Politics

Neocon journalist Jennifer Rubin has said that she is afraid that Donald Trump will select Ron Paul to be Secretary of State in a Trump administration. Rubin, a Washington Post journalist, is an ardent supporter of American military intervention and the ongoing war on terror. Ronpaulinstitute.org reports: What is it that keeps the Washington Post’s hyperventilating neocon scribbler Jennifer Rubin up at night? The fact that Ron Paul’s lifelong efforts to promote a peaceful foreign policy continue to light fires in the imaginations of his fellow Americans.

A young hacker says he managed to expose a serious security flaw on the Florida voting website, allowing potential election hacking to occur during the Presidential race.  David Levin, a political consultant and computer security expert, was charged by the state on three felony charges of unauthorized access to computer systems, which could see him serve a potential 15-year prison sentence. Levin insists the hacking of the online election system was designed to help the government to improve its security.

A Labour councillor thwarted attempts of potential election fraud during local elections in Oxfordshire recently. Duncan Enright says he had initially lost his seat due to the fact that a bundle of votes were hidden under a pile for his Conservative rival. The Witney candidate luckily rectified the situation upon discovering the pile of ‘misplaced’ votes and won his seat. Independent.co.uk reports: He posted: “Lost by 70 votes or so. Thanks for the opportunity to serve. The fight goes on.” He soon after followed up by announcing: “Miscount in Witney East, result now in, I win by 70!

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China - Can the world wake up?

On September 19, 2000, going on 16 years ago, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph reported:

“Declassified American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement.

 

When They Killed JFK They Killed America

Paul Craig Roberts

In the JFK administration I was a White House Fellow. In those days it was a much larger program than the small insider program it later became. President Kennedy’s intention was to involve many young Americans in government in order to keep idealism alive as a counter to the material interests of lobby groups. I don’t know if the program still exists. If it does, the idealism that was its purpose is long gone.