Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts      (Economist)
Born	1939-04-03 Atlanta, Georgia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Virginia
Founder/Owner of	Paulcraigroberts.org
Member of	Activist Post, American Herald Tribune, International Tribunal of Natural Justice, Mont Pelerin Society, The Unz Review
Party	Independent (formerly, Republican, )
United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy In office 1981 - 1982

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following.

Stories inside stories

James Jesus Angleton, head of CIA counterintelligence for three decades, once explained to Paul Craig Roberts that “Intelligence Agencies create stories inside stories, each with its carefully constructed trail of evidence, in order to create false trails as diversions.”

Such painstaking work can serve a variety of purposes. It can be used to embarrass or discredit an innocent person or organisation that has an unhelpful position on an important issue and is in the way of an agenda.

According to Paul Craig Roberts:

“It can be used as a red herring to draw attention away from a failing explanation of an event by producing an alternative false explanation.

"I forget what Angleton called them, but the strategy is to have within a false story other stories that are there but withheld because of ‘national security’ or ‘politically sensitive issues’ or some such.

"Then if the official story gets into trouble, the backup story can be released in order to deflect attention into a new false story or to support the original story.

"Angleton said that intelligence services protect their necessary misdeeds by burying the misdeed in competing explanations.”

In his memoir “The Pigeon Tunnel”, John le Carré (aka David Cornwell) describes James Jesus Angleton as a “delusional alcoholic”.

Publications

He wrote "The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West" - ISBN 0986036250

 

Documents by Paul Craig Roberts

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:911 and the Orwellian Redefinition of Conspiracy Theory	article	20 June 2011	"Conspiracy theory" 9-11/Censorship 9-11/Media response	"While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition..." A "conspiracy theory" now refers to any ideas or facts that are out of step with the official narrative as put forward by government and the commercially controlled media.
Document:Is Ukraine drifting toward civil war and Great Power confrontation?	article	20 February 2014	Victoria Nuland Ukraine Ukraine Riots 2013-14	The solution to a 'problem' requires that the nature of the problem be accurately diagnosed and understood; the mass of the worlds populations - especially in the West are uniformly miss and dis-informed about major issues rendering genuine 'solutions' impossible - it is the SOP of US-Western Power
Document:Killing Diplomacy	Article	15 March 2018	Boris Johnson Sergei Skripal Novichok	Sane people will choose politics over war, and sane – that is, competently governed – nations will choose diplomacy over belligerence and confrontation. If we look around in search of such incompetently governed nations, two examples readily present themselves: the United States and the United Kingdom.
Document:Revenge Is Mine Saith Washington	article	20 November 2018	Wikileaks Julian Assange	An abridged article about the persecution of Julian Assange. It illustrates the depths to which elementary notions of justice have sunk in the West - and especially in the UK and USA - where perceived threats to Deep State interests are involved.
Document:The War on Terror	article	16 October 2010	"War on Terror"
Document:The World would not survive a Hillary Clinton Presidency	article	18 April 2016	Clinton Foundation Hillary Clinton	Hillary Clinton has escaped unharmed from so many crimes and scandals that she would likely be the most reckless president in American history. Considering the extraordinary destructive force of nuclear weapons, Hillary as president could mean the end of life on earth.
Document:USS Liberty - Government Betrayal and Cover-up	article	1 July 2008	USS Liberty Incident	The sustained attack on the American surveillance vessel USS Liberty in June 1967 was deliberate and calculated as this article makes abundantly clear
Document:Washington Drives the World Toward War	article	13 December 2013	WW3	Compelling argument and evidence of the US-UK-NATO drive towards inevitable armed confrontation with Russia and China.

 

A document sourced from Paul Craig Roberts

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Why did Turkey shoot down a Russian Air Force jet?	article	Israel 2011 Syrian Insurgency Islamic State 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown	26 November 2015	George Abert	Ex-USAF intelligence officer theorises about the real reasons for the Turkish shoot-down of a Russian plane over Syria on 24 November 2015

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