To Fight Or Not To Fight: That Is Our Question Paul Craig Roberts This is my quarterly request for your financial support. Whether this website continues is your decision. Being a writer who attempts to discern and to tell the truth is both encouraging and discouraging. It is encouraging that some of you make monthly donations in support of the website as are your written...

Trump for President? Paul Craig Roberts Perhaps it has occurred to you as it has to me that the United States is no longer capable of producing political leadership. In the current issue of Trends Journal, Gerald Celente describes the eight candidates (at the time he went to press) for the US presidential nomination as “Liars, cowards, freaks & fools.” Celente put it well. If...

This is a point of view seldom heard in the West, so I pass it on to you. In the USA – “I Cannot Write!” by ANDRE VLTCHEK From CounterPunch, June 19, 2015, http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/19/in-the-usa-i-cannot-write/ At the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), in Los Angeles, a gigantic, carnivorous flag with torn ends was waving in an artificial wind created by enormous propellers. There were no visitors...

Paul Craig Roberts’ address to the Conference on the European/Russian Crisis, Delphi, Greece, June 20-21, 2015 
Paul Craig Roberts, formerly Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy, Associate Editor, Wall Street Journal, Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University, William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The United States has pursued empire since early in...

Like Vladimir Putin, Stephen Lendman speaks Straight Talk, a language Washington needs to learn. Putin Straight Talk v. Obama Double Talk by Stephen Lendman Putin says what he means and means what he says. His style is forthright. He follows through on what he says. Obama is polar opposite - an inveterate serial liar with no credibility whatever. He says one thing and does another....

Starvation Is The Price Greeks Will Pay For Remaining In The EU Paul Craig Roberts Syriza, the new Greek government that intended to rescue Greece from austerity, has come a cropper. The government relied on the good will of its EU “partners,” only to find that its “partners” had no good will. The Greek government did not understand that the only concern was the bottom...

Debunking Magna Carta Leads Back To Serfdom Paul Craig Roberts In my column for the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/06/12/happy-birthday-magna-carta-paul-craig-roberts/, I wrote: “A number of legal scholars have made the irrelevant point that the Magna Carta protected rights of the Church, nobles, and free men who were not enserfed, a small percentage of the population in the early 13th century. We hear the same...

Happy Birthday Magna Carta Paul Craig Roberts Monday, June 15, 2015, is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. In his book, Magna Carta, J.C. Holt, professor of medieval history, University of Cambridge, notes that three of the chapters of this ancient document still stand on the English Stature Book and that so much of what survives of the Great Charter is “concerned with individual liberty,”...

Read this and watch the video of this crazed psychopath abusing kids at a birthday party. Can you imagine the total irresponsibility of the local government in affluent McKinney, Texas, handing a badge and a weapon to such a dangerously out-of-control person and allowing him to run around committing assault at will? This guy belongs in an insane asylum in a straight jacket, not armed...

Ukrainians Dispossessed Americans are next Paul Craig Roberts Over the last 15 months Ukrainians have paid for Washington’s overthrow of their elected government in deaths, dismemberment of their country, and broken economic and political relationships with Russia that cost Ukraine its subsidized energy. Now Ukrainians are losing their pensions and traditional support payments. The Ukrainian population is headed for the graveyard. On June 1 the...