Abandoning Liberty, Gaining Insecurity
By: Paul Craig Roberts|31 January, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Gaining . Insecurity . Liberty
Should Americans have to give up the Bill of Rights in order to be “safe” from terrorists? Actually, it doesn’t matter what Americans think. The trade has already been made—and without any input from the people. The “democracy” that America is exporting is in fact a Homeland Security State with more surveillance powers than Saddam Hussein. Americans no longer have…
Read more »War Without End—Bush Proclaims Jacobin Crusade
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 January, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Crusade . End—Bush . Jacobin . Proclaims . Without
After listening to his inaugural speech, anyone who thinks President Bush and his handlers are sane needs to visit a psychiatrist. The hubris-filled megalomaniac in the Oval Office has promised the world war without end. Bush’s crazy talk has even upset rah-rah Republicans. One Republican called Bush’s speech “God-drenched.” It has begun to dawn on the formerly Grand Old Party…
Read more »How Americans Were Seduced by War
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 January, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Americans . Seduced . Were
Americans have been betrayed. Sooner or later Americans will realize that they have been led to defeat in a pointless war by political leaders who they inattentively trusted. They have been misinformed by a sycophantic corporate media too mindful of advertising revenues to risk reporting truths branded unpatriotic by the propagandistic slogan, “you are with us or against us.” What…
Read more »Dear Ken: About That Cakewalk…
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 January, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: flurazepam
Three years ago in the Washington Post Ken Adelman, formerly an assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, promised us “Cakewalk In Iraq.” I wonder how Mr. Adelman feels about his promise today. In his article, Adelman disparaged Brookings Institution military analysts and the redoubtable Edward Luttwak for “fear-mongering.” Adelman dismissed concerns about US casualties and unilateral action as misguided worries…
Read more »What Became of Western Morality?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|05 January, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns
On the last day of the old year in the newsletter CounterPunch, two Israelis—Jeff Halper, who heads the Israeli peace movement ICAHD, and Neve Gordon, who is chairman of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University—asked, “Where’s the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?” “Not one of the nearly 450 presidents of American colleges and…
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