By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 October, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Nuke . Planning . Terrorists? . U.S.
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” Vice President Dick Cheney, 8-26-02. “For those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.” President George Bush, 5-30-03. When it became obvious that the neoconservatives would succeed in turning the “war against terrorism” into war…
Read more »By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 October, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: new book about jacobins america
Do you want to know why President George W. Bush’s focus on the war against terror was redirected to war against Iraq and the Muslim Middle East? Read Professor Claes G. Ryn’s new book, America the Virtuous: Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire. Professor Ryn is a learned, insightful, and courageous scholar who ably explains the ideas that…
Read more »By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 October, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: vacancies of accountant ink
A child born in America today is $124,000 in debt the moment he draws his first breath. The newborn’s inherited debt grows daily. Upon reaching working age, an enormous debt awaits. How does a newborn get into debt prior to having a mortgage, credit card and car payment? Easy. Government assigns each newborn child a share of its debt. $24,000…
Read more »With the exception of Americans who rely on TV news, the entire world knows: Saddam Hussein told the truth. President Bush and his neo-Jacobin (a.k.a. neo-”conservative“) cabal lied. Big time. A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland and Knowledge Networks reports [pdf] that the US is a country in which sizable percentages of…
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