Whether True Or A Parody The Night Watchman Has A Valid Story And An Entertaining One THE NIGHT WATCHMAN Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, “Someone may steal from it at night.” So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then…
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Greece’s Lesson For Russia Paul Craig Roberts “Greece’s debt can now only be made sustainable through debt relief measures that go far beyond what Europe has been willing to consider so far.” — International Monetary Fund Greece’s lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran, is to avoid all financial relationships with the West. The West simply cannot be trusted.…
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Outside The Box Interview with PCR by Jason Liosatos
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Greece: Sound and Fury Signifying Much Paul Craig Roberts All of Europe, and insouciant Americans and Canadians as well, are put on notice by Syriza’s surrender to the agents of the One Percent. The message from the collapse of Syriza is that the social welfare system throughout the West will be dismantled. The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed…
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Lost Chance In Greece Syriza turned its back to the opportunity to save Greece by removing the country from the EU.The cost of this failure goes far beyond Greece and is political as well as economic. Syriza’s failure threatens the sovereignty of EU member states as well as their social welfare systems. More importantly, an opportunity to avoid World War…
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Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World Paul Craig Roberts The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. http://news.usni.org/2015/07/02/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge…
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Are Big Banks Using Derivatives To Suppress Bullion Prices? Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler We have explained on a number of occasions how the Federal Reserve’s agents, the bullion banks (principally JPMorganChase, HSBC, and Scotia) sell uncovered shorts (“naked shorts”) on the Comex (gold futures market) in order to drive down an otherwise rising price of gold. By dumping…
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Nuclear Agreement With Iran Paul Craig Roberts Washington’s issue with Iran has never been Iran’s nuclear energy program. The notion pushed by the neoconservatives that Iran only had a nuclear energy program (5% uranium enrichment) in order to hide a nuclear weapons program (95+% enrichment) was always a cover for Washington’s real opposition to Iran and Washington’s real agenda. From…
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Greece And The EU Situation Paul Craig Roberts I doubt that there will be a Greek exit. The Greek referendum, in which the Greek government’s position easily prevailed, tells the troika (EU Commission, European Central Bank, IMF, with of course Washington as the puppet master) that the Greek people support their government’s position that the years of austerity to which…
Read more »By: pcr3|06 July, 2015|Categories: Articles & Columns
Congress Should Protect Itself From The Executive Branch Paul Craig Roberts Gary Hart was a good senator, an independent person. Consequently, he was eliminated with a sexual scandal. The woman was a ten, and the powers that be got rid of Hart. Better to go that way than with an airplane crash or a frame-up that leads to prison like…
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Greeks Vote NO To EU-Imposed Austerity Paul Craig Roberts With 90% of the votes counted, the Greek people have voted 61% to 39% against accepting the latest round of austerity that the EU is trying to impose on the Greek people for the benefit of the One Percent. What is amazing is that 39% voted for the One Percent against…
Read more »The latest report from Greece indicates that the privately owned Greek media have taken a stand against the Greek people and for the One Percent: Yesterday’s demonstration in favor of ‘No’ in Syntagma Square of Athens had gigantic proportions and great fighting spirit. Instead, the rally of supporters of ‘Yes’ was enormously smaller without breath and passion. Of course, with…
Read more »Putin: “We don’t expect any change in hostile policies toward Russia” http://rt.com/news/271564-putin-west-russia-pressure/
Read more »By: pcr3|04 July, 2015|Categories: Articles & Columns . Guest Contributions . Other
Capitalism Has Become Socially Dysfunctional Paul Craig Roberts If you have not read John Perkins’ book, Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man, you should. The book is easy to read and explains clearly from the inside how US corporations deceive foreign governments into debts that they cannot service or repay and then use the IMF and World Bank as looting…
Read more »The Fake Controversy of the Confederate Flag–And Why It Matters JACK KERWICK Reprinted from The Unz Review, JULY 3, 2015 http://www.unz.com/article/the-fake-controversy-of-the-confederate-flag-and-why-it-matters/ The war between the North and South was not a civil war. A civil war is when contending parties fight for control of the state. The South was not fighting for control of the United States. The South was forced…
Read more »This is from John Williams’ (shadowstats.com) introduction to his detailed report on the shortcomings of the June jobs and employment report. “The Good News in the Reporting of June Labor Conditions Was Not Good News. Headline June employment and unemployment numbers were more typical of deteriorating, broad economic activity than they were of an expanding economy in its purported sixth…
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Greece and Other Musings On July 4th Paul Craig Roberts If you become stuck in a boring July 4 hot air speech, distract yourself with this question: Are the values that Western civilization allegedly represents still extant? You don’t need to get heavy into philosophy. See if you can find any of the professed values reflected in current events. For…
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Sunday’s Vote Will Determine Liberty Or Serfdom Paul Craig Roberts According to history books, democracy originated in Greece. Of course, historians could be mistaken, but this is the prevailing view among Western populations with enough awareness to be interested to know. What we are witnessing today, July 2, 2015, is that after 2,500 years in the Western World only the…
Read more »James Galbraith Explains That The Independence of All Western Nations Is at State In Greece’s Sunday Vote James Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas, explains what is at stake this Sunday. This is an important article. Because of the presstitute Western press, Americans, Europeans, Canadians, and Australians have no comprehension that their own liberty, or what little remains…
Read more »Peter Koenig on the Delphi Declaration Peter Koenig explains the attack by international finance on Greece, an attack aimed at terminating the sovereignty of Greece and reducing the Greek people, soon to be followed by the Italian and Spanish people and eventually the French and Germans themselves, to penury. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42263.htm
Read more »By: pcr3|01 July, 2015|Categories: Guest Contributions . John W. Whitehead
Guest Column by John Whitehead The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech John Whitehead warns us, correctly, that we are losing both the ability to speak freely and the ability to speak intelligently as words and their meanings are being proscribed. https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_emergence_of_orwellian_newspeak_and_the_death_of_free_speech
Read more »Guest Column by Finian Cunningham Finian Cunningham explains that about half of the Greek debt is due to military spending in response to the hyped “Turkish threat.” Now it is Eastern Europe and Scandinavia that are busting their budgets due to the hyped “Russian threat.” The benefactors of the “threats” are the US, UK, German, and French military industries. The…
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Has Mother Earth Decided To Cleanse Herself Of Those Who Ravage Her? Paul Craig Roberts Dahr Jamail is one of the last reporters in the Western world. Be certain to read his report on the “Sixth Great Mass Extinction” here: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31612-sixth-great-mass-extinction-event-begins-2015-on-pace-to-become-hottest-year-on-record His report is also available on Information Clearing House: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42281.htm I have concluded that only the young, who have…
Read more »Guest Column by Dmitry Orlov Dmitry Orlov has a clever way of putting things. Here he describes the self-destruction of the Western world. The Care and Feeding of a Financial Black Hole By Dmitry Orlov A while ago I had the pleasure of hearing Sergey Glazyev—economist, politician, member of the Academy of Sciences, adviser to Pres. Putin—say something that very…
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Greece Again Can Save The West Paul Craig Roberts Like Marathon, Thermopylae, Plateau and Mycale roughly 2,500 years ago, Western freedom again depends on Greece. Today Washington and its empire of European vassal states are playing the part of the Persian Empire, and belatedly the Greeks have formed a government, Syriza, that refuses to submit to the Washington Empire. Few…
Read more »Western Presstitutes Dumbfounded by Vladimir Putin’s 89% Approval Rating Guest Column by The Saker The Saker notes that the disapproving 11% are not pleased because they want Putin to take a more hardline policy toward the West. In other words, the country is unified in standing up to the West. What does Vladimir Putin’s 89% rating mean? June 30, 2015…
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In the Western World Capitalism Has Devolved Into Looting Paul Craig Roberts …when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. – Ayn Rand,…
Read more »By: pcr3|28 June, 2015|Categories: Interview archive . Interviews . King World News
King World News Interviews PCR on Greece Debt and Its Implications http://kingworldnews.com/paul-craig-roberts-warns-greek-government-may-be-assassinated-in-this-crisis-if-they-pivot-east-to-stop-world-war-iii/
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Truth Is A Crime Against The State Paul Craig Roberts The entire Western edifice rests on lies. There is no other foundation. Just lies. This makes truth an enemy. Enemies have to be suppressed, and thus truth has to be suppressed. Truth comes from foreign news sources, such as RT, and from Internet sites, such as this one. Thus, Washington…
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Read more »Guest Column by Vladimir Putin “Former arrogant colonial power and conqueror, then sovereign Gaullist Republic, France is now relegated to the status of American sub-colony whose independence and national interests are routinely violated and trampled [by France’s Washington master].” Sayed Hasan Vladimir Putin on France and Europe: “NATO Member States have Renounced their Sovereignty http://www.globalresearch.ca/vladimir-putin-on-france-and-europe-nato-member-states-have-renounced-their-sovereignty/5458734 Vladimir Putin is the only…
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Dear Friends and supporters: I apologize for the website being down on the last day of our quarterly request for your financial support. If some of you were frustrated by this service interruption, please send in your contribution. I never know when I might need substantial resources in order to counter an attack on the site. In the next couple…
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King World News Interviews PCR — Greek Default Could Cancel World War III http://kingworldnews.com/paul-craig-roberts-warns-greek-government-may-be-assassinated-in-this-crisis-if-they-pivot-east-to-stop-world-war-iii/
Read more »US, NATO Powers Intensify Preparations for Nuclear War Guest column by Thomas Gaist In the writings of the CSIS and the other discussions within the state apparatus, there is a degree of insanity. The strategists of American imperialism are coldly calculating the best tactics for waging and winning nuclear war. Yet this insanity flows from the logic of American imperialism…
Read more »The neoconservatives will not be satisfied until they have brought about nuclear armageddon. Not long ago I asked in a column, “Are you ready for nuclear war?” You had better be, because Washington is bringing it closer. Indeed, as Europe’s politicians are complicit in Washington’s aggression against Russia, Europeans are preparing their own demise. Now Obama’s deputy secretary of defense…
Read more »Attempted US Color Revolution in Armenia? by Stephen Lendman On June 19, Armenians began protesting an announced 17 – 22% electricity price increase amounting to about $85 more annually for most Armenians. Utility and other price increases happen often in countries worldwide – not generally a cause for large street protests continuing for days, at times violent resulting in police…
Read more »By: pcr3|25 June, 2015|Categories: Articles & Columns
Sovereignty or Imperialism? On September 5, 2009 I addressed an international conference in Austria on the subject of Europe’s subordination to the US and, thus, the absence of any constructive criticism of US foreign and domestic policies. Karel van Wolferen, whose website is http://www.karelvanwolferen.com, kindly reminded me of my address to the conference when he he sent it to me…
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Dear Friends, I appreciate the many notices I received that the website was down for a number of hours today. The problem, apparently, was the host for the domain name. As I predicted in 2004, the US will be a third world country in 20 years. We get closer every day. Unfortunately, the shutdown of the website occurred at the…
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Are Armenian Protests Aimed At Russia? Paul Craig Roberts As I expected, protests have broken out in the capital of Armenia. The pretext is a rise in electricity rates. Apparently, the rise was not budget-breaking, which puts the pretext under suspicion. Moreover, videos of the protesters show an overwhelming young component, which suggests that the protesters are not the ones…
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RT Interviews PCR on Protests in Armenia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPQNmO38nTw&feature=youtu.be
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Dear Friends, I appreciate your response to my quarterly request for donations. I need for a few more readers to step forward. PCR Greek Democracy Is Failing Paul Craig Roberts The Greek debt is unpayable. It is simply too large to be repaid. The austerity that the EU and IMF have imposed on Greece has worsened the problem by driving…
Read more »Propaganda Reigns In The West Paul Craig Roberts The lies about Russia and Russia’s president have grown so thick, threatening the world with devastating war, that distinguished Americans have formed the American Committee for East-West Accord (eastwestaccord.com). The members of the founding board are former US senator Bill Bradley, Amb. Jack Matlock who was US ambassador to the Soviet Union…
Read more »The Delphi Declaration — Paul Craig Roberts The Delphi Conference on the European/Russian crisis created by Washington (my address to the conference is here: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/06/19/paul-craig-roberts-address-international-conference-europeanrussian-crisis-created-washington/ ) issued a declaration repudiating the EU attack on the Greek nation. The Delphi Declaration asks the European peoples, especially the Germans, to do the right thing and object to the plunder of Greece by…
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Greek People Demand Their Own Destruction Paul Craig Roberts Some years ago Thomas Frank wrote a book, What’s the Matter with Kansas. The book is about how brainwashed Americans vote against their own economic and political interests. The utter stupidity of populations makes them helpless at the hands of the rapacious. Today Thomas Frank could ask the same question about…
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To Fight Or Not To Fight: That Is Our Question Paul Craig Roberts This is my quarterly request for your financial support. Whether this website continues is your decision. Being a writer who attempts to discern and to tell the truth is both encouraging and discouraging. It is encouraging that some of you make monthly donations in support of the…
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Trump for President? Paul Craig Roberts Perhaps it has occurred to you as it has to me that the United States is no longer capable of producing political leadership. In the current issue of Trends Journal, Gerald Celente describes the eight candidates (at the time he went to press) for the US presidential nomination as “Liars, cowards, freaks & fools.”…
Read more »This is a point of view seldom heard in the West, so I pass it on to you. In the USA – “I Cannot Write!” by ANDRE VLTCHEK From CounterPunch, June 19, 2015, http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/19/in-the-usa-i-cannot-write/ At the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), in Los Angeles, a gigantic, carnivorous flag with torn ends was waving in an artificial wind created by enormous…
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Paul Craig Roberts’ address to the Conference on the European/Russian Crisis, Delphi, Greece, June 20-21, 2015 Paul Craig Roberts, formerly Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy, Associate Editor, Wall Street Journal, Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University, William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The United States has…
Read more »Like Vladimir Putin, Stephen Lendman speaks Straight Talk, a language Washington needs to learn. Putin Straight Talk v. Obama Double Talk by Stephen Lendman Putin says what he means and means what he says. His style is forthright. He follows through on what he says. Obama is polar opposite – an inveterate serial liar with no credibility whatever. He says…
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Starvation Is The Price Greeks Will Pay For Remaining In The EU Paul Craig Roberts Syriza, the new Greek government that intended to rescue Greece from austerity, has come a cropper. The government relied on the good will of its EU “partners,” only to find that its “partners” had no good will. The Greek government did not understand that the…
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