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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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.…

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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…

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Dissent Is No Longer Permissible In The West Will Russia Notice? Paul Craig Roberts 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…

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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…

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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…

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Strategies Have Unintended Consequences Since posting my remarks — https://www.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…

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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.…

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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…

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