Neocons Admit They've Blown It – Is The Draft Next?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 August, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: quagmire 2003 iraq neocon
Do you remember the ridicule neocons heaped on critics who predicted a quagmire in Iraq? Now neocons William Kristol and Robert Kagan are calling for more troops and more money – two more army divisions and another $60 billion to be exact. “Next spring, if disaster looms,” they write, “it may be too late.” [Do What It Takes in Iraq…
Read more »More On The Trade Wars
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 August, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Trade . Wars
[VDARE.COM note: Craig Roberts' rethinking of trade is being extensively discussed on the Ludwig von Mises Institute's new blog – click here for William Anderson critique, here for Craig's response, and here for Dan Mahoney being thoughtful.] For several years I have been tracking US job losses and seeking to understand the causes. I have written enough columns about this…
Read more »Trade No-think
Sending me many suggestions, readers have beseeched me to revive the “No-think Nation” theme that I developed in six columns during April and May of 2002. I doubt that editors have that big a stomach for the subject, but I will risk one more column. [I, II, III, IV, V, VI] My target is Bruce Bartlett’s syndicated column of August…
Read more »Turning Lawyers Into Government Spies
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 August, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Government . Into . Lawyers . Spies . Turning
When will the first lawyer be arrested, indicted, and sent to prison for failing to help the government convict his client? You can bet it will be soon. Once the Securities and Exchange Commission, Internal Revenue Service, and U.S. Department of Justice (sic) complete their assault on the attorney-client privilege, they will rush to make an example of a lawyer,…
Read more »Jobless in the USA
By: Paul Craig Roberts|05 August, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: chinese person . cost of living . discrimination lawsuits . south carolina . world socialism
Throughout history peoples have been overcome by trends and forces that they were unable to recognize. Could the US be losing its economy to forces economists mistake for benevolent free trade? Traditionally, free trade has required a country’s work force to compete indirectly against the work forces of other countries in the markets for traded goods and services. Fears in…
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