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The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism (Paperback)
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The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism (Paperback)
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Loot Price R363
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Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad,
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. The wars and the pressure
that the budget deficits put on the dollar's value have put Social
Security and Medicare on the chopping block. Former Goldman Sachs
chairman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is after these
protections for the elderly. Fed chairman Bernanke is also after
them. The Republicans are after them as well. These protections are
called "entitlements" as if they are some sort of welfare that
people have not paid for in payroll taxes all their working lives.
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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