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Is the US a failed state?
Is the US a failed state? Paul Craig Roberts argues that the state of the US economy and the way the government treats its people demonstrate that the US has entered the ranks of failed states. The failed state characteristics that the US has shown include a government budget dependent on foreign financing and government priorities skewed in favor of…
Read more »On the Edge with . . . Paul Craig Roberts (3/4)
On the Edge with . . . Paul Craig Roberts (3/4) maxkeiser.com First half of interview with Paul Craig Roberts
Read more »On the Edge with . . . Paul Craig Roberts & The New Welfare Queens (4/4)
On the Edge with . . . Paul Craig Roberts & The New Welfare Queens (4/4) On the Edge with . . . Paul Craig Roberts & The New Welfare Queens (4/4) maxkeiser.com Max Keiser's interview of Paul Craig Roberts, part 2. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Reagan and is often called “The Father of…
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Letter to the Editor
This article appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of The Independent Review Paul R. Gregory’s account of Lenin’s suppression of dissident voices (“The Ship of Philosophers,” The Independent Review 13, no. 4 [spring 2009]: 485–92) offers no explanation except that dictators fear dissent. Lenin, however, had an additional reason to brook no dissent. In 1917, he had startled the Marxist world when he…
Read more »Growing Up In America Series – Privilege Displaces Equality
Privilege Displaces Equality was published in CHRONICLES, October 2009 None of us growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s were under the delusion that we were equal. We were aware of a myriad of differences that had nothing to do with race or gender. Some were better football players. Others were better baseball players. Some could run faster. Others were…
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