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Paul Craig Roberts

An economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as the "Father of Reaganomics". He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, among others. He has recently published How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds and is coauthor with Lawrence Stratton of The New Color Line and The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

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Americans Are Blinded By Agendas

by Paul Craig Roberts

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 5 April 2014

The persistence of the big lies propagated by the Bush and Obama administrations is nothing short of dumbfounding. While all evidence shows that Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with September 11 and that he was not killed in Pakistan by Navy SEALs, the global ruling class continues to maintain (…)

Obama Comes Out Against Self-Determination

by Paul Craig Roberts

8 March 2014

The White House Fool has repeatedly declared erroneously and foolishly that it is “against international law” for Crimea to exercise self-determination. [1] Self-determination, as used by Washington, is a propaganda term that serves Washington’s empire but is not permissible for real people to (…)

The Looting of Ukraine Has Begun

by Paul Craig Roberts

7 March 2014

According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the (…)

You Are The Hope

by Paul Craig Roberts

8 May 2013

A plea issued to his readers by one of the most authoritative voices in the United States, as he sees his country hurtling towards a Gestapo police state.

Americans: Awash In Spin

by Paul Craig Roberts

29 October 2011

This author has come to the conclusion "that Big Brother’s subjects in George Orwell’s 1984 are better informed than Americans." He believes "Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don’t realize that their liberties have been (…)

Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

by Paul Craig Roberts

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 11 January 2010

Paul Craig Roberts zooms in on a modus operandi of false-flag and cover up operations stretching back to the Cold War period and the NATO/CIA-sponsored Operation Gladio with tentacles across Western Europe, but most famously in Italy. The bombings, which were blamed on communists to discredit (…)

Is time running out for Iran?

In an Impotent World Even the Bankrupt Can Prevail

by Paul Craig Roberts

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 24 July 2009

According to this columnist, Iran cannot escape a fate similar to
that of Iraq. The fiasco
of the "green revolution", the recent display of Israeli military power in the Suez Canal and the increased muscle in Washington’s warnings to Iran, could be interpreted as symptoms that the stage is (…)

Criminalizing criticism of Israel is the end of free speech

by Paul Craig Roberts

13 May 2009

As everybody was being distracted by the swine flu hysteria, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. As soon as it is approved by the Senate, it will serve as a mechanism to undermine free speech making it a crime, inter (…)