“Global Labor Arbitrage” Dismantling America
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 July, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns
In the current economic recovery, low pay, low skill jobs account for twice the normal amount of job growth reports Stephen Roach, chief economist for Morgan Stanley (More Jobs, Worse Work New York Times, July 22). Mr. Roach attributes the low quality of new US jobs to globalization: “Under unrelenting pressure to cut costs, American companies are now replacing high-wage…
Read more »Today, The Present Danger Is Neoconservatism
President Bush’s neoconservatives have announced that they are relaunching the Committee on the Present Danger. The new CPD will be totally different from the original. [The Present Danger By Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyl, July 20, 2004] I was a member of the Committee on the Present Danger. It was a bipartisan private organization consisting largely of former presidential appointees…
Read more »Bush Can't Control U.S. Borders But Wants To Overthrow Iran Anyway
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 July, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bush Administration . government official . religious leadership . september 11 hijackers . world trade towers
What would you do if your army was mired down in a country turned hostile by your invasion, forced to hide behind fortified positions, and only able to make an occasional foray to kill a few women and children along with an occasional insurgent? A plethora of reports are issued revealing that the reasons you thought you had for invading…
Read more »Martha Stewart And George Bush: Punishing The Innocent, Excusing the Guilty
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 July, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: martha stewart and george bush
Martha Stewart has been sentenced to 5 months in prison and two years of supervised release for not telling the truth about a legal stock tip. The only thing she has been found guilty of is lying about a noncrime. Mrs. Stewart was neither charged with, nor found guilty of, insider trading. Neither she nor her broker had inside information…
Read more »An “Error” Made Tony Blair Do It
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 July, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Blair . Made . Tony
Key intelligence used to justify war with Iraq has now been shown to be unreliable, concludes Lord Butler in the British government’s report about the misinformation that caused a pointless war. Nevertheless says Lord Butler, there is no one to blame for the thousands of deaths, the massive destruction, and subsequent creation of a new generation of terrorists but mere…
Read more »Did “The Process” Make Bush Do It?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 July, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Did . George Bush . Make . Process"
The real purpose of a government report is to place the blame where it does the least damage to the political party in office. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s “Report on the US Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq” [PDF —23 megabytes!] carefully follows this time-honored rule. At the July 9 press conference heralding the release of the…
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