Apr 3, 1939 - Present
American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate.
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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.
On one hand, our food is polluted with herbicides and on the other hand by antibiotics. And then we have hormones and pesticides.
If the Obama regime gave a hoot about \'humanitarian crisis,\' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.
In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.
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.
If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson\'s books.
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.
As truth is Washington\'s worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington\'s enemy.
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.
The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.
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.
The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.
Few Americans other than the One Percent have a stake in the American economic and political system.
Elephants are magnificient creatures.
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.
There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.
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.
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.
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.
Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.
Law is just one public institution, but it is a cornerstone of society. When law goes, everything goes.
War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.
For a country to be looted, its people\'s voice must be silenced.
Representing the people is not something \'our\' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.
Vice is Washington\'s signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.
The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.
By offshoring the production of their products, U.S. corporations transferred technology, physical plant, and business knowhow to China.
Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.
The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. \'Free trade\' is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.