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The Sanctions Bite the West, Not Russia

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy We can see how much worse the sanctions are punishing US and Europe than they are punishing Russia by examining this article: https://www.rt.com/news/551486-us-ban-oil-gas-russia/ The Covid lockdowns re-awoke inflation, something the Federal Reserve had been unable to do for more than a decade of massive money creation.  The […]

“The Empire of Lies”

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy In the past two years we have seen that the Western peoples are more badly and more corruptly led than any people in previous history.  The peoples were deceived about a “Covid pandemic” that was entirely an orchestration. Yes, the virus existed, but the “pandemic” was […]

Paul Craig Roberts: Ukrainian Update #5

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy This morning I am going to play Armchair General.  I will say upfront that I have little doubt, unless the Kremlin changes its mind, the Russian military operation in Ukraine will be successful, but not the success it could have been.  I also admit upfront that whereas I […]

Paul Craig Roberts: Ukraine Update #3

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Begin by reading Michael Hudson’s explanation that the sanctions actually fall on Germany and serve the interests of the three interest groups who rule in Washington. https://www.unz.com/mhudson/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century/   The sanctions do far more to serve Washington’s interest than to hurt Russia’s.  For Russia the main burden […]

Paul Craig Roberts: Ukraine Update #2

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy The function of the Western media is to turn fiction into fact and lie into truth. Once the narrative is established, it is repeated endlessly.  I worked hard yesterday to give my readers a true account of the situation.  Today I will update the military situation […]

What to do about Inflation

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Americans live from threat to threat. Now that the “covid threat” and the “Russian threat” have played out, we have the “inflation threat,” but is it any more real? It is true that the Central Bank has poured out unprecedented amounts of money for more than […]

Tyranny Ahead

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy The most dangerous form of tyranny has raised its head simultaneously in Canada and the United States. The exercise of civil liberty is being criminalized. In Canada the city government of Ottawa with the aid of the US FBI and US Department of Homeland Security is […]

President Biden Is a Tool of Big Pharma

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy The lunatic occupant of the Oval Office has arbitrarily yanked from use the only “establishment approved” Covid treatment, monoclonal antibodies. As Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis correctly states: Biden’s “indefensible edict takes treatment out of the hands of medical professionals and will cost some Americans their lives. […]

The Covid Deception Is a Power Grab

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy In a recent interview with Geopolitics & Empire — Hrvoje Moric asked me if there was an explanation for the uniformity of countries’ Covid policies with even the “free world” shutting down civil liberties with tyrannical lockdowns, mask, vaccine, and passport mandates, and falsified pandemic and […]

Washington Simultaneously Demonizes Russia, China, Iran, and Its Own White Majority Population while Democrats Enforce Covid Tyranny

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Can Free Florida Survive? Florida has a large Cuban population, but it also has a large Jewish population, people who made their money and retired in a sunny land without freezing temperatures. Most of the Jews understand the benefits of Florida’s openness under Governor DeSantis, but, […]

Supreme Court Delivers Schizophrenic Ruling

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy In a schizophrenic ruling on January 13, the US Supreme Court ruled against the Biden regime’s Covid vaccine mandate for private businesses but for the mandate for health care workers. Ordinary Americans might wonder why the Justices protected some people from undergoing a coerced medical procedure […]

Does America Have a Future?

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy Glenn Greenwald Offers his Perspective on the Democrats’ “Trump Insurrection” Histrionics. Greenwald is on the money, but the situation for American is even more serious than he thinks. Here is Greenwald’s explanation of the counterfactual reality created for us by Democrats: “The orgy of psychodrama today […]

Now People Are Dying from the Vaccine

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy OneAmerica is a large life insurance company in Indianapolis. The chief executive officer, Scott Davison just announced that judging by policy claims Americans of working age are suddenly dying in unprecedented numbers. He reports that all life insurance companies are experiencing a 40% rise in the […]

2022: A Challenging Year

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy I remember when 1984 was in the distant future. We wondered if our destiny was going to be Big Brother’s police state. But 1984 turned out to be the middle of the Reagan years. Liberals didn’t like Reagan’s rhetoric, but his policies worked. Supply-side economics cured […]