Role Reversal—Bush Boosts Government Power, Democrats Resist
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 June, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: attorney client privilege . conservative republicans . constitutional rights . war against terrorism
Since 1932 Democrats have been so confident of the inherent virtue of government that they have been willing to trust any amount of power to it. The liberal agenda boiled down to the growth of government power. Republicans were the naysayers, forever quoting the Founding Fathers‘ warnings that government power meant liberty’s demise. The administration of President George W. Bush…
Read more »Bush Administration Attacks Attorney-Client Privilege—And “Rights Of Englishmen”
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 June, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: rights as englishmen
“If the government had access to the communications between a client and his lawyer, the lawyer would be nothing but a government agent, like Soviet defense attorneys whose official role was to serve as adjuncts to the prosecution.”—Paul Craig Roberts & Lawrence M. Stratton, The Tyranny of Good Intentions Once upon a time the US Department of Justice respected the…
Read more »Assessing the Assessments
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 June, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Assessing . Assessments
Americans either loved Ronald Reagan or they hated him. No one was indifferent. These strong feelings can be seen in the assessments of Reagan following his death. Emotion-driven assessments have little to do with fact. Paul Krugman’s New York Times (June 11) screed against Reagan’s economic policy [An Economic Legend] is a perfect example of bile overpowering truth. According to…
Read more »The Jobs That Aren't
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 June, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Jobs
The jobs front is like the Iraqi front. The worse the situation, the better the news. As jobs for college graduates disappear from the US economy, pundits tell us how great the jobs outlook is. The 248,000 new jobs in May looks good as an aggregate number, which is the only number the public got. Looking at the components of…
Read more »Those Jobs Numbers: More Bad News For College Graduates
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 June, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: thomas l. friedman the silver lining of outsourc ing overseas
Deceit about jobs is taking over from deceit about the Iraq war. Lost in the hoopla about 248,000 jobs created in May is the discouraging pattern of job creation. Why didn’t the pundits touting the “good news on the jobs front” tell us that 176,000 of the jobs—or 71%—are concentrated in low-paying domestic services that cannot be outsourced? Here is…
Read more »Reagan Changed the World
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 June, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts margeret thatcher
President Ronald Reagan’s stature will grow as his achievements come to be more widely recognized. Few Americans realize that President Reagan’s economic policy won the cold war by rejuvenating capitalism. Members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, with whom I spoke in Moscow during the Soviet Union’s final months, agreed that it was President Reagan’s confidence in capitalism, not his…
Read more »Israel Intransigence Threatens U.S. with Ruin
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 June, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Intransigence . Israel . Ruin . Threatens . U.S.
Writing in the New Republic (June 7), [Face Reality ]former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski characterizes the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq as “justified by falsehoods, pursued with unilateral arrogance, blinded by self-delusion, and stained by sadistic excesses.” [Face Reality] Brzezinski condemns Bush’s failed Iraq policy for aiding and abetting terrorism and for generating hardcore hatred of the…
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