Trump: Conflict Between His Words And Deeds Paul Craig Roberts President Trump (belatedly) congratulated Russian President Putin on his smashing reelection and said, again, that he favored getting along with Russia. Yet, how can Trump mean it when he follows up by appointing John Bolton, America’s most notorious warmonger, National Security Adviser? It makes no sense. Bolton is the third national security adviser in 14...

As I wrote, if Trump appoints John Bolton National Security Adviser, prepare to die. Diana Johnstone explains why in Bolton: As Bad As It Gets If Trump is good at firing, it is because he is so bad at hiring. Donald Trump came to office having made noises favorable to normalizing relations with Russia and cutting back foreign military adventures. Despite his manifest personal and...

This is a translation by Costantino Ceoldo of an article by the well known Italian war correspondent Gian Micalessin reporting from the scene on the latest attrocity committed against Syrian civilians by the Western-armed and supported mercenaries sent to destabilize Syria and throw the counry into chaos, like Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yeman. These attrocities are seldom mentioned in the Western media and when they are,...

This from a reader: It's strange that a British-American intelligence TV drama Strike Back had several episodes featuring Novichok nerve agent and Evil Russkies last year. Someone orchestrating political theater in the UK watches a lot of TV, or is advised by its producers. Episode 50 ran in the U.K on November 21 2017 and in the U.S. on February 23 2018: Meanwhile, General Lázsló...

Is the US Government Criminally Insane? Read these articles and make up your mind: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49037.htm https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/03/21/russian-military-warns-major-war-in-syria-imminent.html https://www.uawire.org/lavrov-us-british-french-and-other-number-of-other-countries-have-special-forces-working-in-syria https://www.rt.com/news/421919-chemical-weapons-militants-syria/ https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/03/escalation-us-assumes-naval-attack-posture/

Has Russia Had Enough? Paul Craig Roberts This morning I watched a briefing the Russian Foreign Ministry provided for the diplomatic community where international toxic substances experts presented information concerning the alleged nerve agent used in the alleged attack on Skripal and his daughter. This information has been known for some time, and none of it has been reported in the Western presstitute media. In...

UK Ambassador Craig Murray Asks If You Are Aware Of This Fact “OPCW inspectors have had full access to all known Russian chemical weapons facilities for over a decade – including those identified by the “Novichok” alleged whistleblower Mirzayanov – and last year OPCW inspectors completed the destruction of the last of 40,000 tonnes of Russian chemical weapons.” Have you read this fact in the...

Trump’s Misunderstanding of Protectionism Michael Hudson Trump’s series of threats this week was a one-two punch. First, he threatened to impose national security tariffs on steel and aluminum, primarily against Canada and Mexico (along with Korea and Japan). Then, he suggested an alternative: He would exempt these countries IF they agree to certain U.S. demands. But these demands make so little economic sense that they...

America Is Losing Its Economy Paul Craig Roberts From John Williams proprietary report: “Subject to Likely Downside Annual Benchmark Revisions this Coming Friday, February Industrial Production Jumped by 1.1% (0.9% Net of Revisions), Reflecting  improbable Strength in Manufacturing and Mining.  “Despite this perhaps premature report of industrial production gains, Given a Record 122 Months of Non-Expansion, Manufacturing Still Holds Shy of Its Pre-Recession Peak by...

Finally, Some Good News Paul Craig Roberts Washington’s gratuitous raising of tensions with Russia that we have been witnessing for many years is so reckless and irresponsible that we need some relief from the depression of it all. Perhaps I am grasping at straws, but here are some hopeful developments. —An establishment journalist, Michael Goodwin, the chief political columnist for the New York Post and...