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Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration. He was associate editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He is a contributing editor to Gerald Celente's Trends Journal. He has had numerous university appointments. His books, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is available here, and How America Was Lost, can be ordered here. His latest book, The Neoconservative ThreatTo International Order: Washington's Perilous War For
Hegemony, can be ordered here.
(61 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 19, 2009 Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?
by Paul Craig Roberts
Professor Michael Hudson (CounterPunch, March 18) is correct that the orchestrated outrage over the $165 million AIG bonuses is a diversion from the thousand times greater theft from taxpayers of the approximately $200 billion "bailout" of AIG.
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, September 25, 2009 More Lies, More Deception
In case you don't know, the term “international community†is shorthand for the US, Israel, and Europe, a handful of arrogant and rich countries that oppress the rest of the world. America will not be satisfied until, like Rome, she has more enemies and more wars than she can survive.
(52 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 11, 2010 America's Devolution Into Dictatorship
the US judiciary, formerly a co-equal branch of government, has absolutely no legal authority whatsoever to stick its nose into President "Change" Obama's decision to assassinate Americans. The unaccountability of the president's decision to murder people is, the US Justice (sic) Department declared, one of "the very core powers of the president as commander in chief."
(22 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 12, 2012 The Next War on Washington's Agenda
Half of the American public support a military attack on Iran in order to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear capability. Those of us who are trying to awaken our fellow citizens start from a deficit that the minds of half of the US population are under Big Brother's control.
(56 comments) SHARE Friday, August 24, 2012 America's Descent into Poverty
The Clinton sell-outs to Big Money essentially abolished Aid to Families with Dependent Children. But this sell-out of struggling Americans was not enough to satisfy the Republican Party. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to cut or abolish every program that cushions poverty-stricken Americans from starvation and homelessness.
(15 comments) SHARE Friday, September 2, 2011 Labor's Demise As A Countervailing Power
The reason that nearly four years of economic stimulus, consisting of large federal budget deficits and near zero interest rates, hasn't revived the economy is that the jobs that Americans once had have been moved offshore. Stimulus cannot put Americans back to work in jobs that have been given to foreign countries.
(78 comments) SHARE Friday, March 28, 2014 Pushing Toward The Final War
We are again on the road to World War. One hundred years ago the creation of a world war by a few had to be done under the cover of deception. Germany had to be caught off guard. The British had to be manipulated and people in all the countries had to be propagandized and brainwashed. Today the drive to war is blatantly obvious. The lies are obvious, and the entire West is participating, both media and governments.
(33 comments) SHARE Friday, September 24, 2010 It Is Official: The US Is A Police State
The US media, highly concentrated in violation of the American principle of a diverse and independent media, will lend its support to the witch hunts that will close down all protests and independent thought in the US over the next few years.
(29 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 3, 2011 Police Brutality -- Americans Are Oppressed, Too
Submission is what the government and the police want. Anyone who argues with TSA or the police will be abused. An American who stands up for his rights is likely to be beaten to a pulp. TSA has announced that such Americans are "suspects" and will be held in indefinite detention.
(29 comments) SHARE Monday, November 26, 2012 The Osama bin Laden Myth
Osama bin Laden's sensational denial was not reported by the US print and TV media. It was not investigated by the executive branch. No one in the US Congress called attention to bin Laden's refusal of responsibility for the greatest humiliation ever inflicted on a superpower. The sensational news was unfit for US citizens and was withheld from them by the american "free press."
SHARE Friday, November 13, 2015 Another Paris False Flag Attack?
what do refugees have to gain from making themselves unwelcome with acts of violence committed against the host country, and where do refugees in France obtain automatic weapons and bombs? Indeed, where would the French themselves obtain them? Considering the Western World's long tradition of false flag orchestrations, the "terrorist attacks" in Paris could be the most recent manifestation.
(17 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 9, 2010 It Is Now Official: The U.S. Is A Police State
What defines "threat"? Who will make the decision? What it means is that the government will murder whomever it chooses. There is no more complete or compelling evidence of a police state than the government announcing that it will murder its own citizens if it views them as a "threat."
(119 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 3, 2014 Are You Ready For Nuclear War?
The reason Washington gave for the change in war doctrine is the possibility that terrorists might obtain a nuclear weapon with which to destroy an American city. No government believes Washington's reasons. Every government realizes that Washington's reasons are feeble attempts to hide the fact that it is creating the capability on the ground to win a nuclear war.
SHARE Wednesday, September 7, 2016 The Tide is Turning: The Official Story Is Now The Conspiracy Theory
The US government has plentiful video evidence of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon but refuses to release the evidence that it says support its story. Similarly, the French federal government has prohibited Nice authorities from releasing the security camera videos of the Nice truck attack and has ordered the video evidence destroyed. How can we believe governments that refuse to show us the hard evidence?
(35 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 27, 2014 Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Declare that Power Comes Out of the Barrels of their Guns
The West now faces a real mess, and so does Russia. The presstitutes will keep the American public from ever knowing what has happened, and the Obama regime will never admit it. It is not always clear that even the Russians want to admit it. Let us all cross our fingers that another war is not the consequence of all this.
(23 comments) SHARE Friday, January 17, 2014 The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation
Default on delivery of purchased gold would terminate the Federal Reserve's ability to manipulate the gold price. The entire world would realize that the demand for gold greatly exceeds the supply, and the price of gold would explode upwards. The Federal Reserve would lose control and would have to abandon Quantitative Easing.
(15 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Economics Lesson 1
The consequences of a dead economy when the government is wasting trillions of dollars in wars of naked aggression and in bailouts of fraudulent financial institutions is a government budget that can only be financed by printing money. The emperor has no clothes, and sooner or later this will be recognized.
(181 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 13, 2014 The Five Criminals: In America the Gestapo Has Replaced The Rule Of Law
"National Security" is the blanket under which the crimes of government are hidden. All that "national security" means is that "we are not going to let anyone find out that we are nothing but a gang of criminal thugs, and we are going to use the cover of national security to demonize Snowden who told on us." Americans have lost the rule of law. Unless Congress quickly restores it, the country is lost.
(24 comments) SHARE Monday, October 20, 2014 Is The US Government The Master Criminal Of Our Time?
Experts have brought to the public's attention that ebola is a genetically modified organism developed in US biowarfare laboratories in Africa. It's possible that the USA has been using West Africa as an offshore to circumvent the Convention on Biological Weapons and do bio-warfare work.
SHARE Saturday, January 5, 2019 9/11: Finally the Truth Comes Out?
If the Lawyers' Committee and the 9/11 truthers trust the US Attorney to go entirely by the facts, little will come of the grand jury. If the United States had a rule of law, something as serious as 9/11 could not have gone for 17 years without investigation.