has been stamped out, not by liberals but by neoconservatives. Conservative philanthropic foundations, conservative print media, and conservative think tanks have been taken over by neoconservatives, who have exiled real conservatives to voicelessness and joblessness. Neoconservative translates as “new conservative.” However, there is nothing at all conservative about neoconservatives. The name is a…
Read more »America's New Economic Problem
By: Paul Craig Roberts|02 December, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Problem
Few economists have come to terms with the meaning that offshore production of goods and services has both for the US economy and for the operation of US economic policy. One of the main reasons for the rapid expansion of the US trade imbalance is offshoring. When a company closes a plant in the US and moves its production for…
Read more »Is President Bush Sane?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 December, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: George Bush . President . Sane?
Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes tribunal at the Hague. The true fate that awaits Bush is…
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