How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State

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.

America’s fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war movement bought the

government’s 9/11 conspiracy theory. 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. Trillion dollar wars have created financing problems for Washington’s deficits,threatening the dollar’s role as world reserve currency, and putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. 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, 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 bogus 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.

“How America Was Lost" marks Roberts as one of the most incisive and

courageous moral commentators in America today.