Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan

Media Death

Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It

Paul Craig Roberts

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. —G...

District of Corruption

Washington Murdered Privacy At Home And Abroad

Paul Craig Roberts

In the Swiss newspaper Zeit-Fragen, Professor Dr. Eberhard Hamer from Germany asks, “...

International Affairs

American Naifs Bringing Ruin to Other Lands

Paul Craig Roberts

According to news reports, the U.S. military is shipping “bunker-buster” bombs...

Commerce

The Offshored Economy

Paul Craig Roberts

In the 20th century, Detroit, Mich., symbolized American industrial might. Today it symbol...

Commerce

Is The Recovery Real?

Paul Craig Roberts

Happy news! The government has come up with a 5.9 percent GDP growth rate in the fourth qu...

District of Corruption

America’s First Suicide Bomber

Paul Craig Roberts

Joseph Stack, frustrated American, flew his airplane into an Austin, Texas, office buildin...

District of Corruption

Grounds For Hope and Despair

Paul Craig Roberts

My Feb. 16 column, “A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs,” received confirmat...

National Bankruptcy

A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs

Paul Craig Roberts

The media has headlined good economic news: fourth quarter GDP growth of 5.7 percent (R...

District of Corruption

Markets Fail When Humans Are Unregulated

Paul Craig Roberts

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan answered that he had placed his trust in a ...

Commerce

The Crisis Is Not Over

Paul Craig Roberts

Readers ask if the financial crisis is over, if the recovery is for real and, if not, what...

Healthcare

How Wall Street Destroyed Private Medicine

Paul Craig Roberts

At my annual check-up, my doctor handed me a sheet explaining the reasons for office fee i...

Uncle Sam

The Rule of Law Has Been Lost

Paul Craig Roberts

What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural o...

Politics

Insouciant Americans

Paul Craig Roberts

The Underwear Bomber case indicates that whoever is behind these bomb scares is laughing a...

District of Corruption

First Circle: Liberty Has Been Lost

Paul Craig Roberts

I had just finished reading the uncensored edition of Ale...

Politics

A Kept Man

Paul Craig Roberts

It didn’t take the Israel lobby very long to bring President Obama to heel regarding...

Law

Trial and Terror

Paul Craig Roberts

Republican members of Congress and what masquerades as a “conservative” media ...

District of Corruption

Evil Empire

Paul Craig Roberts

The U.S. government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that &...

National Bankruptcy

Bankster Holiday

Paul Craig Roberts

Evidence that the U.S. is a failed state is piling up faster than I can record it. One c...

National Bankruptcy

The USA”A Failed State

Paul Craig Roberts

The U.S. has every characteristic of a failed state. The U.S. government’s current...

Middle East

Israel’s”and Only Israel’s”Right to Self-Defense

Paul Craig Roberts

The double standard under which the Israeli government operates is too much for everyone e...

National Bankruptcy

Welcome Back, Lenin

Paul Craig Roberts

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives ...

Law

The Devil’s Advocate

Paul Craig Roberts

Authors of serious books seldom have cause to celebrate, but Larry Stratton and I have two...

Iran

Fool Me Twice?

Paul Craig Roberts

Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the “mai...

World

Empire of Lies

Paul Craig Roberts

What does imperialism mean? It means the assertion of absolute force over others. ~Robert ...

National Bankruptcy

The Economy is a Lie, too

Paul Craig Roberts

Americans cannot get any truth out of their government about anything, the economy include...

District of Corruption

The Health Care Deception

Paul Craig Roberts

The current health care “debate” shows how far gone representative government ...

Paul Craig Roberts

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