{"id":178299,"date":"2018-10-28T06:52:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T06:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178299"},"modified":"2018-11-01T05:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:31:47","slug":"twitter-bans-conservative-neocon-critic-paul-craig-roberts-in-dramatic-escalation-of-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=178299","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Bans Conservative Neocon Critic Paul Craig Roberts in Dramatic Escalation of Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/russia-insider.com\/en\/media-criticism\/twitter-bans-conservative-neocon-critic-paul-craig-roberts-dramatic-escalation\">Russia Insider<\/a> &#8212; Oct 27, 2018<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Roberts, Former Asst. Treasury Secretary in the Reagan administration and former contributing editor at the Wall Street Journal\u00a0has been an outspoken critic of neocon foreign policy and Washington corruption from a conservative viewpoint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He has an enormous following on the internet and publishes at the Unz Review and on his own website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em><b>Russia Insider<\/b><\/em> frequently publishes his articles. An archive of them <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/russia-insider.com\/en\/paul_craig_roberts\">can be found here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tyler Durden &#8212; Oct 26, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The suspension came without warning and was noted by journalist Caitlin Johnstone and others Thursday evening:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter appears to have suspended Paul Craig Roberts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulCraigRobert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PaulCraigRobert<\/a>, a vocal antiwar conservative. Can&#39;t find any info about it yet.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Caitlin Johnstone \u23f3 (@caitoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1055630049561337856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paul Craig Roberts has apparently had his Twitter account suspended.<br \/>The censorship grows and worsens.<br \/>(I recognize that I&#39;m now probably next since I&#39;m tweeting this.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yPaqpsSSzm\">pic.twitter.com\/yPaqpsSSzm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TF Metals Report (@TFMetals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TFMetals\/status\/1055632528546164736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Definitely suspended.  Google links to @PaulCraigRoberts come up with this suspended notice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AwAgnhK0qf\">pic.twitter.com\/AwAgnhK0qf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Lonsdale\u23f3 (@kungfu_mandarin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kungfu_mandarin\/status\/1055644527405359104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">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\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Businessweek.\u00a0<\/em>Roberts\u00a0maintains an\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">active blog<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He&#8217;s also\u00a0<strong>vehemently against interventionary wars around the world<\/strong> and spoke with Russia&#8217;s state-owned\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/201810231069140183-neocons-trump-inf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sputnik<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0news in a Tuesday article\u00a0&#8211; in which Roberts\u00a0said that President Trump&#8217;s decision to pull out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was a\u00a0<strong>handout to the military-security complex.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The former Reagan administration official clarified that\u00a0<strong>he does not think &#8220;that the military-security complex itself wants a war with\u00a0Russia, but\u00a0it does want an enemy that can be used to\u00a0justify more spending.<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 He explained that the withdrawing from\u00a0the INF Treaty &#8220;gives the military-security complex a justification for\u00a0a larger budget and new money to\u00a0spend: manufacturing the formerly banned missiles.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The economist highlighted that &#8220;<strong>enormous sums spent on &#8216;defense&#8217; enabled the armaments corporations to control election outcomes with campaign contributions<\/strong>,&#8221; adding that in addition, &#8220;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 &#8216;defense&#8217; spending.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;That was 57 years ago,&#8221; he underscored. &#8220;You can imagine how much stronger the military-security complex is today.&#8221; &#8211;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/201810231069140183-neocons-trump-inf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sputnik<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Roberts also suggested that &#8220;<strong>The Zionist Neoconservatives are responsible for\u00a0Washington&#8217;s unilateral abandonment of\u00a0the INF treaty, just as\u00a0they were responsible for\u00a0Washington&#8217;s unilateral abandonment of\u00a0the ABM Treaty [in 2002], the Iran nuclear agreement, and the promise not to\u00a0move NATO one inch to\u00a0the East.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Is this what got him\u00a0suspended?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Roberts goes on to say that the ideology of US neoconservatives is &#8220;<strong>akin to the German Nazy Party last century<\/strong>&#8221; in their ideology of American supremacy and exceptionalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;<strong>Their over-confidence about\u00a0their ability to\u00a0quickly defeat Israel&#8217;s enemies and open the Middle East to\u00a0Israeli expansion got the US bogged down\u00a0in wars in\u00a0the Middle East for\u00a017 years &#8230;\u00a0<\/strong>During this time, both Russia and China rose much more quickly than\u00a0the neoconservatives thought possible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr. Roberts opined that US policymakers are seeking to\u00a0weaponize the Russian opposition and &#8220;pro-Western elements&#8221; to\u00a0exert pressure on\u00a0Moscow into &#8220;accommodating Washington in\u00a0order to\u00a0have the sanctions removed.&#8221; On the other hand, the Trump administration&#8217;s new arms race could force Russia into\u00a0spending more on\u00a0defense, according to\u00a0the author.\u00a0&#8211;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/201810231069140183-neocons-trump-inf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sputnik<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While we don&#8217;t know if Roberts&#8217; Sputnik interview resulted in his Twitter ban 48 hours later, it&#8217;s entirely possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-25\/twitter-bans-former-asst-treasury-secretary-paul-craig-roberts-after-sputnik\">Original source Zero Hedge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet clampdown continues. Now Former Asst. 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