BOOK: How America Was Lost / Paul Craig Roberts
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ISBN 978-0-9860362-9-3
$29.95 464 pp. 2014
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“If Americans keep believing the government’s lies, they have no future.”
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HOW AMERICA WAS LOST
From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State
by
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
available in US/Canada and Overseas
Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad, Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their government running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms--if ever they were aware of them in the first place--accepting to live in the increasingly pernicious "new normal" with little protest.
This... remarkable anthology of columns documents and reminds us of the extraordinary developments that, in their accumulation, have led to the destruction of accountable and moral government in the US.
Few American commentators have cut more clearly through the deepening deceit, hypocrisy and outright criminality that has infested official Washington since 9/11 than Paul Craig Roberts. His scathing critique sheds much-needed light on the country’s impending nightmare—economic collapse, internal repression, ongoing wars, and rising rejection by friends and foes alike.
How America Was Lost marks Roberts as one of the most prescient and courageous moral commentators in America today.
America’s fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war movement bought the government’s 9/11 conspiracy theory. The government’s account of 9/11 is contradicted by much evidence. Nevertheless, this defining event of our time, which has launched the US on interminable wars of aggression and a domestic police state, is a taboo topic for investigation in the media. It is pointless to complain of war and a police state when one accepts the premise upon which they are based.
These trillion dollar wars have created financing problems for Washington’s deficits and threaten the U.S. dollar’s role as world reserve currency. The wars and the pressure that the budget deficits put on the dollar’s value have put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. Former Goldman Sachs chairman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is after these protections for the elderly. Fed chairman Bernanke is also after them. The Republicans are after them as well. These protections are called “entitlements” as if they are some sort of welfare that people have not paid for in payroll taxes all their working lives.
With over 21 per cent unemployment as measured by the methodology of 1980, with American jobs, GDP, and technology having been given to China and India, with war being Washington’s greatest commitment, with the dollar over-burdened with debt, with civil liberty sacrificed to the “war on terror,” the liberty and prosperity of the American people have been thrown into the trash bin of history.
The militarism of the U.S. and Israeli states, and Wall Street and corporate greed, will now run their course.
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a former Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, and associate editor and columnist for the
Wall Street Journal. He has
testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions. Dr. Roberts was awarded the US Treasury’s Meritorious Service Award for “outstanding contributions to the formulation of US economic policy,” and in 1987 President François Mitterrand accepted his government’s recommendation to award Roberts the French Legion of Honor. He has held academic appointments in six universities, including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center
for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown.
Paul Craig Roberts writes:
"Americans are ruled by usurpers who claim that the executive branch is above the law and that the US Constitution is a mere ‘scrap of paper.’”
"The American people have suffered a coup d'etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it..."
Also by Paul Craig Roberts:
"Clearly, this empirically based, theoretically challenging book is one of the most important works of our time."
Johannes Maruschzick
from the Preface to the German Edition.
