Paul Craig Roberts
The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse, capitalist looting intensified during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes.
We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization.
Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.
The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth.
It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.
The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.
I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment.
In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.
If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books.
Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and the political establishments of the political parties no longer have credibility with the American people.
I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.
The Federal Trade Commission is supposed to enforce U.S. anti-trust law. Instead, the federal agency routinely violates U.S. anti-trust law by permitting monopoly concentrations of business interests.
Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won.
There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.
The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.
War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.
Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington's gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.
When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?
The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.
The neoconservative doctrine declares that it is the principal goal of U.S. foreign policy to prevent the rise of any country that would have sufficient power to serve as a check on American unilateralism. This neoconservative doctrine puts Russia and China in Washington's crosshairs.
God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.
For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.
Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other's national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.
Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama regimes and Tony Blair in England, the U.S. and U.K. governments have run roughshod over their accountability to law.
Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic 'partnerships,' it will loot the sovereign law of countries.
Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.
Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.
Clearly the climate is changing, whether caused by CO2 emissions or some other cause.
The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.
On one hand, our food is polluted with herbicides and on the other hand by antibiotics. And then we have hormones and pesticides.
Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.
In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.
It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.
People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.
As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.
Clearly what differentiates the U.S. from other countries is the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution, we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.
When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.
There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars.
Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.
Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.
Few Americans other than the One Percent have a stake in the American economic and political system.
Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.
The champions of globalism are the champions of America's destruction.
Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.
Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.Collection: Life