Locked On Course To Wider War
The American public has been deceived and locked on a course toward conscription and a wider war. On April 20 Republican Senator Chuck Hagel acknowledged the deceit when he urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support the restoration of compulsory military service. The draft must be reinstated, the Republican Senator said, in order that the US can continue its…
Read more »Bush Backs West Bank Annexation, Risks Wider War
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 April, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: equip.pl
Intentionally or stupidly, President Bush and his neocon overlords are on track for igniting general conflagration in the Middle East. In placing America’s stamp of approval on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s annexation of the West Bank, Bush jettisoned a half century of American diplomacy and broadcast to Muslims everywhere that U.S. armed forces are Israel’s Middle Eastern legions. In…
Read more »The Iraq Imbroglio: Feeling A Draft?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 April, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: A . Draft . Feeling . Imbroglio: . Iraq . The
Lawrence Kaplan, neo-Jacobin ideologue and shameless apologist for the carnage in Iraq, claims that Americans wouldn’t mind having 30,000 of our troops killed in Iraq if it achieves Bush’s “strategic objectives.”[Tolerating Casualties, From the Top Down, Washington Post, April 3, 2003] No one knows any longer what these objectives are unless it is to start World War III. The original…
Read more »Memoir & Critique – My Time with Karl Marx
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 April, 2004|Categories: Scholarship Summaries|Tags: Crisis . Karl Marx . Marx . Paul Craig . Roberts . Soviet . Theory
This article appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of The Independent Review My path to Karl Marx was through my work on the Soviet economy. Sovietologists had difficulty comprehending the organizational nature of the Soviet economy because they were uninformed about its Marxian aspirations. Sovietologists regarded Marx as irrelevant to an understanding of the Soviet economy. Alexander Gerschenkron, one of…
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