Words matter. These are the best Paul Craig Roberts Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.
Representing the people is not something ‘our’ representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.
Clearly what differentiates the U.S. from other countries is the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution, we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.
Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.
Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.
The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of the few big banks and the dollar’s exchange value, which is the basis of U.S. power.
Once a country descends into evil, it doesn’t emerge.
The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.
Offshoring manufacturing jobs left Americans with fewer high-value-added, well-paid jobs, and the U.S. middle class downsized. Ladders of upward mobility were taken down. Income and wealth distributions worsened.
If the Obama regime gave a hoot about ‘humanitarian crisis,’ the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.
There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.
The Golden Rule is to ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ Allegedly, America is a Christian country. This means that Christian America is following Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in a masochistic way.
There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars.
When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.
Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.
The propagandistic American ‘media’ and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.
The neoconservative ideology supports American financial and military-political imperialism or hegemony.
As truth is Washington’s worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington’s enemy.
When I met with Chinese policymakers in 2006, I advised them that there was a limit to how long they could rely on the U.S. consumer market, as jobs offshoring was destroying it.
Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic ‘partnerships,’ it will loot the sovereign law of countries.
Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.
Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.
The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.
There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.
Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.
Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.
Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism.
We need a memorial day to commemorate the victims of neoliberal globalization.
People everywhere face the threat of control by government and technology.
Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.
The neoconservative doctrine declares that it is the principal goal of U.S. foreign policy to prevent the rise of any country that would have sufficient power to serve as a check on American unilateralism. This neoconservative doctrine puts Russia and China in Washington’s crosshairs.
I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.
The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.
The champions of globalism are the champions of America’s destruction.
Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington’s gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.
Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and the political establishments of the political parties no longer have credibility with the American people.
War is the only destination to which Washington can lead.
Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.
The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the ‘exceptional and indispensable’ country with the right and responsibility to impose its will on the world.
Paul Krugman, a professor at MIT and a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Trilateral Commission, is certainly a member of the establishment.
The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks’ uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.
Clearly the climate is changing, whether caused by CO2 emissions or some other cause.
The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s.
Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people’s dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.
Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.
The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.
There is no independent American print or TV media.
Looting is the only way left for the Western financial system to make money.
Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama regimes and Tony Blair in England, the U.S. and U.K. governments have run roughshod over their accountability to law.
Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters.
Vice is Washington’s signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.
Putin does not lie. When he says something, he means it.
In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.
