Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist, outspoken journalist, blogger and former civil servant. He is best known as a journalist specializing in political analysis, anti-imperialist and economic affairs from a liberal conservative perspective. A strong critic of the Bush (and later Obama) administrations' handling of the War on Terror, he has taken positions strongly at odds with mainstream politicians: harshly criticizing the ineffectiveness, severity and high rates of incarceration associated with the War on Drugs; excessive police violence and use of SWAT teams against civilians; and Congressional approval of increased government surveillance associated with the War on Terror age, which he views as fundamental threats to the liberties enshrined in the US constitution, opening the way for an oligarchic police state to be imposed upon the US population. A vocal critic of neoliberalism, the Federal Reserve and the financialization of the economy, his articles have addressed and criticized outsourcing, economic deregulation, privatisation of social services, quantitative easing, Wall Street finance fraud and lax enforcement of environmental protection laws.
If you convince someone that you are going to kill them, they are going to kill you first. A government, such as what exists in Washington, that convinces powerful countries that they are targeted, is a government that has no respect whatsoever for the lives of its own people or the peoples of the world or for any life on planet Earth.
I wish Mr. Roberts, whose work I generally admire, had not admitted that he supported Trump for POTUS. It doesn’t help his credibility (or judgment) that this is an unbiased and accurate report…