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Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
In America The Rule Of Law Is Vacated
With bank fraudsters, torturers, and war criminals running free, the US Department of Justice (sic) has nothing better to do than to harass the famous Tennessee guitar manufacturer, Gibso , arrest organic food producers in California and send 12 abusive FBI agents armed with assault rifles to bust down yet another wrong door of yet another innocent family, leaving parents,…
Read more »The Last Whistleblower–A Story
Bob and Darin were on a panel together discussing banalities in generalities, as is the usual case. If either had said anything meaningful on the subject, the moderator would have cut him off. Bob didn’t know Darin. He was introduced as a former CIA official. Bob had heard back in those days when he was on the Congressional Budget Committee…
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9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?
In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government’s official account of the event held up over the decade? Not very well. The chairman, vice chairman, and senior legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission wrote books partially disassociating themselves from the commission’s report. They said that the Bush administration…
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The S&P Debt Downgrade: What It Means
On Friday, August 5, the credit rating agency, Standard & Poors, downgraded US debt from AAA to AA+. Gerald Celente’s view that S&P’s downgrade of the US Treasury’s credit rating reflects a loss of confidence in the political system was confirmed by the rating agency itself. S&P explained the downgrade as the result of heightened political risks, not economic ones.…
Read more »Creating Evidence Where There Is None
The New Yorker has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden. [Getting Bin Laden | What happened that night in Abbottabad, August 8, 2011] There is no useful information in the story. Its purpose seems simply to explain away or cover up holes…
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The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
The United States Government and its presstitute media have wasted time and energy creating hysteria over a non-existent “debt ceiling crisis.” After reading the “news” in the Ministry of Propaganda and witnessing the stupidity of the US government, the rest of the world is struck dumbfounded by the immaturity of the “world’s only superpower.” What kind of superpower is it,…
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