Chuck Baldwin Sums It Up: Trump Blew It Paul Craig Roberts As further evidence for Chuck Baldwin's view, I add Trump's UN speech yesterday. There was Trump patting Washington on the back for its good deeds and humanitarian and democratic concerns for other countries, which apparently includes Washington's destruction in whole or part of eight countries in the last 20 years, leaving ruin in place...

Whatever Happened to Leadership? Cynthia McKinney has raised an issue that I was wondering about. Where were the parents of the 15 year-old girl that is now accusing Kavanaugh of something far short of rape that happened when they were high school kids in the 1980s? Where were the parents of the home in which underaged boys and girls were drinking? Who arranged the combination...

Is Russia Being Betrayed By Its Own Intelligensia? Paul Craig Roberts The Russian military refused to buy Putin’s excuse for Israel’s intentional murder of 15 Russian Air Force personnel. The Russian military knows precisely what happened and has not been hesitant to make completely clear Israel’s total betrayal of the Russian government’s naive and gullible trust in the criminal state of Israel. https://www.rt.com/news/439246-russian-mod-israeli-f-16-hid/ One marvels...

Identity Politics Has Succeeded In Controlling Speech in the Literary & Academic Worlds The wrong word can end a career. Ian Buruma and the age of sexual McCarthyism Toby Young September 20, 2018 The New York Review of Books editor is the latest casualty of the identitarian mob. Those unfamiliar with the politics of New York’s intellectual Brahmin class will find this hard to get...

Support Your Website Truth Is Evaporating Before Our Eyes Does anyone notice? Paul Craig Roberts On September 17, I posted my column, “Evidence is no longer a Western value.” I used as an example the blame that has been put on Russia for the shot down Malaysian airliner. No evidence whatsoever exists for the accusation, and massive evidence has been presented that the airliner was...

The Naive & Gullible Russians Are Learning The Heavy Cost Of Trusting Israel https://www.rt.com/news/439151-russia-israel-il-20-negligence/

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...