Experts say that an attack on Iran by the US and NATO will disrupt
the flow of oil that the world needs. The crazed drive for hegemony is
so compelling that Washington and its EU puppets show no hesitation in
putting their own struggling economies at risk of sharply rising energy
costs.
War abroad and austerity at home is the policy that is being imposed on the western "democracies."
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Paul Craig Roberts was an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He was awarded the Treasury Department's (
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