Quotes from Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Krugman, a professor at MIT and a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Trilateral Commission, is certainly a member of the establishment.

Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.

Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama regimes and Tony Blair in England, the U.S. and U.K. governments have run roughshod over their accountability to law.

There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.

The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.

Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.

Washington's impulsive use of power is a danger to America and to the world.

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats, are dependent on the same private interest groups for campaign funds, so both parties dance to the same masters.

As the dollar's exchange value declines, so will the value of dollar-denominated financial instruments, regardless of how many bonds the Federal Reserve purchases.

For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

The U.S. is ruled by private interest groups and by the neoconservative ideology that history has chosen the U.S. as the 'exceptional and indispensable' country with the right and responsibility to impose its will on the world.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism.

By offshoring the production of their products, U.S. corporations transferred technology, physical plant, and business knowhow to China.

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.

The human capital of most macroeconomists, heavily invested in demand management, was wiped out by the policy failures of the 1970s.

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

When I was a young man, an individual with one million dollars was very rich. Anyone with a few millions more was considered richer than rich.

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the Federal Reserve and Treasury provide to the 'banks too big to fail.'