The War for Greater Israel  and Reassertion of US Hegemony Is About to Begin Paul Craig Roberts What we are doing in Gaza we know how to do in Beirut,” declares Israeli Defense Minister.  Putin could have prevented the coming world war by quickly dispatching Ukraine in 2014 and by providing air defense systems for Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza against…

Washington Has Resurrected the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon Paul Craig Roberts As a participant in the 20th century Cold War, I can tell you that the Cuban Missile Crisis had the effect of convincing the leaders of the US and the USSR that trust had to be created between the two nuclear superpowers in order resolve differences and prevent a…

Propagandists Have Created a False Picture of the Conflict in Ukraine, Leaving the West Unprepared for the Outcome  Paul Craig Roberts For some months I have been perusing David Johnson’s “Russian List,” a daily collection of newspaper and journal articles written by commentators and alleged academic experts.  I must say for the most part the articles are highly unrealistic anti-Russian…

SPECIAL REPORT Analysis of Breaking News, Russia Lines in Donbass Overrun by Ukraine Forces RT.com reports: “The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed withdrawal of troops from multiple locations across Ukraine’s Kharkov region. The development comes amid a Ukrainian offensive in the area.” “The Russian military and allied forces of the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk were ordered to leave the…

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If the Kremlin ever Wakes Up Things Will Go Badly for the West Paul Craig Roberts As I have emphasized for a number of years, the Kremlin’s passivity in the face of provocations encourages more and worse provocations. I have expressed concern that the provocations will cross a red line, and the Kremlin will cease being a passive receiver of…

Clarification: In this article I write that under the neoconservative Wolfowitz Doctrine of US hegemony, “the Kremlin has two choices. Russia can surrender its sovereignty or Russia can destroy the West. Russia has no other alternative. The entire world needs to understand this.” I am not advocating that Russia destroy the West. I am simply pointing out that for three…

Truth is being suffocated by censorship. Support truth where it still exists. Support this website. What Are the Prospects for Peace? Paul Craig Roberts This is my response to an interview this morning with Peace Dividend — https://peacedividend.us/paul-craig-roberts-what-now-are-the-prospects-for-peace/ The American war machine consists of the economic and power interests of the US military/security complex and the hegemonic ideology of the…

Support your website. There is no one else to support it. How Many More Red Lines Can Be Crossed Before Armageddon Arrives? Paul Craig Roberts The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe published on April 15, 2016, more than six years ago, a report on the torture of Donbass Russians by the Ukrainian military and police forces.  The report…

Your website needs your support. Decision Time Has Come for Russia in Ukraine Paul Craig Roberts. I suspect the Kremlin has concluded that the limited intervention in Ukraine was a mistake.  I don’t mean that the Kremlin will fail in its effort to drive all Ukrainian military units out of Donbass.  The mistake the Kremlin made was in thinking that…

June has arrived and with it comes my quarterly request for your support of this website.  Controlled narratives serving private agendas are replacing truth.  The Biden regime is even trying to establish in the Department of Homeland Security an agency with the power to rule that truth is disinformation.  This is an admission that Washington’s agendas are threatened by truth. …

Negotiations Have Got Russia Nowhere Paul Craig Roberts One wonders if Putin and Lavrov will ever understand that there is no possibility whatsoever of having a successful negotiation of Russia’s security concerns with Washington.  There are powerful reasons for this impossibility and the reasons are powerfully obvious. One reason is that Washington greatly prefers Russia as an enemy than as…

Dear friends: this column shows how matters stand. Support this website or darkness will arrive. Has Biden’s Description of Putin as a Killer Finally Dispelled Kremlin Hopes for Good Relations? AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT PUTIN Paul Craig Roberts Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to Biden’s unacceptable characterization of Russia’s president as a killer by stating that Biden had made…

Better Relations Between the US and Russia Are Not In the Cards Paul Craig Roberts By now Russians must wonder if the better relations they desire with the US are ever to be.  US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat from Hawaii is the latest peacemaker to be declared “a Russian asset” by Hillary, the DNC, and the presstitutes. The way the…

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.…

Sauron Rules in Washington Paul Craig Roberts “The problem is that the world has listened to Americans for far too bloody long.”  — Dr. Julian Osborne, from the 2000 film version of Nevil Shute’s 1957 book, On the Beach  A reader asked why neoconservatives push toward nuclear war when there can be no winners. If all die, what is the…

Can Americans Overthrow The Evil That Rules Them? Paul Craig Roberts Paul Wolfowitz and the lies that he told in the high government positions that he held are responsible for a massive number of deaths and massive destruction in seven countries. Wolfowitz has announced his vote for Hillary Clinton. Does this make you feel reassured? The real surprise would have…

Refuse To Celebrate July 4th Militarism From the Archve: Militarist Bunkum, May 19, 2014 Did you know that 85 to 90 percent of war’s casualties are non-combatant civilians? That is the conclusion reached by a nine-person research team in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The deaths of soldiers who are fighting the war are…

Why WWIII Is On The Horizon Paul Craig Roberts The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a dangerous American ideology called neoconservativism. The Soviet Union had served as a constraint on US unilateral action. With the removal of this constraint on Washington, neoconservatives declared their agenda of US world hegemony. America was now the “sole superpower,”…