Here It Comes: Draft Now Getting Democratic Support
By: Paul Craig Roberts|27 March, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Comes: . Democratic . Draft . Getting . Here . Now . Support
One of the favorite fantasies of right-wing talk radio and Fox “News” is that only Bush-hating liberals oppose the Iraq war and additional US military incursions into the Middle East or wherever. Yet, it is the March issue of the Washington Monthly, a magazine with a liberal Democratic audience, which makes a case for the draft as the only way…
Read more »Immigration, Outsourcing, Our Incipient Police State—Greater Threats Than Terrorism
Delusion has settled over America. Washington cannot tell fact from fantasy. Neither can a sycophantic media nor nothink economists. The Bush administration is the first government in history to initiate a war based entirely on fantasy—fantasy about nonexistent “weapons of mass destruction,” fantasy about nonexistent “terrorist links,” fantasy about “liberating” a people from their culture, fantasy about a “cakewalk” invasion,…
Read more »America's Has-Been Economy
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 March, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: U.S is eroding as a superpower because of outsourcing
A country cannot be a superpower without a high tech economy, and America’s high tech economy is eroding as I write. The erosion began when US corporations outsourced manufacturing. Today many US companies are little more than a brand name selling goods made in Asia. Corporate outsourcers and their apologists presented the loss of manufacturing capability as a positive development.…
Read more »Bush Plunging Into Syrian Swamp
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 March, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: George Bush . Into . Plunging . Swamp . Syrian
How much longer can American prestige survive the embarrassments inflicted by President Bush? Bush’s demand that Syria immediately withdraw its troops from Lebanon is a ricochet demand. If Lebanon cannot have free elections while under foreign military occupation, how, asks the rest of the world, does Iraq have free elections when it is under US military occupation? Bush’s latest guffaw…
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