Paul Craig Roberts from Creators Syndicate

The Fading American Economy for 04/11/2008

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy lost 98,000 private sector jobs in March, half of which were in manufacturing. Today, 13,643,000 Americans are employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers.

Government employs 22,387,000 Americans — 8,744,000 more than manufacturing. Even the category leisure and hospitality employs 13,682,000 Ame ...

Updated: Fri Apr 11, 2008

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American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed for 04/16/2008

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Exactly as the British press predicted, last week's congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Green Zone administrator Ryan Crocker set the propaganda stage for a Bush regime attack on Iran. On April 10, Robert H. Reid of The Associated Press reported: "The top U.S. commander has shifted the focus from al-Qaida to Iranian-backed 'special groups' as the main threat. ... The shift w ...

Updated: Wed Apr 16, 2008

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How Republicans Created Executive Branch Hegemony for 04/18/2008

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Having made the mistake of confirming Michael Mukasey as U.S. attorney general, the Democrats again find their efforts to hold Republican government officials accountable for illegal and unethical behavior stonewalled by the Department of Justice (sic) and blocked by the Brownshirt tactics for which the Bush regime is now infamous.

White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White ...

Updated: Fri Apr 18, 2008

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What the Iraq War Is About for 04/23/2008

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Bush regime has quagmired America into a sixth year of war in Afghanistan and Iraq with no end in sight. The cost of these wars of aggression is horrendous. Official U.S. combat casualties stand at 4,538 dead. Officially, 29,780 U.S. troops have been wounded in Iraq. Experts have argued that these numbers are understatements. Regardless, these numbers are only the tip of the iceberg.

Updated: Wed Apr 23, 2008

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Was Polonium-210 Being Smuggled for a Dirty Bomb? for 04/25/2008

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

In the recently published thriller "The Shell Game," Steve Alten weaves a tale of a neoconsevative plot to attack Iran. To overcome resistance, a black op group associated with a Republican administration arranges for nuclear devices to be exploded in two American cities, with planted evidence pointing to Iran. Recent developments make one wonder if fact is following fantasy.

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Updated: Fri Apr 25, 2008

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The Iraq War Morphs Into the Iranian War for 04/30/2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and Israel.

The targeted victims are not Poland and France, but Iran, Syria, the remains of the Palestinian West Bank and southern Lebanon.

The American mass media are overj ...

Updated: Wed Apr 30, 2008

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Anglo-American Ascendancy Lost in Unnecessary Wars for 05/14/2008

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

In a new book that will infuriate the fake conservatives who inhabit the Republican Party, Patrick J. Buchanan documents how British self-righteousness, delusion and hubris destroyed both the British Empire and Western ascendancy in two unnecessary wars launched by a small cabal of morons that ruled Britain.

"Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War" shows that the two world ...

Updated: Wed May 14, 2008

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Lies of Aggression for 05/16/2008

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

On May 15, the White House Moron, in a war-planning visit to Israel, justified the naked aggression he and Ehud Olmert are planning against Iran as the only alternative to "the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

But the White House Moron has the roles reversed. It is not Iran that is threatening war. It is George W. Bush. It is not ...

Updated: Fri May 16, 2008

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The Conservative Movement: From Failure to Threat for 05/21/2008

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

University of California-Berkeley tenured law professor John Yoo epitomizes the failure of the conservative movement in America. Known as "the torture professor," Yoo penned the Department of Justice (sic) memos that gave a blank check to sadistic Americans to torture detainees at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The human rights violations that John Yoo sanctioned destroyed America's reput ...

Updated: Wed May 21, 2008

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War Abroad and Poverty at Home for 05/28/2008

Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The U.S. Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush's wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring.

As the United States is broke and deep in debt, every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed. American consumers are also broke and deep in debt. Their zero saving rate means every one of the $165 billion dollars will have to be borrowed from foreig ...

Updated: Wed May 28, 2008

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Can Truth Retain Its Independence? for 06/04/2008

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Justin Raimondo had a good column last week on Antiwar.com. It is written as a fundraiser. But what it shows is that journalists (and whistle-blowers) who tell the truth in America are more likely to be pummeled than rewarded, whereas those who lie for powerful interest groups live high on the hog.

It wasn't just George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the neoconservatives who deceived us into a ...

Updated: Wed Jun 04, 2008

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Why the Oil Price Is High for 06/11/2008

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

How to explain the oil price? Why is it so high? Are we running out? Are supplies disrupted, or is the high price a reflection of oil company greed or OPEC greed? Are Hugo Chavez and the Saudis conspiring against us?

In my opinion, the two biggest factors in oil's high price are the weakness in the U.S. dollar's exchange value and the liquidity that the Federal Reserve is pumping out.

Updated: Wed Jun 11, 2008

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Elect Obama or Fall Into Tyranny for 06/18/2008

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

As articles by John Pilger, Alexander Cockburn and Uri Avnery make clear, by groveling before the Israel lobby, Obama has dispelled any hope that his presidency would make a difference.

Obama told the lobby that in order to protect Israel he would use all the powers of the presidency to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. As in the case of Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass de ...

Updated: Wed Jun 18, 2008

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John Yoo, Totalitarian for 06/20/2008

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

John Yoo stands outside the Anglo-American legal tradition. His views lead to self-incrimination wrung out of a victim by torture. He believes a president of the United States can initiate war, even on false pretenses, and then use the war he starts as cover for depriving U.S. citizens of habeas corpus protection. A U.S. attorney general informed by Yoo's memos even went so far as to tell the S ...

Updated: Fri Jun 20, 2008

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A Totally Lawless Regime for 06/25/2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Think about this question: In the 21st century, what regime is more lawless than the Bush regime?

Everyone is entitled to his own answer. The only answer I can come up with is the Zimbabwe regime of Robert Mugabe. Voted out of power in the last election, the great man hasn't left. Zimbabweans are going to have to vote again, and the great man has said that any vote that is not for him wi ...

Updated: Wed Jun 25, 2008

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We, the Salt of the Earth, Take Precedence for 07/02/2008

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Which country is the rogue nation? Iraq? Iran? Or the United States? Syndicated columnist Charley Reese asks this question in a recently published article.

Reese notes that it is the United States that routinely commits "acts of aggression around the globe." The U.S. government has no qualms about dropping bombs on civilians, whether they be in Serbia, the Middle East or Africa ...

Updated: Wed Jul 02, 2008

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Watching Greed Murder the Economy for 07/10/2008

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The collapse of world socialism, the rise of the high-speed Internet, a bought-and-paid-for U.S. government and a million dollar cap on executive pay that is not performance related are permitting greedy and disloyal corporate executives, Wall Street and large retailers to dismantle the ladders of upward mobility that made America an "opportunity society." In the 21st century, the U.S ...

Updated: Thu Jul 10, 2008

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Enabling Tyranny for 07/16/2008

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

I recently read that Brigette Bardot, now in her 70s, has been arrested as a hate criminal for complaining that Muslims in France slaughter sheep without first stunning them. The famous actress is known for her sympathy with animals, but the French government preferred to interpret her remarks as hatred for Muslims. Prosecutor Anne de Fontetts promised to throw the book at Bardot.

There ...

Updated: Wed Jul 16, 2008

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Little War Criminals Get Punished, Big Ones Don't for 07/18/2008

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio has been spending much news time on Darfur in Western Sudan, where a great deal of human suffering and death are occurring. The military conflict has been brought on in part by climate change, according to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Drought is forcing nomads in search of water into areas occupied by other claimants. No doubt the conflict is tribal and racial, as w ...

Updated: Fri Jul 18, 2008

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Making Americans Unsafe for 07/23/2008

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Bush regime's "terrorist" protection schemes have reached the height of total incompetence and utter absurdity. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, a private organization that defends the U.S. Constitution that inattentive Americans neglect, there are now 1 million names on the "terrorist" watch list.

One of them is that of former Assistant U ...

Updated: Wed Jul 23, 2008

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