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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His Internet columns have attracted a worldwide following.

The Critics of 9/11 Truth: Do They Have A Case?

The Critics of 9/11 Truth: Do They Have A Case?

The short answer to the question in the title is no. The 9/11 truth critics have nothing but ad hominem arguments. Let’s examine the case against the truthers presented by…

Does 9/11 Truth Have A Chance?

Does 9/11 Truth Have A Chance?

In the U.S. on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of 9/11, politicians and their presstitute media presented Americans with “A Day of Remembrance,” a propaganda exercise that hardened the…

Paul Craig Roberts on the 9/11 10th Anniversary

GlobalResearchTV – This week GRTV talks to Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary Treasury, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, author and researcher, about the significance of 9/11 on…

Labor’s Demise as a Countervailing Power

Labor’s Demise as a Countervailing Power

It is Labor Day weekend, 2011, but labor has nothing to celebrate.  The jobs that once gave American workers a stake in capitalism have left and gone away.  Corporations in…

In America, The Rule Of Law Is Vacated

In America, The Rule Of Law Is Vacated

With bank fraudsters, torturers, and war criminals running free, the US Department of Justice (sic) has nothing better to do than to harass the famous Tennessee guitar manufacturer, Gibson,  arrest…

The Last Whistleblower

Bob and Darin were on a panel together discussing banalities in generalities, as is the usual case.  If either had said anything meaningful on the subject, the moderator would have…

9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?

9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?

In a few days, it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001.  How well has the US government’s official account of the event held up over the decade?…

A Parasite On The World

A Parasite On The World

If Russian Prime Minister Putin’s recent description of America as “a parasite on the world” was reported by the US media, little doubt but that most Americans were infuriated.  We…

The S&P Debt Downgrade: What It Means

The S&P Debt Downgrade: What It Means

On Friday, August 5, the credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, downgraded US debt from AAA to AA+. Gerald Celente’s view that S&P’s downgrade of the US Treasury’s credit rating…

Creating Evidence Where There Is None

The New Yorker has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden. There is…

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

The United States Government and its presstitute media have wasted time and energy creating hysteria over a non-existent “debt ceiling crisis.” After reading the “news” in the Ministry of Propaganda…

Disastrous Outcomes From An Orchestrated Crisis

With the world concerned about US financial credibility and the poor outlook for the US economy, now is not the time for the Republicans to grandstand on the public debt.…

Are We Being Had?

In my last column I suggested that an unintended outcome of the debt ceiling impasse could be Congress’ loss of the power of the purse.  In this column I suggest…

The Unintended Consequences of Debt Ceiling Intransigence

Which party is responsible for intransigence on raising the debt ceiling?  Republicans say the Democrats are, and Democrats say the Republicans are. One could blame both parties equally, as both…

The Enemy Is Washington

The Enemy Is Washington

Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade US Treasury bonds if the White House and Congress did not reach a deficit reduction deal…

Conspiracies

Conspiracies

In a June column, I concluded that “conspiracy theory” is a term applied to any fact, analysis, or truth that is politically, ideologically, or emotionally unacceptable. This column is about…

Prosecutors Back Off From Their ‘Iron-Clad’ Case Against Strauss-Kahn

Prosecutors Back Off From Their ‘Iron-Clad’ Case Against Strauss-Kahn

The New York prosecutor has had to tell the judge that the police and prosecutors have lost confidence in their sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The…

Observations On The Day: Idiocy Reigns Supreme

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 to the tyranny issuing from…

A World Overwhelmed By Western Hypocrisy

Western institutions have become caricatures of hypocrisy. The International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank are violating their charters in order to bail out French, German, and Dutch private…

Can The Fed Stop Quantitative Easing?

If the Fed stops QE, confidence in the US dollar would rise. Money would flow into US investments, both supporting the US stock market and helping to finance the large…