Year: 2018

Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Wall St. Journal Editor, has published an interesting analysis of what he calls “Mueller’s Comic Book Indictment.” https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018… According to Dr. Roberts, the Trump-Russia scandal was “trumped up” by Deep State militarists to pre-empt rapprochement with Russia and preserve military-industrial complex profits. But their efforts, he says, are failing; the Mueller indictments against a Russian clickbait factory are absurdly anticlimactic and feature nothing whatsoever indicating  election meddling by the Russian government, nor Trump administration complicity in any malfeasance.   Though I think Dr. Roberts may harbor an overly optimistic view of…

Is carbon from fossil fuel emissions really the biggest environmental threat? Geraldine Perry says no. She argues that harmful climate change, as well as other forms of environmental degradation, are being driven mainly by bad land use policies—beginning with big agriculture strip-mining the soil. And those polices, indeed most harmful human impacts on the environment, are the product of our usury-based economy, in which every dollar is created by being lent into existence, at interest, by a privately-owned banking cartel. The destructive extraction that is killing the planet stems from the endless mad, futile scramble to try to pay back exponentially…