None of us growing up in Atlanta in the 1940’s were under the delusion that we were equal. We were aware of a myriad of differences that had nothing to do with race or gender. Some were better football players.
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None of us growing up in Atlanta in the 1940’s were under the delusion that we were equal. We were aware of a myriad of differences that had nothing to do with race or gender. Some were better football players.
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He had finally done it. He had mastered the physics of time. He was ready to visit the past.
He had made his first fortune in U.S. Treasury bond futures in the early 1980’s. Wall Street had thought that the
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The trial was fixed. The judge knew it. The rancher had the town buffaloed. The jury would deliver the verdict the rancher wanted.
The judge was concerned that the rancher’s rowdies would use the verdict for a lynching. The rancher
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More Lies, More Deception by Paul Craig Roberts • September 30, 2009 • Printer-friendly
“What does imperialism mean? It means the assertion of absolute force over others.”—Robert Lowe, 1878
The G-20 ministers declared their meeting in Pittsburgh a success, …
The Economy Is a Lie, Too by Paul Craig Roberts • September 23, 2009 • Printer-friendly
Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy included. Americans are being driven into the ground economically, with 1 …
Why Not Crippling Sanctions for Israel and the U.S.? by Paul Craig Roberts • September 2, 2009 • Printer-friendly
In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin …
“Rawhide” Andrews was a Texas Ranger. He came to the force after it was reconstituted in 1874, the Rangers having been discredited in the years following the War of Yankee Aggression as an enforcement unit for carpetbaggers.
Comanches were in
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In 1939, the year I was born, gasoline was ten cents per gallon. A new car cost $700. A new house cost $3,850, and the average rent was $28 per month. Harvard tuition was $420 annually.
A loaf of bread
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Pirates of the Mediterranean by Paul Craig Roberts • July 6, 2009 • Printer-friendly
On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the Spirit of Humanity, …
Gun Control: What Is the Agenda? by Paul Craig Roberts • July 1, 2009 • Printer-friendly
Some years or decades ago, I researched and reported on the Sullivan Act, one of America’s first gun-control laws.
New York state Sen. Timothy …
Iran Faces Greater Risks Than It Knows by Paul Craig Roberts • June 19, 2009 • Printer-friendly
Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, tells the story of the …
Are You Ready for War With Demonized Iran? by Paul Craig Roberts • June 16, 2009 • Printer-friendly
How much attention do elections in Japan, India, Argentina or any other country, get from the U.S. media? How many Americans and …
Succumbing to the Dark Side by Paul Craig Roberts • May 29, 2009 • Printer-friendly
Torture is a violation of U.S. and international law. Yet, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, on the basis of legally incompetent …
Exempting Israel From Criticism by Paul Craig Roberts • May 8, 2009 • Printer-friendly
On Oct. 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act. This legislation requires the U.S. Department of State …
Anyone who has been around for a while and who pays any attention to the news sees many disturbing changes. Recently, I read a report that two children, ages seven and eight, had an altercation at school during recess. They
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“The prospects of a government rescue for the foundering American automakers dwindled Thursday as Democratic congressional leaders conceded that they would face potentially insurmountable Republican opposition,” reported the New York Times last Friday.
Wow! The entire country is steamed up …
The World Tires of Dollar Hegemony by Paul Craig Roberts • October 30, 2008 • Printer-friendly
What explains the paradox of the dollar’s sharp rise in value against other currencies (except the Japanese yen) despite disproportionate U.S. exposure to the …
The Decline and Fall of the American Economy: Offshoring Our Security by Paul Craig Roberts • June 23, 2008 • Printer-friendly
The United States has three large economic problems. The overarching one is that the U.S. dollar’s role as world …
The United States has three large economic problems. The overarching one is that the U.S. dollar’s role as world reserve currency is wearing out from continuous and large trade deficits and from government budget deficits that have to be financed
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In his latest book, Day of Reckoning, Pat Buchanan argues that hubris, ideology, and greed are among America’s deadliest enemies. Hubris led to overreach. Hegemonic neoconservative ideology turned most of the world against the United States. And free trade
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It is impossible to keep up with all the Bush regime’s lies. There are simply too many. Among the recent crop, one of the biggest is that the “surge” is working.
Launched last year, the “surge” was the extra 20,000 …
Take heed, ye red-blooded American males. The police are operating a new sting designed to destroy your life.
The police are planting attractive women half-naked in parks. They entice passing males, engage them in conversation, lay back, spread their legs …
In new books, writers as disparate as Naomi Wolf and Pat Buchanan conclude that America as we know her is disappearing. Both writers hope, but are not confident, that enough Americans will catch on in time to find the leadership …
9-11, Six Years Later by Paul Craig Roberts • September 11, 2007 • Printer-friendly
On Sept. 7, National Public Radio reported that Muslims in the Middle East were beginning to believe that the 9-11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon …
The media are silent, Congress is absent, and Americans are distracted as George W. Bush openly prepares aggression against Iran.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike forces are deployed off Iran.
U.S. Air Force jets and missile systems are deployed in …
The war in Iraq is lost. This fact is widely recognized by American military officers and has been recently expressed forcefully by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq during the first year of the attempted …
Economic discussion in the United States is trapped in ancient ruts. Both right and left are stuck in old habitual ways of thinking. Neither shows inclination or ability to think independently of ideology. For a country beset with economic problems, …
The immigration bill does not address the problem. Like most bills, it is the product of influential moneyed interests. It serves these interests at the expense of the American people.
I have nothing against immigration in principle and nothing against …
The Washington, D.C., think-tank The American Enterprise Institute camouflages its purpose with its name. There is nothing American about AEI, and the organization’s enterprise is fomenting war in the Middle East against Israel’s enemies. Its real name should be The …
“A nation scattered and peeled, . . . a nation meted out and trodden down.”
—Isaiah
Like Romans in ancient times, Americans are losing their country to immigration, and few seem to know it. One who does know is
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