About: Steven Yates
Posts by Steven Yates
America’s Ruling Class
Angelo M. Codevilla, a professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, has written a sweeping essay, "America's Ruling Class — and the...
Paul Craig Roberts: America Has Become an Oligarchy of Private Interests
Earlier this year, it looked as if columnist Paul Craig Roberts had hung up his word processor in disgust, having just published his...
Auditing the Fed: the Great Sellout
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had long worked together on their campaign for a full audit of the Federal...
American Expats Giving Up Citizenship in Record Numbers
The number of Americans choosing not merely to retire but often to live and work in other countries — expatriates or "expats" —...
Ron Paul: Obama Is Another Corporatist, Not a Socialist
The idea that President Barack Obama is a socialist is popular among many conservatives; all of us have seen automobiles sporting the bumper...
The Media’s War on Tea Party “Extremism”
We live in an era in which more and more people, some of them never before involved in politics, are waking up. They...
Real Unemployment Still in 17 Percent Range
According to the U.S. Labor Department, the economy added 162,000 jobs in March, the most since the beginning of the worst recession since...
Census Should Stick To Constitutional Limits, Says Ron Paul
Every time a year ending in a zero swings around, the federal government conducts a census — typically in early spring, meaning that...
McCain-Lieberman Bill Would Deny Civilian Trials for “Enemy Belligerents”
On March 4 Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill entitled “The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act...
The Tea Party Movement
The Tea Party movement is rapidly becoming the most widely discussed political movement of our time. When you are written about in the...
A “Driver’s License” for Internet Users?
At the recent meeting of the globalist World Economic Forum in Davos, attendee Craig Mundie — chief research and strategy officer for Microsoft...
Ron Paul’s Opposition in Tea Party Movement
Has the Tea Party Movement (TPM) been hijacked? Originally very much a grassroots uprising against high taxes, out-of-control federal spending, and incumbents not...
New Unemployment Numbers Conceal Many Issues
January’s unemployment numbers were released late last week. According to the official report, unemployment fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent last month. Employment...
“Bankster” Cabal Conspiracy Going Mainstream?
Claims that cabals of “banksters” control much of the world’s economy from behind closed doors have, for years now, been mainstays of those...
What Haiti Needs
Haiti has long been one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Even though it was the first Latin American nation to...