Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

In addition to having held numerous senior academic positions in universities, Dr. Roberts was an associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was appointed by President Reagan as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during Reagan's first term in office, following which he served as a consultant to both the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Dr. Roberts is now the Chairman of the The Institute for Political Economy. (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/)

Notes

• Please note given the fast pace of events that this interview was conducted on the 12th of April 2018.

• Subsequent to the interview: here is a list of protests being organised by StopTheWarCoalition (http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/events/national-events/2967-13-16-april-nationwide-protests-trump-may-no-more-bombs-on-syria). However, just looking at the 13th April LONDON event, I notice that a mere 554 people protested (according to the Facebook page for that event, at the moment I accessed it).

Update

• Manlio Dinucci, "Video: The Art of War: US Fleet with 1000 Missiles in the Mediterranean", Global Research (03 May 2018) [Thanks, Peter, for the information.]

Items mentioned in / relevant to the interview

• TMR 159 : Adeyinka Makinde : Can the British State Convict Itself? (#1: Tony Blair)

• TMR 194 : Tony Gosling & Martin Summers : On the Skripal Affair

• John Pilger on RT (https://youtu.be/dxRiG8vRRBk)

• TMR 180 : Adeyinka Makinde : The Pan-Islamic Option (Part One : Recent Years)

• DIA 2012 document obtained by Judicial Watch (http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/pgs-287-293-291-jw-v-dod-and-state-14-812-2/)

• Mike Flynn on Al Jazeera with Mehdi Hasan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1oEoCRkLRI)

• Craig Murray, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", CraigMurray.org.uk

• __________, "Yulia Skripal Is Plainly Under Duress", CraigMurray.org.uk

• Madeleine Albright on her "mistake" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8)

• On Trump's contradictory tweets (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/trump-tweets-about-airstrikes-against-syria-ending-arms-race-russia.html)

• James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Touchstone; Original edition (2010)

• TMR 049 : Barrie Zwicker : Conspiracy Theory - Analysis of a Weaponised Term

• UN Security Council on Syria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Id8tOaUpA)

• Putin 2017 - more false-flag attacks to come (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf5ODL2HIDM)

• "Syria 'chemical attack': France's President Macron 'has proof' ", BBC News (12 April 2018)

• Former UK ambassador Peter Ford injects sanity into BBC programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j_Z1f84Ps8)

• TMR 132, 137 & 150 : Series : Thomas R. Goehle : America's Post-Christian Apocalypse

• Briefing by official representative of Russian Defence Ministry Major General Igor Konashenkov, 13 April 2018 (http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12171238) [Thanks, Chris, for the link.]

• Jose Bustani, former OPCW head interviewed on RT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AKL8VTrO4g)

• "Chemical weapons body sacks head", BBC News (April 2002)

Acknowledgements

Podcast theme music, Chillout Me, kindly provided by Antony Raijekov, from his Jazz U compilation (CC BY-NC 2.5).

Slideshow image: "Vladimir Putin carrying his buddy Donald Trump" by DonkeyHotey via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0); aspect ratio altered, cropped