Paul Craig Roberts

“It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.”

“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.”

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

“It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.”

“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.”

“Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.”

“I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.”

“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.”

“If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning.”

“In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.”

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

“Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.”

“The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.”

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

“Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.”

“In the United States, journalists receive awards for lying for the government and for the corporations.”

“In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.”

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

“Western capitalism is a looting mechanism. It loots labor. It loots the environment, and with the transpacific and transatlantic 'partnerships,' it will loot the sovereign law of countries.”

“In 2004, I predicted in a nationally televised conference in Washington, D.C., that the U.S. would be a Third World country in 20 years.”