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PCR interviewed by RIA Novosti
PCR interviewed by RIA Novosti Russian Sanctions Indicate Washington’s Impotence http://en.ria.ru/business/20140718/191000029/OPINION-Sanctions-Against-Russian-Defense-Energy-Sectors-Signify.html
Read more »Sanctions and Airliners — Paul Craig Roberts
Sanctions and Airliners Paul Craig Roberts NOTE: Photos are now available of the wreckage from the Malaysian airliner crash. Notice the extensive debris and the large section of fuselage. You are observing remains of an airliner that was hit with a missile at 33,000 feet and fell to impact land. Remember, no such debris was present at the site where…
Read more »Insider Trading and Financial Terrorism on Comex
Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler July 16, 2014. The first two days this week gold was subjected to a series of computer HFT-driven “flash crashes” that were aimed at cooling off the big move higher gold has made since the beginning of June. During this move higher, the hedge funds, who typically “chase” the momentum of gold up or…
Read more »Journalists Accuse White House of Politically-Driven Suppression of News
Journalists Accuse White House of Politically-Driven Suppression of News The Obama regime’s censorship has proved to be too much for even the US presstitute media. Even the media whores are complaining about the Obama regime turning news into propaganda. Read more: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/journalists-accuse-white-house-politically-driven-suppression-news/132248
Read more »Washington’s Arrogance Will Destroy Its Empire — Paul Craig Roberts
Washington’s Arrogance Will Destroy Its Empire Washington reeks of the stench of evil Paul Craig Roberts Alone among the governments in the world, Washington requires sovereign governments to follow Washington’s laws even when Washington’s laws contradict the laws of sovereign countries. The examples are endless. For example, Washington forced Switzerland to violate and to repeal Switzerland’s historic bank secrecy laws.…
Read more »Who Shall Rule The World — Michael Hudson
Guest commentary by Michael Hudson Michael Hudson is a real economist who speaks the truth. He serves no other interest. Here is his interview with Russia Today. At Issue Is Who Shall Rule The World — Michael Hudson http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39034.htm
Read more »The Deteriorating Economic Outlook
Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, and John Williams The third and final estimate (until the annual GDP revisions) of first quarter 2014 real GDP growth released June 25 by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis was a 2.9% contraction in GDP growth, a 5.5 percentage point difference from the January forecast of 2.6% growth. Apparently, the first quarter contraction was…
Read more »Virtual Economy’s Phantom Job Gains Are Based on Statistical Fraud — Paul Craig Roberts
Virtual Economy’s Phantom Job Gains Are Based on Statistical Fraud And More Fraud Is in the Works Paul Craig Roberts Washington can’t stop lying. Don’t be convinced by last Thursday’s job report that it is your fault if you don’t have a job. Those 288,000 jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are more fiction than reality. In his analysis of the…
Read more »Tyranny Resurrected — John Whitehead
Tyranny Resurrected It is fashionable in some quarters to debunk the Founding Fathers who guaranteed Americans civil liberties with a Constitution. The debunkers have helped the New Tyrants destroy the Constitution. John Whitehead, Rutherford Institute 238 Years Later, Would Americans Still Choose Freedom Over Slavery? “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price…
Read more »Washington Murders Countries, the US Constitution, and the Presstitute Media Makes Americans Complicit — Paul Craig Roberts
Washington Murders Countries, the US Constitution, and the Presstitute Media Makes Americans Complicit Paul Craig Roberts Having Murdered Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and the US Constitution, Washington is now Murdering Ukraine. Thanks to Op-Ed News contributor Eric Zuesse, I can bring to your attention these photographs (URL below) of what the Nazi Government in Washington is doing to Ukrainians who…
Read more »Washington’s War Crimes Spread from Africa and the Middle East to Ukraine — Paul Craig Roberts
Washington’s War Crimes Spread from Africa and the Middle East to Ukraine Paul Craig Roberts A person might think that revulsion in “the world community” against Washington’s wanton slaughter of civilians in eight countries would have led to War Crimes Tribunal warrants issued for the arrest of presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama and many officials in their regimes. But the vocal…
Read more »July 4th Militarist Bunkum (an encore by request)
July 4th Militarist Bunkum (an encore by request) Paul Craig Roberts Did you know that 85 to 90 percent of war’s casualties are non-combatant civilians? That is the conclusion reached by a nine-person research team in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The deaths of soldiers who are fighting the war are a small part…
Read more »Full Text of Putin’s Address to the Russian Diplomatic Corps
Below is President Putin’s complete address to the Russian diplomatic corps. It reveals Putin to be a person well aware of the threats that US unilateralism poses to the entire world. Washington’s belief that the US is exceptional and indispensable results in dictatorial behavior toward other countries and the overriding of their legitimate national interests. From such arrogance, wars are…
Read more »Guest Column by Vladimir Putin
IMPORTANT: Guest Column by Vladimir Putin THE WEST IS TURNING THE PLANET INTO A GLOBAL BARRACKS–Vladimir Putin, President of Russia The remarks below are excerpted from President Putin’s meeting with Russia’s ambassadors on July 1, 2014. Putin damns Washington’s puppet president of Ukraine, an usurped position resulting from the overthrow of a democratically elected president, for taking “the path of…
Read more »US War Against Russia Is Already Underway — PCR Interviewed by Voice of Russia
PCR Interviewed by the Voice of Russia, June 27, 2014 US war against Russia is already underway How true is the spreading belief that President Obama has ruined US foreign policy, and how does it actually work? The Voice of Russia is discussing it with Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of the US Treasury, currently the chairman of The Institute…
Read more »Cold War Renewed With A Vengeance While Washington Again Lies — Paul Craig Roberts
Cold War Renewed With A Vengeance While Washington Again Lies Paul Craig Roberts The Cold War made a lot of money for the military/security complex for four decades dating from Churchill’s March 5, 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri declaring a Soviet “Iron Curtain” until Reagan and Gorbachev ended the Cold War in the late 1980s. During the Cold War Americans…
Read more »A New Recession and a New World Devoid of Washington’s Arrogance? — Paul Craig Roberts
A New Recession and a New World Devoid of Washington’s Arrogance? Paul Craig Roberts June 25, 2014. A final number for real US GDP growth in the first quarter of 2014 was released today. The number is not the 2.6% growth rate predicted by the know-nothing economists in January of this year. The number is a decline in GDP of…
Read more »RIA Novosti interviews PCR about Washington Busting Up Russia-EU Economic Relationship
RIA Novosti interviews PCR about Washington Busting Up Russia-Eu Economic Relationships “Russia and China have emerged from tyranny. The West is falling into tyranny,” Roberts explained, adding that for Russia and China to be involved with the West is to risk a return to tyranny and “Russians should wash their hopes of being part of a decaying, immoral West, a…
Read more »Can Putin’s Diplomacy Prevail Over Washington’s Coercion? — Paul Craig Roberts
Can Putin’s Diplomacy Prevail Over Washington’s Coercion? Paul Craig Roberts June 24, 2014. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is trying to save the world from war. We should all help him. Today Putin’s presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported that President Putin has asked the Russian legislature to repeal the authorization to use force that was granted in order to protect…
Read more »Professor Francis Boyle on Impeachment of Bush and Obama
Professor Francis Boyle on Impeachment of Bush and Obama — Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts As Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Richest Representative of the One Percent in the House of Representatives, said: “Impeachment is off the table.” Nevertheless, Insouciant Californians still send The bought-and paid-for hireling to Washington In my day if an experienced professor of international and…
Read more »Washington Is Beating The War Drums — Paul Craig Roberts
Washington Is Beating The War Drums Paul Craig Roberts I wish I had only good news to bring to readers, or even one item of good news. Alas, goodness has ceased to be a feature of US policy and simply cannot be found in any words or deeds emanating from Washington or the capitals of its European vassal states. The…
Read more »Roman Baudzus of Wirtschaftsfacts (Germany) interviews PCR
Roman Baudzus of Wirtschaftsfacts (Germany) interviews PCR With Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, I spoke about the alienation between Washington and the Paris government, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the development in Ukraine, the BRICS countries diversifying away from the U.S. dollar as well as a range of other interesting…
Read more »Update on Fukushima
Update on Fukushima Remember, nuclear energy is safe, like GMOs, like the NSA/Homeland Security Police State, like whatever government, corporate interests and presstitute media tell you. Just keep on believing. http://www.opednews.com/populum/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=180047
Read more »Stephen F. Cohen on the insanity of Washington’s Hostility toward Russia
Guest Column by Stephen F. Cohen: “Lincoln Didn’t Call Confederates Terrorists” I suspect most of my readers are daily visitors to RT. Those who are not need to read this report by Professor Stephen F. Cohen, with whom I am in agreement. http://rt.com/op-edge/165932-lincoln-confederates-terrorists-ukraine/
Read more »PCR Interviewed by Op-Ed News Editor Rob Kall
PCR interviewed by Op-Ed News Editor Rob Kall http://www.opednews.com/Podcast/Paul-Craig-Roberts-On-Russ-by-Rob-Kall-Capitalism_Dollar_Domination_Glyphosate-140612-295.html
Read more »PCR Interviewed by King World News
PCR Interviewed by King World News http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2014/6/12_Dr._Paul_Craig_Roberts.html
Read more »Washington’s Iraq “Victory” — Paul Craig Roberts
Washington’s Iraq “Victory” Paul Craig Roberts The citizens of the United States still do not know why their government destroyed Iraq. “National Security” will prevent them from ever knowing. “National Security” is the cloak behind which hides the crimes of the US government. George Herbert Walker Bush, a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency who became President courtesy of…
Read more »Tiananmen Square Guest Column by Wei Ling Chua and limited time offer of free book on what really happened
Tiananmen Square Guest Column by Wei Ling Chua and limited time offer of free book on what really happened Dear Friends, On the 25 anniversary of Tiananmen Square I posted a guest column by Brian Becker who pointed out that no massacre occurred in China’s Tiananmen Square. A few US journalists who reported a massacre later retracted the claim, including…
Read more »The People Struggle to Find and Retain Representation — Paul Craig Roberts
The People Struggle to Find and Retain Representation Paul Craig Roberts Dave Brat, a professor of economics at Virginia’s Randolph-Macon College, is a marked man. Professor Brat defeated Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a prime trophy of the Israel Lobby. I doubt that Eric Cantor ever lost an opportunity to place Israel’s interests above the interests of his constituents.…
Read more »John Whitehead Guest Column–Washington Is Arming Against The Public
John Whitehead asks the questions every American should be asking. Why Should Anyone Trust a Government That Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats, and Treats Its Citizens Like Criminals? By John W. Whitehead “Why should anyone trust a government that has condoned torture, spied on at least 35 world leaders, supports indefinite detention, places bugs in thousands of computers all…
Read more »Guest Column — Russians are sub-humans in the eyes of the West
Dear Readers: Here is an eyewitness report of the violence that the Washington-backed government in Kiev is inflicting on those protesting against the anti-Russian regime that Washington has installed in Kiev. This is not information you will hear from the presstitute media or from “your” government. You can ask, “Who is this reporter? How do we know we can believe…
Read more »World War II: The Unknown War — Paul Craig Roberts
World War II: The Unknown War Paul Craig Roberts In my June 6 column, “The Lies Grow More Audacious,” I mentioned that Obama and the British prime minister, who Obama has as a lap dog, just as George Bush had Tony Blair as lap dog, had managed to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany at the 70th anniversary of the…
Read more »Washington’s Iron Curtain — Diana Johnstone
Guest Article by Diana Johnstone from CounterPunch, June 6-8, 2014 http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/06/washingtons-iron-curtain-in-ukraine/ Diana Johnstone lays out the facts about Ukraine. A must read. Tightening the U.S. Grip on Western Europe Washington’s Iron Curtain in Ukraine by DIANA JOHNSTONE NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Russia and the West.…
Read more »Washington Caught Again In A Lie — Paul Craig Roberts
Washington Caught Again In A Lie Paul Craig Roberts In case you didn’t hear from the presstitute media, Syrian president Assad was just re-elected with 88.7% of the vote. Assad is the “brutal dictator” that Obama claims the Syrian people are trying to overthrow. The vote clearly puts the lie, yet again, to Washington. Voting was not possible in some…
Read more »Anglo-American Dominance Could Be Coming To An End Guest Column by Umberto Pascali courtesy of Global Research
Anglo-American Dominance Could Be Coming To An End Guest Column by Umberto Pascali courtesy of Global Research Grand Geopolitical Project: Russia’s Gazprom signs Agreement to Abandon the Dollar By Umberto Pascali Global Research, June 07, 2014 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/grand-geopolitical-project-russias-gazprom-signs-agreement-to-abandon-the-dollar/5386045 “It’s only the tip of the iceberg. A grand geopolitical project is beginning to materialize…” On June 6 2014,…
Read more »More Phantom Jobs Created–All In The Wrong Places
More Phantom Jobs Created–All In The Wrong Places education is not the answer Paul Craig Roberts Last April I saw a report that 83% of May’s college graduates did not have a job. I remarked that in my day most of us had 2 or 3 job or graduate school offers before we graduated. The latest payroll jobs report issued…
Read more »The Lies Grow More Audacious — Paul Craig Roberts
The Lies Grow More Audacious Paul Craig Roberts If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts. The howlers issuing from these occasions are enough to split your sides. Obama and his lap dog Cameron…
Read more »Guest Column by Russian President Vladimir Putin
Guest Column by Russian President Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin is the only extant leader in the West. He has some things to tell you that are different from the lies emanating from Washington. http://rt.com/news/163676-putin-ukraine-french-us/
Read more »Whatever Became Of Morality? — Paul Craig Roberts
Whatever Became Of Morality? — Paul Craig Roberts What are we to make of this? http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/03/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html Two 12 year-old white American girls who look perfectly normal stabbed their 12-year old friend 19 times in a murder attempt. By murdering their friend the girls hoped to win the acceptance of a totally fictitious cartoon character on a website. Does this mean…
Read more »Tiananmen Square After 25 Years — Brian Becker
Tiananmen Square After 25 Years — Brian Becker The Tiananmen Square “massacre,” in which thousands of Chinese students were alleged by Washington and the presstitute media to have been massacred, was entirely a fabrication of the US government and its Ministry of Propaganda. No such massacre occurred, but the myth lives on. Brian Becker, who was on the scene, provides…
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Interest Rate Puzzle — Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler
Interest Rate Puzzle Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler One of the biggest puzzles in the financial markets this year has been the considerable fall in interest rates despite the Fed’s program of tapering or cutting back the Fed’s bond purchases known as Quantitative Easing. A year ago, when Fed Chairman Bernanke announced the possibility of tapering QE on May…
Read more »WTC 7 Now A Proven Case Of Controlled Demolition
Controlled Demolition of WTC 7 Now Proven Guest Posting by 9/11 Consensus Panel Professor Daniele Ganser’s guest article on false flag attacks and his lecture on 9/11 will rescue you from the web of official lies spun by the government and presstitute media. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/06/01/false-flag-attacks-guest-article-professor-daniele-ganser-university-basel/ The latest research establishes that World Trade Center Building 7 was destroyed by controlled demolition. The…
Read more »A Conversation with Paul Craig Roberts, Gary Corseri, CounterPunch
A Conversation with Paul Craig Roberts by Gary Corseri Transitions; Morals; Alliances and Dissolutions CounterPunch, June 2, 2014 “This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can’t be bought. The fireborn are at home in fire.” –Carl Sandburg GC: I’ve been reading your work fairly regularly over the past 4 years. Within this year, I’ve reviewed your…
Read more »Are You Ready For Nuclear War? — Paul Craig Roberts
Are You Ready For Nuclear War? Paul Craig Roberts Pay close attention to Steven Starr’s guest column, “The Lethality of Nuclear Weapons.” http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/05/30/lethality-nuclear-weapons/ Washington thinks nuclear war can be won and is planning for a first strike on Russia, and perhaps China, in order to prevent any challenge to Washington’s world hegemony. The plan is far advanced, and the implementation…
Read more »What Obama Told Us At West Point — Paul Craig Roberts
What Obama Told Us At West Point Paul Craig Roberts At West Point Obama told us, to the applause of West Point cadets, that “American exceptionalism” is a doctrine that justifies whatever Washington does. If Washington violates domestic and international law by torturing “detainees” or violates the Nuremberg standard by invading countries that have undertaken no hostile action against the…
Read more »PCR interviewed on Red Ice Radio, Sweden, The Geopolitical Chess Game
PCR interviewed on Red Ice Radio, Sweden, The Geopolitical Chess Game http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2014/05/RIR-140531.php
Read more »False Flag Attacks — Guest Article by Professor Daniele Ganser, University of Basel
False Flag Attacks Guest Article by Professor Daniele Ganser, University of Basel As evidence has accumulated that the official story of 9/11 is false, the dwindling number of defenders of the official conspiracy theory have been reduced to two arguments. One is that no government would attack its own people or stand aside while terrorists did so. The other argument…
Read more »The Lethality of Nuclear Weapons
Author’s note: Paul Craig Roberts held top security clearances. He has repeatedly warned that a US-Russian nuclear war would wipe out the human race, along with all other complex forms of life. As a scientist with expert knowledge, I wish to echo and explain his warning. The Lethality of Nuclear Weapons Steven Starr Nuclear war has no winner. Beginning in…
Read more »PCR Interviewed by Voice of Russia
PCR Interviewed by Voice of Russia http://voiceofrussia.com/us/news/2014_05_28/Deepening-Tragedy-in-Ukraine-is-Enormous-Fiasco-for-US-Neo-Cons-8493/ http://voiceofrussia.com/us/2014_04_15/Washington-Recklessly-Risking-War-in-Ukraine-ex-Ass-t-Sec-of-US-Treasury-0629/
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