“If you look at the middle east,
what’s the remaining independent countries?
What countries are not American puppet states?

And we have only Iran and Syria.

Now, the reasoning,
I’m told from the people that I still know in Washington,
is that Syria, they can ignore,
because if they knock of Iran
Syria will simply voluntarily become an American puppet state.

And so they’re after Iran. …

That’s the reason for all of the years of demonization and lies.”

– Paul Craig Roberts

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

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Alex welcomes back to the show economist, former syndicated journalist, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, Paul Craig Roberts. He is the author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice and How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds.

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