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How America Was Lost - From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State (Paperback)
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How America Was Lost - From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State (Paperback)
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Loot Price R561
Discovery Miles 5 610
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Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates
internationally, Americans appear largely bystanders at the
spectacle of their government running amok. People forget the
myriad instances 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. 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.
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