More Bad News From The Jobs Front Paul Craig Roberts The Bureau of Labor Statistics headline this morning reads: “Payroll employment increases by 248,000 in September; unemployment rate declines to 5.9%.” How can this be? As I reported yesterday, US corporations are investing in buying back their own stocks, not in new business ventures that produce new jobs. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/10/02/poverty-report-contradicts-gdp-claims-paul-craig-roberts/ According…

Poverty Report Contradicts GDP Claims Paul Craig Roberts It is amazing how the government manages to continue selling Brooklyn Bridges to a gullible public. Americans buy wars they don’t need and economic recoveries that do not exist. The best investment in America is a highly leveraged fund that invests only in large cap companies that are buying back their own…

More Washington Lies Paul Craig Roberts Hong Kong: Whatever is occurring in Hong Kong, it bears no relation to what is being reported about it in the Western print and TV media. These reports spin the protests as a conflict between the demand for democracy and a tyrannical Chinese government Ming Chun Tang in the alternative media CounterPunch says that…

A Conversation: Paul Craig Roberts and Noam Chomsky Rob Kall of OpEdNews arranged a conversation between myself and Noam Chomsky. It is available as an audio podcast: http://www.opednews.com/Podcast/Rob-Kall-Moderates-a-Conve-by-Rob-Kall-Capitalism_Capitalism-Over-Humanity_China-Russia-Alliance_Corporatism-140923-711.html I very much appreciate Noam Chomsky’s courage and involvement. Professor Chomsky’s work in linguistics made him a major academic figure. He could have lived a very comfortable university life, but he took…

Washington’s Secret Agendas Paul Craig Roberts One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas. The public fell for the lie that the Taliban in Afghanistan are terrorists allied with al Qaeda. Americans fought a war…

Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative? Paul Craig Roberts Obama’s September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies…

Dear friends: Thank you for your support. You are keeping your side of our bargain, and I will keep my side of our bargain. PCR Rigged Gold Price Distorts Perception of Economic Reality Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler The Federal Reserve and its bullion bank agents (JP Morgan, Scotia, and HSBC) have been using naked short-selling to drive down…

Washington’s War Against Russia Paul Craig Roberts Quarterly Call For Donations Dear Readers: The site has three types of donors. Some donate automatically a fixed amount each month. Others donate randomly without being asked. Others respond to the quarterly request. The response so far to this current quarterly request is disappointing. As this site grows in influence, its support needs…

9/11 After 13 years Paul Craig Roberts The tragedy of September 11, 2001, goes far beyond the deaths of those who died in the towers and the deaths of firefighters and first responders who succumbed to illnesses caused by inhalation of toxic dust. For thirteen years a new generation of Americans has been born into the 9/11 myth that has…

Quarterly Request for Donations As many of you know, a couple of years ago when I tried to retire you wouldn’t hear of it. I resigned my syndicated column and said goodbye. In thousands of emails you described to me your reliance on my experience and education to help you to understand in a non-partisan way the events of our…

Quarterly Request for Donations As many of you know, a couple of years ago when I tried to retire you wouldn’t hear of it. I resigned my syndicated column and said goodbye. In thousands of emails you described to me your reliance on my experience and education to help you to understand in a non-partisan way the events of our…

The West Paves The Road To War With Lies Paul Craig Roberts Official statements from the Russian government indicate that the president and foreign minister continue to rely on the good will of “our Western partners” to work out a reasonable diplomatic solution to the trouble in Ukraine caused by Washington. Not only is there no evidence of this good…

A Lie That Serves The Rich the truth about the American economy Paul Craig Roberts, John Titus, and Dave Kranzler The labor force participation rate has declined from 66.5% in 2007 prior to the last downturn to 62.7% today. This decline in the participation rate is difficult to reconcile with the alleged economic recovery that began in June 2009 and…

Warning to the World: Washington and its NATO & EU Vassals are Insane Paul Craig Roberts Herbert E. Meyer, a nutcase who was a special assistant to the CIA director for a period during the Reagan administration, has penned an article calling for Russian President Putin’s assassination. If we have “ to get him out of the Kremlin feet-first with…

Goon Thugs and Gullible Conservatives where are the class action suits? Paul Craig Roberts Reports, such as this one http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/louise-milan/ , are routine occurrences that happen many times each day. Gratuitous police violence in America is totally out of control. Every day police murder 1.4 Americans, and beat, taser, body slam, and break into the homes of many others. Ferguson…

Labor’s Demise Is America’s Demise Thoughts for Labor Day Paul Craig Roberts Labor Day is a holiday that has outlived its time. Like Christmas, Labor Day has become a time-out period. As Christmas has become a shopping spree, Labor Day has become the last summer holiday. The holiday originated in 1887 to celebrate the contribution made by American workers to…

The West, the greatest cause of War in human history, stands stripped of all Legitimacy The Donetsk National Republic States The Facts “Every time you come to Russia with a sword, from a sword you will perish.” The former Russian provinces, which Soviet party leaders carelessly attached to Ukraine at a time when it seemed to make no difference as…

Washington Piles Lie Upon Lie Paul Craig Roberts The latest Washington lie, this one coming from NATO, is that Russia has invaded Ukraine with 1,000 troops and self-propelled artillery. How do we know that this is a lie? Is it because we have heard nothing but lies about Russia from NATO, from US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, from…

The Israel Lobby Eliminates Another Critic Paul Craig Roberts The United States, wallowing in arrogance and hubris, pretends to be “the world’s sole superpower,” the “exceptional and indispensable nation” chosen by history to exercise hegemony over the world. In truth, the US is the two-bit punk puppet of the Israel Lobby. If the Zionist government orders Washington to eat dog…

The Leninist in the White House Paul Craig Roberts According to Lenin, the Soviet government rested “directly on force, not limited by anything, not restricted by any laws, nor any absolute rules.” (V.I. Lenin, “A Contribution to the History of the Question of the Dictatorship,” October 20, 1920, in Collected Works, 4th Russian edition, p. 326.) In the 21st century…

America’s Corrupt Institutions Paul Craig Roberts Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt. To tell this story would be a multi-book task. Lawrence Stratton and I have written one small volume of the story. Our book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, now with two editions and multiple printings, documents the corruption of law in…

How Tyranny Arises Paul Craig Roberts Law & Order Conservatives continue to shill for police as goon thugs continue to violate constitutional protections and abuse the public: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/henderson-family-sues-police-breaking-their-homes http://www.campaignforliberty.org/national-blog/think-third-amendment-irrelevant/ Gullible Americans have been trained to be fearful of crime, blacks, Muslims, terrorists, “domestic extremists,” and now Russia. These fears result in the public accepting illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral actions by…

Ferguson: No Justice in the American Police State Paul Craig Roberts There are reports that American police kill 500 or more Americans every year. Few of these murdered Americans posed a threat to police. https://www.dojmedia.com/u-s-police-have-killed-over-5000-civilians-since-911/ Police murder Americans for totally implausible reasons. For example, a few days before Michael Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, John Crawford picked up a…

Ukraine Crisis Continues Paul Craig Roberts Having served Washington’s propaganda purposes, the downed Malaysian airliner and the alleged Russian armored column that entered Ukraine and was allegedly destroyed have dropped out of the news even though both stories remain completely and totally unresolved. Washington’s stooge government in Ukraine has not released the records of communications between Ukrainian air traffic control…