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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 Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." Roberts is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade? (7 comments)
Perhaps future historians will conclude that democracy once served the interests of money in order to break free of the power of kings, aristocracy, and government predations, but as money established control over governments, democracy became a liability. Historians will speak of the transition from the divine right of kings to the divine right of money.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Will Iran Be Attacked? (3 comments)
Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran. There is speculation that Washington has called off its two longest running wars--Iraq and Afghanistan--in order to deploy forces against Iran. Two of Washington's fleets have been assigned to the Persian Gulf along with NATO warships.
Monday, February 6, 2012 The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts (4 comments)
If Americans were aware of the double-digit unemployment rate, would they be as tolerant of Washington's multi-trillion dollar wars? Would Obama be facing a tougher re-election campaign? Would Republicans be pushing to reduce the federal budget deficit at the expense of the social safety net?
Thursday, February 2, 2012 The Real Economic Picture (2 comments)
These graphs, courtesy of John Williams, make it completely clear that there is no economic recovery. In place of recovery, we have hype from politicians, Wall Street, and the presstitute media.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Economics Lesson 1 (15 comments)
The consequences of a dead economy when the government is wasting trillions of dollars in wars of naked aggression and in bailouts of fraudulent financial institutions is a government budget that can only be financed by printing money. The emperor has no clothes, and sooner or later this will be recognized.
Monday, January 30, 2012 Big Brother Internet (7 comments)
Attention has been focused on the inadequacies of Internet security. If organizations as large, powerful and security-conscious as these are vulnerable, who then is safe? Not only have the targets been breached and embarrassed, consumer trust in the Internet has also been shaken.
Friday, January 27, 2012 How Ron Paul Could Win (90 comments)
A candidate committed to saving the Constitution, environment, private savings, protecting the security of the elderly, opposing war, and boosting the incomes of the worst off, which has the added benefit of reducing illegal immigration, is a candidate without equal in the presidential election.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Drowning In Hypocrisy (16 comments)
There is no question that Bush/Cheney/Obama have trashed the US Constitution, US statutory law, and international law. But Washington, having overthrown justice, has established that might is right. No foreign government is going to send its forces into the US to drag the war criminals out and place them on trial.
Sunday, January 22, 2012 More On Ron Paul (43 comments)
Many libertarians regard Social Security and Medicare as welfare handouts and as Ponzi schemes, when in fact these programs are a form of private property. People pay for these programs all their working lives, just as they pay premiums for private medical policies and make their deposits into private pension plans.
Monday, January 16, 2012 Washington Moves The World Closer To War (13 comments)
If Washington did not want war with Iran it would not have provided the necessary weapons to Israel. It would not have deployed thousands of US troops to Israel, with a view toward the American soldiers being killed in an Iranian response to Israel's attack, thus "forcing" the US to enter the war.
Sunday, January 15, 2012 America's Last Chance; with update from PCR (32 comments)
The Bush regime operated as if the Constitution did not exist. Any semblance of constitutional government that remained after the Bush years was terminated when Congress passed and Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act. If Obama can set aside habeas corpus and due process, why can't he set aside the Second Amendment? It is folly to expect a police state to tolerate an armed population.
Thursday, January 12, 2012 The Next War on Washington's Agenda (22 comments)
Half of the American public support a military attack on Iran in order to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear capability. Those of us who are trying to awaken our fellow citizens start from a deficit that the minds of half of the US population are under Big Brother's control.
Saturday, January 7, 2012 The Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year (10 comments)
Normally, inflation is associated with a booming economy, but as too much of the US economy has been moved offshore, there is little left to boom other than prices. Therefore, the combination of high inflation with high unemployment is a likely fate that awaits Americans.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Tyranny in the Forecast -- The Outlook for the New Year (21 comments)
If the American police state were merely an unintended consequence of a real war against terror, it could be dismantled when the war was over. However, the evidence is that the police state is an intended consequence. The PATRIOT Act is a voluminous, clever attack on the Constitution. It is not possible that it could have been written in the short time between 9/11 and its introduction in Congress. It was waiting on the shelf.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 The Greatest Gift For All (15 comments)
Diversity at home and hegemony abroad are consuming values and are dismantling the culture. There is plenty of room for cultural diversity in the world, but not within a single country. A Tower of Babel has no culture. A person cannot be a Christian one day, a pagan the next and a Muslim the day after.
Monday, December 5, 2011 The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples (14 comments)
Under AUMF, the executive branch has total discretion as to who it detains and how it treats detainees. Moreover, as the executive branch has total discretion, no one can find out what the executive branch is doing, who detainees are, or what is being done to them. Codification brings accountability, and the executive branch does not want accountability.
Friday, November 25, 2011 Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over (23 comments)
The Germans bond auction failure, an orchestrated event to punish Germany and to warn the German government not to obstruct "unity" or loss of individual country sovereignty. Who will rule the New Europe? Obviously, the private European banks and Goldman Sachs.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 The Roads To War And Economic Collapse (14 comments)
The day before the Thanksgiving holiday brought three extraordinary news items. One was the report on the Republican presidential campaign debate. One was the Russian President's statement about his country's response to Washington's missile bases surrounding his country. And one was the failure of a German government bond auction.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 Western Democracy: A Farce And A Sham (16 comments)
In America the people have no voice whatsoever. The sheeple are content to be protected by "security," porno-scanners, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, and sexual groping. To carry on the hoax "war on terror," the US government has elevated itself above the law.
Friday, October 28, 2011 Americans: Awash In Spin (18 comments)
A large percentage of the goods and services sold to Americans by American corporations are now produced abroad by foreign labor. Thus, Americans no longer receive incomes from the production of the goods and services that they consume. The American consumer market is on its way out.
Monday, October 24, 2011 Reckless Endangerment -- Totally Corrupt America (11 comments)
Totally innocent people are held indefinitely and tortured by the US government for no other reason than to convince the gullible public that they are endangered by terrorists, but those who wiped out the home ownership and retirement pensions of millions of Americans now hold high and honorable positions on corporate boards and US regulatory agencies.
Friday, October 21, 2011 The End Of History (22 comments)
In the few opening years of the 21st century, Washington has destroyed the US Constitution, the separation of powers, international law, the accountability of government, and has sacrificed every moral principle to achieving hegemony over the world.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 The Suicide of Liberty (16 comments)
The transformation of the US into a police state has been achieved quickly and with scant protest. Congress and the courts are silent. The media is silent, as are the law schools and bar associations. Out of 535 US Senators and Representatives, only Ron Paul has protested the destruction of liberty.
Monday, October 3, 2011 The Day America Died (52 comments)
Americans not only feel powerless, they are powerless. They cannot do anything. The highly concentrated, corporate-owned, government-subservient print and TV media are useless and no longer capable of performing the historic role of protecting our rights and holding government accountable.
Friday, September 30, 2011 Is The War On Terror A Hoax? (54 comments)
There are now 15,000 FBI undercover agents, infiltrating anti-war and anti-corporate groups within the US. This is 10x as many as during the Vietnam protests of the past. These agents justify their existence by inciting young, alienated protesters and leading them into violent plots, then ensnaring them. News headlines tell us of another Terrorist Plot from which we have been saved by our alert Homeland Security forces.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 The Latest Orchestrated Threat and The End of History (35 comments)
Washington has been trying to bully Pakistan into launching a military operation against its own people in North Waziristan. Pakistan has good reasons for resisting this demand. It could be, as some Pakistani political leaders say, and the Pakistani government fears, a "drama" created by Washington to justify a military assault on yet another Muslim country.
Monday, September 26, 2011 Saving the Rich and Losing the Economy (25 comments)
This is what economic policy in the West has become -- a tool of the wealthy used to enrich themselves by spreading poverty among the rest of the population. The path that the US economy is on means that the number of Americans without resources to sustain them will be rising.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Stuck Pigs (and Presstitutes) Squeal (10 comments)
We don't want to hear anything from anyone who casts doubt on Washington's murder, maiming, and dislocation of millions of people because of a "threat" that is a total lie. We are the exceptional nation. We are the light unto the world. Ordinary laws do not apply to us because we are exceptional. Laws are for underlings. We have "freedom and democracy." Anyone who doubts us is evil and a terrorist and a pinko-liberal-commie.
Sunday, September 11, 2011 Does 9/11 Truth Have A Chance? (68 comments)
The event of 9/11 is now outside the realm of fact, science, and evidence. It is a dogma that justifies the Bush/Cheney/Obama war crimes against Muslims and their countries. The notion that a country in which truth is dead is a "light unto the world" is an absurdity.
Thursday, September 8, 2011 The 10th Anniversary of 9/11 (26 comments)
The many points at which the official explanation of 9/11 do not mesh with the available evidence, the many experts who have raised their voices in dissent (and been silenced), and what our response to 9/11 teaches us about where we are heading as a society."
Friday, September 2, 2011 Labor's Demise As A Countervailing Power (15 comments)
The reason that nearly four years of economic stimulus, consisting of large federal budget deficits and near zero interest rates, hasn't revived the economy is that the jobs that Americans once had have been moved offshore. Stimulus cannot put Americans back to work in jobs that have been given to foreign countries.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 In America The Rule Of Law Is Vacated (40 comments)
The practice of sending heavily armed teams into American homes has resulted in many senseless murders of US citizens. The practice must be halted and SWAT teams disbanded. SWAT teams have murdered far more innocents than they have dangerous criminals. A country this utterly corrupt is certainly no "light unto the world."
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 A Story...The Last Whistleblower (14 comments)
"If the government convicts Assange, it is the end of Wikileaks?"
"Yes. If Assange is convicted of spying, then ipso-facto a successor would be a spy. The ability of whistleblowers to bring accountability to government is about to disappear."
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything? (56 comments)
There is no doubt that 9/11 is the determinant event of our time. It has led to a decade of ever expanding wars, to the shredding of the Constitution, and to a police state. Today Americans are unsafe, not because of terrorists and domestic extremists, but because they have lost their civil liberties and have no protection from unaccountable government power.
Thursday, August 18, 2011 Is Globalism Reversing? (4 comments)
The extraordinary debt leverage and fraud made possible by financial deregulation produced the financial crisis. The crisis of globalism is the inability of First World economies to produce new jobs other than in domestic non-tradable services.
Thursday, August 11, 2011 A Parasite On The World (10 comments)
We are the virtuous people. Without us good guys to police the world there would be mayhem and wars everywhere, not merely the ones we started in the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa. Without the American white hats people everywhere would be starving and dying from natural disasters.
Monday, August 8, 2011 The S&P Debt Downgrade: What It Means (11 comments)
As the debt ceiling imbroglio made clear, the policy choices are between eliminating Social Security and Medicare or eliminating wars and low tax rates on the mega-rich in order to eliminate the annual budget deficits that are threatening the dollar's exchange value and enlarging the national debt.
Saturday, August 6, 2011 Pakistan TV Report Contradicts US Claim of Bin Laden's Death (98 comments)
The killing of bin Laden satisfies the emotional need for revenge and justice. In the least, a news organization that challenged the government's story would be cut off from all government sources and be denounced by politicians and a large percentage of the US population as an anti-American terrorist-serving organization.
Friday, August 5, 2011 Creating Evidence Where There Is None (32 comments)
When Pakistanis on the scene in Abbottabad report a totally different story about bin Laden from the one that reaches us second- and third-hand from unidentified operatives speaking to reporters in the US who have never been to Abbottabad, shouldn't someone qualified look into the story?
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (45 comments)
And it is not only Americans who are being made homeless by US policies. Afghans, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Yemenis, Somali, Libyans are also consigned to homelessness by American policy. Moreover, America's wars against these peoples, together with the supporting military/security budget, account for 75% of the US budget deficit.
Friday, July 29, 2011 EU Bailouts: Serf's Up (12 comments)
On June 23, the Greek finance minister "won" the bailout with a five-year austerity plan that lowers the minimum threshold for income tax to 8,000 euros a year ($11,200), increases the tax on heating oil, and imposes a "solidarity levy" on income of between 1 and 5 percent. Obviously, the poor are being made to pay for the rich bankers' mistakes.
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Washington's Response to a Failed Ecomomy: More War (23 comments)
In 2011 the deficit in the federal government's annual expenditures was 43 percent of the budget. In other words, the US government had to borrow, or the Fed had to monetize, 43 percent of federal expenditures during fiscal year 2011. Despite this unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, the economy did not recover.
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Disastrous Outcomes From An Orchestrated Crisis (12 comments)
Americans need desperately to ask themselves why they put into political office such utterly irresponsible and incompetent people capable of creating such a totally unnecessary crisis loaded with such disastrous potential outcomes. It would appear that the American population is too insouciant to use the vote with any care.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Is America Caught In The Closed Mind Trap? (139 comments)
Partisans apparently have not noticed that the $1.2 trillion military/security expenditures are "off the table" when it comes to controlling spending. The Republicans and also the Democrats regard war as more important than old age pensions and medical care for the poor and the elderly.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Are We Being Had? (15 comments)
If the American public is not sufficiently softened up by August 2, the political theater can continue with temporary debt ceiling increases until things really begin to crack. Whatever emerges from the debt ceiling impasse, it will not be in the interest of the American people.
Monday, July 25, 2011 The Unintended Consequences of Debt Ceiling Intransigence (22 comments)
If Republicans become obsessed with their agenda and refuse a reasonable deal, and the Democrats do not cave, the executive branch will be faced with an inability to continue its operations. A Congress willing to destroy its remaining power over a debt ceiling increase that is less than a Federal Reserve loan to one US bank is a Congress moved to folly by Republican intransigence.
Friday, July 22, 2011 An Economy Destroyed -- The Enemy Is Washington (31 comments)
The American people and their wants and needs are not represented in Washington. Washington serves powerful interest groups, such as the military/security complex, Wall Street and the banksters, agribusiness, the oil companies, the insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and the mining and timber industries.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Will Strauss-Kahn Be The Next President Of France? (4 comments)
French skepticism would explain why the charge lay dormant for eight years and came to life on the heels of the New York case, which has now fallen apart. The certainty with which the New York police, prosecutor, and American media initially treated Strauss-Kahn's guilt created credibility for the French woman's accusation.
Sunday, July 3, 2011 Conspiracies (8 comments)
Conspiracies are also a huge part of economic life. For example, the Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs, is known to have shorted financial instruments that it was simultaneously selling as sound investments to its customers. The current bailouts of EU countries' sovereign debt is a conspiracy to privatize public domain
Friday, July 1, 2011 Prosecutors Back Off From Their "Iron-Clad' Case Against Strauss-Kahn (29 comments)
With DSK's reputation in tatters and DSK knocked out of the French presidential election and removed from the IMF, where he was beginning to raise questions about the establishment's use of the IMF to bail out rich bankers on the backs of poor peasants, the "justice system" has done its work.
Thursday, June 30, 2011 Observations On The Day (38 comments)
Americans are a doomed people for many reasons. One reason is that they are disunited and at one another's throats and, thus, cannot stand up the tyranny issuing from Washington. There is no freedom, no democracy, and no government accountability in Amerika, a fascist state.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 A World Overwhelmed By Western Hypocrisy (43 comments)
Washington is opposed to any government whose leaders cannot be purchased to perform as Washington's puppets. This is why George W. Bush's regime invaded Afghanistan, why Washington overthrew Saddam Hussein, and why Washington wants to overthrow Libya, Syria, and Iran.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Can The Fed Stop Quantitative Easing? (5 comments)
People without jobs and those with the low-paid jobs provided by domestic service, such as hospital orderlies, bartenders, and waitresses, cannot afford to buy houses even at the depressed current prices. To the extent that financial institutions' books remain filled with real estate paper, the financial crisis is not over.
Monday, June 27, 2011 Whom Does The Law Serve? (14 comments)
Whereas the police are required to respond to charges by questioning the accused, they are not supposed to make a public spectacle of him in order to create the impression that he is guilty before he is even charged. Yet Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested aboard an airliner as it was about to depart for France and portrayed by the police as a fleeing criminal.
Monday, June 20, 2011 Conspiracy Theory (65 comments)
The idea that a domestic police state and open-ended war might be more dangerous threats to Americans than terrorists is an impermissible thought. A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 USS Liberty: Govt. Betrayal & Cover-up Finally Exposed (16 comments)
Some experts believe Tel Aviv decided to sink the Liberty because the ship's surveillance capability would discover Israel's impending invasion and capture of Syria's Golan Heights, an action opposed by Washington. Others believe Israel was concerned the Liberty would discover Israel's massacre of hundreds of Egyptian POWs, a war crime contemporaneous with the attack on the US ship.
Sunday, June 5, 2011 How the empire will prevail -- Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? (17 comments)
Raza Rumi reported in the Pakistan Tribune (June 4) that at a recent lecture at Pakistan's National Defense University, Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the US, asked the military officers whether the biggest threat to Pakistan came from within, from India, or from the US. A majority of the officers said that the US was the biggest threat to Pakistan.
Thursday, June 2, 2011 Hail Caesar! (12 comments)
If the President can declare on his own authority, without statutory basis and in defiance of the US Constitution, that he can assassinate US citizens who he considers to be a threat to national security, he certainly can declare that default is a threat to national security and that it is within his powers as commander-in-chief to ignore the debt ceiling.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 A Nobel Economist Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans (21 comments)
These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to report on the bit of hope delivered in March of 2011 by Michael Spence, a Nobel prize-winning economist, assisted by Sandile Hlatshwayo, a researcher at NY University. The two economists have taken a careful empirical look at jobs off-shoring and concluded that it has ruined the income and employment prospects for most Americans.
Monday, May 23, 2011 Does 'Merika Have a Culture? (35 comments)
America's former culture -- accountable government, rule of law and presumption of innocence, respect for others and for principles, and manners -- has gone by the wayside. Many Americans, especially younger ones, are not aware of what they have lost, because they don't know what they had.
Friday, May 20, 2011 The Establishment Eliminates A Threat (12 comments)
Conservatives don't like the French, because they did not support the US invasion of Iraq. The left-wing doesn't like rich white guys and IMF officials, and feminists don't like womanizers. But even if the government's case falls apart in the courtroom, Strauss-Kahn has been removed from the French presidential race and from the IMF. This, not justice for an immigrant, is what the case is about.
Friday, May 20, 2011 How Many SEALs Died? (10 comments)
Once a country is captured by its military/security complex, the demand for profit drives the country deeper into war. The mainstream media and a significant portion of the Internet are content for our perceptions to be managed by psy-ops and by non-reporting. This is why I wrote not long ago that today Americans are living in George Orwell's 1984.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward (58 comments)
Strauss-Kahn said that regulation had to be reimposed on the greed-driven, fraud-prone financial sector, which, unregulated, destroyed the lives of ordinary people. He was far ahead of America's French puppet, President Sarkozy, in the upcoming French elections. Strauss-Kahn simply had to be eliminated.
Monday, May 16, 2011 Can Americans Be Unplugged? (12 comments)
As the fable continues, try to rescue from the Memory Hole the fact that we were presented with a death without a corpse and that Washington has no explanation for why an unarmed, undefended, frail man, who was a font of terrorist information, was murdered and not captured.
Friday, May 13, 2011 Creating the bin Laden Reality (16 comments)
The government has created another reality for us proles. We won again. Us white hats got the black hat, just like in the western movie. Fantasy is better than fact, and us good guys are on a roll. It makes everybody happy, even those who have lost their jobs, their houses, their pensions.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 The West Is Trapped In Its Own Propaganda (34 comments)
It is a strange form of democracy that produces political outcomes that reward the few and punish the many, despite the energetic protests of the many. In other words, in the great American "democracy," the president is to become a Caesar.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 China: The New Bin Laden (22 comments)
Just as the military/security complex pressured President John F. Kennedy to start a war with the Soviet Union over the Cuban missile crisis while the US still had the nuclear advantage, Hillary is now moving China into the role of Emmanuel Goldstein. Hate has to be mobilized, before Washington can move the ignorant patriotic masses to war.
Monday, May 9, 2011 Americans Are Living In 1984 (23 comments)
Americans have succumbed to propaganda that has conditioned them to believe that they are under attack by practically omnipotent adversaries. Proof of this is broadcast every day.
A people as gullible as Americans have no future.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event (27 comments)
The US government's bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by White House press secretary Jay Carney bears little resemblance to the original Sunday evening story.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Osama bin Laden's Useful Death (62 comments)
The Obama Administration and its predecessor have lied to us about so many aspects of the Mideast war, and the current press release about bin Laden's death contains more than the usual contradictions and improbabilities. Why has such a broad spectrum of the mainstream press taken this pronouncement at face value? Where is the independent press that would question obvious contradictions and anomalies?
Monday, May 2, 2011 Osama bin Laden's Second Death (20 comments)
But not all deceptions are the same. Remember, the entire reason for invading Afghanistan in the first place was to get bin Laden. Now that President Obama has declared bin Laden to have been shot in the head by US special forces operating in an independent country and buried at sea, there is no reason for continuing the war.
Friday, April 29, 2011 The Age of America is Over -- So Says the IMF (10 comments)
In other words, the US, the great Super Power over-filled with hubris, has outdone the fiscal irresponsibility of third-world banana republics. Superpower America is financing itself by printing money. The US economy is a scheme run by the rich for the rich.
Friday, April 29, 2011 The Corruption Of Law Leads To Tyranny (13 comments)
A government based on fear of terrorism, whose executive claims power not limited by the Constitution or Congress for the duration of an open-ended "war on terror," will create a state of tyranny. Only a highly aroused people who refuse to submit can escape the coming tyranny.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Libya - The DC/NATO Agenda And The Next Great War (70 comments)
Caesar Obama has taken the US to war against Libya without even the pretense of asking Congress for authorization. This is an impeachable offense, but an impotent Congress is unable to protect its power. By accepting the claims of executive authority, Congress has acquiesced to Caesarism.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 The New Colonialism (16 comments)
Washington's expensive failures in Iraq and Afghanistan have not tempered the empire ambition. Washington can continue to rely on the print and TV media to cover up its failures and to hide its agendas, but expensive failures will remain expensive failures. Sooner or later Washington will have to acknowledge that the pursuit of empire has bankrupted the country.
Monday, March 28, 2011 Obama Raises American Hypocrisy To A Higher Level (67 comments)
In his war against Libya, Obama has taken America one step further into Caesarism. Obama did Bush one step better and did not even bother to get congressional authorization for his attack on Libya. Obama claimed that his moral authority trumped the US Constitution. The hypocrisy reeks. How the public stands it, I do not know.
Monday, March 14, 2011 Our Time of Universal Deceit Needs An Orwell (23 comments)
The US government, which is profligate in its wars, profligate in tax cuts and bailouts for the mega-rich, and profligate in giving unlimited monopoly power to unregulated financial institutions, blames the resulting financial crisis on "handouts" to the poor and "entitlements" to the elderly.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Stealing from Social Security to Pay for Wars and Bailouts (9 comments)
Republicans have convinced a large percentage of voters that America is in trouble, not because it wastes 20% of the annual budget on wars of aggression and Homeland Security porn-scanners, but because of the poor and retirees.
Saturday, March 5, 2011 More Jobs Mirage (6 comments)
The announcement on March 4 that 192,000 new jobs were created in February was greeted with a sigh of relief. But the number is just more smoke and mirrors. There were not 192,000 new jobs. Statistician John Williams estimates the reported gain was overstated by about 230,000 jobs. In other words, about 38,000 jobs were lost in February.
Monday, February 28, 2011 The Perfidy of Government: Evidence v. Denial (26 comments)
In America today the financial press says we cannot believe Taibbi. Law professors hoping for elevation to the federal bench say we cannot believe Savage. The mainstream media and some left-wing Internet sites say we can't believe Douglass. It is in this disbelief of hard evidence that America is dissolving.
Sunday, February 27, 2011 A Government Shut-down Imperils the Power of Congress (10 comments)
Congress could try to protect its loss of the power of the purse by impeaching Obama. But how credible would it be to impeach a wartime president who is using the same "inherent power" of his office that Congress permitted the previous president to use?
Friday, February 25, 2011 War uber alles (50 comments)
As General Smedley Butler told the jingoistic American population, to no avail, "war is a racket." As long as the American population remains proud that their relatives serve as cannon fodder for the military/security complex, war will remain a racket.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Obama's FY 2012 Budget Is A Tool Of Class War (10 comments)
The American elites are transforming themselves into idiots as they seek to replicate in America the conditions that have led to the overthrows of similarly corrupt elites in Tunisia and Egypt and mounting challenges to U.S. puppet governments elsewhere.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Has There Been An Egyptian Revolution? (16 comments)
Perhaps what we have witnessed in Egypt is just the opening stage. If Egyptians find out that not much has changed, they will erupt again in a more decisive manner, this time under focused leaders. If this revolution is put down, the next development could be civil war.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 The Shame Of Being An American (11 comments)
Why does the U.S. government pursue Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for telling the truth when "Curveball," whose lies wiped out huge numbers of people along with America's reputation, thinks he can start a political party in Iraq? If the piece of excrement, Rafid al-Janabi, is not killed the minute he appears in Iraq, it will be a miracle.
Monday, February 7, 2011 Kleptocrats at Work (9 comments)
U.S. taxpayers are paying the Orwellian Department of Homeland Security $56,336,000,000 this year to porno-scan and grope them and otherwise invade their privacy, while millions of Americans are foreclosed out of their homes. How are the priorities of the US. government superior to those of the Brunei finance minister? When it comes to waste and corruption, lies and deception, the U.S. government has no equal.
Thursday, February 3, 2011 Police Brutality -- Americans Are Oppressed, Too (29 comments)
Submission is what the government and the police want. Anyone who argues with TSA or the police will be abused. An American who stands up for his rights is likely to be beaten to a pulp. TSA has announced that such Americans are "suspects" and will be held in indefinite detention.
Monday, January 31, 2011 Things Have To Change In Order To Remain The Same (2 comments)
After days of Egyptians in the streets demanding "Mubarak must go," the US government remains aligned with its puppet Egyptian ruler, even suggesting that Mubarak -- after running a police state for three decades -- is the appropriate person to implement democracy in Egypt.
Friday, January 28, 2011 The dissolving Constitution: The Enumerated Rights Are Hanging By A Thread (23 comments)
in the public's mind, civil liberty can easily morph from procedures that coddle criminals into procedures that coddle terrorists. Should this occur, all would be lost. Defense of the enumerated rights would become "giving aid and comfort to terrorists."
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 A Brief for Animals (14 comments)
Humans who fire-bomb civilian cities, drop nuclear bombs on civilian populations, act out ideological hatreds taught to them by sociopaths posing as pundits and journalists, and decimate their own kind out of total ignorance could be regarded as a life form that is inferior to wild animals. Perhaps the human claim to moral superiority needs questioning. Without the presence of mankind, there would be no evil on the planet.
Monday, January 10, 2011 Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire (19 comments)
Today the United States has only 11,670,000 manufacturing jobs, less than 9% of total jobs. Yet, despite America's heavy dependence on foreign manufactures and foreign creditors, the idiots in Washington think that they are a superpower standing astride the world like a colossus.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 America Has Gone Away (14 comments)
Today no one believes that our country's success depends on an informed public and a free press. America's success depends on its financial and military hegemony over the world. Any information inconsistent with the indispensable people's god-given right to dominate the world must be suppressed and the messenger discredited and destroyed.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2011 (45 comments)
The most uncomfortable truth that emerges from the WikiLeaks saga is that American public discourse consists of cries for revenge against those who tell us truths. The vicious mendacity of the US government knows no restraint.
Monday, December 20, 2010 Reaganomics (38 comments)
Reagan was not perfect -- especially Ed Meese's war on drugs and the neocon's plots -- but the Reagan administration had no intention of establishing American hegemony over the world. Empire is a neoconservative goal, not a conservative one.
Sunday, December 5, 2010 Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values (32 comments)
The US government loves to pretend that its acts of naked aggression are acts of liberation mandated by "the world community." The world community has been less supportive of US aggression since it learned that the Bush regime lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Thursday, December 2, 2010 A Government Caught Up in Mendacity and Lies (9 comments)
The average american reporter and editor must be very angry that his/her own cowardice is so clearly exposed by Julian Assange. The american media is a whore, whereas the courageous blood of warriors runs through WikiLeaks' veins.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Who precisely is attacking the world? (35 comments)
The stuck pigs are squealing. To shift the onus from the US State Department, Hillary Clinton paints Wikileaks' release of the "diplomatic cables" as an "attack on the international community." To reveal truth is equivalent in the eyes of the US government to an attack on the world.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Fabricating Terror (10 comments)
The Obama regime is in the process of completing Dick Cheney's dream by legislating the legality of indefinite detention. American law has collapsed to the dungeons of the Dark Ages.
Sunday, November 28, 2010 The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger (15 comments)
The American government only has resources for wars of aggression, police state intrusions, and bailouts of rich banksters. The American citizen has become a mere subject to be bled for the ruling oligarchies.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 TSA GESTAPO EMPIRE (30 comments)
TSA is a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists. Pistole has given the finger to US senators and representatives, state legislators, and the traveling public who have expressed their views that virtual strip searches and sexual molestation are too high a price to pay for "security."
