Can Truth Retain Its Independence?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 May, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns
Justin Raimondo has a good column this morning on Antiwar.com. It is written as a fundraiser. But what it shows is that journalists (and whistle-blowers) who tell the truth in America are more likely to be pummeled than rewarded, whereas those who lie for powerful interest groups live high on the hog. It wasn’t just Bush, Cheney, and the neoconservatives…
Read more »War Abroad and Poverty at Home
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 May, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: at . Home . Poverty
The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring. As the US is broke and deep in debt, every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed. American consumers are also broke and deep in debt. Their zero saving rate means every one of the…
Read more »The Conservative Movement: From Failure to Threat
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 May, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Conservative . Movement: . Threat
UC Berkeley tenured law professor John Yoo epitomizes the failure of the conservative movement in America. Known as “the torture professor,” Yoo penned the Department of Justice (sic) memos that gave a blank check to sadistic Americans to torture detainees at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The human rights violations that John Yoo sanctioned destroyed America’s reputation and exposed the Bush…
Read more »Constitution's Checks, Balances Failing As Bush Prepares Iran Attack
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 May, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: bush attacks on constitution
On May 15, the White House Moron, in a war-planning visit to Israel, justified the naked aggression he and Olmert are planning against Iran as the only alternative to “the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.” But the White House Moron has the roles reversed. It is not Iran that is threatening war. It…
Read more »New Buchanan Book: Anglo-American Ascendancy Lost in Unnecessary Wars
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 May, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: buchanan unnecessary war pdf
In a new book that will infuriate the fake conservatives who inhabit the Republican Party, Patrick J. Buchanan documents how British self-righteousness, delusion, and hubris destroyed both the British Empire and Western ascendancy in two unnecessary wars launched by a small cabal of morons that ruled Britain Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War shows that the two world wars that…
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