U.S. Hypocrisy Astonishes the World
This is where the US government stands today: Ignoring and covering up government crimes is the patriotic thing to do. To reveal the government’s crimes is an act of treason.
Read MoreDr. Paul Craig Roberts attended four of the finest universities, studied under two Nobel Prize-winners in economics, authored 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals of scholarship, and published four academic press peer-reviewed books, including Harvard and Oxford Universities, and seven commercially published books. His most recent book is The Neoconservative Threat to World Order: Washington's Perilous War for Hegemony.
Posted by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 8, 2009 | Asia Pacific, US, Viewpoints |
This is where the US government stands today: Ignoring and covering up government crimes is the patriotic thing to do. To reveal the government’s crimes is an act of treason.
Read MorePosted by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 31, 2009 | Middle East, US, Viewpoints |
The US is not a forever “superpower” that can indefinitely ignore its own laws and international law. The US will eventually fall as a result of its hubris, arrogance, and imperial overreach.
Read MorePosted by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 28, 2009 | US, Viewpoints |
In America government always comes first. The citizen last. The transformation from citizen to serf has been completed.
Read MorePosted by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 19, 2009 | US, Viewpoints |
Americans think that they have “freedom and democracy” and that politicians are held accountable by elections. The fact of the matter is that the US is ruled by powerful interest groups who control politicians with campaign contributions.
Read MorePosted by Paul Craig Roberts | Aug 8, 2009 | US, Viewpoints |
Tent cities springing up all over America are filling with the homeless unemployed from the worst economy since the 1930s. While Americans live in tents, the Obama government has embarked on a $1 billion crash program to build a mega-embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, to rival the one the Bush government build in Baghdad, Iraq.
Read MorePosted by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 29, 2009 | News & Analysis, US |
The drops in the Conference Board’s and the University of Michigan’s measures of consumer confidence in July suggest that Americans are becoming inured to recovery hype and are realizing that the government and the media lie about the economy just as they lie about everything else.
Read MorePosted by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 20, 2009 | Middle East, US, Viewpoints |
The world is so impotent that even the bankrupt US can launch a new war of aggression and have it accepted as a glorious act of liberation in behalf of women’s rights, peace, and democracy.
Read MorePosted by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 17, 2009 | News & Analysis, US |
Since the passage of the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act in 2004, the US Department of State is required to monitor anti-Semitism worldwide. The State Department is not required to monitor anti-Americanism or sentiments against Christians, Muslims or Arabs. Thus, the act created a specially protected class worthy of careful monitoring by the US Department of State of negative sentiments expressed against Jews.
Read MorePosted by Paul Craig Roberts | Jul 16, 2009 | News & Analysis, US |
Nothing in Obama’s economic policy is directed at saving the U.S. dollar as reserve currency or the livelihoods of the American people. Obama’s policy, like Bush’s before him, is keyed to the enrichment of Goldman Sachs and the armament industries.
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