The Dollar's Reserve Currency Role Is Drawing To An End
It is difficult to know where Bush has accomplished the most destruction, the Iraqi economy or the US economy. In the current issue of Manufacturing & Technology News, Washington economist Charles McMillion observes that seven years of Bush has seen the federal debt increase by two-thirds while US household debt doubled. [The Economic State Of The Union — 2008, January 24,…
Read more »Padilla Trial Highlights Bush Administration's Manipulation Of Justice
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 January, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts padilla
University of Pittsburgh JURIST Hotline, January 24, 2008
Read more »President Hillary
If polls are reliable, Hillary will win the Democratic nomination. The Democratic groups that prefer Obama are not sufficiently numerous to give him the nomination. Of course, anything can happen in a political campaign, but the latest Field Poll of likely California Democrats and independent voters gives Hillary a 39 to 27 percent lead over Obama. This is bad news…
Read more »How Did Western Civilization Get A Monopoly On “Moral Conscience” When It Has No Morality?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 January, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: best military generals of western civilization
“The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.” Five Western military leaders. I read the statement three times trying to figure out the typo. Then it hit me, the West has now out-Orwelled Orwell: The West must nuke other countries in order…
Read more »Bush To Abandon Supply-Side Economics?
With his tax rebate policy, President Bush has put economic policy back on a Keynesian basis. Will it work? During the two decades it was in effect, supply-side economics had restorative effects on the American economy. Its predecessor, Keynesian demand management, stimulated demand more than supply. Consequently, over time the trade-offs between employment and inflation worsened, and for a while…
Read more »Olmert And Bush—Leader And Vassal
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 January, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bush—Leader . Olmert . Vassal
After pandering to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s right-wing government last week, US president George W. Bush carried the Israeli/neoconservative campaign against Iran to Arab countries. Sounding as authentic as the “Filipino Monkey,” Bush told the Arab countries that “Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror,” and that “Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere.” To no…
Read more »No Escape from War and Unemployment
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 January, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: inflationary impact . low interest rates . national socialists . presidential candidates . Vice President Cheney
New Hampshire voters have chosen warmonger clones of Bush/Cheney for their party’s presidential candidates. The only candidates not in Israel’s pocket are Kucinich, Paul, and Gravel, who have no chance for their party’s nomination. Obama, who provided some hope for change, undercut his support on the eve of the New Hampshire primary by declaring that he would invade Pakistan in…
Read more »No Jobs for the New Economy or the Old
December did not bring Americans any jobs. To the contrary, the private sector lost 13,000 jobs from the previous month. If December is a harbinger of the New Year, it is going to be a bad one. The past year, hailed by Republican propagandists and “free trade” economists as proof of globalism’s benefit to Americans, was dismal. According to the…
Read more »Criminals With Badges—How the Police Create Crimes
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 January, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Org.with badges
Take heed, ye red-blooded American males. The police are operating a new sting designed to destroy your life. The police are planting attractive women half naked in parks. They entice passing males, engage them in conversation, lay back, spread their legs and rest their feet on the men’s shoulders. After being as friendly and suggestive as possible, they ask…
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