HOW AMERICA WAS LOST From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State

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“The American people have suffered a coup d’etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it…” Paul Craig Roberts

Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle 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.

“In How America Was Lost, Paul Craig Roberts focuses his keen eye and sharp mind on the deterioration of government accountability and morality amidst the rise of hypocrisy and recklessness in the wake of 9/11. Through the tangle of wars, aggression, decimation of privacy, Wall Street protectionism and debt creation since, Roberts is relentless in his well-reasoned criticisms of US leadership from an economic and military standpoint.”
NOMI PRINS
Author, All the Presidents’ Bankers

 

 

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Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle 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.

Book Details

ISBN

978-0-9860362-9-3

PAGE COUNT

465 pp.

Year of publication

2014

Author

Paul Craig Roberts

Reviews

3 reviews for HOW AMERICA WAS LOST From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State

  1. NOMI PRINS Author, All the Presidents’ Bankers

    In How America Was Lost, Paul Craig Roberts focuses his keen eye and sharp mind on the deterioration of government accountability and morality amidst the rise of hypocrisy and recklessness in the wake of 9/11. Through the tangle of wars, aggression, decimation of privacy, Wall Street protectionism and debt creation since, Roberts is relentless in his well-reasoned criticisms of US leadership from an economic and military standpoint.”
    NOMI PRINS
    Author, All the Presidents’ Bankers

  2. GARY CORSERI, Op-Ed News

    “PCR is simply one of America’s best chroniclers of this sad, brutal era of imperial overreach and moral decline. Anyone who wants to understand where we’ve been recently, where we are now, and where we’re heading, had better read this book pronto!…”
    GARY CORSERI, Op-Ed News

  3. DR. LUDWIG WATZAL, Dissident Voice

    “This anthology compiles a great number of valuable essays by one of America’s strident critics. It is unfortunate that the fawning U. S. media do not print such excellent contributions.”
    DR. LUDWIG WATZAL, Dissident Voice

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