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Paul Craig Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a former Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, and a prolific and popular journalist. He is nationally syndicated columnist for Creator's Syndicate and Investors Business Daily. He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia." |
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| Hoover Institution |
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| Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution |
| Research Fellow, The Independent Institute |
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Is Free Trade Obsolete? Part 1, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, Apr 2004
Related Topics: Free Trade, Law of Comparative Advantage
"... trade makes them both better off .... The people of a country will not find it to their interest to make everything they want, because to do so they would have to divert resources from activities in which they have a greater advantage." |
Is Free Trade Obsolete? Part 2, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, May 2004
Related Topics: Free Trade, Law of Comparative Advantage
"Americans now face new competition in lines of work that were formerly sheltered ... by foreign tyranny. ... Americans can ... arrogantly claim that high-tech jobs belong to Americans, and lobby for protectionism ... Or they can lobby for an end to the mixed economy that holds down investment and wealth creation." |
| Writings |
A Collapsing Presidency, 20 Mar 2006
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Constitution of the United States
"Neocons do not believe in the US Constitution, civil liberties, the separation of powers ... According to published reports, President Bush described the Constitution as 'a scrap of paper.' Bush's attorney general, vice president, and secretary of defense ..., in violation of their oath of office, have openly declared that Bush, as commander-in-chief, is above the law." |
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America Is No More, 19 Sep 2007
Related Topic: Rights
Comments on the lack of concern for constitutional rights under George W. Bush, as evidenced by the tasering of a student at a speech by John Kerry
"Usually when police violate constitutional rights and commit acts of police brutality they do it when they believe no one is watching, not in front of a large audience. Clearly, the police have become more audacious in their abuse of rights and citizens. What explains the new fearlessness of police to violate rights and brutalize citizens without cause?" |
Americans Have Lost Their Country, 1 Mar 2007
Related Topic: United States
"The Bush-Cheney regime is America's first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains of America's moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians." |
Ban People – They Kill, 17 Apr 2007
Related Topic: Right to Keep and Bear Arms
"Once guns are banned, crime will explode. Households and vulnerable members of society will lose the ability to defend, which will invite more intrusions and attacks. ... Gun prohibition will create a new industry for criminals – gun running and black market sales. Police will conduct stings by posing as black market gun dealers ..." |
Bush Is About To Attack Iran: Why Can’t Americans See It?, 27 Jan 2007
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Iran
"The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime's determination to escalate the war in Iraq. ... This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue – the Bush Regime's looming attack on Iran. ... Bush dismissed congressional disapproval with his statement, 'I'm the decision-maker.'" |
Evidence of a Stolen Election, 19 Jan 2006
Related Topic: Voting
"Mark Crispin Miller’s new book, Fooled Again ... describes considerably more election fraud than voting machines programmed to count a proportion of Kerry votes as Bush votes. ... problems noted in the GAO’s September 2005 report ... The outcome of the 2004 presidential election has always struck me as strange. ..." |
Gore Is Right, 18 Jan 2006
Related Topic: Albert A. Gore, Jr.
"Former vice president Al Gore gave what I believe to be the most important political speech in my lifetime ...The separation of powers and our civil liberties are ... our patrimony from the Founding Fathers. ... Gore challenged the American people to step up to the task of defending the Constitution ..." |
How Much More Harm Can Bush Do?, 7 Mar 2006
Related Topics: United States, Iraq War (2003)
"... a poll of 28,000 people in 27 countries for the BBC World Service (March 6) found that Israel, Iran, and the U.S. in that order are regarded as the most negative influences ... Japan, Canada, the EU, France, China, and India are all regarded as more positive influences on the world than the United States. The Bush-Cheney regime has achieved this deplorable result in a mere six years." |
Least We Forget, 25 Feb 2006
Related Topics: Communism, George W. Bush
"Stalin had turned the unaccountable power that Lenin had embodied in the Communist Party against the party itself. ... Stalin ... made violence the mediator between the Party and its members. Consequently, no one was safe. The situation was intolerable for all, and Nikita Krushchev brought it to an end." |
Private Property and the Rule of Law: Paul Craig Roberts III and The Spirit Of Friedrich Hayek [PDF], 11 May 1992
Related Topics: Private Property, Friedrich A. Hayek
The Frank M. Engle Lecture 1992, The American College |
The Confession Backfired, 17 Mar 2007
Related Topic: Protection Against Cruel and Unusual Punishments
"I remember speaking years ago with Soviet dissident Valdimir Bukovsky about the behavior of Soviet dissidents under torture. He replied that people pressed for names under torture would try to remember the names of war dead and people who had passed away. Those who retained enough of their wits under torture would confess to an unbelievable array of crimes in an effort to alert the public to the falsity of the entire process." |
The Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age, 29 Dec 2006
Related Topics: Freedom of Speech, Terrorism
"Today there are a few large conglomerates whose values depend on broadcast licenses from the government. The conglomerates are run by corporate executives who are not journalists and whose eyes are on advertising revenues. They publish and broadcast what is safe. These conglomerates will take no risks in behalf of free speech or truth." |
The Power of Propaganda, 27 Dec 2006
Related Topic: Chile
"In truth, Allende overthrew himself. He disregarded the constitution, permitted private property to be seized by communist organizations, tolerated and assisted the formation of armed groups that operated independently of the government, and disorganized the economy to the extent that there were food shortages." |
What's Become of Americans?, 22 Mar 2006
Related Topic: United States
"... isn't that what we are hearing, that Americans have gone away? ... When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out not to be true, I expected the American people to rise up. They didn't. ... when the Abu Ghraib torture thing surfaced ... I was sure then the American people would be heard from. We stood mute." |
Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?, 10 Nov 2006
Related Topics: Democratic Party, September 11, 2001, Israel, War
"Republican rule in the 21st century has devastated American civil liberties and American prestige and leadership capability. Can Democrats restore American liberties and leadership, or will a lust for power corrupt them, too, and cause Democrats to retain the police state powers Bush has created? If the Bush regime's police state legislation is still law in 2008, the Democrats will have failed." |
| Interviews |
Paul Craig Roberts Interview, by Scott Horton, The Weekend Interview Show with Scott Horton, 9 Jul 2005
"Scott and Paul Craig Roberts discuss the London bombings, the media, the terror war, the Iraq war and the neo-Jacobins." |
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