PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Institute for Political Economy

US Senate Advances Resolution to Ban Use of Armed Forces Against Venezuela in 52-47 Vote

It seems that the lunatic in the White House is eroding his support base.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260108/us-senate-passes-resolution-to-ban-use-of-armed-forces-against-venezuela-in-52-47-vote-1123441183.html

Trump brags, that the United States intends to loot Venezuela of trillions of dollars of its oil

The purpose of kidnapping Maduro is to intimidate the Venezuelan government into accepting the looting of Venezuela’s resources.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260109/us-to-get-hundreds-of-billions-or-trillions-of-dollars-from-venezuelan-oil-sale—trump-1123441823.html

It seems that the Russian military and public opinion will no longer allow Putin to ignore provocations

War in Ukraine
Russia uses hypersonic missile against Ukraine
Kyiv confirms projectile flying up to 13,000km an hour hit infrastructure near western city of Lviv
Aresidential building in Kyiv hit by a Russian drone strike © Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters Fabrice Deprez In
Published 2 HOURS AGO

Russia used a hypersonic, nuclear-capable missile against Ukraine in an attack on
Thursday night, Moscow said, as Kyiv warned of a”grave threat” to the region as a whole.
Ukraine’s air force confirmed that a ballistic missile flying at a speed of up to 13,000 kilometres an hour and fired from the Kapustin Yar training ground in Russia had hit “infrastructure facilities” near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, about 100km from the Polish border.
It said the strike was part of an overnight raid that involved 242 drones as well as 36 ballistic and cruise missiles.
Russia’s defence ministry said the missile used was the “Oreshnik”, a ballistic, hypersonic weapon equipped to fire multiple conventional or nuclear warheads.
“Such a strike close to [the] EU and Nato border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community,” Andriy Sybiha,
Ukraine’s foreign minister, posted on X, adding that Kyiv would call for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council.
Moscow has only used the Oreshnik on one previous occasion during its war in Ukraine, when it fired the missile [ as a demonstration on an abandoned site] in November 2024 on a target near the city of Dnipro, in the south-east of the country.
The Russian defence ministry said Thursday’s missile assault was a response ot what it said was a Ukrainian drone strike last month on President Vladimir Putin’s residence.
Thursday’s attack also came after Moscow rejected a plan to deploy French and British troops in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire. The Russian government has warned that such troops “will be considered legitimate military targets”.
Fabian Hoffmann, a missile expert at the University of Oslo, said the Oreshnik was likely to be based on the RS-26 Rubezh, a missile that was “conceived, tested and publicly presented as a nuclear delivery system”.
As such, Hoffmann said, “it would appear that the Oreshnik is a dual-capable ballistic missile that can be equipped with conventional and nuclear . . payloads”.
The broader Russian attack overnight hit Kyiv and the surrounding region, with residents told at 11pm that dozens of drones were converging on the capital from the east and the south, before a series of explosions roared over the capital.

Simplicius provides details: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/swift-retaliation-putin-launches?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=183971277&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dx5km&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

If Russia continues it’s newly found serious approach to the conflict, the war in Ukraine will soon be over.

The true story of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis

Paul Craig Roberts

In this column, I will address based on the information available to date the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE federal agent.

The liberal-left whore media has attempted to present the narrative that Renee Nicole Good, the mother of a young child, was gratuitously murdered by the Trump administration as she attempted to leave a conflict situation. A video shows that whether she was attempting to flee or to rundown an ICE agent, a front fender of her vehicle hit or nearly hit a federal agent doing his job and rounding up immigrant invaders illegally in the United States for deportation.

The question before us is why have the Democrat governor of Minnesota and the Democrat mayor of Minneapolis made the roundup of illegal aliens a primary issue of Democrat opposition.

Democrat governor Tim Walz, Minnesota mayor, Jacob Frey, and democrat representative Ilhan Omar have portrayed deportation of illegals as white supremacist racism. These and other such assertions have motivated the unintelligent and indoctrinated Democrat populations of Minnesota and Minneapolis, people stupid enough to elect Tim waltz and Jacob Frey, to regard as their responsibility the protection immigrant invaders from deportation.

Perhaps Renee Nicole Good felt that it was her responsibility to engage in violence against the federal government in order to protect the right of people who entered the United States illegally to remain despite their illegal presence.

On the other hand, frazzled ICE federal agents, ordered by constituted legal authority to deport illegal aliens, after suffering weeks of abuse by Democrat officials and Democrat citizens of Minnesota and Minneapolis and whore media, and perhaps by others bussed in to cause conflict, had a short fuse. The federal agents had been spat on, had objects thrown at them and calls for killing them. To experience a vehicle charging at you if you are an ICE federal agent is rationally seen, given the circumstances, as an attack on your life.

The death of Renee Nicole Good would never have occurred if Democrat Minnesota had accepted the will of the American people demonstrated in the 2024 election and cooperated with the nation’s desire to remove the illegal aliens from our presence. Instead, the Democrat party refused to accept the American people’s will, preferring instead the will of noncitizens and aligned themselves with those who entered the country illegally.

In my view, the evidence is unequivocally clear that Renée Nicole Good died because of the irresponsibility of Tim Walz, Jacob Frey and Ilhan Omar.

Renee Nicole Good’s child lost its mother because of Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and Ilhan Omar.

The Democrat whore media and the Jewish news site Bloomberg are doing their best to inflamed Democrats into another George Floyd type protest. Bloomberg seems delighted that protests have spread from Minneapolis to the Democrat strongholds of New York, Boston, and Portland. Thus does the Democrat party accelerate the destruction of America, apparently an agenda that meets with the approval of 48.5% of the American electorate that votes Democrat.

Russia needs to replace Putin before his endless toleration of provocations results in the final war

Paul Craig Roberts

Russia’s response to the illegal seizure of its ship, Marinera, in the high seas–an act of war–is to demand that Washington ensures dignified treatment of the Russian citizens aboard. Washington could not care less about Russian demands. Putin proved to Washington long ago that Russia’s bark has no bite.

As I have written for years now, the absence of any bite in Russia’s bark is driving the world to nuclear war. By tolerating every provocation, Putin has encouraged the provocations to increase and to worsen. For example, when Russia’s strategic bombing fleet was attacked, Putin refused to acknowledge it as an act of war. When the United States attempted to assassinate Putin in his residence, Putin refused to acknowledge it as an act of war.

Seizing ships on the high seas is an act of war. The United States has acknowledged throughout its history that seizing ships on the high sea is an act of war. In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson sent the US Navy and US Marines to the Shores of Tripoli to stop the Arab seizure of American ships in international waters and sale of the passengers into slavery. When the British seized American ships, it resulted in the war of 1812. Now we have the United States claiming that US law applies to all ships in all oceans, and a federal judge has backed up this ridiculous claim by issuing a warrant for an empty ship under the Russian flag to be seized on the high seas 5,500 kilometers from the United States.

The lunatic in the White House describes this as “protecting America.”

The Convention on the Law of the Sea guarantees freedom of navigation and prohibits the seizure of ships registered in other countries. Just as Trump’s kidnapping of the Venezuelan head of state and first lady is an impeachable offense, so also is the seizure of ships on high seas. But do not expect any accountability in a country whose population has been brainwashed and indoctrinated into believing that they are under attack and must defend themselves by every means legal and illegal.

Putin has convinced Washington that there is no provocation that will produce any Russian reaction except a few meaningless words. This is the road to the final war.

China’s inaction mirrors Russia’s and has eroded the one China policy established by President Nixon in the 1970s. In its place is a growing belief that Taiwan, like Greenland, belongs to the United States and is to be protected by the US Navy and hundreds of American missiles shipped to Taiwan. The Chinese government’s failure to deal with reality is leading to war.

The same in Iran. As a result of inaction, the Iranian government has squandered its strategic advantage, and left itself more surrounded and isolated. There is still no mutual security agreement among these three countries. Such an agreement would bring the provocations to a halt. Apparently the governments are incapable of understanding that their effort to avoid conflict is leading to conflict.

What will the next provocation be? The US Navy sailing into Sevastopol and impounding the Russian Black Sea fleet? Perhaps to avoid this humiliation is the reason Russia is building an alternative base in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia.

America is a Country Lost to Regime Change
Regime change in the Western world has been accomplished

Paul Craig Roberts

In an interview on Dialogue Works, I explained Trump’s approach to regime change. Instead of overthrowing a government, Trump first demonstrates force, such as the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, and then uses a combination of bribes and threats to turn the targeted government into his agent. This is a more simple, more quick and less bloody way of achieving regime change. If this approach doesn’t work, Trump can resort to a color revolution or a military invasion. All he has to do is to tell insouciant brainwashed Americans that they are under attack, and they will accept the cost in money and blood of overthrowing a country that Trump has demonized as a threat to America.

Trump’s growing recklessness–kidnapping heads of states, seizing ships on the high seas, and threatening countries, such as Iran, Columbia, Cuba, and Mexico with war–has led some of his former supports to think we could use regime change in the United States.

In fact, the United States, Britain, and most of Europe have been undergoing regime change for decades. The regime change is coming from two sources. One is the demonization of western civilization and white ethnicities by universities and the educational system. In the Western world students are taught that the British, the French, the German, the Belgian and the American white racist supremacists exterminated native populations and exploited the remainder. The Western white supremacists denied any accomplishments by people of color. They hid the fact that the first Swedes and the first British were black ethnics. The white supremacist invented slavery and subjected peoples of color to bondage. These are the stock explanations in American, British, and European universities and in the lower school system.

For decades, the belief system that comprises western civilization has been systematically undermined and eroded by the educational establishments in western countries. At the moment of the collapse in the belief system, western governments encouraged the entry of millions of unassimilable people of color who have succeeded in entering into the governing and police institutions of Western countries. These are people who have been taught by white western educationalists that they are the victims of white racist supremacy.

The damage has been done. For example, in the last presidential election 48.5% of the electorate voted for anti-white open border Democrats, whose agenda for America is a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel. At the present moment, Democrat city councils, mayors, governors, US representatives and senators, are at war with US federal agents trying to identify and deport immigrant-invaders who are in the United States, supported at the expense of American citizen taxpayers. The fact that very close to half of the American electorate prefers illegal invaders over American citizens indicates a lost country.

Trump cannot restore a lost country by bullying other countries. Trump’s bullying confirms the narrative of white exploitation of non-white ethnicities. Trump is confirming the propagandistic picture of Western civilization presented by Western education.

On dialogue works PCR explains to Nima that the new version of regime change is to leave a country’s government in office as long as the government  serves as Washington’s agent

On dialogue works PCR explains to Nima that the new version of regime change is to leave a country’s government in office as long as the government  serves as Washington’s agents. In other words, instead of overthrowing a government and imposing a puppet, Washington uses bribes and threats to the existing government to serve Washington’s agenda. This is Washington’s initial approach to Venezuela. To achieve subservience in this way might be the explanation for Washington’s threats to Columbia, Cuba and Mexico. As for Iran, Israel calls the shots.

In the second half of the program, PCR explores, the question of how long Russia, China, and Iran can hide from the fact that they are targeted for destruction?

https://www.youtube.com/live/QnNpyy12bdo 

Venezuela’s oil is ours. We stole it fair and square.

In this episode of Coffee and a Mike with Michael Farris, Mike, Gary Heavin and PCR discuss Trump’s kidnapping of the President and First Lady of Venezuela and Trump’s threats to Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Iran.  Gary and PCR have naturally fallen into the good cop/bad cop routine. Gary, the good cop, has the hopeful role, identifying hopeful developments where he sees them. PCR is the bad cop whose task is to prevent too much hope from making the people complacent and uninvolved. In this way a thoughtful presentation is produced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a04XxdYvPSI 

What became of America’s “peace president”?

Paul Craig Roberts

Stephen Miller, President Trump’s Jewish deputy chief of staff and architect of Trump’s agenda, is the administration’s voice on American foreign policy. The Jewish voice that speaks for America has announced that it is the “formal position” of the United States government that Greenland belongs to the United States and that no country can prevent Washington from annexing the Danish territory. Miller’s Jewish wife posted online a map of Greenland draped in the American flag. Trump agreed saying Washington “absolutely needs” Greenland. Asked to confirm Washington’s intentions, Miller said that it has been the formal position since the beginning of the trump administration that “obviously Greenland should be part of the United States,” not withstanding the fact that Greenland has long been part of Denmark. Miller questioned Denmark’s claim to Greenland and said that “nobody is going to fight the US military over the future of Greenland.” In other words just as Israel can seize Palestine, Washington can seize Greenland, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Iran and any other country that it wishes.

Miller claims that Washington needs to seize Greenland in order “to secure the Arctic.” By securing the Arctic Miller means preventing other countries from using the waterways and exploiting the resources. Not content with looting Venezuela, Washington has turned to looting NATO countries and the Arctic.

The lawlessness of the Israeli-dominated Trump regime could result in the isolation of the United States and the realignment of Western Europe with Russia.  Stealing territory from Denmark is inconsistent with the NATO treaty that commits the United States to the defense of the integrity of Denmark. The blatant and unapologetic announcement that Washington intends to annex Greenland should make it clear to the Kremlin that there is no possibility of arriving at a peaceful settlement with Washington. If the Kremlin still believes otherwise, the Kremlinl has transformed itself into an insane asylum. What could terminate the Ukrainian conflict is Europe’s realization that NATO members themselves are to be looted by the Trump regime. Europeans will have to question why they are fighting America’s war with Russia and seek instead a security agreement with Russia in order to protect themselves from being looted by the Trump regime.

It is extraordinary that in less than the first week of the new year Trump has put on notice Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran, and Denmark, while taking no meaningful steps to end Washington’s conflict with Russia in Ukraine. As if this aggressive agenda is not enough, the Trump regime is provoking China with the sale of hundreds of missiles to Taiwan that can be used to attack Chinese cities. Clearly, Donald Trump has emerged as anything but a “peace president.”

American communism has come home to roost

Paul Craig Roberts

New York is not the only city in the United States that has a communist mayor. Seattle also has one, and little doubt there are many others. 

I tend to regard all Democrats as communist, because all of them believe that justice consists of burdening working people with the food, housing, and medical needs of the nonworking. I am referring to welfare programs, such as SNAP benefits, subsidized and rent controlled housing, and medical care provided by taxes on employed peoples earnings. I am not speaking of Social Security and Medicare. Recipients of these benefits pay  substantial taxes for all of their working life to be eligible for medical care and a small pension on their retirement. Social Security and Medicare are not welfare programs, they are insurance programs run by the government and financed over the working life of the beneficiaries.

When I was in the congressional staff, Senator Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told me that Congress had promised the American people that Social Security benefits would never be taxed. When the Reagan tax rate reductions passed, David Stockman and Alan Greenspan in their hysteria preached that America would be destroyed by “the Reagan deficits” unless Social Security benefits were taxed. 

I was no longer in the treasury to stop the insanity, and no one else thought it worthwhile to do so. Consequently beginning in 1984 50% of Americans’ Social Security payments were taxed if their retirement income exceeded certain thresholds. If memory serves the threshold was $25,000. Later the taxation of Social Security benefits was increased and 80% of the Social Security check was subject to income taxation at your tax rate.

I have always wondered why David Stockman and Alan Greenspan thought that people who had paid tax all their lives for their Social Security retirement benefits should be taxed on the benefits, while those who failed to provide for themselves should be supported by taxes on the retired incomes of the working class. Stockman and Greenspan demonstrate that some Republicans are as communistic as Democrats.

Americans, especially conservative ones, have been fighting communism all their lives, and have continued their fight with non-communist Russia. All the while insouciant conservatives sat on their butts while communism was constructed in the United States. 

Communism states “from each according to his ability to each according to his needs.” in other words, there are no private property rights. The Muslim communist mayor of New York has appointed a housing czar who has made clear her belief that property must be communal not private. She says that New Yorkers will have to become accustomed to a different relationship with property. The communist mayor thinks that rental property owners can maintain their properties, inhabited by non-owners who have no ownership stake in the property, despite a rent freeze. The communist mayor of Seattle seems to have the same idea.

The communist mayor of Seattle has also ordered the police to stop  arresting public users of drugs. Instead, they are to refer the drug addicts to Seattle programs. Apparently the Seattle mayor wants more drug addicts on the streets to be maintained by Seattle taxpayers.

Despite the fact that Democrat administrations are communistic, we are faced with the fact that almost half of the American electorate continue to vote Democrat. This clearly indicates that the United States has beyond all doubt a population too stupid for the country to survive.

The Trump Republicans only want to steal the property of foreign nations. The Democrats want to steal the property of Americans. That is the difference in the parties.

The American liberals’ welfare system has always been a budget item for fraudsters to exploit. When Ronald Reagan pointed this out, the moronic liberals at the New York Times, Washington Post, and TV stations ridiculed the president of the United States. Today the fraud is so obvious that even the liberal-left governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, damaged by the fact that Somali immigrant-invaders stole large amounts from the state’s welfare system, has announced he will not run for reelection.

Whatever communism the Democrat mayors and governors themselves do not impose is imposed by the need to support the flood of immigrant-invaders for whom the Democrats guaranteed open borders.

The provision of help to those in need is the function of charities, churches, and the Salvation Army. Local hands-on operations are not subject to gigantic fraud, and they also provide the personal element of caring. Substituting an impersonal bureaucracy is dysfunctional, and it creates a sense of entitlement that has expanded to 42 million Americans.

As the replacement of humans in the workforce by the digital revolution continues, the United States will reach a breaking point. Guaranteed income will have to be institutionalized in order that there is income with which to purchase the goods and services of robots. Technology itself is bringing us communism.

Ron Unz makes a case that it is past time for Russia to wake up and take action

Paul Craig Roberts

“But I do think that Putin and his government have to finally respond in sufficiently strong fashion as to deter such continuing American provocations. In the past they have failed to do so, and as a result these Western actions have continually escalated, with Trump’s ignorant and bellicose national security team having apparently convinced themselves that the Russians were militarily so feeble that their leadership could be regularly attacked with total impunity.” — Ron Unz

I am pleased to read that Ron Unz has come around to agree with me and Gilbert Doctorow that Russian president Putin’s toleration of endless provocations is leading directly to war.

Putin’s legalistic approach to conflict is highly unrealistic, considering Trump’s lawlessness and the lawlessness of Europe.

Ron Unz notes that the never-ending conflict in Ukraine is turning European governments into totalitarian institutions determined to repress dissenting opinions. In this way, Putin is bringing about the destruction of accountable governments in the West.

Unz has much of note to say:  https://www.unz.com/runz/puncturing-the-propaganda-bubble-of-the-ussa-and-its-eussr-vassals/ 

Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s

The president told The Atlantic that Delcy Rodríguez needs to comply with U.S. wishes—or else.

By Michael Scherer

“In a telephone interview this morning, President Donald Trump issued a not-so-veiled threat against the new Venezuelan leader, Delcy Rodríguez, saying that “if she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” referring to Nicolás Maduro, now residing in a New York City jail cell. Trump made clear that he would not stand for what he described as Rodríguez’s defiant rejection of the armed U.S. intervention that resulted in Maduro’s capture.”

Trump added:  “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” he said, describing the island—a part of Denmark, a NATO ally—as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”  To save Greenland from  a nonexistent Russian/Chinese threat is Trump’s excuse for stealing Greenland from Denmark.

The policy of regime change is entering a new era.

Delay Rodriguez’s reply is:  “We shall never be a colony ever again.”

https://archive.ph/8LJ7c 

How Israel’s multi-ton truck bombs ripped through Gaza City

This is from Reuters news service. It is not a conspiracy theory.

Using scores of remotely controlled armored personnel carriers filled with explosives, Gaza City is being completely leveled.   All above ground structures reduced to dust and debris to preclude any return of Palestinians to Gaza.    How is this not a war crime?

How can President Trump accept this massive war crime and cover it up by bragging that he has achieved a cease-fire?

How can the House and Senate accept this massive war crime and continue to condemn those with a moral conscience who protest the war crime?

How can 60% of registered Republicans take the position that anyone who criticizes any Israeli policy is antisemitic and has no place in the Republican party? (See the recent Manhattan Institute survey.)

How can anyone be so brainwashed and indoctrinated that they equate criticism of genocide with anti-semitism? It is Republicans over the age of 50 who are most brainwashed and indoctrinated by the Israeli narrative.

What do we make of a Republican Party that will not acknowledge a genocide taking place in front of their eyes, but instead regard any mention of the Palestinian genocide as expressing hatred of Jews? Is this a party that is fit to govern?

Apparently, Christian morality has become a minority position in the Republican Party.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/DEMOLITION/jnvwkkxdlvw/

The World Council of Churches has called on the European Union to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel over what it described as a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and violations against Palestinians in the West Bank.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251231-world-council-of-churches-calls-for-sanctions-on-israel/

Israel’s gradual destruction of Palestine over the years while the “Great Moral West” did nothing.

I want you to look at the mirror and ask “where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide?”… In Gaza today God is under the rubble… Jesus is under the rubble. — Rev. Munther Isaac, the Senior Pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, Christmas Eve Sermon on December 24, 2023

American liberals have destroyed American education to the point that high school graduates cannot even read the diplomas awarded to them

As American education is no longer capable of producing human resources, the field is wide open for artificial intelligence to dominate the American workforce.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/why-johnny-cant-read-5960016?utm_source=brightnoe&src_src=brightnoe&utm_campaign=bright-2026-01-02&src_cmp=bright-2026-01-02&utm_medium=email&est=/ub/8prEz2YZHeae9D/vyFMKEXtHO1z9IR4Wgw5EwoSZZr6kkdL1robCkg== 

The digital revolution is destroying humanity
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/taki-theodoracopulos/to-heck-with-tech/

2026 was the Beginning of the End for the Western World

Paul Craig Roberts

2026 was the year that the deterioration in Western civilization became irreversible. In the United States the Republic established by the Founding Fathers had deteriorated into mob democracy, a form of communism, a regime in which 42 million Americans unable or unwilling to provide for themselves voted themselves a livelihood provided by the work force of 170 million, in effect reducing the working population to serfs serving the new privileged class. 

The long years of open borders had filled the United States with millions of illegal immigrant-invaders, who no longer assimilate but establish their own cultural zones and advocate for their own forms of law. The country was transformed into a Tower of Babel in which exists no common purpose. The concept of America as a unified nation ceased to exist as the United States dissolved into multiculturalism. The transformation of the United States was symbolized by the swearing in of New York mayor, an African-born Muslim, Zohran Mamdani on a Quran.

Trump s0ught to unite the United States with acts of military aggression. He attacked Nigeria and Venezuela and kidnapped the Venezuelan president and First Lady. He issued threats of attack to Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, and Iran. Militarism became the basic element of US foreign policy.

Standards essentially disappeared. Integrity was a thing of the past. News reporting became narratives serving monied and powerful interests. The digital revolution produced endless scams, identity thefts, and insecurity of assets and persons. Presidential elections were stolen as in 2020. Conflicts were perpetrated in order to enrich the military security complex and advance Greater Israel. The American middle class continued to shrink. The shrinkage that began with the offshoring of American manufacturing jobs and the importation of foreigners on H-1b work visas accelerated with artificial intelligence and robotics. There were no longer ladders of upward mobility to move illegal aliens and new entrance into the workforce into self-supporting employment.

The Trump administration attempted to rein-in and reverse the deterioration, but the federal bureaucracy was filled with millions of Democrat employees protected by Democrat federal district judges, and the government bureaucracy refused to cooperate with the president.

Trump could not get America out of wars because of the power of the military security complex and Israel. To serve the power and profit of the military security complex, President Trump was forced to open military confrontation with Venezuela, kidnapping the Venezuelan president and First Lady and putting them on trial with false charges. The Israel lobby and Netanyahu required present Trump to again attack Iran. The consequent war profits drained from the budget made impossible the ability of the United States to restrain the growth of its national debt.

The rapid increase in American public debt contributed to the rapid rise in the dollar price of gold and silver. But the main danger to the dollar and the ability of the United States to finance its massive debt is the weaponization of the dollar associated with sanctions against Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and any country that fails to conform its internal and external policies to Washington’s will.  As long as US national debt in the form of US Treasury bonds comprises the reserves of the world’s central banks, financing the US debt is no problem. An increase in American debt simply meant an increase in the reserves of the world banking system. Once the sanctions were imposed Central banks realized that holding reserves in US Treasury debt could result in the bank reserves being confiscated as happened to Russia. As central banks retreated to alternatives to US Treasury debt, the US dollar weakened and lost its power.

The United States of America not only lost its existence to millions of immigrant-invaders. It lost its independence to the Israel lobby and Prime Minister Netanyahu, a man under indictment by his own government and by the International Criminal Court. The American president Trump has repeatedly shown humiliating subordination to this indicted criminal.

In the United States and particularly in the Republican Party, the compelling question is whether a person is an anti-semite.  Think for a moment about this term. Once upon a time long ago, anti-semite meant a person who hated Jews and wished them harm. Today it means that anyone who criticizes Israel, however mildly, does so not from a moral conscience, not from opposition to Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinian women and children in the head, bombing hospitals full of injured and the sick, bombing schools full of children, bombing residential housing full of civilians, but from hatred of Jews. For example, criticisms of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestine are dismissed as expressions of hatred of Jews. 

No other ethnic group is so totally protected from accountability for crimes.  American students who criticize Israel’s genocide in Palestine are expelled from the university. If the students are foreign, Trump deports them to their home countries. In states such as Texas and Florida criticism of Israel, and involvement in boycott of Israel, disqualify Americans from working for the states, or having contracts to supply the states with goods and services. It should both stun and shame Americans that Israel has succeeded in canceling the constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech.

The moral conscience of the western world disappeared when Israel could shoot mothers and their babies in the head with any protest being prohibited as hatred of Jews.

Consider the term anti-semitism. Why is it that only Jews have a term that dismisses any attempt to hold them accountable for genocide or whatever crime?  Everyone else on earth can be held accountable for human rights, violations, for infiltrating foreign intelligent services, for attacking their Navy ships as Israel did in 1967 to the USS Liberty, killing and wounding some 200 American US Navy personnel. Yet, no protest was permitted. Indeed, few Americans even know of it.

President Trump could not save America because he could not free America of Israel’s control. The Republican party was more supportive of Israel than it was of America’s own president.

The social and moral degradation of the United States is even worse. Feminists destroyed the natural relationship between men and women in Western society. The family was a casualty. Today 40% of births in America occur outside of marriage. There are no longer two parents to raise a child. Indeed sometimes there are none. With husband and wife both career-oriented, children are left to childcare centers and video screens.

Ever since Alfred Blumrosen at the EEOC stood the 1964 Civil Rights Act on its head and imposed racial quotas despite their explicit prohibition in the Act, American white heterosexual males have been second class citizens under the law. Blumrosen’s imposition of racial quotas destroyed the American merit system that was the basis for university admission, employment, and promotion by requiring proportional representation of what of what was called “preferred minorities.” Women and the sexually perverted were added to blacks  as preferred minorities. Today, women dominate media, education, law, and healthcare and they are closing in on corporate CEO’s where women now comprise 48% of the leaders of American corporations. White men simply cannot gain entrance into prestigious universities in percentages equal to their percentage of the population. Therefore, they experience the opposite of affirmative action. They experience legal but unconstitutional race and gender discrimination and have done so for 60 years. Imagine that. How does that fit in with equal rights? Why did America penalize white heterosexual male Americans citizens in order to advance blacks, women, and the sexually perverted? Is there any better way to destroy a country? Who is responsible for this atrocity? Why has American society tolerated this unconstitutional discrimination for 60 years?

The chastity of women is a long abandoned virtue. Today books by women celebrate the virtues and excitement of harlotry. Middle-aged women write New York Times best sellers about how by abandoning their husband and children they achieved self-love and the best sex of their lives. These are not women on whom a nation can be built.

A recent survey by the Manhattan Institute shows that few Republicans understand the issues of our time or the dangers to the continuation of Western civilization.   A civilization is based on a belief system, and when these beliefs are eroded by constant attacks over decades and by propaganda designed to focus a country on serving interests that are not its own, it is destroyed, leaving the civilization unprotected from its enemies.

Throughout Europe, the situation is even worse. Ethnic national existence is today equated with Nazism. In France Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s largest political party, is prohibited from running for election. No European government represents its ethnic population, except for the government in Hungary and perhaps Poland. The rest represent the immigrant-invaders who are gradually acquiring the right to live outside of the country’s law. Rapes of Swedish, Norwegian, and British women and underage female children by immigrant-invaders go largely unpunished. Indeed, it can be dangerous to women, especially in Scandinavia and the UK, to report rapes as the report can be interpreted as a hate crime.

It is extraordinary that American feminists are completely silent on this matter.

The European Union was created in order to suppress the ethnic nationalities of European countries and destroy their sovereignty by subjecting them to an artificial creation called the European Union. The European Union is an autocratic institution in which all power resides in appointed leaders, not in elected representatives. The elected representatives are nothing but a cover for the autocracy that has been created. What this tells us is that in Europe there is no longer any respect for the sovereignty of European peoples. They are to be governed by those who select themselves as the governors.

This is a fragile structure, and to hold it together the European Union has focused on the alleged “Russian threat” against which Europe must be united. So preparing for war with Russia is the strategy for holding the European nations captive. Of course, if the war occurs there will be no Europe.

What is wrong with European leadership that it is not recognized that war with Russia means the termination of Europe? What is to be gained by a war that terminates your existence? Europe’s inability to confront this basic question indicates an absence of the ability to recognize facts and to think.

Americans have the same problem, What the vast majority of the public wants to hear is what they already think. They don’t want their  brainwashings and indoctrinations to be challenged. It is uncomfortable, and they had rather be comfortable than informed. So they cling to the false explanations that keep them in La La Land.

When a people so uninformed, so alienated from facts, so comfortable in the unreality in which they live confront the threat to their continued existence, how do they cope? They cannot.

I have spent my adult life, trying to provide Americans with good information. I could not have chosen a more difficult task. Americans are essentially immune to any reality that goes beyond their personal circumstances. Consequently, this made it easy for their non-personal circumstances to be dramatically altered over time without their awareness. Today the Constitution that once protected Americans’ rights is in ruins. Americans are overrun by tens of millions of non-white immigrant-invaders who do not assimilate, but who establish their own communities, and are given privileged standing before the law. If we look at it honestly, the United States is no longer a country with an ethnic foundation. It is an unstable Tower of Babel in which morality has given away to sexual license and the disappearance of integrity.

Can we really expect an American president to reverse such a deteriorated situation with a population that is so insouciant that it has no grasp of reality?  With the Democrat Party committed to a Soddom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel and a Republican party with 60% of its members committed to Israel First, what future does America have?

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The Peace President Goes to War

Paul Craig Roberts

The White House says that the trump administration has kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife and has brought them to the US where they will be put on trial for narco-terrorism. The narcotics charge is a cover for renewed looting of Venezuela’s national resources, just as Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction and Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons were excuses to justify American military aggression against Iraq and Syria in order to serve Israel’s agenda of a Greater Israel. President Trump had already told the world the real reason for his attack on Venezuela. Trump said was going to take back “our oil.”

“Our oil” is Venezuela’s oil. Venezuela began nationalizing it’s oil and other resources that were in American hands in the 1970s. Hugo Chavez completed the process during his term of office. The current president, illegally kidnapped in contemptuous violation of all international law, had nothing whatsoever to do with the nationalization of Venezuela’s national assets. Trump’s position that the United States is empowered to steal the property of other countries symbolizes the behavior of a war-mongering rogue government unworthy of the support of the American people.

Trump is proud of kidnapping a head of state and little doubt the American people will also be proud, seeing the act of a rogue criminal state as “making America great again.” Trump says that his government will run Venezuela until he has put the country into the hands of a dependable American puppet. Trump said that he wants “peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela” and that “large US oil companies will go back into Venezuela” in order to stop Venezuela from stealing America’s oil.

Trump has added three more countries to his regime change list–Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba. Trump accused Colombian president Gustavo Petro of narco-terrorism and warned him “to watch his ass.”  Trump said that “something’s going to have to be done with Mexico,” and he suggested that regime change would help the people of the failing regime in Cuba. https://www.rt.com/news/630489-trump-warning-cuba-colombia-mexico/   Recently Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Security said that the era of American regime change was over. Clearly she was mistaken. There has now been regime change in Venezuela and the same fate awaits Iran.   https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-says-us-will-run-venezuela-until-transition-5965654?utm_source=rtnewsnoe&src_src=rtnewsnoe&utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2026-01-03-3&src_cmp=rtbreaking-2026-01-03-3&utm_medium=email&utm_content=access0&est=P7DGYOWCbTCtrKfO1mq57vh9Ji40exrNsUs66oYEMA7e9B440Bi7%2FudF2A%3D%3D 

Not content with stealing Venezuela’s assets, Trump is also after Iran’s sovereignty. American money has poured into NGO’s in Iran and used to bribe street protests against the government as was done in Kiev when the elected Ukrainian government was overthrown and an American puppet installed. Trump has announced that the United States will intervene in Iran if violence is used against the hired protesters. Just as Washington arranged for shots to be fired in Kiev, Washington can arrange for shots to be fired in Tehran. This way Trump can overthrow Iran without it looking like he is doing it for Israel.

I have long thought that peace in the world would be greatly served by a mutual security agreement between Russia, China, and Iran. This combination of power and position would serve to dampen the aggression that emanates from Washington’s doctrine of American hegemony. But the three governments lacked vision, and now it seems Iran will be lost. 

The Iranian people are so stupid that they blame their own government, not the American sanctions, for their economic difficulties. Iran, with its oil wealth, could have had a gold-backed currency to protect the value of its purchasing power, but apparently lacked the vision to take the self-protective step. The Iranian government appears to be as indecisive, unprepared, and irresolute as the Russian one.

Washington has handed the narrative to its pressitute minions calling for American support for the Iranian protesters. The New York Post headline declares “Iran’s heroic protesters need to hear that America is on their side.”

The Internet site, Just the News, says “Obama failed to support Iran’s freedom protesters two decades ago, but Trump just rectified that.”  “We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” declared Trump. The BBC portrays Iranians yearning to be liberated by American intervention in their country.

And now we have this:

“Israeli military ordered to prepare for war on all fronts amid Iranian protests”

“The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been ordered to prepare for a possible simultaneous war against Iran, Lebanon, and the West Bank, according to Israeli Channel 12. One scenario reportedly includes an “explosive operation” against Tehran, which is currently facing widespread Israeli-backed cost-of-living protests.

“The preparations are part of a four-year long-term plan led by IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, the broadcaster revealed on Wednesday. On top of war readiness, they also reportedly include plans to develop capabilities to attack both satellites and ground targets from space.”

The Israeli news service could not state the fact any clearer. There is a four-year Washington-Israeli plan to conquer the remnants of the Muslim Middle East. Apparently, the alarm could not be raised because that would be anti-semitic. Thus, Israel has had a clear hand.

Russia’s protests are pointless as Russia never backs its words with action, and neither does China. If Iran falls, BRICS and the new Chinese Silk Road will lose credibility. It is clear that Washington has many means with which to perpetuate its hegemony.

Earlier this century, Washington tried to overthrow the Iranian government in the Green Revolution sponsored by American-financed NGO’s inside Iran. This attempt failed. Apparently the Iranian government did nothing to improve it’s internal security, or possibly the Iranian government wanted to prove how democratic it is by tolerating internal insurrection. Consequently, Iran is now faced with a larger and more dangerous attempt.

In August 1953, the first democratically elected government in Iran, led by Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh was overthrown in a combined American-British regime change known as Operation Ajax in the US and Operation Boot in Britain. The overthrow of the first democratically elected government of Iran was motivated by the determination to regain control of Iran’s oil industry after the Iranian government nationalized the British-owned Anglo Iranian oil Company, the recipient of Iranian oil wealth. The overthrow was achieved by bribing Iranians to take to the streets in protest, thus demonstrating that the Iranians had no respect for their own democracy and for a few dollars willingly participated in its overthrow.

It seems that governments in countries where there is not a strong nationalist awareness are easily overthrown from outside simply by bribes and money. We have the case of the Ukrainian government, the case of the government in Georgia, which recently survived another attempt at color revolution. The United States can reach inside Venezuela and extract the country’s president and first lady, an unlikely feat without the cooperation of Venezuelans. The United States has overthrown Honduras governments on many occasions. Outside money was used to foment unrest in Hong Kong. As the United States progresses daily into becoming a Tower of Babel in which there is no common interest, the United States itself will be vulnerable if any other countries decide to play Washington’s game. Europe is also vulnerable. The European Union is unstable and is being held together with the propaganda of a Russian threat that requires unity to withstand.

Ethnic nationalism protects the sovereignty of nations.  However, the liberal-left have associated nationalism with military aggression and the Nazi regime in Germany and, thereby, with anti-semitism. Sovereignty also has been undermined by the push for one world globalism. In the United States, hegemony is not an expression of American nationalism. It is the tool of money interest and a servant of Greater Israel.

With the evidence in front of Putin’s eyes that Trump has kidnapped the president of a country and has set in motion the destabilization of another country, how can Putin possibly see any chance of a meaningful agreement with Trump? Is reality beyond the grasp of Putin and the Russian nation?