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Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist, author and blogger. He served for one year as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration. He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service.
During the 21st century, Roberts has frequently published in the left-wing magazine Counterpunch, writing extensively about the effects of the Bush (and later Obama) administrations related to the War on Terror, which he says have destroyed the U.S. Constitution’s protections of Americans' civil liberties, such as habeas corpus and due process. He has taken positions different from former Republican allies, opposing the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, and criticizing Israel’s policies and actions against the Palestinians. Roberts has also been critical of mainstream positions on terrorist attacks, proposing that the Boston Marathon Bombing and November 2015 Paris attacks may have been false flag operations perpetrated by Western governments.