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The US Has Devolved into a Police State
The US Has Devolved into a Police State Yesterday I posted at this URL — https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/09/democracy-america-oxymoron/ — a news report and two vidos of a white female school teacher being removed and brutalized by a black police officer from a public meeting of school teachers with the school board while the school teacher was engaged […]
How to Sell Invasions to Americans
How to Sell Invasions to Americans Here’s an automated email that I received on January 9th from the neoconservative Foreign Policymagazine’s publicity department, pumping the magazine’s five top stories of that day, all of which suggest that the same U.S. Establishment which had deceived Americans into supporting their country’s invading Iraq, Libya, and other countries […]
Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror
Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror Replaying the Roman Civil Wars in Reverse Since 9/11 L’incendie de Rome, Hubert Robert (c. 1785) That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on […]
I Don’t Want Your Leaders
I Don’t Want Your Leaders In 2017, I wrote a lot about how dangerously centralized our political system in the U.S. has become, and how we need to decentralize governance in order to restore power, liberty and policy experimentation to the local level. This notion that a sprawling and culturally diverse nation of 325 million […]
North Korea: The Deafening Silence around the Moon-Putin Plan
North Korea: The Deafening Silence around the Moon-Putin Plan Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 “In the heart of appeasement there’s the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.” —Chris Jami As the world hurtles ever closer to war in Asia, there is an Alice-in-Wonderland media narrative […]
Rational Insanity: the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’
Rational Insanity: the Mad Logic of America’s Nuclear ‘Doomsday Machine’ Photo by The Official CTBTO Photo | CC BY 2.0 I want to say – and this is very important – in the end, we lucked out! It was luck that prevented nuclear war. Khrushchev was rational. Kennedy was rational. Castro was rational. [Holding up his thumb and […]
Credit Card Debt Hits All Time High As Consumers Unleash Historic Shopping Spree
Credit Card Debt Hits All Time High As Consumers Unleash Historic Shopping Spree It’s official: the reason behind the recent rebound in the economy can be explained with two words: “charge it.” Readers may recall that one month ago, we reported that with Republicans in Washington on the verge of passing their first major piece […]
America Debating “Bloody Nose” Limited Military Strike On North Korea
America Debating “Bloody Nose” Limited Military Strike On North Korea With North and South Korea set to meet tomorrow amid a hopeful climate of de-escalation and renewed diplomatic relations, the US government has decided to remind Kim Jong-Un that he may well be a dead man walking. Confirming what the Telegraph reported on December 20, […]
How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist
How Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Became the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Chief Propagandist It used to be that the New York Times and the Washington Post competed against each other to be the chief propagandist for the hundred or so top firms who sell to the US federal government — the 100 top “federal contractors,” almost all of which are Pentagon […]
From Shahs To The CIA: The History Of Western Intervention In Iran – Part 1
From Shahs To The CIA: The History Of Western Intervention In Iran – Part 1 “Once you understand what people want, you can’t hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can’t hate them, because you can find the same desires in your own heart” – concluded Andrew Wiggins in the novel Speaker for the Dead. When Americans […]
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests
Iran Claims It Has “Hard Evidence” Of Foreign Meddling In Protests Friday’s UN Security Council meeting didn’t disappoint in terms of the anticipated level of inflammatory rhetoric and accusations. Also not unexpected is that the US finds itself isolated after a week of the Trump White House going on the offensive: first by essentially calling […]
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018 Users of social media have been increasingly reporting that their accounts have been either censored, blocked or suspended during the past year. Initially, some believed that the incidents might be technical in nature, with overloaded servers struggling to keep up with the large and growing number of […]
Iran in 2018
Iran in 2018 In 1953 Washington and Britain overthrew the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed a dictator to rule Iran for the benefit of Washington and the British. In declassified documents, the CIA has admitted its role in overthrowing the Iranian government. The overthrow pattern is always the same. Washington hires protesters, […]
Bomb Cyclone Hits East Coast: Record Tide Floods Boston
Bomb Cyclone Hits East Coast: Record Tide Floods Boston Blizzards hit the East coast, record high tides flood Boston and in New Jersey, Christie declared a state of emergency. The National Guard has been called out in several states as a bombogenesis or bomb cyclone makes its way up the East coast of the US. […]
