No Bear Market In Gold — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|20 May, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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You know that gold bear market that the financial press keeps touting? The one George Soros keeps proclaiming? Well, it is not there. The gold bear market is disinformation that is helping elites acquire the gold. Certainly, Soros himself doesn’t believe it, as the 13-F release issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 15 proves. George Soros has…
Read more »Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|18 May, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance the US budget deficit…
Read more »Gangster State America — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|13 May, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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There are many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion between federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig the markets for gold and silver. My explanation that the sudden appearance of an unprecedented 400 ton short sale of gold on the COMEX in April was a manipulation designed to protect the dollar from the Federal…
Read more »How Elites and Media Minimize Dissent and Bury Truth — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|10 May, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Over the last several years I have watched the rise of an important new intellect on the American scene. Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, has demonstrated time and again the extraordinary ability to reexamine settled issues and show that the accepted conclusion was incorrect. One of his early achievements was to dispose of the myth of immigrant crime…
Read more »Washington’s Presumption — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|07 May, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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The new president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is cast in Chavez’s mold. On May 4, he called US president Obama the “grand chief of devils.” Obama, who has betrayed democracy in America, unleashing execution on American citizens without due process of law and war without the consent of Congress, provoked Maduro’s response by suggesting that Maduro’s newly elected government might…
Read more »The Financial Press–A Disinformation Machine — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|05 May, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Dear Readers: If you have not read “You Are The Hope” please do so now and make a donation. Due to readers’ inquiries about last Friday’s job numbers, I have had to shorten the time between the quarterly appeal and a new posting. Also, those who have asked if there would be a second printing of How The Economy Was…
Read more »You Are The Hope — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|01 May, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Dear Readers: If there is hope, you are it. You are motivated to find truth. You can think outside the box. You can see through propaganda. You are the remnant with the common sense that once was a common American virtue. You come to this site, because you get explanations that are not agenda-driven, that are not BS, that are…
Read more »Recovery for the 7 Percent — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|28 April, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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“From the end of the recession in 2009 through 2011 (the last year for which Census Bureau wealth data are available), the 8 million households in the U.S. with a net worth above $836,033 saw their aggregate wealth rise by an estimated $5.6 trillion, while the 111 million households with a net worth at or below that level saw their…
Read more »If you want to go to heaven, you had better get busy overthrowing Syria — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|21 April, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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The United States government has been at war for eleven years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check by the secular Saddam Hussein government. On any given day in “liberated” Iraq, the death toll is as high as during the height of the…
Read more »Boston Marathon Bombing
By: pcr3|19 April, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Boston Marathon Bombing Dear Readers, A number of you have asked me my take on the Boston Marathon Bombing and subsequent events. I am flattered that so many look to me for leadership on so many issues. However, I have not followed closely the Boston event. My website hasn’t the resources to field an investigative team, and in my opinion…
Read more »Update to the Update: The Attack on Gold — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|16 April, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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April 18 Note: At the online retailer Gainesville coins, and everywhere else, the increased premiums above the spot price of gold and silver indicate that the demand for bullion possession, that is, the demand for the metal itself, is greater than the price established in the paper market by manipulation. The premium on a gold eagle over the spot price…
Read more »Assault On Gold Update — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|13 April, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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NOTE: Gold weights are based on metric tons and Troy ounces. 500 metric tons of gold would be 16,075,000 troy ounces. This changes the arithmetic slightly but not the point I was the first to point out that the Federal Reserve was rigging all markets, not merely bond prices and interest rates, and that the Fed is rigging the bullion…
Read more »The Assault On Gold — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|04 April, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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For Americans, financial and economic Armageddon might be close at hand. The evidence for this conclusion is the concerted effort by the Federal Reserve and its dependent financial institutions to scare people away from gold and silver by driving down their prices. When gold prices hit $1,917.50 an ounce on August 23, 2011, a gain of more than $500 an…
Read more »Truth Is Offensive — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|31 March, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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In America truth is offensive. If you tell the truth, you are offensive. I am offensive. Michael Hudson is offensive. Gerald Celente is offensive. Herman Daly is offensive. Nomi Prins is offensive. Pam Martens is offensive. Chris Hedges is offensive. Chris Floyd is offensive. John Pilger is offensive. Noam Chomsky is offensive. Harvey Silverglate is offensive. Naomi Wolf is offensive.…
Read more »Americans’ Economic Prospects And Civil Liberties Have Been Stolen — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|24 March, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Note: there are many new interviews posted. If you have time on your hands, the interviews will give you a better result than video games. I receive numerous questions from readers about our economic situation and the condition of civil liberty. There is no way I can answer so many inquiries, and no need. I have written two books that…
Read more »Iraq After Ten Years — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|18 March, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. The US Secretary of State at that time, General Colin Powell, has expressed his regrets that he…
Read more »When Truth Is Suppressed Countries Die — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|14 March, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Over a decade during which the US economy was decimated by jobs offshoring, economists and other PR shills for offshoring corporations said that the US did not need the millions of lost manufacturing jobs and should be glad that the “dirty fingernail” jobs were gone. America, we were told, was moving upscale. Our new role in the world economy was…
Read more »Hugo Chavez — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|12 March, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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On March 5, 2013, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and world leader against imperialism, died. Washington imperialists and their media and think tank whores expressed gleeful sighs of relief as did the brainwashed US population. An “enemy of America” was gone. Chavez was not an enemy of America. He was an enemy of Washington’s hegemony over other countries, an enemy…
Read more »Staring Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies –Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|10 March, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created 236,000 new jobs in February. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I’ll let you have at a good price. Where are these alleged jobs? The BLS says 48,000 were created in construction. That is possible, considering that revenue-starved real estate developers are misreading the…
Read more »How Deregulation Resurrected American Economic Insecurity — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|06 March, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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The US might not be in a Great Depression, but economic insecurity has nevertheless returned to America. John N. Gray, a distinguished intellect and retired professor of intellectual history at the London School of Economics, disagrees with the view that “the end of history” has placed humanity on a course of ethical and economic progress. History, Gray believes, is not…
Read more »The Missing Recovery — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|01 March, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find it, and neither can millions of unemployed Americans. The recovery exists only in the official measure of real GDP, which is deflated by an understated measure of inflation, and in the U.3 measure of…
Read more »Polluted America — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|24 February, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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In the United States everything is polluted. Democracy is polluted with special interests and corrupt politicians. Accountability is polluted with executive branch exemptions from law and the Constitution and with special legal privileges for corporations, such as the Supreme Court given right to corporations to purchase American elections. The Constitution is polluted with corrupt legal interpretations from the Bush and…
Read more »What If? — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|21 February, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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“What If?” histories are a good read. They are entertaining, and they provoke thought and encourage the imagination. How different the world would be if different judgments, decisions, and circumstances had prevailed at history’s turning points. Certainly English history would have been different if King Harold’s soldiers had obeyed his order not to pursue the defeated fleeing Normans down the…
Read more »America Shamed Again: A colonized people — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|17 February, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Americans have been shamed many times by their elected representatives who cravenly bow to vested interests and betray the American people. But no previous disgraceful behavior can match the public shame brought to Americans by the behavior of the Senate Republicans in the confirmation hearing of Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. Forty Senate Republicans made it clear that…
Read more »While Left And Right Fight, Power Wins–Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|14 February, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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My experience with the American left and right leads to the conclusion that the left sees private power as the source of oppression and government as the countervailing and rectifying power, while the right sees government as the source of oppression and a free and unregulated private sector as the countervailing and rectifying power. Both are concerned with restraining the…
Read more »Obama’s Expanding Kill List — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|11 February, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was passed in order to make it easier for the government to convict members of the Mafia. However, the law, despite its intent, was quickly expanded by prosecutors and attorneys and used in cases against…
Read more »It Has Happened Here–Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|07 February, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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the police state is real The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document. Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 which rests…
Read more »Obamacare: A Deception
By: pcr3|03 February, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns . Guest Contributions
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Introduction by Paul Craig Roberts The article below is the most comprehensive analysis available of “Obamacare” – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The author, a knowledgeable person who wishes to remain anonymous, explains how Obamacare works for the insurance companies but not for you. Obamacare was formulated on the concept of health care as a commercial commodity and…
Read more »In Amerika Law No Longer Exists: the extermination of truth — Paul Craig Roberts
By: Paul Craig Roberts|31 January, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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In the 21st century Americans have experienced an extraordinary collapse in the rule of law and in their constitutional protections. Today American citizens, once a free people protected by law, can be assassinated and detained in prison indefinitely without any evidence being presented to a court of their guilt, and they can be sentenced to prison on the basis of…
Read more »Nature’s Capital Is The Limiting Resource–Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|24 January, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Nature’s Capital Is The Limiting Resource Life will perish as the environment perishes 21st century ecological economist Paul Craig Roberts Only in science fiction can humans escape the consequences of destroying their own habitat. In Robert A. Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love, the “Great Diaspora of the Human Race” began “more than two millennia ago” and has spread to more…
Read more »The Institutionalization of Tyranny — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|18 January, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Republicans and conservative Americans are still fighting Big Government in its welfare state form. Apparently, they have never heard of the militarized police state form of Big Government, or, if they have, they are comfortable with it and have no objection. Republicans, including those in the House and Senate, are content for big government to initiate wars without a declaration…
Read more »Attack On Sovereignty — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|15 January, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, about which China, Russia, and Iran complain, is all about. Washington has demonstrated that it has no respect…
Read more »Washington’s Hegemonic Ambitions Are Not in Sync With Its Faltering Economy — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|07 January, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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In November the largest chunk of new jobs came from retail and wholesale trade. Businesses gearing up for Christmas sales added 65,700 jobs or 45% of November’s 146,000 jobs gain. With December sales a disappointment, these jobs are likely to reverse when the January payroll jobs report comes out in February. Family Dollar Stores CEO Howard Levine told analysts that…
Read more »Does Truth Have A Future In America? — Paul Craig Roberts
By: pcr3|02 January, 2013|Categories: Articles & Columns
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This site, www.paulcraigroberts.org, is for readers. There is nothing on this site except information. The site will continue as long as readers support it. There is no political, social, economic, or ideological agenda associated with this site. For the most part, readers who come to this site are capable of independent thought. They are aware that the media is agenda-driven…
Read more »Agenda Prevails Over Truth
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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In the Western world truth no longer has any meaning. In its place stands agenda. Agenda is all important, because it is the way Washington achieves hegemony over the world and the American people. 9/11 was the “new Pearl Harbor” that the neoconservatives declared to be necessary for their planned wars against Muslim countries. For the neoconservatives to go forward…
Read more »The Greatest Gift For All
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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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 before the Christmas tree became…
Read more »Agenda Driven News
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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I have known for a long time that US news is agenda-driven. Tonight (December 18) I was made aware of the extent to which agenda-driven US news drives the news of the rest of the world. For reasons unbeknownst to me, Russia Today Moscow requested a live TV interview via Skype about the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings that killed 20…
Read more »The Fiscal Cliff Is A Diversion: The Derivatives Tsunami and the Dollar Bubble
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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The “fiscal cliff” is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers, the media, and the attentive public, if any, from huge problems to small ones. The fiscal cliff is automatic spending cuts and tax increases in order to reduce the deficit by an insignificant amount over ten years if Congress takes no action itself to cut spending and…
Read more »Obdurate Washington
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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With its power declining, Washington was not able any longer to keep Russia out of the World Trade Organization. Congress showed its spite over its impotence by hooking the normalizing of trade with Russia to what is called the “Magnitsky rule.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20634768 Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian attorney who represented a British investment firm accused of tax evasion and fraud…
Read more »More Phony Employment Numbers
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) calls the government’s latest jobs and unemployment reports “nonsense numbers.” There are a number of ongoing problems with the released numbers. For example, the concurrent-seasonal factor adjustments are unstable. The birth-death model adds non-existent jobs each month that are then taken out in the annual downward benchmark revisions. Williams calculates that the job overstatement through November…
Read more »Paul Craig Roberts on Ron Paul, Citizens United, the fiscal cliff, and America today
By: Joseph Cotto|06 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns . Interviews
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This article was reproduced with written permission from Joseph Cotto. This article first appeared: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2012/dec/5/paul-craig-roberts-ron-paul-citizens-united-fiscal/ FLORIDA, December 5, 2012 — Most pundits talk a good game about economics and politics. Few, however, are prepared to deliver anything beyond a superficial analysis of our time’s most controversial issues. At times it seems like peer pressure and the groupthink it breeds are…
Read more »Bradley Manning: A Window Into The American Soul
By: Paul Craig Roberts|03 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States. Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution–not to the government or to the president or to a political…
Read more »Our Collapsing Economy and Currency
By: Paul Craig Roberts|01 December, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Is the “fiscal cliff” real or just another hoax? The answer is that the fiscal cliff is real, but it is a result, not a cause. The hoax is the way the fiscal cliff is being used. The fiscal cliff is the result of the inability to close the federal budget deficit. The budget deficit cannot be closed because large…
Read more »The Osama bin Laden Myth
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 November, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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The interview below with Osama bin Laden was conducted by the Karachi, Pakistan, daily newspaper, Ummat and published on September 28, 2001, 17 days after the alleged, but unsubstantiated, al Qaeda attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center twin towers and Pentagon. The interview was sensational. The alleged “mastermind” of 9/11 said that he and al Qaeda…
Read more »Puppet State America
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 November, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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The United States government and its subject peoples think of the US as “the world’s only superpower.” But how is a country a superpower when its entire government and a majority of the subjects, especially those members of evangelical churches, grovel at the feet of the Israeli Prime Minister? How is a country a superpower when it lacks the power…
Read more »American Immorality Is At A Peak
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 November, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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When Chris Floyd is at his best, as he is below, he puts things in perspective for readers that they otherwise never confront. Obama has won reelection, and his supporters think that somehow things are going to be different. Fat chance. While evil continues to envelop America, the public is focused on CIA director General Petraeus’ resignation. The FBI spied…
Read more »Obamacare: Just give us a bill to hype; we don’t care what it is
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 November, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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In the article below, Dr. Dotson provides more information about Obamacare. The program is not what its supporters or its critics imagine. In my opinion, with Republicans blocking a single-payer national health system, the Obama White House went to the insurance lobby and said, “give us a health care bill that you can get Congress to pass.” The result is…
Read more »What a Paul Craig Roberts Administration Would Look Like
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 November, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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Unless I am being spoofed, several hundred readers wrote me in as their selection for President. I am honored. Some asked if I were elected by write-ins and not instantly assassinated, who would I appoint? An easy question to answer. Nomi Prins would be Secretary of the Treasury, and Pam Martens would be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Lew Rockwell…
Read more »The Special Interests Won Again
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 November, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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The election that was supposed to be too close to call turned out not to be so close after all. In my opinion, Obama won for two reasons: (1) Obama is non-threatening and inclusive, whereas Romney exuded a “us vs. them” impression that many found threatening, and (2) the election was not close enough for the electronic voting machines to…
Read more »U.S. Elections: Will the Dead Vote and Voting Machines be Hacked?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|03 November, 2012|Categories: Articles & Columns
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“He who casts a vote decides nothing. He who counts the vote decides everything.” -Joseph Stalin Whether or not he said it, Stalin’s quote has entered into folklore. For a vote to mean anything, those counting the ballots must have a greater respect for the integrity of democracy than they have lust for power. Since Stalin’s time, the technology has…
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