{"product_id":"9780986036293","title":"How America Was Lost: From 9\/11 to the Police\/Warfare State","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad,Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egovernment running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms—\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eif ever they were aware of them in the first place—accepting to live in the increasingly pernicious \"new normal\" with little protest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable anthology of columns documents and reminds us of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe extraordinary developments that, in their accumulation, have led to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe destruction of accountable and moral government in the US. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew American commentators have cut more clearly through the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeepening deceit, hypocrisy and outright criminality that has infested\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eofficial Washington since 9\/11 than Paul Craig Roberts. His scathing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecritique sheds much-needed light on the country’s impending\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enightmare—economic collapse, internal repression, ongoing wars, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erising rejection by friends and foes alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica’s fate was sealed when the public and the anti-war movement bought the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egovernment’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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einvestigation 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith over 21 per cent unemployment, with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican jobs, GDP, and technology having been given to China and India, with war\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeing Washington’s greatest commitment, with the dollar over-burdened with debt, with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecivil liberty sacrificed to the bogus war on terror, the liberty and prosperity of the American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople have been thrown into the trash bin of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe militarism of the U.S. and Israeli states, and Wall Street and corporate greed, will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enow run their course. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How America Was Lost\" marks Roberts as one of the most incisive and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecourageous moral commentators in America today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarity Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010110832880,"sku":"9780986036293","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780986036293_p0.jpg?v=1763881074","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986036293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}