A Letter To Readers
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 August, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Letter . Readers
Writing for the public has always been a challenging task. However, President Bush’s declaration that “you are with us or against us” has intensified readers’ tendency to see columnists in the same way. Awareness is fading that a writer could be an independent thinker not in either camp. A number of writers have made a powerful case that the invasion…
Read more »How The Right Went Wrong— Pat Buchanan's New Blockbuster
By: Paul Craig Roberts|23 August, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: wall stret journal what went wrong with blockbuster
[See also: Book Review of The Great Betrayal, by Patrick Buchanan By Peter Brimelow; That Buchanan Book (Death of the West) By
Read more »For War And The Draft, Vote Republican
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 August, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Draft . Republican . Vote
It is not an enjoyable experience watching the Republican Party descend into the depths of propaganda and falsehood. Today’s disaffected Republicans once believed the GOP to be the party of principle. Any remaining claim to principle ended with Bush’s invasion of Iraq. No informed person believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or terrorist connections to al-Qaida and…
Read more »“One Thing Is Certain: Kerry Was There On That Boat In Viet Nam. Where Was George W. Bush?”
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 August, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: automatic weapons . scurrilous attack . swift boat veterans . swift boat veterans for truth
Now it is out: “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” is just a political dirty trick operation financed by multimillionaire supporters of President George W. Bush. According to the August 20 New York Times, “a series of interviews and a review of documents show a web of connections to the Bush family, high-profile Texas political figures and President Bush’s chief political…
Read more »The Sins of Clinton vs. Bush
Unsure how to judge the Bush administration? Read former US Representative Bob Barr‘s book on the Clinton administration. Bob Barr is an unusual person, a prosecutor who cares about civil liberty. Barr served four terms (1995-2003) as a Republican congressman from Georgia. He was one of the more intelligent members of the House. Barr is old-fashioned in the sense that…
Read more »The Star Chamber is Back
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 August, 2004|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Back . Chamber . Star
Are George Bush and Tony Blair building democracy in the Middle East or police states at home? There is no sign of democracy in Iraq. Bush has installed a puppet government backed up by US military force. America’s hamhanded occupation has resulted in large civilian casualties, prison tortures and a breakdown in public order. Domestic police states, however, are in…
Read more »All Quiet on the Jobs Front
US job growth practically ceased in July according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics payroll job survey released August 6. The US economy was able to eke out only 32,000 new jobs–more than 200,000 fewer jobs than expected and terrible news for June graduates and the millions of unemployed. More bad news came from downward revisions in the two prior…
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