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…
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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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