Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts wrote the Kemp-Roth bill and was assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was associate editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and contributing editor of National Review. He is author or co-author of eight books, including The Supply-Side Revolution (Harvard University Press). He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon chair in political economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and senior research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and testified before Congress on 30 occasions. He has been awarded the U.S. Treasury's Meritorious Service Award and the French Legion of Honor. He was a reviewer for the Journal of Political Economy under editor Robert Mundell.

Armageddon Gets No Press

What has become of the print and TV media watchdogs who hounded President Nixon from office because he lied about when he learned of a minor burglary of no consequence in itself? What became of the watchdog media that bayed after President Reagan because some low-level neoconservative officials sold arms to Iran and diverted the … Continue reading “Armageddon Gets No Press”

The War Is Over, and We…

June 30, 2005, was the peak of neocon delusion. On that day American Enterprise Institute neocon Karl Zinsmeister posted his article on the AEI online site titled: "The War Is Over, and We Won." No sooner than Zinsmeister put delusion to paper than U.S. military commanders reported escalating and more sophisticated insurgency attacks. Casualties exploded … Continue reading “The War Is Over, and We…”

Can Congressional Republicans Save Bush?

If President Bush has competent advisers, he must know that his Iraqi war has become a liability for him and for the Republican Party and might easily become a catastrophe. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that 45 percent of Americans doubt President Bush’s veracity, compared to 41 percent who regard him as … Continue reading “Can Congressional Republicans Save Bush?”

A Defeat Bred in Deceit

"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle." – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn When Bush decided, prior to Sept. 11, to attack Iraq, he committed himself to lies and deceit. As his British co-conspirators realized, only victory could save them from the consequences. On June 27, General George Casey, U.S. commander … Continue reading “A Defeat Bred in Deceit”

The Last Throes of US Dominance

Last Friday, the price of light sweet crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange for August delivery closed 16 cents short of $60/barrel – the highest price ever and an ironic outcome for the millions of Americans who believe that cheap oil was the reason for Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Equally shocking to Americans … Continue reading “The Last Throes of US Dominance”

What Is Bush’s Agenda in Iraq?

For what purpose has President Bush sent 1,741 U.S. troops to die in Iraq (as of June 19, 2005)? For what purpose have 15,000-38,000 U.S. troops been wounded, many so seriously that they are maimed for life? Why has the U.S. government thrown away $300 billion in an illegal and pointless war that cannot be … Continue reading “What Is Bush’s Agenda in Iraq?”

Enabling Evil

In 1996, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen published Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. His thesis is that the mass murder of Jews was not done on the quiet by a few Nazi fanatics. Instead, Goldhagen writes, by their complicity, ordinary Germans were willing participants in the slaughter. In other words, the German people as … Continue reading “Enabling Evil”

If Pinochet Is Guilty, so Is Bush

General Augusto Pinochet, approaching his 90th year, has survived many years of legal harassments resulting from alleged human rights violations during the period of the Chilean military government’s war on terrorism. On the basis of a U.S. Senate staff report, Pinochet is now going to be investigated for stashing $13 million in U.S. banks. What … Continue reading “If Pinochet Is Guilty, so Is Bush”

Desperate for Terror Arrests, FBI Turns to Entrapment

The U.S. has a vast and very expensive Homeland Security bureaucracy with nothing to do. There hasn’t been a terrorist attack in America since 2001. There has been a vast quantity of terror alerts, the purpose of which was to scare Americans into supporting an unnecessary and illegal aggressive attack on Iraq. As very few, … Continue reading “Desperate for Terror Arrests, FBI Turns to Entrapment”

Washington Is the Source of Terror

The U.S. government gave the slave trade a boost by offering money for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Afghan and Pakistani warlords simply rounded up people who looked Arab or foreign and sold them to the Americans as captured fighters. The "fighters" apparently included relief workers, refugees, and Arab businessmen. The tribunals looking into the classification … Continue reading “Washington Is the Source of Terror”