US politicians are servants of the special interests: Paul Craig Roberts

US politicians are servants of the special interests that provide their election funds and “the media is a lie factory serving secret agendas,” according to Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, an American economist and author.

Dr. Roberts, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, made the remarks in a recent article where he also said that US presidents and mayors exercise power like unaccountable dictators.

“Democracy cannot survive when the media is a lie factory serving secret agendas and politicians are servants of the special interests that provide their election funds,” he wrote.

“Not only is Congress’ ability to represent the people compromised by the influence of special interests, but also Congress has given up power to executive branch regulatory agencies and to the judiciary. When the representatives of the people cannot represent them, the people have no protection,” he lamented.  

“There is neither a rule of law nor a Constitution when a President (George W. Bush) can dispense with habeas corpus and hold American citizens indefinitely without due process of law and a President (Obama) can execute American citizens on suspicion alone without due process of law. Neither president was impeached, and no court or bar association made an issue of the illegal and unconstitutional exercise of power by two American presidents as if they were unaccountable dictators,” he stated.

“I warned at the time that worse was to come, and it has,” he wrote.

The former top US official added, “Today even mayors think they are dictators, as do university and hospital administrators, and employers who spew Covid vaccination mandates in defiance of the Nuremberg Laws. Under the Nuremberg laws, vaccination is a medical procedure and requires informed consent.”

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“Moreover, under the US Constitution laws must originate in legislatures, not with pronouncements of mayors and private employers. We know that a country’s leadership has lost respect for the rule of law when employers and executive branch officials issue laws and judges accept this violation of legislative authority,” he added.

According to a report, under the influence of the special interests, US President Joe Biden has backtracked on a 2020 campaign promise to increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

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Congress will not give what the American people want: Analyst

The majority of Americans want “universal health care, taxing the very wealthy, end to endless wars,” but Congress will not give them what they want, says an American political analyst.

The majority of Americans want “universal health care, taxing the very wealthy, end to endless wars,” but Congress will not give them what they want, American political analyst Myles Hoenig recently commented to Press TV.

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