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: franck muller robbery
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…
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