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…
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