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…
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