Twitter Bans Former Asst. Treasury
Secretary Paul Craig Roberts
Roberts, 79, served in the Reagan
administration from 1981 to 1982.
October 26, 2018
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Twitter has suspended noted
anti-war commentator, economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
Paul Craig Roberts.
The suspension came without warning
and was noted by journalist Caitlin Johnstone and others Thursday evening:
Twitter appears to have suspended Paul Craig Roberts @PaulCraigRobert, a vocal antiwar conservative. Can't find any info about it yet.
Definitely suspended. Google links to @PaulCraigRoberts come up with this suspended notice.
Roberts, 79, served in the Reagan
administration from 1981 to 1982. He was formerly a distinguished fellow at the
Cato Institute and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and has
written for the Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. Roberts maintains
an active blog.
He’s also vehemently against
interventionary wars around the world, and spoke with Russia’s
state-owned Sputnik news in a Tuesday article – in which
Roberts said that President Trump’s decision to pull out of the
Intermedia-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was a handout to the
military-security complex.
The former Reagan administration
official clarified that he does not think “that the military-security
complex itself wants a war with Russia, but it does want an enemy
that can be used to justify more spending.” He explained that
the withdrawing from the INF Treaty “gives the military-security complex a
justification for a larger budget and new money to spend:
manufacturing the formerly banned missiles.”
…
The economist highlighted that “enormous
sums spent on ‘defense’ enabled the armaments corporations to control election
outcomes with campaign contributions,” adding that in addition, “the
military has bases and the armaments corporations have factories in almost
every state so that the population, dependent on the jobs, support high amounts
of ‘defense’ spending.”
“That was 57 years ago,” he underscored.
“You can imagine how much stronger the military-security complex is today.” –Sputnik
Roberts also suggested that “The
Zionist Neoconservatives are responsible for Washington’s unilateral
abandonment of the INF treaty, just as they were responsible
for Washington’s unilateral abandonment of the ABM Treaty [in 2002],
the Iran nuclear agreement, and the promise not to move NATO one inch
to the East.”
Is this what got Roberts suspended?
He goes on to say that the ideology
of US neoconservatives is “akin to the German Nazy Party last century”
in their ideology of American supremacy and exceptionalism.
“Their over-confidence
about their ability to quickly defeat Israel’s enemies and open the
Middle East to Israeli expansion got the US bogged down in wars
in the Middle East for 17 years,” said Roberts, adding:
“During this time, both Russia and China rose much more quickly than the
neoconservatives thought possible.”
Dr. Roberts opined that US policy
makers are seeking to weaponize the Russian opposition and “pro-Western
elements” to exert pressure on Moscow into “accommodating Washington
in order to have the sanctions removed.” On the other hand, the Trump
administration’s new arms race could force Russia into spending more
on defense, according to the author. –Sputnik
While we don’t know if Roberts’
Sputnik interview resulted in his Twitter ban 48 hours later, it’s entirely
possible.
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