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The Number One Lesson From Athens
The Number One Lesson From Athens There’s arguably nothing that’s been more hurtful -in more ways than one- to Greece and its Syriza government over the past six months, than the lack of support from the rest of Europe. And it’s not just the complete lack of support from other governments -that might have been […]
The Dangers of European Dis-Union
The Dangers of European Dis-Union The “European Project” is under unprecedented stress from fissures both east-and-west (over the Ukraine crisis) and north-and-south (over the Greek and refugee crises) – and it’s unclear whether the Continent’s bureaucrats can keep the European Union from splintering apart, as Nat Parry explains. The near collapse of the Greek economy and the […]
Turkey Permits U.S. To Use Its Airbase For Air Strikes Against Syria
Turkey Permits U.S. To Use Its Airbase For Air Strikes Against Syria Earlier we reported that in an apparent retaliation against Monday’s alleged suicide bombing and today’s follow up killing of a Turkish soldier on the border with Syria, the Turkish army launched what under normal conditions would be deemed a land invasion of Turkey […]
Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg
Agriculture Issues Just the Tip of the TPP Iceberg Trade deal could slam Canadians with rising consumer, health care and education costs The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade agreement that encompasses nearly 40 per cent of world GDP, heads to Hawaii later this month for ministerial-level negotiations. According to media reports, this may […]
Falsifying History In Behalf Of Agendas
Falsifying History In Behalf Of Agendas In an article on April 13 ( http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/04/13/power-lies/ ) I used the so-called Civil War and the myths with which court historians have encumbered that war to show how history is falsified in order to serve agendas. I pointed out that it was a war of secession, not a civil war […]
So you say you don’t want a revolution?
So you say you don’t want a revolution? Over the past few months we have been forced to bear witness to a humiliating farce unfolding in Europe. Greece, which was first accepted into the European Monetary Union under false pretenses, then saddled with excessive levels of debt, then crippled through the imposition of austerity, finally did something: […]
“Something Revolutionary Is In The Air”: Grexit By “Insurrection” Is The “Most Probable” Outcome
“Something Revolutionary Is In The Air”: Grexit By “Insurrection” Is The “Most Probable” Outcome A week ago, we said the following about the situation faced by Greek PM Alexis Tsipras when he and his new finance minister arrived in Brussels for the final round of bailout negotiations earlier this month: …the entire world looked on in horror […]
Is Democracy Hitting theFossil Fuels too Hard?
Is Democracy Hitting the Fossil Fuels too Hard? Stick that in your democracy and smoke it? Over the past few weeks the notion of democracy has been getting its fair share of attention in the media, and quite rightfully so; Greece had a referendum on whether or not it was going to accept new terms […]
The US Hand in the Syrian Mess
The US Hand in the Syrian Mess Exclusive: Neocons and the mainstream U.S. media place all the blame for the Syrian civil war on President Bashar al-Assad and Iran, but there is another side of the story in which Syria’s olive branches to the U.S. and Israel were spurned and a reckless drive for “regime change” followed, […]
An Open Letter to Britain’s Leading Violent Extremist: David Cameron
An Open Letter to Britain’s Leading Violent Extremist: David Cameron Dear Prime Minister David Cameron, It is with deep disappointment that I read excerpts of your speech provided by Downing Street to the press, purporting to set out a five-year strategy to tackle fundamentalist terrorism, which — whatever its intentions — is thoroughly misguided, and destined to plunge this […]
The Death of Democracy in a Byzantine Labyrinth
The Death of Democracy in a Byzantine Labyrinth The project of European Union, and its single currency experiment, were politically an attempt to unite fractious nations in order to put an end to a history of horribly destructive conflict. Economically, the goals were to scale up governance in Europe, to transition from the national to […]
Video of the Day – General Wesley Clark Suggests Putting “Disloyal Americans” in Internment Camps
Video of the Day – General Wesley Clark Suggests Putting “Disloyal Americans” in Internment Camps If these people are radicalized and don’t support the United States, and they’re disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principal that’s fine, that’s their right. It’s our right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal […]
Seeking War to the End of the World
Seeking War to the End of the World Exclusive: Despite the disastrous Iraq War, neocons still dominate Official Washington’s inside-outside game, government policymakers coordinating with think-tank opinion leaders to keep world tensions high and money flowing to military projects, a process personified by Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland, says Robert Parry. If the neoconservatives have their way again, U.S. ground troops will reoccupy […]
