Offshoring Interests and Economic Dogmas Are Destroying the US Dollar
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 December, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: assassination attempt . budget deficits . clinton administration . energy imports . oil exporting countries . reserve currency . rupert murdoch
On December 8, Chinese and French news services reported that Iran had stopped billing its oil exports in dollars. Americans might never hear this news as the independence of the US media was destroyed in the 1990s when Rupert Murdoch persuaded the Clinton administration and the quislings in Congress to allow the US media to be monopolized by a few…
Read more »Bush's Assault On Habeas Corpus
The US Supreme Court has taken up the issue whether the executive branch can detain people indefinitely merely by declaring them to be suspected terrorists or illegal enemy combatants. The case is a habeas corpus issue and, therefore, of the utmost importance. Without the protection of habeas corpus, government can lock away anyone on the basis of unsubstantiated charges as…
Read more »“Skill Shortage” Racket Driving Americans From Science And Engineering
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 December, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: phony job shortage
Last June a revealing marketing video from the law firm, Cohen & Grigsby appeared on the Internet. The video demonstrated the law firm’s techniques for getting around US law governing work visas in order to enable corporate clients to replace their American employees with foreigners who work for less. The law firm’s marketing manager, Lawrence Lebowitz, [email] is upfront with…
Read more »Impending Destruction of the US Economy
Hubris and arrogance are too ensconced in Washington for policymakers to be aware of the economic policy trap in which they have placed the US economy. If the subprime mortgage meltdown is half as bad as predicted, low US interest rates will be required in order to contain the crisis. But if the dollar’s plight is half as bad as…
Read more »Pat Buchanan's Day of Reckoning: Good-bye to America?
Pat Buchanan is too patriotic to come right out and say it, but the message of his new book, Day of Reckoning, is that America as we have known her is finished. Moreover, Naomi Wolf agrees with him. These two writers of different political persuasions arrive at America’s demise from different directions. Buchanan explains how hubris, ideology, and greed have torn…
Read more »The Lobby
Experts in the West and ordinary people in Arab lands have understood for many years that the United States does not have an independent policy toward the Middle East. President Jimmy Carter, a man of good will, tried to use American influence to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the source of dangerous instability in the Middle East. However, Israel was able…
Read more »The End Is Near!—Gisele Bundchen (Pictures Supplied) Dumps Dollar
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 November, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: may not be supplied
The US dollar is still officially the world’s reserve currency, but it cannot purchase the services of Brazilian super model Gisele Bundchen. Gisele required the $30 million she earned during the first half of this year to be paid in euros. Gisele is not alone in her forecast of the dollar’s fate. The First Post (UK) reports that Jim Rogers,…
Read more »Hegemony's Cost
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 November, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigroberts.org/ dick cheney
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” (Bush, at the Athena Performing Arts Center at Greece Athena Middle and High School, Tuesday, May 24, 2005 in Rochester, NY) MP3 ) When he departs the White House on…
Read more »Bush's “Permission To Fly” Proposals: Preaching Liberty, Promoting Tyranny
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 October, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Fly" . Liberty . Promoting . Proposals: . Tyranny . Preaching
Americans had best rethink the “war on terror” while they still have the liberty to do so. For all of President Bush’s blah-blah talk about bringing democracy to the world, the Bush administration has proved that it is no friend of liberty at home. The Bush administration has violated constitutional principles, US law, and the Geneva Conventions as no previous…
Read more »Cato's Trade Report: Blinded by Ideology
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 October, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: brookings institution . cato institute . global economy . import competition . incorrect conclusion . substantial percentage . trade restrictions
On August 28 the Cato Institute in Washington DC published a report, “Thriving in a Global Economy: The Truth about US Manufacturing and Trade.” The report confuses a company’s offshored products with its import competition and wrongly concludes that US companies with the most import competition are the companies that are thriving. The Cato report never mentions the practice of…
Read more »Hypocrisy Rules The West
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 September, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Hypocrisy . Rules . West
Shame has vanished from Western “civilization.” Hypocrisy has taken its place. On September 28, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown could be heard on National Public Radio decrying the use of violence against democratic protesters by the government in Burma. Brown declared the British people’s revulsion over the violence inflicted by the Burmese government on its people. But Brown said nothing…
Read more »America's Police Brutality Pandemic
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 September, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: police brutality
Bush’s “war on terror” quickly became Bush’s war on Iraqi civilians. So far over one million Iraqi civilians have lost their lives because of Bush’s invasion, and four million have been displaced. Iraq’s infrastructure is in ruins. Disease is rampant. Normal life has disappeared. Self-righteous Americans justify these monstrous crimes as necessary to ensure their own safety from terrorist attack.…
Read more »America's Hegemonic Status Slipping Away
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 September, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Away . Hegemonic . Slipping . Status
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan’s memoir has put him in the news these last few days. He has upset Republicans with his comments on various presidents, with George W. Bush getting the brickbats and Clinton the praise, and by saying that Bush’s invasion of Iraq was about oil, not weapons of mass destruction. Opponents of Bush’s wars welcomed Greenspan’s statement,…
Read more »The Meaning Of That Kerry Fracas In Florida
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 September, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Florida . Fracas . Kerry . Meaning
Naïve Americans who think they live in a free society should watch this video filmed by students at a John Kerry speech September 17, Constitution Day, at the University of Florida in Gainesville. At the conclusion of Kerry’s speech, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year old journalism student was selected by Senator Kerry to ask a question. Meyer held up a copy…
Read more »9-11, Six Years Later
By: Paul Craig Roberts|10 September, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Later . Six . Years
On Sept. 7, National Public Radio reported that Muslims in the Middle East were beginning to believe that the 9-11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon were false flag operations committed by some part of the U.S. and/ or Israeli government. It was beyond the imagination of the NPR reporter and producer that there could be any substance to these…
Read more »American Economy: R.I.P.
[See also: National Data, Immigrant Displacement Of American Workers Booms Amid The Job Bust, By Edwin S. Rubenstein] The US economy continues its slow death before our eyes, but economists, policymakers, and most of the public are blind to the tottering fabled land of opportunity. In August jobs in goods-producing industries declined by 64,000. The US economy lost 4,000 jobs…
Read more »The War Criminal In The Living Room
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 August, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Criminal . Living . Room
The media is silent, Congress is absent, and Americans are distracted as George W. Bush openly prepares aggression against Iran. US Navy aircraft carrier strike forces are deployed off Iran. US Air Force jets and missile systems are deployed in bases in countries bordering or near to Iran. US B-2 stealth bombers have been refitted to carry 30,000 pound “bunker…
Read more »More Shame, More Sorrow
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 August, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: discussion paper . invasion of poland . israeli aggression . lies and deception . president of turkey . turkish parliament
In the administration of George W. Bush, the Republican Party has achieved the greatest combination of idiocy and evil in human history. The Republicans have bogged America down in a gratuitous and illegal war. The war has destroyed Iraq, killed between 650,000 and 1,000,000 Iraqi civilians, displaced 4,000,000 Iraqis, and littered the country with depleted uranium. Bush’s war remains unwon…
Read more »Free Trade, Open Immigration Dogmas Must Be Rethought
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 August, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: chinese currency . media conglomerate . trade deficit with china . us trade deficit with china . Wall Street Journal
At a time when even the Wall Street Journal has disappeared into the maw of a huge media conglomerate, the New York Times remains an independent newspaper. But it doesn’t show any independence in reporting or in thought. The Times issued a mea culpa for letting its reporter, Judith Miller, misinform readers about Iraq, thus helping the neoconservatives set the…
Read more »“No American President can stand up to Israel.”
“No American President can stand up to Israel.” These words came from feisty Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations (1967-1970) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970-1974). Moorer was, perhaps, the last independent-minded American military leader. Admiral Moorer knew what he was talking about. On June 8, 1967, Israel attacked the American intelligence ship, USS Liberty, killing…
Read more »China's “Nuclear Option” Is Real
Twenty-four hours after I reported China’s announcement that China, not the Federal Reserve, controls US interest rates by its decision to purchase, hold, or dump US Treasury bonds, the news of the announcement appeared in sanitized and unthreatening form in a few US news sources. The Washington Post found an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin to provide reassurances…
Read more »US Hegemony Spawns Russian-Chinese Military Alliance
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 August, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Alliance . Hegemony . Military . Russian-Chinese . Spawns . USA
This week the Russian and Chinese militaries are conducting a joint military exercise involving large numbers of troops and combat vehicles. The former Soviet Republics of Tajikistan, Kyrgkyzstan, and Kazakstan are participating. Other countries appear ready to join the military alliance. This new potent military alliance is a real world response to neoconservative delusions about US hegemony. Neocons believe that…
Read more »Uncle Sam, Your Banker Will See You Now
Early this morning China let the idiots in Washington, and on Wall Street, know that it has them by the short hairs. Two senior spokesmen for the Chinese government observed that China’s considerable holdings of US dollars and Treasury bonds “contributes a great deal to maintaining the position of the dollar as a reserve currency.”[China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar…
Read more »Return of the Robber Barons
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 August, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Barons . Return . Robber
As the Bush Regime outfits B-2 stealth bombers with 30,000 pound monster “bunker buster” bombs for its coming attack on Iran, the US economy continues its 21st century decline. While profits soar for the armaments industry, the American people continue to take it on the chin. The latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the real wages…
Read more »My Wake-up Call: Watch For Another 9/11-WMD Experience
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 July, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Call . Experience . My . Wake-up . Watch
This is a wake-up call that we are about to experience another 9/11-WMD experience. The wake-up call is unlikely to be effective, because the American attitude toward government changed fundamentally seventy-odd years ago. Prior to the 1930s, Americans were suspicious of government, but with the arrival of the Great Depression, Tojo, and Hitler, President Franklin D. Roosevelt convinced Americans that…
Read more »A Free Press or a Ministry of Truth?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 July, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: american troops . collateral damage . foreign fighters . iraq study group . iraqi government
In his novel 1984, George Orwell portrayed a future time in which the explanations of recent events and earlier history are continually changed to meet Big Brother’s latest purpose. Previous explanations disappear down “the memory hole.” Sound familiar? Any American who pays attention can observe the identical phenomenon occurring in the US today. Think about the Bush Regime’s changing explanations…
Read more »Impeach Bush And Cheney Now
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 July, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: dictatorial police state . false flag operations . impeachment of cheney . senator rick santorum . waiting in the wings
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of “executive orders” that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator…
Read more »Goodbye To The City Upon A Hill And To Its Fabled Economy
“We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” John Winthrop America is being destroyed. Many Americans are unaware, others are indifferent, and some intend it. The destruction is across the board: the political and constitutional system, the economy, social institutions including the family itself, citizenship, and the character and morality of…
Read more »Pace Fired To Clear Way For “National Emergency,” Iran Nuclear Strike?
“It is the absolute responsibility of everybody in uniform to disobey an order that is either illegal or immoral.”—General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Press Club, February 17, 2006. “They will be held accountable for the decisions they make. So they should in fact not obey the illegal and immoral orders to…
Read more »The Truth Comes Out About Offshoring
On January 6, 2004, Senator Charles Schumer (D, NY) and I scandalized the economics profession and Washington policymakers with our New York Times article, Second Thoughts on Free Trade. We noted that the two conditions on which the case for free trade rests no longer exist in the present-day world and that there was no basis for the assumption that…
Read more »The Neoconservative Threat to American Freedom
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 June, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: American . Freedom . Neoconservative . Threat
The Bush/Cheney White House, which told the American people in 2003 that the Iraqi invasion would be a three to six week affair, now tells us that the US occupation is permanent. Forever. Attentive Americans of which, alas, there are so few, had already concluded that the occupation was permanent. Permanence is the obvious message from the massive and fortified…
Read more »The Real Reason for Bush's Invasion of Iraq is a National Security Secret
American soldiers have been fighting and dying in Iraq since 2003, and Americans do not know why. All the reasons President Bush gave us for his war are false. Bush said he invaded Iraq “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people.” We now know that these…
Read more »If You Think Bush Is Evil Now, Wait Until He Nukes Iran
By: Paul Craig Roberts|05 June, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: show best pusy in iran
The war in Iraq is lost. This fact is widely recognized by American military officers and has been recently expressed forcefully by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of US forces in Iraq during the first year of the attempted occupation. Winning is no longer an option. Our best hope, Gen. Sanchez says, is “to stave off defeat,” and that…
Read more »Losing the Economy to Mythology
Economic discussion in the United States is trapped in ancient ruts. Both right and left are stuck in old habitual ways of thinking. Neither shows inclination or ability to think independently of ideology. For a country beset with economic problems, this is problematic. The ascendancy of free market economics during the past quarter century has removed some constraints on corporate…
Read more »Democrats Dither As Cheney, Neocons Plot To Nuke Iran
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 May, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: american enterprise institute . independent analysts . secretaries of defense . Vice President Cheney . war in the middle east
The Washington, DC, think-tank, The American Enterprise Institute, camouflages its purpose with its name. There is nothing American about AEI, and the organization’s enterprise is fomenting war in the Middle East against Israel’s enemies. Its real name should be The Likud Center for Middle East War. AEI has the largest collection of warmongers in America. AEI “scholars” have agitated for…
Read more »Giuliani Would Make a Worse President than Bush
By: Paul Craig Roberts|10 May, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: nonething but milken black pussy.com
Republican magazines have begun their pimp operations for the GOP’s 2008 presidential candidates. In a recent issue of National Review, Jennifer Rubin, described as “a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.,” pumps up Rudolph Giuliani as “America’s mayor” and “America’s prosecutor.” [Rudy As Prosecutor, April 30, 2007(Subscriber link)] Giuliani is a media creation. Giuliani was unknown until in search of name…
Read more »The War Goes Ever On
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 April, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bush Administration . general david petraeus . iraqi civilian casualties . ministry of health . sunnis and shiites
Is the Iraq war to become a permanent feature? The war persists despite the opposition of a majority of Americans and Iraqis. The war persists despite warnings from US generals that the stress is breaking the US Army. The war persists despite its enormous cost in red ink and dependence on foreign loans. The war persists despite its total failure.…
Read more »Ban People — They Kill
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 April, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: sitepaulcraigroberts.org nra
The tragic murders of Virginia Tech students, apparently by an insane person, will prompt new attempts to ban private ownership of guns. Once guns are banned, crime will explode. Households and vulnerable members of society will lose the ability to defend, which will invite more intrusions and attacks. Knife crimes will rise as they have in Great Britain. Gun prohibition…
Read more »The Party of Brownshirts
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 April, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Brownshirts . Party
Neoconservatives have turned the Republican Party into a Brownshirt Party. Look at the evidence. While real patriots flee the party, the remaining supporters cling to power by asserting dictatorial dominance for President Bush. The Republican Attorney General denies that the US Constitution provides habeas corpus protection to American citizens. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, Republican candidates for the 2008 presidential…
Read more »Creating a Market for Security
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 April, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: facial expression . marketing campaign . security authorities . security industries . terrorism experts
The War on Terror is a marketing campaign for security industries and terrorism experts. The latter are pulling in the consulting fees, and the former are rapidly inventing new products that enable “our” government to watch our every move and to know our location at every moment. Although it should be working on its corporate ethics (see: BAE corruption probe, …
Read more »Commentary & Analysis: Economists In Denial; Blind To Offshoring's Adverse Impact
Manufacturing And Technology News February 6, 2007 Volume 14, No. 3 At a Washington, D.C., press conference last November, Harvard University economics professor Michael Porter claimed that globalism was bringing benefits to Americans (Manufacturing & Technology News, Nov. 30, 2006). Porter was introducing the latest report, “Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands” [PDF]of which he is a principal author, from the…
Read more »Domestic Spying Revelations Make Impeachment Now Imperative
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 March, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Domestic . Impeachment . Imperative . Make . Now . Revelations . Spying
While serving as President Bush’s White House lawyer, Alberto Gonzales advised Bush that the president’s war time powers permitted Bush to ignore the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and to use the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on US citizens without obtaining warrants from the FISA court as required by law. Under an order signed by Bush in 2002,…
Read more »The Confession Backfired
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 March, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Backfired . Confession
The first confession released by the Bush regime’s Military Tribunals–that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed–has discredited the entire process. Writing in Jurist, Northwestern University law professor Anthony D’Amato likens Mohammed’s confession to those that emerged in Stalin’s show trials of Bolshevik leaders in the 1930s. [True Confessions? The Amazing Tale of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed] That was my own immediate thought. I…
Read more »Are We Experiencing The Last Days Of Constitutional Rule?
The Bush administration’s greatest success is its ability to escape accountability for its numerous impeachable offenses. The administration’s offenses against US law, the US Constitution, civil liberties, human rights, and the Geneva Conventions, its lies to Congress and the American people, its vote-rigging scandals, its sweetheart no-bid contracts to favored firms, its political firing of Republican US Attorneys, its practice…
Read more »The Future Has Caught Up With Us
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 March, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: brave new world . john derbyshire . military tribunals . recreational sex . us constitution . vitro fertilization
John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxley’s fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early—in vitro fertilization, genetically modified crops, stem-cell research, promiscuous recreational sex, the demise…
Read more »Military Breaks Ranks With Bush—But NPR Falls In Line
Is the high command of the US military breaking ranks with the Bush Regime? With the “mainstream media,” that is, the government’s propaganda ministry, bombarding the American public with “news reports” from unidentified sources that the US government has proof that “the highest reaches of the Iranian government” is supplying weapons to the Iraqi insurgency, Marine General Peter Pace,…
Read more »The World Can Halt Bush's Crimes By Dumping the Dollar
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 February, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Can . Crimes . Dollar . Dumping . Halt
What would be the consequences of a US or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear energy sites? At the 2006 Perdana Global Peace Forum, Australian medical scientist Dr. Helen Caldicott provided an authoritative analysis of the devastating impact on human life that would result from the radiation release from such an attack. [VIDEO: The Dangers of a Nuclear War, Global Research,…
Read more »Brzezinski: “Time For The Congress To Assert Itself” Against Bush Bullying
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 February, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Assert . Brzezinski: . Bullying . Congress . George Bush . Itself"
Gentle reader, you are probably unaware of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski’s damning indictment of the Bush Regime in his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007, as the United States no longer has a media–only a government propaganda ministry. Brzezinski damned the Bush Regime’s war in Iraq as “a historic, strategic, and moral calamity.”…
Read more »A Prize For Truth
The Nobel Committee is experiencing difficulty in finding suitable candidates for the Peace Prize. Perhaps the solution is to consider candidates over a broader range of people. What is as rare these days as a peace-maker? The answer is: a truth-teller. Without truth-tellers, there can be no peace-makers. This year the Nobel Committee should consider giving the Peace Prize to…
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In the World's Eyes the US has become Amerika
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 March, 2007|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bush Administration . civilian population . commentary magazine . general wesley clark . iraqi casualties . iraqi government . supreme commander
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US casualties (dead and wounded) have now reached 27,000 in a war that was supposed to be a “cakewalk” over in a few weeks. If what four-star general Wesley Clark, former supreme commander of NATO, told Amy Goodman in a March 2 interview is correct, US casualties are yet in their early days. Gen. Clark told Amy Goodman that…
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