Trump Backs Away From Improving Relations With Russia Paul Craig Roberts Trump gives in to the military/security complex, renews weapons to Ukraine and extends sanctions on Russia for a year.  On April 10 Trump declared a continuation of the national emergency with Russia and renewed President Biden’s April 2021 executive order declaring Russia to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat…

Putin’s Pursuit of a New Yalta Paul Craig Roberts Kiev breaks energy ceasefire five times in 24 hours.  And these violations of the agreement are on top of previous violations. So why is Russia complying with a non-existent ceasefire? If Kiev will not comply with a partial ceasefire, why would Kiev comply with a full ceasefire? How can Trump expect…

The Tariff Issue Again Paul Craig Roberts The whore media is doing its best to misrepresent the tariff issue and to cause hysteria that causes stock market volatility and fears of world recession. One of the anti-Trump propaganda ministries that poses as financial media went so far as to claim that Trump has caused a “regime shift whereby US Treasuries…

April 15 Provides A Wonderful Lesson On How Government Conditioned Americans To Tyranny Paul Craig Roberts Americans have become so accustomed to living under tyranny that they are probably incapable of recognizing tyranny.  Once upon a time, April 15 was the annual day of infamy.  It was the day you had to pay your income taxes.  Americans have been subjected…

The Tariff Issue Paul Craig Roberts The tariff controversy is being colored in the most scary ways possible, because the Democrats, media, and ruling establishment want rid of Trump. It is also important to understand that tariffs are not the only way to limit imports.  There are other means, such as quotas.  Quotas on imports into the US of Japanese…

TRUMP:  An Assessment After the First Quarter Paul Craig Roberts It is not a full quarter as his inauguration was 20 days into it, but it is the first quarter of 2025.  How does it look? Perhaps I can put it this way:  a lot of good initiatives undertaken in a haphazard way that could limit their effectiveness or even…

Will the West’s Paranoia of Russia Destroy the World? Paul Craig Roberts  Do you remember the James Bond film in which a deranged Soviet General wanted to launch a nuclear war, or Dr. Strangelove, an American deranged general who wanted to do the same?  Well, Dr. Strangelove is still with us, but he is no longer considered insane. In today’s…

The Western World Has Abandoned Democracy Paul Craig Roberts Once upon a time political establishments would focus on defeating their opponent/challenger in elections.  Now they imprison them or stop them from running, as the Democrats tried to do to trump with four criminal indictments.  In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro faces alleged coup charges. In Romania, a host country for a US…

The West Has Been Destroyed by Inconsistencies in Its Enlightenment Heritage, Not by Jews. Paul Craig Roberts Who destroyed American education?  In a recent article, “The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education,”  Ron Unz blames it on the Jews. https://www.unz.com/runz/the-zionist-destruction-of-american-higher-education/   Clearly they had a hand in it, but was it intentional or a product of intellectual ideas German Jewish…

The Deep State Has Used the NY Times to Announce Its Withdrawal from Washington’s Conflict with Russia Paul Craig Roberts Last Saturday the New York Times completely abandoned the official narrative of the Ukraine Conflict, thus overturning the apple cart full of lies.  Jeff Childers gives us the gist of the New York Times abandonment of the ruling lie.  https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/narrative-whiplash-sunday-march-30?utm_campaign=email-post&r=15k3qo&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email…

Can Affirmation Be Restored to American Mores? Paul Craig Roberts Which is the most irresponsible organization on earth?  The American media or the Democrat judges? It is a difficult call, but I think the designation of most irresponsible goes to the presstitutes.  The presstitutes are no longer confined to the print and TV media and NPR, but include many internet…

Trump and Putin Could Bring Peace to the World Paul Craig Roberts England and France, American puppet states for decades until the advent of Trump 2, are visibly at work disrupting Trump’s effort to reach a deal with Putin that ends the conflict in Ukraine.  The Russian Defense Ministry said that the second strike on the Sudzha pipeline infrastructure in…

60 Years of Racial Discrimination Against White Americans Paul Craig Roberts Thirty years after the publication of my book, The New Color Line, Jared Taylor asks if racial discrimination is illegal or not. https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/is-racial-discrimination-illegal-or-not/  As I made crystal clear three decades ago, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution make it totally certain that…

Preparing for War Is an American Institution Paul Craig Roberts “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower In the 1960s and 1970s when the US actually had…

Support your website Is Negotiation the Best Way to End the Proxy War with Russia? Paul Craig Roberts Negotiations have many downsides, such as disputes over compliance, personality conflicts, arousal of anger and contempt, involvement of the egos of the negotiators, and negotiations have not served Russia well. Already Ukraine has violated the partial ceasefire agreement Putin made with Trump:…

Highly Partisan Judge Boasberg Played Key Role in Fomenting “Russiagate” Hoax  Paul Craig Roberts Obama-appointed district judge Boasberg, who tried to prevent the deportation of a dangerous criminal gang of illegal aliens allowed into the US by the Biden regime, played a key role in fomenting the “Russiagate” hoax used by the FBI in the Democrats’ effort to destroy President…

Support your website   Reflections My Time in the Reagan Administration PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Paul Craig Roberts, who played a crucial role in enacting the tax cuts of the 1980s and in forging the political emergence of supply-side economics, reflects on his experience in Washington. He emphasizes that intra-party power struggles, not economics, are the main influence on policy.  —…

The Demonization of Shakespeare PCR interviewed On Target with Larry Sparano In the United States my generation began reading Shakespeare’s plays in high school.  In universities you encountered Shakespeare in the core curriculum.  When core curriculums were abolished, English majors got further into Shakespeare and studied his sonnets.  It was the work that was admired and studied, not who Shakespeare…

Steven Starr is an expert knowledgeable about high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP).  His analysis leads him to the conclusion that an opponent doesn’t need large numbers of nuclear weapons to destroy the United States.  Three will suffice. Starr’s analysis will be considered controversial, because it shows EMP to be a grave risk to the safety of nuclear power plants. The Nuclear…

The Judiciary Is Attempting to Seize Executive Power Paul Craig Roberts Biden judge Tanya Chutkan orders EPA not to obey a presidential order to terminate waste, fraud, and abuse.  Chutkan was admonished by the US Supreme Court last June for ignoring presidential immunity and rushing a politically motivated case against Trump just prior to election season. https://stefanik.house.gov/2024/9/statement-on-judge-tanya-chutkan-s-corrupt-election-interference  Biden judge Ana…

Report on Trump-Putin telephone conversation Paul Craig Roberts The two leaders agreed to a 30-day cease fire limited to no attacks on each country’s energy infrastructure.  For Ukraine this means the cessation of Russian attacks on the power grid.  The cease fire does not apply to the Russian advance on the battlefield. The two leaders agreed to further talks in…

Are Things Going Amiss? Paul Craig Roberts During the Biden regime, Trump criticized the Democrats for dropping bombs on Yemen.  You don’t have to do that, Trump said, you can talk through problems over the telephone.  Now it is Trump who is bombing Yemen. Those few who think about foreign affairs chalk it up to another Trump favor to Israel. …

This website relies on Readers’ support The British Repudiate Shakespeare Because His Success “Benefits the Ideology of White Supremacy” Paul Craig Roberts https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14504153/Shakespeares-birthplace-colonised-fears-success-benefits-ideology-white-supremacy.html  What has happened to the Western World that causes it to deny and bury its successes because the successes allegedly embarrass nonwhites? For decades the majority of Western intellectuals, “artists,” and university professors have worked assiduously to…

This website relies on Readers’ support. Our Pro-Israeli Heros Paul Craig Roberts It is discouraging that politicians, such as Trump and DeSantis  who protect us from DEI and other Woke evil are aligned with Israel against American civil liberty.  Are they really our heroes if Israel owns them? The anomaly of American politicians aligned with Israel against America shows the…

What Are the Prospects for an End to the Ukraine Conflict? Paul Craig Roberts The prospects are not good as it seems the negotiations have already failed.  Putin was excluded from participation in the agreement that Trump is threatening to shove down Putin’s throat with threats. On March 13 Nima hosted on Dialogue Works a discussion between myself and Professor…

This website relies on readers’ support. Is Putin Being Boxed In by Trump and Zelensky Paul Craig Roberts Trump and Zelensky have agreed on a cease fire, a pause in the conflict.  How does this benefit Russia? It doesn’t.  The Ukrainian military is collapsing on all fronts. 86% of the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk has been retaken, and the remaining…

Free Trade was Ricardo’s Concocted Theory Used to dispossess the British Aristocracy Paul Craig Roberts In their book, Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests published in 2000 by The MIT Press, Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol proved that the free trade theory with which economists today are still indoctrinated is false.  Economists have done their best not to…

This website relies on readers support The  French Despite Clear Warning Brought The Camp of the Saints to France Will Trump Fail? Paul Craig Roberts France is dying.  It is a piecemeal death. One business district at a time.  One neighborhood at a time. A restaurant, a business, a theater, a hotel here and there.  Each death so sad but…

Dear Readers, I am continuing my policy of holding accountable whatever government is in office.  Consequently, I upset both Democrats and Republicans, both the liberal-left and conservatives.  If this website is to continue, it must have its readers’ support.  This website does not receive, as some others do, grants from USAID or other federal agencies and departments.  The Rockefeller Foundation,…

Support your website  More on that Supreme Court Decision–It Was a Victory for Trump Paul Craig Roberts A couple of readers in response to my request in my article of March 6 ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/06/can-the-judiciary-block-the-trump-administrations-effort-to-eliminate-waste-and-fraud-from-the-federal-budget-pcr-interviewed-on-dialogue-works/ ) sent me an article by an attorney, Jeff Childers.  It turns out that my explanation is correct.  A DEI judicial appointment, Amir Ali, a Muslim,…

This website depends on readers’ support.  No one else is going to speak to you this frankly. Every Vote for a Democrat Is an Attack on America Paul Craig Roberts America has only one enemy–the Democrat Party, an anti-American party, an anti-white party, a party of national destruction and replacement of America with a Tower of Babel, a party committed…

AI:  Friend or Foe? Paul Craig Roberts AI, the shorthand symbol for artificial intelligence, is not merely a technological development that enhances productivity.  It is also an attack on the viability of most of humanity.  Elon Musk, who knows something about the subject, said recently that AI’s ability to be programmed to replace so many human jobs is leading us…

Why Is Europe Making Itself Irrelevant” Paul Craig Roberts Readers want to know why the UK PM and European leaders–really, non-leaders, misleaders, bad leaders–want war with Russia over Ukraine.  My answer is that they don’t. What would they go to war with?  According to the European “leaders,” they already have given all their weapons to Ukraine and have nothing with…

  This website relies on readers’ support. The Chance for a New World Paul Craig Roberts For the first time in many years there is hope.  The DEI/Woke/Democrat assault on white Americans has been stopped at least for four years.  For awhile I won’t have to worry that the FBI will break down my door because some creep doesn’t like…

A Trump-Putin Accord? Paul Craig Roberts Why is it that American liberal Democrats and Europeans are so disturbed that Trump is moving the United States toward normal relations with Russia instead of maintaining a hostile approach to Russia based on proxy wars, sanctions, and endless propaganda?  We know why the think tanks and university faculties supported by the military/security complex…

AI and the Digital Revolution Are Mankind’s Deadly Enemies Paul Craig Roberts Does the pleasure you get from scrolling your cell phone compensate you for the frustration from the absence of customer service?  The same digital revolution that gave you a cell phone gave the companies the opportunity to drive up profits and executive bonuses by replacing customer service with…

The American Health Care System Is a Collection of Profit Centers Unrelated to Health Care Paul Craig Roberts We learned from the hoax “Covid pandemic” how bad the American medical system is.  It is worse than bad. It is terrible.  Americans have the most expensive and least effective medical system in the Western world. Over the course of my life…

A Change in US Foreign Policy from Lies to Truth, from War to Peace Paul Craig Roberts Yesterday Trump began the task of his first term–the normalization of relations with Russia–which was blocked by the corrupt FBI’s “Russiagate” hoax, an act of treason for which executions should take place and, indeed, the utterly corrupt agency abolished. The United States, to…

President Trump’s idea of replacing the income tax with tariffs is sound and a great advancement in the restoration of freedom Paul Craig Roberts Prior to 1913 the US government was financed by tariffs.  It was under tariffs, not free trade, that the United States industrialized and became a manufacturing nation.  Indeed, the Union invaded and destroyed the Confederacy in…

Artificial Intelligence and Satan are the two greatest enemies of the human race Paul Craig Roberts Many years ago in the 1950s, or perhaps it was the 1960s,  Mad Magazine painted a dystopian picture of the future in which AI had taken over life and produced everything everyone needed. Consequently, humans had nothing to do and no longer knew how…

Kash Patel Is Sending 1,500 FBI from DC to the Hinterlands Dear Kash, I read that you are sending 1,500 FBI bad apples from DC into the states.  Please keep them out of red states. Perhaps you are hoping they will resign.  Otherwise it is a bad idea.  The FBI are the Democrats’ secret police. They frame red state politicians,…

From the Front Lines Paul Craig Roberts First the good news: Trump’s achievements are enormous! How can any American complain? People who complain are not Americans. https://x.com/TheScoopUS/status/1892679928035811735?mx=2  Judge greenlights Trump’s move against corrupt USAID https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/court-sides-with-trump-admin-in-usaid-legal-battle-over-workforce-cuts-5814242?ea_src=ai_recommender&ea_med=a_bot_2_ads&test_user_group=A  Now the bad news.  It is not as bad as it sounds in terms of interfering with Trump’s efforts to clean corruption out of the…

  Jobs Offshoring and Work Visas Are Means of Enriching Corporate Executives with “Performance bonuses” for Replacing American Labor with Lower Paid Foreign Labor, thus Reducing Aggregate Demand in the US  Paul Craig Roberts From The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution the West (Clarity Press, 2013) “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and immigration advocates, such as the…

Whose Gold, if anyone’s, Is in Ft. Knox Paul Craig Roberts If there is gold in Ft. Knox, whose is it?  Many bullion dealers believe that any gold in Ft. Knox is not ours.  Over the decades the gold was “leased” to bullion dealers who sold it into the gold market, thereby protecting the value of the dollar by holding…