Life in a Third World Country

Dear Readers, This is my fifth day of camping out awaiting the restoration of a functioning house. Nevertheless, I have been able to write a column: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/11/13/will-america-survive-washington-paul-craig-roberts/ Whatever the hardship, it is nothing compared to the aftermath of a nuclear war.

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Will America Survive Washington? — Paul Craig Roberts

Will America Survive Washington? Paul Craig Roberts In recent columns posted on my website, I brought attention to two dramatic and dangerous developments between the two major nuclear powers. One was the public statement of the deputy commander of the Russian military’s Operation Command at a recent Moscow security conference. Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznihir, Deputy Chief of the Main Operations…

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Pat Buchanan Reminds Us That Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower Admired Robert E. Lee

Pat Buchanan Reminds Us That Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower Admired Robert E. Lee Now Monuments to US WWI Soldiers Are Being Taken Down in Maryland. What country have we become? https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/11/patrick-j-buchanan/their-america-and-ours/

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THE COST OF WAR FOR THE U.S. TAXPAYER SINCE 9/11 IS ACTUALLY THREE TIMES THE PENTAGON’S ESTIMATE

THE COST OF WAR FOR THE U.S. TAXPAYER SINCE 9/11 IS ACTUALLY THREE TIMES THE PENTAGON’S ESTIMATE Jack Moore Newsweek, Nov. 8, 2017 The United States military has spent more than $5.6 trillion on conflicts since 2001, more than three times the Pentagon’s actual estimate, according to a new study. http://www.newsweek.com/how-many-trillions-war-has-cost-us-taxpayer-911-attacks-705041?yptr=yahoo

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From Superpower to Incompetence

From Superpower to Incompetence Paul Craig Roberts Having grown up during the second half of the 20th century, I don’t recognize my country today. I experienced life in a competent country, and now I experience life in an incompetent country. Everything is incompetent. The police are incompetent. They shoot children, grandmothers, cripples, and claim that they feared for their life.…

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Never Underestimate the Insanity of Washington’s War Planners

Never Underestimate the Insanity of Washington’s War Planners https://www.globalresearch.ca/wipe-the-ussr-off-the-map-204-atomic-bombs-against-major-cities-us-nuclear-attack-against-soviet-union-planned-prior-to-end-of-world-war-ii/5616601

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Why the British Government Sold Out the Palestinians

Why the British Government Sold Out the Palestinians https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-balfour-declaration-world-zionism-and-world-war-i/5616459 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48138.htm

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Nomi Prins Fills Us In On Another Of The President’s Bankers

Nomi Prins Fills Us In On Another Of The President’s Bankers “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is a man who has a real sense of the opportunity that’s embedded in this moment — for the large banks and their CEOs to make a bundle of money — but no appropriate sense of the risks involved or fear for a future in…

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Mueller’s False Indictments

Mueller’s False Indictments David Stockman explains that Mueller’s indictment of george Papadopouos is a nothing indictment. Its purpose, along with the indictment of Manafort for something unrelated to Russiagate, is to create the impression that President Trump is tarnished by crimes related to dealing with Russia. The presstitutes cooperate totally with Mueller and repeat the nothing indictments as if they…

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George Soros Could Not Subvert Europe Without Washington’s Approval

George Soros Could Not Subvert Europe Without Washington’s Approval https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/11/05/myth-european-democracy-shocking-revelation.html

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The Saker Examines PCR’s “One Day Tomorrow Won’t Arrive”

The Saker Examines PCR’s “One Day Tomorrow Won’t Arrive” http://thesaker.is/do-you-think-his-assessment-is-accurate/

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Fascist Judge Convicts US Marine General For Defending Gito Detainees’ Rights

Fascist Judge Convicts US Marine General For Defending Gito Detainees’ Rights https://www.thedailybeast.com/gitmo-judge-convicts-us-generalbecause-he-stood-up-for-detainee-rights

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Former UK Treasury Secretary and Prime Minister Says US Deceived UK Into Supporting US Invasion of Iraq

Former UK Treasury Secretary and Prime Minister Says US Deceived UK Into Supporting US Invasion of Iraq Gordon Brown says the US defence department knew that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction but kept Britain in the dark and that there was no justification for the invasion and war. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/gordon-brown-says-pentagon-misled-uk-over-case-for-iraq-invasion/ar-AAusrOs?OCID=ansmsnnews11

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Qatar Reveals ISIS Was A Creation of Washington

Qatar Reveals ISIS Was A Creation of Washington https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/11/03/bombshell-revelation-us-saudi-culpability-creating-isis-ignored-mainstream-media-trump.html

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Identity Politics At Work

Identity Politics At Work http://nypost.com/2017/10/26/woman-gets-knocked-out-cold-bystanders-stop-to-take-selfies/

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On the collection of Russian DNA by the US

On the collection of Russian DNA by the US A letter from another scientist: It was striking to me that the American agencies were interested in samples from skeletal muscle and presumably the nerve endings running to the muscle as well which would be mixed in with any biopsy. Decades ago I recall that a scientist who was studying the…

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Washington Stomps on Civil Liberty

Update: Senator Ron Wyden (D, Oregon) alleges that the Russian government is “fascist” and is “undermining our democracy.” https://www.rt.com/usa/408516-senate-twitter-facebook-google-russia/ Washington Stomps on Civil Liberty Paul Craig Roberts The insouciant American electorate is so inattentive that it routinely elects enemies of civil liberty to represent the public in Congress. Last Wednesday Rep. Adam Schiff (D, CA), Rep. Trey Gowdy ( R,…

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Washington Corruption Is Unparalleled In History

Washington Corruption Is Unparalleled In History Paul Craig Roberts Dr. George Szamuely, a distinguished member of the Global Policy Institute of London Metropolitan University, is a British citizen and not a partisan of US politics. He has carefully investigated the so-called Russian dossier and reports that it was entirely the work of the Hillary Democrats. This fact was known at…

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The US Is Criminalizing Criticism of Israeli Human Rights Violations

The US Is Criminalizing Criticism of Israeli Human Rights Violations One wonders how much the Israel Lobby pays two-bit punk US governors and US Senators. https://www.opednews.com/articles/Pandering-to-Israel-Has-Go-by-Philip-Giraldi-Israel_Israel-And-Us-Relations_Israel-Firsters_Israel-On-The-Potomac-171102-226.html

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Scott Walker Signs Up With Netanyahu

Scott Walker Signs Up With Netanyahu The Wisconsin Horror Scott Walker has issued an executive order that requires state agencies to boycott businesses that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. https://israelpalestinenews.org/maryland-wisconsin-become-23rd-24th-us-states-bar-condemn-anti-israel-bds-movement/ See also: https://iak.salsalabs.org/blog110117/index.html?wvpId=70037b9e-8da1-4a99-8159-07fb36ef3d4f

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Washington’s Barbarity Reaches New Heights?

Washington’s Barbarity Reaches New Heights? Paul Craig Roberts Information has reached me from Italy, Germany and the UK that foreign-funded NGOs in Russia are collecting Russian DNA samples from all over Russia for the US Government. I have found English language verification of these reports. What is the reason for the US government’s interest in studying Russian DNA samples? What…

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Attack On White People Mounts

Attack On White People Mounts New York professor says white nuclear family promotes racism. In The Camp of the Saints, diversity politics prevented marriages between a white man and a white woman in order to reduce diversity by breeding white people out of the human race. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/31/having-white-nuclear-family-promotes-white-supremacy-says-new-york-professor-report-says.html

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Historic Christ Church Falls To Political Correctness

Historic Christ Church Falls To Political Correctness Paul Craig Roberts Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia, was constructed during the years 1765 and 1773. It was designed by James Wren, a relative of Sir Christopher Wren, the most famous English architect. The colonial era, pre-Revolutionary War church, is a national historic landmark. It was my church when I lived in Old…

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters Review of James Douglass’ Book By Edward Curtin Global Research, October 31, 2017 https://www.globalresearch.ca/jfk-and-the-unspeakable-why-he-died-and-why-it-matters/16273 This article was first published by Global research in November 2009. Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six years, there are many people who still think who killed President John…

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Ray McGovern Explains What Happens to a President Who Goes Against the CIA

Ray McGovern Explains What Happens to a President Who Goes Against the CIA http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2017/10/30/deep-states-jfk-triumph-trump/

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Is It Insanity, Evil, or Both that Has the Western World in Its Grip

Is It Insanity, Evil, or Both that Has the Western World in Its Grip Paul Craig Roberts As the presstitute media has no allegiance to truth, one has to wonder if we can even believe obituaries. For what it is worth, perhaps nothing, the presstitutes report that three US aircraft carrier battle groups are off North Korea or on the…

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The Persecution of Norman Finkelstein

The Persecution of Norman Finkelstein The courageous Norman Finkelstein is being persecuted by corrupt police apparently working for two corrupt lawyers. https://www.change.org/p/janet-difiore-chief-judge-of-the-state-of-new-york-norman-g-finkelstein-must-walk-free

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One Day Tomorrow Won’t Arrive

See The Saker’s Comment: http://thesaker.is/do-you-think-his-assessment-is-accurate/ One Day Tomorrow Won’t Arrive Paul Craig Roberts Before the idiots in Washington get us blown off of the face of the earth, the morons had better come to terms with the fact that the US military is now second class compared to the Russian military. For example, the US Navy has been made obsolete…

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The Kennedy Assassination

The Kennedy Assassination Paul Craig Roberts Dear Readers, some of you are pushing me to continue with the Las Vegas shooting story while others are asking to know what to make of the release of files pertaining to President Kennedy’s assassination. I appreciate that you are interested and are unsatisfied with official explanations. My answer is that we already know,…

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Fats Domino, an icon of my time

Fats Domino, an icon of my time Paul Craig Roberts I used to listen to him play in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Al Hirt’s club, I think, on Bourbon St.  Somewhere I have Fats’ autograph.  Used to talk to him after he played. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/10/gary-north/fats-domino-rip/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCPrwKzdo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8CFeNxLXCo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU0X1kEPhqA  Here is Vladimir Putin singing Blueberry Hill:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo 

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Civilization Declared “A White Male Construct”

Civilization Declared “A White Male Construct” Paul Craig Roberts A number of readers have turned out to be excellent research assistants. In response to my articles, “The American Left: RIP,” and the two follow-ups, “The Absurdities Mount” and “Goodbye Western Civilization,” readers have supplied the following. A white male professor of philosophy has discovered that in order to have an…

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The Las Vegas Shooting Won’t Go Away

The Las Vegas Shooting Won’t Go Away Paul Craig Roberts OK readers, you win. Yes, something is wrong with the Las Vegas shooting story. It is not only Tyler Durden on Zero Hedge today http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-26/mysterious-missing-vegas-security-guard-left-country-days-after-vegas-massacre, but Tucker Carlson on Fox News yesterday http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/25/tucker-carlson-las-vegas-massacre-questions-jesus-campos-security-guard-and-police-hung. Carlson raises many pointed questions that do not have obvious answers. The investigation does not seem to…

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A Case of Judicial Murder?

“When we tolerate what we know to be wrong–when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened–when we fail to speak up and speak out–we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.” – Robert Francis Kennedy A Case of Judicial Murder? John Remington Graham   I have been asked…

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If women keep this up, men are going to steer clear of them

If women keep this up, men are going to steer clear of them http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5014447/Actress-alleges-George-H-W-Bush-sexually-assaulted-her.html

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Goodbye Western Civilization

Goodbye Western Civilization Paul Craig Roberts This morning I asked why stop with labeling mathematics the language of white supremacy? Why not science as well? https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/10/25/the-absurdities-mount/ I was behind the times. A professor at the University of California has written in a journal of feminist theory that science “relies on a colonial and racialized form of power.” The solution to…

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The Absurdities Mount

The Absurdities Mount Paul Craig Roberts In my October 23 column, “The American Left: RIP,” I pointed out that political correctness now bans the use of the words “pregnant woman.” https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/10/23/american-left-rip/ One might think it difficult to exceed such absurdity, but a University of Illinois professor has managed to carry political correctness to new heights of absurdity by delcaring mathematics…

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The American Left: RIP

The American Left: RIP Paul Craig Roberts Once upon a time the leftwing of the political spectrum was committed to the advancement of the working class and its protection from political and economic abuse by the owners of the means of production. Consequently, the leftwing was politically potent and reached a pinnacle of power when Henry Wallace was selected by…

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The Harmful Effects of Antifa by Diana Johnstone

The Harmful Effects of Antifa Diana Johnstone An historic opportunity is being missed. The disastrous 2016 presidential election could and should have been a wakeup call. A corrupt political system that gave voters a choice between two terrible candidates is not democracy. This should have been the signal to face reality. The U.S. political system is totally rotten, contemptuous of…

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NGO Established To Discredit Truth-Tellers

NGO Established To Discredit Truth-Tellers According to the NGO, Western democracy is so fragile that it cannot survive if people are allowed to tell the truth. https://www.globalresearch.ca/ngo-publishes-names-of-2300-rt-guests-labels-them-useful-idiots-who-undermine-western-democracy/5614467

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For The First Time In 26 Years, US To Put Nuclear Bombers On 24 Hour Alert

For The First Time In 26 Years, US To Put Nuclear Bombers On 24 Hour Alert http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-22/us-put-nuclear-bombers-24-hour-alert-first-time-26-years

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John Whitehead Explains the Defeat of Freedom

John Whitehead Explains the Defeat of Freedom “Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America?” — Philip Roth https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/this_is_how_tyranny_rises_and_freedom_falls_the_experiment_in_freedom_?utm_source=The+Rutherford+Institute&utm_campaign=9d74ea68d4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d7ffde3304-9d74ea68d4-42135461

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Texas City Tells People No Hurricane Harvey Aid Unless They Promise Not to Boycott Israel

Texas City Tells People No Hurricane Harvey Aid Unless They Promise Not to Boycott Israel American Civil Liberties Union The city of Dickinson, Texas, is requiring applicants for Hurricane Harvey rebuilding funds to certify in writing that they will not take part in a boycott of Israel. The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the city’s condition as a violation of…

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US Economic Policy Leading to Doom

Dave Kranzler provides the empirical data behind my interview (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/10/18/greg-hunter-interviews-pcr-looming-economic-catastrophe/) with Greg Hunter. http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/get-ready-to-party-like-its-2008/

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How They Pull Our Strings

How They Pull Our Strings http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-lobby-british-style/

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Putin Speaks

UPDATE: Stephen Lensman provides excerpts from Putin’s Valdai address October 19: http://stephenlendman.org/2017/10/highlights-putins-valdai-international-discussion-club-address/ Putin Speaks In this collection of videos you can witness a real leader, the likes of which does not exist anywhere in the Western world, who speaks truth to Washington’s lies. For the humor of it, begin with this one in which Putin destroys Megyn Kelly before a…

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Washington Is Destroying American Power

Washington Is Destroying American Power Paul Craig Roberts Readers at home and around the world want to know what to make of the announcement that China henceforth will conduct oil purchases and sales in gold-backed Chinese currency. Is this an attack by Russia and China on the US dollar? Will the dollar weaken and collapse from being discarded as the…

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The Unraveling of American/Russian Relations — Paul Craig Roberts

Correction: I attributed this statement–“Russia will never again fight a war on its own territory”–made by Putin’s adviser Sergey Karaganov to Putin. Perhaps I confused it with Putin’s statement that “If a fight’s inevitable, you must strike first.” The Unraveling of American/Russian Relations Paul Craig Roberts Dear Readers: I agree that the official Las Vegas story seems to be unraveling.…

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Is Washington Trying To Starve 60,000 Syrians Washington Has Trapped In A Refugee Camp?

Is Washington Trying To Starve 60,000 Syrians Washington Has Trapped In A Refugee Camp? Remarks by Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman) On Thursday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said 92% of Syrian territory was freed from (US-supported) ISIS control. In the past week alone, Russian airpower conducted 517 sorties, destroying over 1,260 facilities controlled…

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Time for a Laugh

A reader sent this humor: I took down my Rebel flag (which you can’t buy on EBAY any more) and peeled the NRA sticker off my front window. I disconnected my home alarm system and quit the candy-ass Neighborhood Watch. I bought two Pakistani flags and put one at each corner of the front yard. Then I purchased the black…

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