Cato And Heritage Foundations Wrong On Freedom
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts cato
The war on terrorism has hardly begun, but it has already demolished the 4th Amendment, an important basis of our civil liberties. To feel more secure against Muslim terrorists, we have made ourselves less secure from government. The Patriot Act and the new Department of Homeland Security override the 4th Amendment “right of the people to be secure in their…
Read more »Abolishing the Nation-State: Liberal Democracy's Final Hour?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: roberts nation state
When the Soviet Union collapsed a decade ago, neoconservatives proclaimed “the end of history,” by which they meant the emergence of an ecumenical world organized by liberal democracy. Noting China’s ambitions and the re-emergence of Islam, skeptics regard the neoconservative thesis as little more than an expression of hope. China and Islam aside, powerful developments within the West itself are…
Read more »At Home And Abroad, This War Is A Leap Into The Dark
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: sitepaulcraigroberts.org dark government
The midterm election has given us evil twins–a Department of Homeland Security and a Middle Eastern war. The unintended consequences will be costly to Americans and come back to haunt Republicans and conservatives. One hundred government agencies from 22 departments crammed into an unaccountable bureaucracy of 170,000 civil servants creates less security. Many of these agencies have histories of feuding…
Read more »Class Genocide Down The Memory Hole
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: soviet economics
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Read more »Diversity vs. Freedom (contd): The Barton And Alberti Cases
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: harvard professor . minimal government . private conversation . sensitivity training . unrestricted immigration
November 07, 2002 What does immigration cost us? At a recent debate in Arlington, Virginia, Harvard Professor George Borjas quoted an estimate of $70 billion a year. He noted, however, that the cost is not evenly distributed. Some communities are heavily impacted with swollen welfare budgets and hospitals on the brink of bankruptcy. Immigration is estimated to cost Californians $1,300…
Read more »Prosecutorial Abuse: The Wenatchee Witch Hunt Unravels Further
By: Paul Craig Roberts|05 November, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: witch hunt roberts
In 1995 I wrote the first of my 28 columns about the Wenatchee, Washington, child sex abuse witch hunt. Before national attention brought a halt to the worst witch hunt in U.S. history, 43 adults were falsely arrested on 29,726 fabricated charges of child sex abuse involving 60 children. Parents, Sunday school teachers and a local pastor were indicted and…
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