Emotion Is Supplanting Evidence As The Basis For Truth Paul Craig Roberts One of the reasons that truth is on the decline is that truth is becoming emotion-based, not evidence-based. It is all about feelings. This seems to have begun with feminists, but teaching women to trust their feelings, that feelings are truth, couldn’t be kept just in the women’s locker room. It has spread...

Freedom Where Did You Go? Paul Craig Roberts My Generation is the last one to have known privacy and to have lived out most of our lives in freedom. I remember when driving licenses did not have photos and most certainly not fingerprints. A driving license was issued on proof of birth date alone. Prior to the appearance of automobiles IDs did not exist in...

Europe Descends Into Tyranny Italian Journalist Maurizio Blondet notes that France has adopted the Soviet Union’s method of dealing with political dissidents. Tyranny is institutionalized in the EU which has no regard for the opinions of the peoples whose governments signed away their liberties by submerging the identities of countries into a tyrannical European institution. Marine Le Pen opposes the decision of the French government...

Introduction by PCR: In this article economist Michael Hudson points out that in a financialized economy economic growth tends to slow to zero and then enter negative territory as debt service draws away from the purchase of goods and services more and more of consumers' disposable income. As disposable income shrinks, so does consumer demand for the purchases of goods and services. Without aggregate demand...

Dissent Is No Longer Permissible In The West Will Russia Notice? Paul Craig Roberts Update: https://paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/21/europe-descends-into-tyranny/ A French Court Has Ordered A Psychiatric Exam Of Opposition Leader Marine Le Pen. So Much for Western “democracy.” Nothing is less wecomed in the West than democracy. It has long been understood in Europe that the resurrection of French President Charles de Gaulle’s French nationalism under Marine Le...

Putin’s Hesitation Has Lost Syria’s Idlib Province Paul Craig Roberts The provocations that Putin invites are now escalating. Peter Ford, former British ambassador to Syria, points out that Washington has quickly taken advantage of Putin’s hesitancy in Syria to escalate the pretexts on which Washington will launch a military attack on the Syrian forces. Formerly Washington’s pretext was to be a false flag “chemical attack”...

Bob Woodward Says Russiagate Is Devoid of Evidence John V. Walsh points out that the presstitutes and Democratic Party are making a sensation out of Bob Woodward’s book, Fear, but ignore Woodward’s most sensational statement. Woodward says that for two years he searched as hard as he could to uncover evidence of a Trump/Russia connection and totally failed. https://russia-insider.com/en/woodward-no-evidence-trump-russia-collusion-i-searched-hard-two-years/ri24797 You can bet your life that...

Strategies Have Unintended Consequences Since posting my remarks — https://paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/18/can-russia-survive-her-partnerships-has-putin-made-a-strategic-miscalculation/ — other comments on President Putin’s response to the loss of Russian lives have appeared. I am providing links to two of them as examples of the negative consequences for Putin: https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/09/the-overarching-strategic-logic-behind-provocations-against-russia-2014-2018/ https://russia-insider.com/en/il-20-loss-perfect-opportunity-russia-close-down-syria-israeli-attacks-good/ri24794 Understand that I am not denigrating President Putin. I understand his strategy and consider his strategy to be moral and responsible. My...

Can Russia Survive Her “Partnerships”? Has Putin Made A Strategic Miscalculation? Paul Craig Roberts In an act of intentional deception, Israel used a Russian airplane to cloak an Israeli attack on a Syrian ground position, with the consequence that Syrian air defense missiles downed the Russian airplane with the lost of 15 Russian military lives. In the words of the Russian Ministry of Defense: “The...

Evidence Is No Longer A Western Value Support your website or it won’t be here. Russia Provides Conclusive Proof That Ukraine Downed Malaysia Airlines MH17 Of course, proof, facts, evidence are no longer of any consequence in the Western World. Transparently false accusations can be leveled without any evidence provided, and the lie becomes a fact. “Russiagate” is a perfect example. Feminist students in Western...