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As I finished writing the article below, Iran decided to take matters out of the hands of Trump and Netanyahu. The decision was a consequence of Netanyahu’s order to the American-provided Israeli Air Force to commence the bombing of civilian residential areas of Beirut, Lebanon, and warning the residents to flee their soon to be... Read More
Responsible Statecraft reported that Israel is paying a cohort of 14-18 social media influencers an estimated $7,000 per posted article through a firm called Bridges Partners for defending Israel’s war crimes and demonizing alleged “anti-semites” for reporting them. The filing, disclosed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, indicated that Israel pays these influencers as part... Read More
Dear Readers, June is upon us, and it is time for my quarterly request for your support of the information provided you on this website. I would appreciate a show of appreciation for the risks I take in order to inform you. Consider, for example, “Has Trump Committed High Treason?” No one else has dared... Read More
No greater shame has ever visited a country than America’s subservience to Israel.
Trump fuses US military with Israels: Did you know that Israel pays “social media influencers” $7,000 for every article they write, for example, to justify or legitimize the latest Israeli war crime or theft of other countries territory? Like AIPAC, these paid Israeli agents have not registered as foreign agents, so we do not know... Read More
The Russians have paid with lives of soldiers and civilians and with sanctions and internet disruptions and airport closings and with humiliations for a conflict that has gone nowhere in 5 years. What is Putin’s purpose in creating a never-ending and ever-widening conflict that now takes place all over Russia with school children killed, oil... Read More
Let’s examine the case. In the oath of office taken in the swearing in of a president, the about-to-be-president swears allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and promises to defend it against enemies at home and abroad. In other words, enemies of the Constitution are enemies of the United States. (Today the Constitution’s enemies includes university... Read More
Russia’s Ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, yesterday said the West’s reaction to Ukraine’s deadly drone attack on a Russian school for children indicated the “moral failure” of the West. “If the suffering of a child can be used against Russia, it immediately becomes an international scandal, but when children die because of the premeditated... Read More
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has violated Trump’s Sedition Edict that protects Israel and Jews in general from criticism. The US Department of Justice has committed to implementing Trump’s edict that conflates criticism of Israeli behavior with anti-semitism. According to the New York Times, in a recent speech Israeli President Herzog warned that the inhuman behavior... Read More
At all times and places it has been difficult to speak freely. Even the founding fathers had their Sedition Act of 1798 that criminalized statements against the US government. Shortly afterward President Thomas Jefferson got most of it repealed. President Lincoln during his 1861-1865 invasion of the Confederate States of America had a de facto... Read More
Russia responds to Ukraine’s drone attack on a Russian school by trying to organize foreign journalists to visit the site. The naive, gullible Russians think that news stories about the atrocity is the appropriate response. Putin’s flat refusal to win a conflict now in its fifth year is being paid for with the lives of... Read More
Todd Blanche, the current acting US Attorney General, is Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer. Notice in the May 19 Department of Justice press release that Trump’s DOJ defines upholding civil rights as preventing criticism of Israel. In other words, suppressing or limiting the First Amendment is “upholding civil rights.” What the Trump DOJ... Read More
Questions have arisen whether the primary election was stolen from US Rep. Thomas Massie. Among the evidence suggesting a stolen primary are: A total of 30 or 40 people at Ed Gallrein’s victory party. Hundreds of people showing support for Massie at his concession speech. Gallrein had 70 campaign donors from Kentucky. His campaign funds... Read More
The British House of Lords lost its power to mob democracy gradually, but the Parliament Act of 1911 turned the House of Lords into the Roman Senate under the Caesars by stripping the House of Lords of veto power over legislation. This eliminated the Lords’ power over spending and taxation. By 1894 the Lords’ power... Read More
The Collapse of Moral Principle in the US Government
As far as I can tell, Donald Trump is the first American president in my lifetime to be actively engaged in business while serving as President of the United States. I have no memory of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush starting and running businesses while occupying the... Read More
Trump and his Zionist backers have driven the penultimate loyal American out of the US Congress. Thomas Massie has represented the Fourth District of Kentucky in the House of Representatives since 2012. The Fourth District includes Louisville’s suburbs that extend over northeastern Kentucky. The Suburbanites fell victim to the Israeli-Trump propaganda against the most committed... Read More
In Sheffield, England, a group of schools under the organization of Notre Dame High School, designated as a British national teaching school to lead the training of teachers, has developed an “anti-racism” curriculum for seven year old kids that teaches that blacks cannot be racist towards white people, because racism can only be expressed by... Read More
Tomorrow we are going to learn if it is possible for a US Representative to represent his constituency and America’s interest instead of Israel’s and remain in office. Thomas Massie, a seven-term Representative from Kentucky’s 4th congressional district, has been targeted for political termination by the Israel Lobby and President Trump. In what looks to... Read More
For several or more years I have emphasized that the digital revolution and artificial intelligence were, along with nuclear weapons, the worst of human mistakes. People have gained an understanding of the destructive power of nuclear weapons, but they have been indoctrinated into seeing the digital revolution and artificial intelligence as a great boost to... Read More
In the Western World, and perhaps worldwide, Russia’s unwillingness to retaliate for the destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline hurt Russia’s prestige and convinced Washington’s Zionist neoconservatives that Putin’s Russia was a paper tiger. In fact, Washington was already convinced, or Washington would not have dared to blow up the pipeline bringing Russian energy to... Read More
I have been thinking for some time about the disappearing quality of food. Consider restaurants. I remember when people went to restaurants to enjoy dishes that even good cooks could not prepare at home. Many mothers and grandmothers grew up with the adage that the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach. Children... Read More
British prime minister Starmer has enraged ethnic Britons by the outrageous preferences and legal privileges he has bestowed on Zionists and non-caucasian immigrant-invaders. Four ministerial aides have resigned, and 70 Labour Members of Parliament are demanding that Starmer resign. Last week in local elections, the Labour Party lost 1,300 council seats across Great Britain. (Yes,... Read More
Igor Girkin regrets that Putin’s pusillanimous behavior has humiliated Russia before the world. “We — as an entire country — have been humiliated before the whole world by our astonishing inability not only to defend our status as a Great Power (something that had remained unquestioned for Russia for centuries), but even to uphold ordinary... Read More
For some years I have been pointing out that the digital revolution, like nuclear weapons and laboratory manufacture of deadly pathogens that governments or terrorists can release, is a disastrous development for humanity. It is true that the digital revolution has benefits such as instant messaging, video conferences, real time access to news of events... Read More
The US has been dragged into war by Israel despite CIA assessments that Tehran was not building a bomb “The narrative and agenda spun by a foreign government – Israel — won the argument and forced us into this war.” — Former Chief of US Counterintelligence Joe Kent Washington joined Israel’s war against Iran despite... Read More
In his latest Dances with Bears, John Helmer reports Putin’s commitment to Israel, genocide notwithstanding: President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia and Israel make “a true common family; I can say this without exaggeration. Almost 2 million Russian speakers live in Israel. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking country…Without any exaggeration, I can say with pride... Read More
The publication of my fellow traveller in search of truth Gilbert Doctorow’s War Diaries, Volume 2, The Russia-Ukraine War, 2024, a collection of his columns and interviews, provides us with, in effect, a war diary kept by a war minister of day to day events that comprise the conflict. Doctorow succeeds in capturing the day... Read More
Doctorow Describes the Rising Cost to Russians of Putin’s Ever-Widening, Never-Ending War: “As to whether Russia is actually winning the war, my position has changed substantially from where it stood just a few weeks ago. What has changed is the vast improvement in quality and numbers of Ukrainian drones striking key infrastructure deep inside the... Read More
Trump and Netanyahu are not the only politicians who have trapped themselves in a war to their electoral disadvantage. The two are joined at the hip not only in purpose but in stupidity. The two stooges overestimated their military prowess and underestimated Iran’s. If Iran had kept to its vow and not agreed to a... Read More
Big Pharma Blocks Medical Progress
Pharmaceutical corporations’ focus on profits has resulted in the approval of many drugs that have proved to be harmful to many and have had to be withdrawn. Big Pharma’s use of its profits to direct medical research serves as a form of control over medicine’s approach to disease. For example, the medical establishment’s protection of... Read More
I was thinking about myself recently, about whether efforts to inform that are contrarian can be successful. In economics I am known for my reformulation of our understanding of the Soviet Economy and Soviet economic history and for my statement of supply-side economics that added the second blade of the scissors to macroeconomics and was... Read More
Trump, for whom I had hopes like tens of millions of Americans, is turning out to be a disaster for America and the world. Last Friday Trump announced an increase in the tariff from 15% to 25% on cars and trucks from the EU, thus breaking the agreement he made last July with European Commission... Read More
It wasn’t only that Trump’s war for Israel against Iran killed 180 children with an attack on a girl’s school. The Trump regime did the same thing to an Iranian Navy ship that Israel did to the USS Liberty. Trump attacked a disabled and unarmed Iranian ship in international waters and murdered 148 Iranians returning... Read More
Simplicius has collected news reports and explains their meaning. His explanation supports my conclusion expressed in interviews that Iran is the victor to date of the Israeli-American attack on Iran. If Iran had not foolishly called off its highly successful counterattack, the outcome might have been Israel’s surrender and the US driven from the Middle... Read More
Gilbert Doctorow and John Helmer are two observers of Russia who often do not agree. But in the past day or two both have raised the same question. Doctorow asks if Putin is on the ropes in the forthcoming September election and facing the possible defeat of his governing party, United Russia? Helmer asks: “Does... Read More
John Helmer reports that Trump officials are using inside information to bet on US military attacks against Iran, more evidence that war is exploited for profit: Helmer also reports Trump’s own account of his latest telephone call with Putin. Trump intimated that if Putin helped Trump press Iran into surrender, he would help Putin by... Read More
The Trump regime has shown that its true agenda is to dump Americans into captivity. Trump and his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, a George Soros lackey, are using undocumented aliens as an excuse to force American citizens into total digital surveillance. The Burning Platform explains: “In a move that exposes the true agenda behind the... Read More
The account of the Iranian situation by Simplicius is reasonably accurate. Trump has revealed time and again that he took us to war against Iran for Israel. Trump thinks no oil price is too high to pay to protect Israel from an alleged “Iran threat.” It was Israel, not Iran, that started the war. It... Read More
It seems only a few hours ago that Trump was boasting that Iran to save itself from annihilation was anxious to make a deal at the renewing of negotiations in Pakistan. This puzzled many as Iran itself had announced that it wasn’t going to any negotiation and would not negotiate with Trump’s two Jewish real... Read More
Over the years the Southern Poverty Law Center convinced me that it was one of the most evil of the Zionist organizations. The main activity of the SPLC seemed to be to demonize white Americans as racists and white supremacists. As I have never encountered a white supremacist–indeed, the opposite–white Americans fall all over themselves... Read More
It seems only a few hours ago that Trump was boasting that Iran to save itself from annihilation was anxious to make a deal at the renewing of negotiations in Pakistan. This puzzled many as Iran itself had announced that it wasn’t going to any negotiation and would not negotiate with Trump’s two Jewish real... Read More
Here is the Jewish Yale Law School Professor who wants to dispossess elderly Americans of their homes, wealth, and influence. Yale’s faculty has become increasingly moronic in its determination to split American society into finer and finer antagonistic pieces. A disunited society is a destroyed society. Professor Moyn has invented a crisis allegedly caused by... Read More
John Helmer has published a disturbing report of a US submarine attack on an unarmed Iranian frigate, IRIS Dena, returning from participation in an Indian exercise in the Indian Ocean. Washington knew the Iranian ship was unarmed, because only unarmed ships were permitted to participate in the exercise. Seeing an easy target that could not... Read More
Russians are tiring of Putin’s unwillingness to bring to an end a war, now in its fifth year, that should have been ended in three weeks. A member of the Russian Duma and of the opposition party warned Putin in the Russian Duma that “If you do not change course in a fundamental way, then... Read More
A Yale University professor of law and history, Samuel Moyn, has resurrected and redefined Marxian class conflict. In the old Marxism, the capitalists exploited the workers. In Moyn’s version, elderly Americans exploit the young. Moyn’s solution, espoused, of course, in the New York Times (April 21), is for the old to be dispossessed of their... Read More
According to research at Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs, Washington’s 21st century wars in behalf of the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel have cost American taxpayers about 10 trillion dollars. Twenty-five percent of the US national debt, the interest cost of which is approaching one trillion dollars annually, is the price... Read More
Someone is making money on Trump’s announcements. Moon of Alabama reports that 20 minutes before Trump’s announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, 7,990 Brent crude futures were sold, a bet that the oil price would fall that resulted in huge gains. Was this insider trading? Who knew Trump’s announcement before he made it?... Read More
Iran thinks Iran is negotiating with Trump about restrictions being imposed on Iran’s rights under the non-proliferation treaty. Iran is totally incorrect. This is a proxy issue. Iran’s real issue is with Israel, and it is about Iran’s right to exist. The Zionist agenda of Greater Israel, the foreign policy of the Netanyahu Israeli Government,... Read More
For a couple of years Dr. William Makis has been emphasizing Ivermectin, Mebendazole and Fenbendazole as the proper treatment for cancer. He has reported numerous cases of stage four cancer patients recovering. Now a major study has come out in support: The medical establishment, of course, is at work trying to protect its chemo profits:... Read More
President Trump has lost focus, or perhaps I should say he has refocused away from US domestic issues and is focused on how to save his and Netanyahu’s political bacon by extracting them from the war he foolishly let Netanyahu drag America into. Trump’s biggest problem seems to be Netanyahu’s unwillingness to let Trump out... Read More
Citizens of democracies think of themselves as free. This belief reflects their indoctrination, not the facts. Historically, the definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. A serf and a slave did not own their own labor, and neither does a citizen of a Western democracy today. Today, April 15,... Read More
Paul Craig Roberts
About Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy.

Dr. Roberts has held academic appointments at Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of New Mexico, Stanford University where he was Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, George Mason University where he had a joint appointment as professor of economics and professor of business administration, and Georgetown University where he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States.

President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.