Are You Ready to Face the Facts about Israel?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 July, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: john wheat gibson jews
“On October 21 (1948) the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within its borders: the official establishment of military government in the areas where most of the inhabitants were Arabs.” Martin Gilbert, Israel: A History I had given up on finding…
Read more »The Mother of All Messes
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 July, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: mother of all messes
Republicans are sending around the Internet a photo of a cute little boy whose T-shirt reads: “The mess in my pants is nothing compared to the mess Democrats will make of this country if they win Nov. 2nd.” One can only wonder at the insouciance of this message. Are Republicans unaware of the amazing mess the Bush regime has made?…
Read more »Making Americans Unsafe
The Bush Regime’s “terrorist” protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends the US Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect, there are now one million names on the “terrorist” watch list. One of them is that of former Assistant US Attorney General Jim Robinson,…
Read more »Little War Criminals Get Punished, Big Ones Don't
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 July, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: punishment against war crime leaders by un
National Public Radio has been spending much news time on Darfur in Western Sudan where a great deal of human suffering and death are occurring. The military conflict has been brought on in part by climate change, according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Drought is forcing nomads in search of water into areas occupied by other claimants. No doubt…
Read more »Enabling Tyranny—Brigitte Bardot And Other Victims
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 July, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: campaign contributions . daily telegraph london . information clearing house . muslims in france . telecommunication companies
< border='0' width='255' height='320'> I recently read that Brigitte Bardot, now in her 70s, has been arrested as a hate criminal for complaining that Muslims in France slaughter sheep without first stunning them. The famous actress is known for her sympathy with animals, but the French government preferred to interpret her remarks as hatred for Muslims. Prosecutor Anne de Fontette…
Read more »A Work Force Betrayed
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 July, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Betrayed . Force . Work?
The collapse of world socialism, the rise of the high speed Internet, a bought-and-paid-for US government, and a million dollar cap on executive pay that is not performance related are permitting greedy and disloyal corporate executives, Wall Street, and large retailers to dismantle the ladders of upward mobility that made America an “opportunity society.” In the 21st century the US…
Read more »Buchanan, MacDonogh, Pilger Books Explode Illusion Of American Exceptionalism
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 July, 2008|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: pilger u.s hegemony
Which country is the rogue nation? Iraq? Iran? Or the United States? Syndicated columnist Charley Reese asks this question in a recently published article. Reese notes that it is the US that routinely commits “acts of aggression around the globe.” The US government has no qualms about dropping bombs on civilians whether they be in Serbia, the Middle East, or…
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