The Fault Lies In Ourselves
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 October, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns
During my professional lifetime, liberals and the left wing have focused on failures and misdeeds of the private sector, while libertarians and conservatives have focused on the failures and misdeeds of the public sector or government. It turns out that both sides are right. The Enron case and the other accounting scandals of this new century are testimony to misdeeds…
Read more »Bush Has Achieved America's Demise
The United States as Defined by the Founding Fathers No Longer Exists When does “collateral damage” so dwarf combatant deaths that war becomes genocide? Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq has cost 655,000 Iraqis their lives. That is the conclusion of a study financed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for International Studies and conducted by physicians under the direction…
Read more »The New Face of Class Warfare
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 October, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Class . Face . Warfare
Published in the print edition of Counterpunch, July 2006 For decades Democrats seemed to have a monopoly on class war with demagogy of “the rich.” Today it is the rich who are instigating class war with attacks on middle class jobs. The ladders of upward mobility are being dismantled. America, the land of opportunity, is giving way to polarization between…
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