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/)

Items mentioned in (or otherwise relevant to) the interview

1) Paris

• "The First Question to Ask After Any Terror Attack: Was It a False Flag?", Washington's Blog (13 November 2015)
• Operation Northwoods
• TMR 097 : Dr. Daniele Ganser : NATO's Secret Armies - GLADIO & The Strategy of Tension
• Paul Craig Roberts, "French Security Left Behind During Paris Attacks", PaulCraigRoberts.org (15 November 2015)
• "Paris Attacks: Gare de Lyon railway station evacuated over bomb alert", Indo-Asian News Service (14 November 2015)
• "Germany squad return to Paris hotel after bomb threat evacuation", The Guardian (13 November 2015)
• Paris Attacks: Multi-site Exercise planned for morning of Nov 13, 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smq5iQonYeE)
• The Paris Terror Attacks : An Open-Source Investigation (https://www.corbettreport.com/the-paris-terror-attacks-an-open-source-investigation/)
• November 2015 Paris Attacks (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks)
• "French police chief committed suicide after Charlie Hebdo attack", The Telegraph (12 January 2015)
• North Atlantic Treaty Article 5 (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty#Article_5)

2) TPP

• Final Text of the TPP (https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/trans-pacific-partnership/tpp-full-text)
• Paul Craig Roberts, "The Re-enserfment of Western Peoples", PaulCraigRoberts.org (09 November 2015)
• Chris Hedges, "The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History", TruthDig (06 November 2015)
• TMR 077 : David Malone : Trade Deals and the Death of Democracy
• Paola Casale, "Almost $200 Million Donated to Representatives to Pass TPA", OpEdNews (20 June 2015)
• James Corbett, "Terrible TPP Clauses Expalined in Plain English", International Forecaster (14 November 2015)
• TiSA Q&A at the European Commission (sounds like fun!) (http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/tisa/questions-and-answers/)
• TMR 071 : Patrick Wood : The Trilateral Commission and its New Technetronic World Order

Acknowledgements

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