It Does Happen In America
By: Paul Craig Roberts|27 February, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America . Happen
The Political Trial of Don Siegelman Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush administration. The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy is so crystal clear and blatant that 52 former state attorney generals…
Read more »Can He Deliver?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 February, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests pdf
Obama and Global Trade CounterPunch, February 21, 2008 Unique among the contenders for the presidential nominations, Barack Obama has raised the issue of US job loss from US corporations moving operations abroad in order to lower their labor costs and, thereby, boost profits. As reported by the Financial Times, Obama proposed a lower tax rate for US companies that maintain…
Read more »Has Bush Been Spying, Blackmailing Congressional Democrats?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 February, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Been . Blackmailing . Congressional . Democrats? . George Bush . Spying
President George W. Bush and his director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, are telling the American people that an unaccountable executive branch is necessary for their protection. Without the Protect America Act, Bush and McConnell claim, the executive branch will not be able to spy on terrorists, and we will all be blown up. Terrorists can only be stopped, Bush…
Read more »Bush's Dirty Secret: Bribing Iraq Insurgents Not to Fight
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 February, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: alamag
It is impossible to keep up with all the Bush regime’s lies. There are simply too many. Among the recent crop, one of the biggest is that the “surge” is working. Launched last year, the “surge” was the extra 20,000-30,000 US troops sent to Iraq. These few extra troops, Americans were told, would finally supply the necessary forces to pacify…
Read more »Bush Calls on France for Help
“We support the troops!” That’s the excuse the Democrats have given for continuing to fund Bush’s aggression against Iraq and Afghanistan. But, of course, war funding doesn’t support the troops. War funding supports an evil machine that chews up and spits out the lives and well being of the troops, along with that of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and…
Read more »Does McCain's GOP Have Aces Up Its Sleeve?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 February, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: christian zionists . congressional election . countless numbers . detention centers . hundred year war . secretary of war
The Brownshirt Party has chosen John “hundred year war” McCain as its presidential candidate. Except for Cheney, Norman Podhoretz, and Billy Kristol, McCain is America’s greatest warmonger. In a McCain Regime, Cheney will be back in office with another stint as Secretary of War. Norman “Bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran” Podhoretz will be Undersecretary for Nuclear War with General John “Nuke them” Shalikashvili…
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