Paul Craig Roberts Quotes
I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.
Roberts, Paul Craig. How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State. Clarity Press, 2014.
The American Founding Fathers were aware of Sidney and others who were executed for what they said about the King and the government. Hence, the First Amendment. However, John Adams passed the Alien and Sedition Acts which turned criticism into treason. It was repealed later and would probably have been declared unconstitutional if it had not been repealed. However, during the First World War, critics were also jailed. Eugene Debs, a Presidential Candidate, served several years in jail until pardoned. He had opposed the war and the Draft of soldiers. Freedom of Speech and Treason have been in contention whenever the nation might be at war or in a crisis. Supreme Court decisions may have put an end to future American censorship efforts of this kind.
Malthus was of the view that population growth often eclipsed the capacity of government and private institutions to support the population. There are even today nations and subpopulations where the economic growth is reasonable but the population growth is greater so that at the end of each year, the average person is poorer and has a lower standard of living. What Malthus did not anticipate is the remarkable productivity growth rate of those institutions like American agriculture, which allo`ws many more people to thrive within a fixed geographic area.
Henry Ford, the American industrialist, was a virulent anti-Semite. He published some of the worst hate literature ever distributed in the United States. However, the German Nazis used his materials to influence young Germans who were great admirers of Ford whose autos and trucks sold also in Germany. In 1942, Ford repudiated his anti-Semitic positions () but by that time the damage had already been done with millions of German youth.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
The nation had been under the Communist System as part of the Soviet Bloc since the end of the Second World War.
Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and author. He formerly held a sub-cabinet office in the United States federal government as well as teaching positions at several U.S. universities. He is a promoter of supply-side economics and an opponent of recent U.S. foreign policy.
