Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration, claiming the title of “Father of Reaganomics”. He has been associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and 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. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
Since Reagan, he appears to have had a “Damascus Moment” and he now writes in a very un-Reaganesque
manner.
He recently had the opportunity to speak to a number of Russian scholars. Let him describe it:
(Remember, he’s speaking to a bunch of Russians!)
– This week I was
invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences
in Moscow. Scholars from Russia and from around the world, Russian government
officials, and the Russian people seek an answer as to why Washington destroyed
during the past year the friendly relations between America and Russia that
President Reagan and President Gorbachev succeeded in establishing. All of
Russia is distressed that Washington alone has destroyed the trust between the
two major nuclear powers that had been created during the Reagan-Gorbachev era,
trust that had removed the threat of nuclear armageddon. Russians at every
level are astonished at the virulent propaganda and lies constantly issuing
from Washington and the Western media. Washington’s gratuitous demonization of
the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has rallied the Russian people behind
him. Putin has the highest approval rating ever achieved by any leader in my
lifetime.
Washington’s reckless and irresponsible destruction of the trust achieved by
Reagan and Gorbachev has resurrected the possibility of nuclear war from the
grave in which Reagan and Gorbachev buried it. Again, as during the Cold War
the specter of nuclear armageddon stalks the earth.
Why did Washington revive the threat of world annihilation? Why is this threat to all of humanity supported by the majority of the US Congress, by the entirety of the presstitute media, and by academics and think-tank inhabitants
in the US, such as Motyl and Weiss, about whom I wrote recently?
It was my task to answer this question for the conference. You can read my February 25 and February 26 addresses here:
Go to the second page for the transcripts of his lectures – here’s where the real “meat” is:
The Threat Posed to International Relations By The Neoconservative Ideology of American Hegemony,
- Address to the 70th Anniversary of the Yalta Conference, Hosted by Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, February 25, 2015, Hon. Paul Craig Roberts
- Paul Craig Roberts, Address to the 70th Anniversary of the Yalta Conference, Moscow, February 26, 2015
In these speeches, he has been a brutal critic of Neocons, their doctrine, and their influence on our government and its foreign policy. Here’s a typical quote: 
The neoconservatives are responsible for the Clinton regime’s attacks on Yugoslavia and Serbia. Neoconservatives, especially Paul Wolfowitz, are responsible for the George W. Bush regime’s invasion of Iraq.
The neoconservatives are responsible for the overthrow and murder of Gaddafi in Libya, the assault on Syria, the propaganda against Iran, the drone attacks on Pakistan and Yemen, the color revolutions in former Soviet Republics, the attempted “Green Revolution” in Iran, the coup in Ukraine, and the demonization of Vladimir Putin.
