America Has Fallen to a Jacobin Coup
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 September, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America . Coup . Fallen . Jacobin
The most important casualties of September 11 are respect for truth and American liberty. Propaganda has replaced deliberation based on objective assessment of fact. The resurrection of the Star Chamber has made moot the legal protections of liberty. The US invasion of Iraq was based on the deliberate suppression of fact. The invasion was not the result of mistaken intelligence.…
Read more »From Federal Failure Arises More Federal Power
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 September, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Federal . Power
The New Orleans catastrophe is inexplicable. FEMA’s slow response is a mystery. Never before has federal funding for work by the US Corps of Engineers on the New Orleans levees and for the congressionally authorized Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) been curtailed in the face of dire expert warnings of the consequence. The Department of Homeland Security and…
Read more »Thought For Labor Day: Conservative Dogma Pulling Marx Out of His Grave
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 September, 2005|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: dogmatic thought about country
Libertarians and free trade economists don’t realize it, but they are pulling Marx out of his grave. Free traders are resurrecting class war, not because they are Marxists but because they confuse free trade with global labor arbitrage. Free traders turn cold shoulders to US job losses from offshore outsourcing, because they mistake the losses for the beneficial workings of…
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