How New Orleans Was Lost
By: Paul Craig Roberts|31 August, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: beautiful cities . city of new orleans . corp of engineers . hurricane katarina . mayor of new orleans . war on terrorism . world trade towers
Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush’s Iraq war. There were not enough helicopters to repair the breeched levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guards available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting. The situation is the same in Mississippi. The National Guard and…
Read more »America's Lost Hegemony
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 August, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: protectionism paul craig roberts
The historian who chronicles America’s decline will lay the blame on free market ideology. I say this as a believer in the market. My books and scholarly articles demonstrate the superiority of market systems over government allocative schemes. The problem arises when market economics ceases to be thoughtful and becomes ideological or a dogma. A good example of the latter…
Read more »Corrupted Justice
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 August, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Corrupted . Justice
Wonder of wonders! A Louisiana prosecutor has been disciplined by the Louisiana Supreme Court for withholding exculpatory evidence in order to get a death sentence for a 16-year old. The witness who obligingly picked the suspect out of a lineup had told the police that she was not wearing her glasses or contact lens at the time of the shooting,…
Read more »Get Ready for World War III
With every poll showing majorities of Americans both fed up with Bush’s war against Iraq and convinced that Bush’s invasion of Iraq has made Americans less safe, the White House moron proposes to start another war by attacking Iran. VP Cheney has already ordered the US Strategic Command to come up with plans to strike Iran with tactical nuclear weapons.…
Read more »Kelo's Implications are Horrendous
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 August, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: constitutional rights . eminent domain authority . gm assembly plant . government intrusion . increase concentration
Readers’ questions have prompted me to examine further the Supreme Court’s recent Kelo decision. Kelo is even worse than the calamity I declared it to be. Kelo does not mean the end of private property per se, but it does mean the end of anyone’s secure possession, be the owner an individual or a corporation. To the extent that Americans…
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