By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 December, 2010|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: department of homeland . department of homeland security . president kennedy . publishers association
Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is an incipient fascist state needs only to consult the latest assault on civil liberty by Fox News (sic). Instead of informing citizens, Fox News (sic) informs on citizens. Jason Ditz reports (antiwar.com Dec. 28) that Fox News (sic) “no longer content to simply shill for a growing police state,” turned in a…
Read more »By: Paul Craig Roberts|27 December, 2010|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Democracy" . Rescues . What
“Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.” –Lewis H. Lapham The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and more intrusive police state, more unemployment and home foreclosures, no economic recovery, more disregard by the US government of US law, international law, the Constitution, and truth, more suspicion and distrust from allies, more hostility…
Read more »By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 December, 2010|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts vdare
The Greatest Gift For All Christmas is a time of traditions. If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the Christmas tree has ancient roots, at the beginning of the 20th century only 1 in 5 American families put up a tree. It was 1920…
Read more »By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 December, 2010|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Reaganomics
I admire Robert Reich, because he has a social conscience. However, if I were writing about the current Republican/Obama tax cut, I would not help the Republicans put Ronald Reagan’s name on it. Outside of progressive circles, which reflexively blame Reagan, the 40th president is still popular, because the 1980s were the last of the good times. Who prefers 21st…
Read more »