Ukrainian Update #9 Paul Craig Roberts Just as everything you were told about Covid by the media and health and government officials was false, so is everything you have been told by the same propagandistic liars about Ukraine. Americans have had nothing but lies since the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, of his brother, US Senator Robert Kennedy…

Biden Wants To Tax Income That You Don’t Have Paul Craig Roberts The White House Moron wants to tax unrealized capital gains, and some neoliberal economists think it is a good idea. Let’s take a look and see what we think. A capital gain is an increase in the price of something since you purchased it.  It could be a…

The Sanctions Have Backfired Paul Craig Roberts The idiot Biden Regime’s sanctions have turned out to be a great gift to Russia while driving up inflation in the US and its empire, forcing Washington to remove some of the sanctions.  https://www.rt.com/business/553034-us-russia-fertilizers-sanctions/  The sanctions have created a great opportunity for import substitution in Russia.  Russian investment in the Russian economy prevents…

Does the Kremlin Know What It Is Doing? Paul Craig Roberts Earlier today I posted my take on the economic and military developments on the Russian front.  Based on news reports, I envisioned a gold ruble dethroning the US dollar and collapsing the Bretton Woods system which has enabled the US and its financial sector to exploit the world.  I…

The Western World Has Had Its Run Paul Craig Roberts Lots of startling changes yesterday.  Russia announced, apparently, a gold-backed or gold-related ruble.  I haven’t had time to think about all the implications.  Information is hard to come by, because the US blocks Russian news in order to control the Ukraine narrative and war propaganda.  The Bretton Woods system collapsed…

The Western World is Being Pushed into Tyranny Paul Craig Roberts “Without any doubt, we stand before turbulent and also dangerous times, but we hold an historic trump card in our hands. It consists in the fact that the other side does not act according to the rules of reason but strives out of motives of greed and power and…

Rule of Law in America Is On Its Death Bed Paul Craig Roberts Kimberly Gardner, a black American Democrat circuit attorney in St Louis hired a black American FBI agent to help her frame white American Republican Missouri governor on false charges.  Gardner’s scheme blew up in her face. This corrupt George Soros-backed Democrat prosecutor faces disciplinary hearings and loss…

NATO Is Propagandizing Itself Into War Paul Craig Roberts Those who rely on Western media have the impression of a stalled Russian campaign in Ukraine with demoralized Russian soldiers deserting and surrendering to Ukrainians in order to get something to eat.  Russian soldiers are even allegedly shooting holes in the gasoline tanks of their motorized equipment so that they cannot…

Will Putin Wake Up in Time to Save Russia? If not it means a devastating war Paul Craig Roberts Readers regard the West’s seizing of Russian assets and foreign exchange as acts of war and wonder why Putin does not declare them as such.  The sanctions are weapons being used in an effort to destroy Russia just as if they…

Russia Has a First Rate Military But Is Incompetent On Every Other Front Paul Craig Roberts I have warned many times that Russia’s go-slow war can result in wider war.  The longer the war, the more opportunity for the Western idiots to blunder into it. Scott Ridder agrees with me: “So what’s going on right now is an effort by…

Will Putin Wake Up to the Threat of Russia’s Atlanticist Integrationists? Paul Craig Roberts Yesterday I reported that Anatoly Chubais, who created the Russian oligarch system during the Yeltsin years, the system in which wealth and capital flowed out of Russia, has fled Russia.  He was a member of the Gang of Three with Latvian Alexei Kudrin and central bank…

In Case You Care to Know What Is Really Going On Putin is catching on Putin Orders Ruble Payments for Energy https://sputniknews.com/20220323/wests-move-to-freeze-russian-reserves-signals-its-defaulting-on-obligations-before-moscow-putin-1094117649.html   But he has a way to go When will Putin realize that Russian default on loans is the proper response to the seizure of Russian assets?  Russia would have to be extremely foolish to borrow another cent…

Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War Paul Craig Roberts Since the Russian action in Ukraine began, provoked by Washington’s cold shoulder to Russian security concerns, Washington, in addition to doing all possible to keep the conflict going, has also dumped three more provocations on the Kremlin:  an attempted coup or “color revolution” in the former Russian province of…

  Support Your Website Why the West Hates Putin Paul Craig Roberts Putin is a liberal in the old fashioned sense that no longer exists in the West. He believes in sustaining a network of laws and agreements that resolve disputes diplomatically instead of with violence. He believes that government should serve the people and not the economic interests of…

Biden’s “Russian Sanctions” Are Wrecking the Western Economy Paul Craig Roberts This is what the White House spokes idiot Jen Psaki describes as “wrecking” the Russian economy: The unprecedented sanctions against Russia have pushed energy costs higher in Europe and the US, driving record inflation and making it ever more expensive for farmers and truckers to fuel their machinery, afford…

  Support your website Ukrainian Update # 8 Paul Craig Roberts It seems the Kremlin still has delusions that there is morality in the West. The Kremlin has appealed to “international structures to make Ukrainian radicals release civilians.”  What is the point of such a useless appeal?  Why is the Kremlin attributing morality to the enemy that is trying to…

It Took Russia 31 years to figure out she was trusting Satan but the knowledge hasn’t translated into action Paul Craig Roberts The Russians, overcome with awe of the West and doubtful of their own validity, must have been absent when Hugo Chavez gave the most famous speech ever given at the United Nations on September 20, 2006.  Paraphrasing his…

  Support Your Website Putin Reappoints Russian Central Bank Chief Who Handed Over Russia’s Reserves to Russia’s Enemies Will Russia Be Defeated By Her Own Central Bank? Paul Craig Roberts According to the Wall Street Journal, today President Putin has nominated for a third term Elvira Nabiullina as chief of the Russian central bank:  “Ms. Nabiullina’s reappointment solidifies her role…

  Support your website Putin Acknowledges that Washington Has Launched a War of Annihilation Against Russia Paul Craig Roberts In his speech to the assembly of national, regional, and district leaders on Russia’s response to the sanctions, Putin first factually describes the situation in Ukraine, how it developed, and Russia’s objective.  It stands in striking contrast to Western propaganda. Putin’s…

On the Sanctions Front Russia Is Brainwashed Against Her Own Interest Paul Craig Roberts A commentator sent to me on Wednesday the economic component of Putin’s speech about the economic measures the Kremlin is taking to adjust to the economic sanctions, asking me to decipher it.  Putin’s speech is reproduced below.  Perhaps I am mistaken, but it looks to me…

Support your website Dumbshit Russians? Paul Craig Roberts As readers know, I refer often to “dumbshit Americans.”  I am beginning to wonder if the same applies to Russians.   As for dumbshit Americans, the evidence is never ending. We now have a Pew Research poll of Americans, if it is accurate, that finds that 36% of American Republicans and 35%…

Will Russia Be a Victim of Her Own Good Intentions? Paul Craig Roberts The Kremlin set out to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine with a minimum of civilian casualties.  No American style “shock and awe.”  When the Ukrainian militias heard this, they knew what to do.  They located themselves and their heavy weapons in the middle of civilian populations. From there…

Washington and Moscow Vie for the Stupid Prize Paul Craig Roberts Is it Washington or the Kremlin which is the most confused about sanctions and their impact?  Washington and Europe have made it very clear that sanctions do not apply to payments for Russian energy and minerals.  Only the US has banned the import of Russian gas and oil.  As…

Truth cannot live without support.  Support your website. Ukrainian Update #7 Paul Craig Roberts Yesterday I completed a major article on the sanctions and their impacts.  As Saturday readership is light, I am holding it for release tomorrow. For now, a brief update on the situation in Ukraine.  The Western lie machine continues to speak of “the Russian invasion of…

Ukraine Hosted Illegal US Biowarfare Laboratories Paul Craig Roberts The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed last Tuesday that Ukrainian authorities destroyed inventories of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly pathogens in illegal US biowarfare laboratories in Ukraine operated and funded by the US Department of Defense to prevent them from falling into Russian hands. US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland…

  Support this website and you will know the truth Breaking News–Fighter Jets to Ukraine Poland Has Made Available All Its MiG-29 Jets For US To Transfer To Ukraine Paul Craig Roberts Hopefully, this report is fake news.  If not, as I have emphasized from the beginning, Putin’s go-slow way of fighting a war leaves plenty of time for others…

Note: A couple of readers have written saying that the video of the undead bodies was originally part of an environmental protest in Austria and that someone, perhaps poking fun at the Western media, re-scripted the video as fake Ukrainian dead. Support Your Website–There is no one but you to support it Crisis Actors Pretending to be dead Ukrainians Can’t…

Ukraine Update #6 Paul Craig Roberts A few remarks before I take the day off.  Nonsensical news reports continue to appear in the media. The New York Times reports:  “In less than a week, the United States and NATO have pushed more than 17,000 antitank weapons, including Javelin missiles, over the borders of Poland and Romania,”  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/us/politics/us-ukraine-weapons.html    Blinken gives…

Support Your Website.  There is no one to support it but you. Ukrainian Update #5 Paul Craig Roberts This morning I am going to play Armchair General.  I will say upfront that I have little doubt, unless the Kremlin changes its mind, the Russian military operation in Ukraine will be successful, but not the success it could have been.  I…

US Supreme Court Reinstates Death Sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Victim of Boston Marathon Bombing Frameup Paul Craig Roberts In a 6-3 decision today the US Supreme Court overturned the ruling by the appeals court that had set aside the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the grounds that he did not receive a fair trial. He most certainly did not…

Support your website or you will be without truth “The Empire of Lies” Paul Craig Roberts It is March and time for my quarterly request for your donations.  This website is carried by monthly donors.  I remind other users on a quarterly basis that they need to support the endangered species of people who tell the truth.  I look forward…

Ukraine Update #4 Paul Craig Roberts It is difficult work to give an accurate account of events in Ukraine. The Western media is entirely useless, consisting of fake news reports of Russian atrocities, casualties, defeats, and endless meaningless threats from impotent Western “leaders.”  Ukrainian news reports are even more ridiculous than the Iraqi ones during the US invasion.  Moreover as…

Ukraine Update #3 Paul Craig Roberts Begin by reading Michael Hudson’s explanation that the sanctions actually fall on Germany and serve the interests of the three interest groups who rule in Washington. https://www.unz.com/mhudson/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century/   The sanctions do far more to serve Washington’s interest than to hurt Russia’s.  For Russia the main burden of the sanctions is the insult. Russia is…

A Quick Decisive Victory Can Prevent a Wider War Paul Craig Roberts I am beginning to think Russia will lose the war, and her credibility with it, to negotiation.  For the third time the Kremlin has taken the negotiation bait.  According to the Russian news agency Tass, Russian and Ukrainian delegations will meet at an undisclosed location in Belarus for…

Difficult to Find a Way Out of the War that is Enveloping Us Paul Craig Roberts I will leave it to Glenn Greenwald to tell you how small the chance is of avoiding war– “War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless” https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-becoming?utm_source=url  The American people are too brainwashed and disinformed to have any idea of what might…

Update: It is stunning that no one in the Western leadership or media understood that Russia was serious about her security concern.  Whether the West regarded the Kremlin’s concern as warranted or not, everything should have been done to reassure Russia.  Instead, the opposite was done.  The idiot Stoltenberg said “if the Kremlin’s aim is to have less NATO on…

  Update: Ramzan Kadyrov, the  leader of the province of Chechnya  commands some of Russia’s most feared combat units. He said Russia’s tactics are not working because they are too sluggish.  The West has armed Ukraine with new generation heavy artillery and weapons, while Russia is not using its heavy artillery and weapons such as TOS.  It seems that even…

Washington Takes Us a Step Closer to War Paul Craig Roberts It is important that you understand that according to news reports the US government and its British puppet are sanctioning the persons of Putin and Lavrov as I write.  Putin has already said that any such insult will result in the break of diplomatic relations.  Either the governments of…

Ukraine Update #2 Paul Craig Roberts The function of the Western media is to turn fiction into fact and lie into truth. Once the narrative is established, it is repeated endlessly.  I worked hard yesterday to give my readers a true account of the situation.  Today I will update the military situation and point out difficulties that the Kremlin might…

The News Headlines Tell All US recognizes it cannot stand up to Russia: “Latest US Sanctions Not Designed to Cause Any Disruption to Current Flow Of Energy From Russia to The World, White House Claims” In 90 days Ukraine will not exist: “Zelensky Declares to Hold General Mobilization in Ukraine Within Next 90 Days” Moreover, the neo-Nazis will be dead…

Update on the Ukrainian situation Ukrainian resistance seems to have ceased as its infrastructure was put out of operation. Only a few neo-Nazi militias trapped within the Donbass territories continue to offer resistance. Russian paratroopers captured Kiev airport. Hours ago the Russian forces had reached the Dnieper and approached the suburbs of Kiev. Ukraine has lost its air force, air…

  “They didn’t hear what we told them. They had better hear this time.” — Vladimir Putin Paul Craig Roberts Think back to 2014 when the US overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed a neo-Nazi regime. The neocons were smirking, laughing at how easy it was to buffalo the Russians. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland publicly bragged about how…

Europe Is Killing Itself With Its Russian Sanctions Paul Craig Roberts The sharp rise in natural gas price in Europe is entirely due to Western hysteria and stupidity. According to the EU’s own data, Europe is dependent on Russia for 46% of its natural gas. In the face of such extraordinary dependency on Russian energy, the moronic European “leaders” are…

Breaking News : Russia Demilitarizes Ukraine Can the West Come to its Senses or Does the West Have any Sense to Come to? Paul Craig Roberts Three days ago I wrote “Today the World Has Changed.”  The Kremlin recognized the Russian territories that Lenin had folded into the Ukraine as independent states and gave the Ukrainian Nazis an ultimatum to…

Russia and China Should Go Their Own Way The West is the last thing they need Paul Craig Roberts Yesterday Russia created a new world. The Hegemon is dead. Today Russia and China should begin their disengagement  from the West, while remaining wary that the Satanic concoction is capable of striking with nuclear weapons while in its death throes. There…

Breaking News  Feb 21, 4pm US Central time Today the World Changed Paul Craig Roberts I listened to Putin’s address to the Russian people, indeed, to the entire world, following his meeting with the Security Council.  He expressed his sadness that negotiating with the West has taught him complete distrust of Washington, and Putin made it clear that Russia would…

Feb 21, 2022, 12:30pm US Central time Russia Has Given Up On Negotiations and Will Resolve the Donbass Issue by Recognizing the Independence of the Republics Paul Craig Roberts As I sit down to write Tass has not yet announced Putin’s decision about Russia’s recognization of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, formerly Russian territory that the Soviet government attached to…