Patriotism: The New Third Rail
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 May, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Patriotism: . Rail
The dire consequences of the US invasion of Iraq go beyond a failed occupation and attendant war crimes. By making excuses for torture in public hearings, the US Senate has besmirched itself. In Senate hearings on May 19, Republican senators enabled three commanding generals of our Iraqi occupation force to explain away war crimes as procedures employed to save lives.…
Read more »Brown Myths Live In Law Schools
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 May, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts fourteenth amendment segregation
Judicial activism, to which conservatives and Republicans object, was born in a 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Yet, conservatives and Republicans who oppose judicial activism support the decision that gave it birth. Republicans and conservatives support Brown in order to demonstrate their non-racist credentials. Brown has lost whatever connection to law it might ever…
Read more »Paul Craig Roberts debates Jagdish Bhagwati in the Wall Street Journal
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 May, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Wall Street Journal May 102004
But is it bad for the U.S. economy? Two economists debate the issue By Timothy Aeppel Wall Street Journal May 10, 2004. DOES OFFSHORE outsourcing hurt the U.S. economy by draining away jobs and investment, or does it ultimately make the U.S. stronger? Is it a cost-cutting tactic that should be encouraged, or should it be punished in some way?…
Read more »Fifty Years Of Brown: The Age Of Kritarchy
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 May, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: kritarchy judges law
[VDARE.COM note: also Eugene Volokh's criticism of this column, as posted without links on LewRockwell.com, and Paul Craig Roberts' response.] May 17 is the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that used federal force to integrate public schools in the US. The anniversary will be widely celebrated in print. Jumping the gun by several…
Read more »Offshore Face-Off: Paul Craig Roberts vs. Jagdish Bhagwati
By: Paul Craig Roberts|10 May, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts offshoring outsourcing
Moving jobs overseas can cut a company’s costs. But is it bad for the U.S. economy? Two economists debate the issue. By TIMOTHY AEPPEL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL May 10, 2004; Page R6 Does offshore outsourcing hurt the U.S. economy by draining away jobs and investment, or does it ultimately make the U.S. stronger? Is it a cost-cutting tactic that should…
Read more »Disaster Lurks In April Jobs Numbers
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 May, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Disaster . Jobs . Lurks . Numbers:
There is no good news in the April payroll data released last Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Disaster lurks in the jobs numbers: the US labor market is becoming Third World in character. The April jobs data show a continuation of the troubling pattern established in recent years. Despite a massive trade deficit that pours $500 billion annually…
Read more »Neoconservatives Are Anti-American
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 May, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Anti-American . neoconservatives
Is Bush correct when he reassures his war fans that torture is not indicative of American values? Or is the US government merely treating Iraqis the same way it treated Randy Weaver’s family at Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, and Gordon Kahl’s family at Medina, ND? Why expect the US government to show more restraint to Iraqis…
Read more »A Prison State, If Not A Police State
By: Paul Craig Roberts|03 May, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: wenatchee graphs sex abuse witch hunt
The US has a unique distinction: It is the world’s greatest prison state. The US, “the land of the free,” has the biggest prison population in the world and the highest rate of prisoners per capita of all countries—including countries that President Bush believes need liberating by US armed forces. Even China, with one-party rule and a population that is…
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