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

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How America Was Lost marks Roberts as one of the most prescient and
courageous commentators in America today.

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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBookBaby
Release dateFeb 7, 2014
ISBN9780988406520
How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State

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    While reading Paul Craig Roberts book, this reviewer was looking to find some background on the social changes in America from the 1950's onwards to maybe explain the non-investigation of 9/11 and the new Police/Warfare State.The book does prove that America is now a lawless state but doesn't look at the role (if any) of the "Counter Cultural Revolution". Does the 50 year assault on traditional America, Christianity, U.S. history, the Constitution and anything Anglo have some relevance to the present situation or not? Counter Culture activists claim to build a better/ fairer society or was it just a cover to enable the present Police/Warfare State?The author doesn't ask the question but at least he highlights 9/11 as a catalyst, with another problem being the blurring caused by his article format and the wide variety of other topics. Perhaps he could have better concentrated on the salient questions of 9/11.He covers for example the following issues, but (in the opinion of this reviewer) they could have been a lot clearer:1) The agreement among specialists that the third tower (WTC7) came down in a controlled demolition (owner Larry Silverstein was actually recorded giving an instruction to "pull it")2) Preparation for demolition takes several weeks so Silverstein had prior knowledge of 9/11.3) The US government/ judiciary/ Congress/ CIA/ FBI and news media all refusing to treat Silverstein as a suspect.In reality, Silverstein isn't only a suspect, he's also a personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.So, perhaps the author could have followed the trail:This is the same Netanyahu,who held a celebration to commemorate the Irgun bombing of the King David Hotel (headquarters of the British Mandate Government of Palestine) in which Zionist activists dressed as Arabs placed milk churns filled with explosives against the main columns of the building.The same "Zionist terrorists dressed as Arabs" theme appeared in Operation Susannah (Lavon Affair) where Israeli operatives impersonating Arabs bombed British and American cinemas, libraries and educational centres in Egypt to destabilize the country and keep British troops committed to the Middle East.Equally, Israelis and U.S. Zionists appear all over the most recent 9/11 "operation" (with Israelis once again impersonating Arabs) in a historic deception/terror action of a type that seems to carry a lot of kudos with the old ex-terrorist Likudniks.At any rate Israelis were sent to film the historic day, with the celebration including photos of themselves with a background of the burning towers where thousands of Americans were being incinerated, and the fine day has even turned into a theme of celebration in the Purim festival with Jewish schoolchildren proudly displaying paper models of towers being hit by aircraft (Google: "school children Purim 911").Roberts talks about the destruction of the US Constitution in the 9/11 Permanent Emergency, but he really needed to explain how America lost its "Guardians" (Congress, Justice and a Free Press) with fear now replacing justice and every Congressman and MSM journalist having to internalize the new rules.In the opinion of this reviewer, he could have put Cowed America in some kind of historical context.At least in mythology, the archetype of the American community in the second decade of the new millenium is probably the rural village in Kurosawa's landmark film Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]. The government has allied with the bandits to loot the citizens who are afraid and can't defend themselves. They slowly realize that they have to find new professional guardians and eventually find some who agree to do the work. After a great deal of trouble the village regains its freedom with most of their guardians being killed, but the villagers (and the guardians) know that's its part of their job.

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