Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com

Key Ronald Reagan advisor Hon. Paul Craig Roberts: “Gullible Americans have been duped by the 9/11 Hoax... Wise up -- the World is laughing at you."

Who is Paul Craig Roberts?

• Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald Reagan (awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.")
• Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.
• Former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service
• Held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1982 –1993)
• Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996
• Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy
• Nationally syndicated columnist for Investor’s Business Daily
• Winner of the 1992 Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism
• Ranked “One of the top seven journalists” by the Forbes Media Guide (1993)
• Author of, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, and Marx’s Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis

Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.), the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, The Dictionary of International Biography, Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century, and 1000 Leaders of World Influence.

Gullible Americans  

By Paul Craig Roberts   Information Clearing House 08/14/06

I was in China when a July Harris Poll reported that 50 percent of Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when Bush invaded that country, and that 64 percent of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links with Al Qaeda. 

The Chinese leaders and intellectuals with whom I was meeting were incredulous. How could a majority of the population in an allegedly free country with an allegedly free press be so totally misinformed?  

The only answer I could give the Chinese is that Americans would have been the perfect population for Mao and the Gang of Four, because Americans believe anything their government tells them.

Americans never check any facts.  Who do you know, for example, who has even read the Report of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the alleged facts reported in that document.  I can answer for you.  You don’t know anyone who has read the report or checked the facts.  

The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission Report, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, have just released a new book, “Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.”  Kean and Hamilton reveal that the commission suppressed the fact that Muslim ire toward the US is due to US support for Israel’s persecution and dispossession of the Palestinians, not to our “freedom and democracy” as Bush propagandistically claims.  Kean and Hamilton also reveal that the US military committed perjury and lied about its failure to intercept the hijacked airliners.  The commission even debated referring the military’s lies to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.  Why should we assume that these admissions are the only coverups and lies in the 9/11 Commission Report?

How do you know that 9/11 was a Muslim terrorist plot?  How do you know that THREE World Trade Center buildings collapsed because TWO were hit by airliners?  You only “know” because the government gave you the explanation of what you saw on TV. (Did you even know that three WTC buildings collapsed?)

I still remember the enlightenment I experienced as a student in Russian Studies when I learned that the Czarist secret police would set off bombs and then blame those whom they wanted to arrest.

When Hitler seized dictatorial power in 1933, he told the Germans that his new powers were made necessary by a communist terrorist attack on the Reichstag.  When Hitler started World War II by invading Poland, he told the Germans that Poland had crossed the frontier and attacked Germany.

Governments lie all the time--especially governments staffed by neoconservatives whose intellectual godfather, Leo Strauss, taught them that it is permissible to deceive the public in order to achieve their agenda.  

Some readers will write to me to say that they saw a TV documentary or read a magazine article verifying the government’s explanation of 9/11. But, of course, these Americans did not check the facts either--and neither did the people who made the documentary and wrote the magazine article.  

Scientists and engineers, such as Clemson University Professor of Engineering Dr. Judy Woods and BYU Professor of Physics Dr. Steven Jones, have raised compelling questions about the official account of the collapse of the three WTC buildings.  The basic problem for the government's account is that the buildings are known to have fallen at freefall speed, a fact that is inconsistent with the government's "pancaking" theory in which debris from above collapsed the floors below.  If the buildings actually "pancaked," then each floor below would have offered resistance to the floors above, and the elapsed time would have been much longer.  These experts have also calculated that the buildings did not have sufficient gravitational energy to accommodate  the government's theory of the collapse.  It is certainly a known and non-controversial fact among physicists and engineers that the only way buildings can collapse at freefall speed into their own footprints is by engineered demolition.  Explosives are used to remove the support of floors below before the debris from above arrives. Otherwise, resistance is encountered and the time required for fall increases.  Engineered demolition also explains the symmetrical collapse of the buildings into their own foot prints. As it is otherwise improbable for every point in floors below to weaken uniformly, "pancaking" would result in asymmetrical collapse as some elements of the floor would give sooner than others.

Scientific evidence is a tough thing for the American public to handle, and the government knows it.  The government can rely on people dismissing things that they cannot understand as "conspiracy theory."  But if you are inclined to try to make up your own mind, you can find Dr. Jones' and Dr. Woods’ papers, which have been formally presented to their peers at scientific meetings, on line at  http://www.st911.org/
 
Experts have also pointed out that the buildings' massive steel skeletons comprised a massive heat sink that wicked away the heat from the limited, short-lived fires, thus preventing a heat buildup.  Experts also point out that the short-lived, scattered, low-intensity fires could barely reach half the melting point of steel even if they burned all day instead of merely an hour. 
 
Don't ask me to tell you what happened on 9/11.  All I know is that the official account of the buildings' collapse is improbable.
 
Now we are being told another improbable tale. Muslim terrorists in London and Pakistan were caught plotting to commit mass murder by smuggling bottles of explosive liquids on board airliners in hand luggage. Baby formula, shampoo and water bottles allegedly contained the tools of suicide bombers.  

How do we know about this plot?  Well, the police learned it from an “Islamic militant arrested near the Afghan-Pakistan border several weeks ago.”  And how did someone so far away know what British-born people in London were plotting?

Do you really believe that Western and Israeli intelligence services, which were too incompetent to prevent the 9/11 attack, can uncover a London plot by capturing a person on the Afghan border in Pakistan? Why would “an Islamic militant” rat on such a plot even if he knew of it?
 
More probable explanations of the “plot” are readily available.  According to the August 11 Wayne Madsen Report, informed sources in the UK report that “the Tony Blair government, under siege by a Labor Party revolt, cleverly cooked up a new ‘terror’ scare to avert the public’s eyes away from Blair’s increasing political woes.  British law enforcement, neocon and intelligence operatives in the US, Israel, and Britain, and Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire cooked up the terrorist plot, liberally borrowing from the failed 1995 ‘Oplan Bjinka’ plot by Pakistan-  and Philippines-based terrorist Ramzi Ahmad Yousef to crash 11 trans-Pacific airliners bound from Asia to the US.” 

There are other plausible explanations.  For example, our puppet in Pakistan decided to arrest some people who were a threat to him.  With Bush’s commitment to “building democracy in the Middle East,” our puppet can’t arrest his political enemies without cause, so he lays the blame on a plot.

Any testimony against Muslim plotters by “an Islamic militant” is certain to have been bought and paid for.

Or consider this explanation. Under the Nuremberg standard, Bush and Blair are war criminals.  Bush is so worried that he will be held accountable that he has sent his attorney general to consult with the Republican Congress to work out legislation to protect Bush retroactively from his violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Tony Blair is in more danger of finding himself in the dock.  Britain is signatory to a treaty that, if justice is done, will place Blair before the International Criminal Court in the Hague. 

What better justification for the two war criminals’ illegal actions than the need to foil dastardly plots by Muslims recruited in sting operations by Western intelligence services? The more Bush and Blair can convince their publics that terrorist danger abounds, the less likely Bush and Blair are ever to be held accountable for their crimes.

But surely, some readers might object, our great moral leaders wouldn’t do something political like that!

They most certainly would.  As Joshua Micah Marshall wrote in the July 7 issue of Time magazine, the suspicion is “quite reasonable” that “the Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to goose the GOP’s poll numbers.” 

Joshua Micah Marshall proves his conclusion by examining the barrage of color-coded terror alerts, none of which were real, and, yes, it all fits with political needs.

And don’t forget the plot unearthed in Miami to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago. Described by Vice President Cheney as a “very real threat,” the plot turned out to be nothing more than a few harmless whackos recruited by an FBI agent sent out to organize a sting.  

There was also the “foiled plot” to blow up the Holland Tunnel and flood downtown New York City with sea water.  Thinking New Orleans, the FBI invented this plot without realizing that New York City is above sea level.  Of course, most Americans didn’t realize it either. 

For six years the Bush regime has been able to count on the ignorant and naive American public to believe whatever tale that is told them.  American gullibility has yet to fail the Bush regime.

The government has an endless number of conspiracy theories, but only people who question the government’s conspiracies are derided for “having a conspiracy theory.”

The implication is even worse if we assume that the explosive bottle plot is genuine.  It means that America and Britain by their own aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by enabling Israel’s war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon, have created such hatred that Muslims, who identify with Bush’s, Blair’s, and Israel’s victims, are plotting retaliation.

But Bush is prepared.  He has taught his untutored public that “they hate us for our freedom and democracy.”

Gentle reader, wise up. The entire world is laughing at you.

Is The Bush Regime A Sponsor Of State Terrorism? The Evil Within By Paul Craig Roberts (former Reagan advisor) 5-30-6

 "The "civilized" (imposters) have created the wretched [peoples], quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children [families] whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the "civilized world"."

-          James Baldwin Source: page 489 of COLLECTED ESSAYS (1998), from chapter one of "The Devil Finds Work" (orig. pub. 1976)

Article by Paul Craig Roberts. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com 

     A powerful case can be made that it is.

     In the past three years the Bush Regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones.

     US Marines, our finest and proudest military force, are under criminal investigation for breaking into Iraqi homes and murdering entire families. In an unprecedented event, General Michael Hagee, the Marine Corps commandant, has found it necessary to fly to Iraq to tell our best trained troops to stop murdering civilians.

     General Hagee found it necessary to tell the U.S. Marines: "We do not employ force just for the sake of employing force. We use lethal force only when justified, proportional, and most importantly, lawful."

     The war criminals in the Bush Regime have dismissed the murders as "collateral damage," but they are in fact murders. Otherwise, there would be no criminal investigations, and the Marine commandant would not be burdened with the embarrassment of having to fly to Iraq to lecture US Marines on the lawful use of force.

     The criminal Bush Regime has now murdered more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein. The Bush Regime is also responsible for 20,000 US casualties (dead, maimed for life, and wounded).

     Bush damns the "axis of evil." But who has the "axis of evil" attacked? Iran has attacked no one. North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half century. Iraq attacked Kuwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing permission from the US ambassador.

     Isn't the real axis of evil Bush-Blair-Olmert? Bush and Blair have attacked two countries, slaughtering their citizens. Olmert is urging them on to attack a third country--Iran.

     Where does the danger to the world reside? In Iran, a small religious country where the family is intact and the government is constrained by religious authority and ancient traditions, or in the US where propaganda rules and the powerful executive branch has removed itself from accountability by breaking the constitutional restraints on its power?

     Why is the US superpower orchestrating fear of puny Iran?

     The US government has spent the past half century interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, overthrowing or assassinating their chosen leaders and imposing its puppets on foreign peoples. To what country has Iran done this, or Iraq, or North Korea?

     Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that comes from this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil of their leaders. How can American leaders be evil when Americans are so good and so wonderful?

     How many Serbs were slaughtered by American bombs released from high above the clouds, and for what reason? Who even remembers the propagandistic lies that the Clinton administration told us about why we absolutely had to drop bombs on the Serbs?

     Wasn't it evil for the US to bomb Iraq for a decade and to embargo medicines for children? When US Secretary of State M. Albright was asked if she thought an embargo that resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was justified, she replied, "yes."

     The former terrible tyrant ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is on trial for killing 150 people. The US government murdered 500,000 Iraqi children prior to Bush's invasion. When the US government murders people, whether Serbs, Branch Davidians at Waco, or Iraqi women and children, it is "collateral damage." But we put Saddam Hussein on trial for putting down rebellions.

     Gentle reader, do you believe that the Bush Regime will not shoot you down in the streets if you have a rebellion?

     Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com 

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Nuking Iran

By Paul Craig Roberts

06/12/06 "Information Clearing House" --

  -- John Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be

confirmed as America's ambassador to the UN by even the compliant

and corrupt US Senate, got the job as a recess appointment.

He is using the platform to push America into war with Iran.

Bolton told the Financial Times (June 9) that the Bush Regime

has no intention of reaching an agreement with Iran.

Time is running out for diplomacy, Bolton told the Financial Times.

Iran has a short time remaining in which it can

give up its right under the non-proliferation treaty

to enrich uranium for nuclear energy or be attacked.

Bolton said that US security guarantees for Iran "were not on the table."

There is no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program.

Every physicist knows that the enrichment requirement for weapons

is many times greater than for nuclear energy

and that Iran can barely achieve the latter.

Despite the facts, Bolton told the Financial Times:

"They've [Iran] got both feet on the accelerator, which is why

we have a sense of urgency. Each day that goes by gives Iran

more time to continue to perfect its efforts for mass production."

Bolton is lying through his teeth. Bush Regime lies about

Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and propagandistic references

to mushroom clouds convinced the befuddled American public

to accept an illegal invasion of Iraq.

The same collection of neocon war criminals

is again deceiving the American public about Iran.

In his remarks to the Financial Times, Bolton

shows himself to be extremely disturbed by the prospect

that the diplomatic efforts of Europe, Russia, and China

could undermine the Bush Regime's plan to attack Iran.

Bolton is doing everything possible to make certain

that there is no diplomatic solution.

To help undermine any prospect for peace in the Middle East,

Israeli gunboats shelled a public beach

and killed or wounded 50 Palestinians.

This was done in order to provoke Hamas into abandoning

the long-established cease-fire that Hamas had imposed

in the interest of negotiating a Palestinian settlement.

The Israeli government succeeded, and now there will be a resurgence

of "Hamas terrorism" that Bolton and his neocon compatriots

can use to build a frightening spectacle of Muslim terrorism.

The Bush/Olmert axis-of-evil have made it clear that

"We don't want no stinking peace."

Writing in Antiwar.com (June 10), University of California Professor

Jorge Hirsch explains the Tripwire that the Bush Regime has laid for Iran

in order to have an excuse to launch an attack on that country.

Just as the Bush Regime planned to attack Iraq and then orchestrated

a case based on lies, the Bush Regime has already planned to attack Iran.

Only this time nuclear weapons will be used.

Nuking Iran is an essential part of the attack plan.

The US lacks the necessary conventional military force

to invade and occupy Iran, but the use

of nuclear weapons against Iran has a wider purpose.

The neocons are determined not to have

any more embarrassments, such as the Iraqi insurgency.

By nuking Iran they intend to send a wider message that the US

will use every means at its disposal to ensure its hegemony.

The neocons believe that the use of nukes will convince Arabs

and the wider world that there is no recourse to accepting America's will.

The neoconservatives could not care less about public opinion.

Neocons are contemptuous of the American people.

Leo Strauss taught neocons that it was their duty

to deceive the clueless American people

in order to implement their agenda of global domination.

The neocons believe that they have a perfect right, even the obligation,

to manipulate the public through propaganda and Black Ops in order

to create acceptance and support for their wars of aggression.

The neocons are the epitome of evil, and they have succumbed to hubris.

Like Hitler when he attacked the Soviet Union, neocons believe

that their manipulative skills and use of military power

will carry the day for their agenda.

Hitler's hubris doomed Germany to destruction.

 What price will America pay for neo-con hubris?

When the neo-con nazis nuke Iran it will revive memories in Japan

and break the US-Japanese alliance.

Japan owns enough US Treasury bonds to be able to destroy

both the US dollar and the market for Washington's endless red ink.

Russia, China, India, and even our European lackeys

will have it forcefully brought home to them that the US

is an out-of-control rogue nation.

They will unify against us.

Most likely our bought and paid for puppets in the MIddle East will fall,

and Islamic leaders will gain Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

Al Qaeda will gain tens of millions of recruits.

Francis Fukuyama's phrase, "the End of History"

 takes on new meaning.

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Paul Craig Roberts [email him] was Assistant Secretary

of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration.

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