«Wenn ich sagen soll, was mir neben dem Frieden wichtiger sei als alles andere, dann lautet meine Antwort ohne Wenn und Aber: Freiheit. Die Freiheit für viele, nicht nur für die wenigen. Freiheit des Gewissens und der Meinung. Auch Freiheit von Not und von Furcht.» (– Willy Brandt, 14. Juni 1987).
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Institute for Political Economy
Every Democrat Judge Has To Go
Every Democrat Judge Has To Go
Liberals do not protect innocents from criminals. They protect criminals from accountability. Democrat judges are Americans’ enemies.
The Digital Revolution Was A Great Mistake
The Digital Revolution Was A Great Mistake
Paul Craig Roberts
Even the big banks that welcomed the revolution are finding that the cost of managing security could rise out of control and exceed the labor cost of the analogue system. Wells Fargo warns: “In today’s digital world scammers are using advanced tools like AI to make impersonation scams harder to detect. Caller ID can be spoofed, emails can be faked, voices can be cloned, and images can be altered.” This makes Wells Fargo’s current security measures vulnerable. For example, the bank uses recognition of a customer’s voice as a security check for providing access to customer service concerning a depositor’s account.
Scammers are just one problem. Hackers are another. Your identity can be stolen. Your account can be stolen. Your pension can be stolen. Your home can be stolen. Your credit card and your debit card can be hijacked. Checks you have written can be intercepted and altered. Entire systems, corporations, and government agencies can be held ransom.
And then there is “customer service.” The time-consuming struggle with an AI voice, the frustration of dealing with English language-handicapped foreign “customer service representatives” with no authority, the wait to be transferred to a supervisor, the need to go to a branch office because a previous security update erased account connections, and so on. What used to be an easily fixed problem over the telephone answered by the third ring can go on for days before being resolved.
It is going to get worse. The Internet cannot be made secure because it is an open system. Security firms tell financial firms, for example, that the best they can do is to train the company’s employees not to make mistakes that make it easy for hackers. I wonder how long before banks and financial institutions require their account holders to participate in online security courses in order for the banks to guarantee their accounts.
The big banks and the Federal Reserve might soon offer and then impose digital currency. Digital currency replaces physical means of payment such as cash and checks. The handling and managing of physical transactions is more expensive as it requires people rather than a program to manage transactions. As the five big banks control 90% of all deposits–essentially a monopoly– their adoption of digital currency would impose it on all banks.
A digital currency means your money is no longer in your hands. It can be denied you intentionally or accidentally. You no longer will have a cash hoard as a backup. Possibly, if they are permitted to exist, you could collect anonymous debit cards preloaded with specific amounts, but if digital money is to be used for control, their existence is unlikely. Moreover, hackers are as likely to be successful diverting digital money as everything else.
The main destructive element of digital systems is that they remove humans from human contact. Scammers have eliminated the usefulness of a telephone as a device for speaking to another person. Instead, people text. But if caller ID and emails can be compromised, so can texting.
What the digital revolution has given us is total insecurity, isolation, and enormous frustration. Why do we put up with it?
A one-sided orientation toward the West is naive and lethal for Russian Sovereignty
A one-sided orientation toward the West is naive and lethal for Russian Sovereignty
Finally, Some Intelligent Russian Commentary
Pavel Malyutin and Sergey Karaganov read the Westernized Atlanticist Integrationists out of Russia’s future, declaring that Russia rejects the Western “liberal-globalist project of a world government run by technocrats, transnational corporations and NGOS.”
The Russian Media So Often Misses the American Story
The Russian Media So Often Misses the American Story
RT asks, “What does a ‘socialist’ in charge of New York really mean?”
The real question is, “What does an Immigrant-Invader from Uganda in charge of New York really mean?”
It means that the NY City electorate has a concept of America as a land without borders in which American ethnicity is over-ridden by whoever walks in.
Here is Mamdani with his constituency:
HERE IS ONE OF THE IMMIGRANT-INVADERS THAT THE LIBERAL-LEFT DEMOCRATS AND WHORE MEDIA TELL US ARE NECESSARY IF AMERICA IS TO CEASE TO BE A RACIST COUNTRY WITH A RACIST WHITE POPULATION
HERE IS ONE OF THE IMMIGRANT-INVADERS THAT THE LIBERAL-LEFT DEMOCRATS AND WHORE MEDIA TELL US ARE NECESSARY IF AMERICA IS TO CEASE TO BE A RACIST COUNTRY WITH A RACIST WHITE POPULATION
The World That Was
The World That Was
Paul Craig Roberts
With every Western country experiencing social collapse from a variety of unaddressed causes, such as the rapid loss of jobs to Artificial Intelligence, exhaustion of environmental and natural resources, feminization’s replacement of the male role with sentiment and destruction of the male/female relationship, the loss of integrity and moral behavior to money, and the aggression inherent in the Zionist Neoconservative doctrine of hegemony, I am going to skip writing for today’s posting another dire assessment of our multitude of unaddressed challenges.
Instead, remembering my previous essay some time ago about English murder mysteries and the authors, I am returning for this morning’s posting to a civilized time in which all was in control. In the 1920s and 1930s, Great Britain, despite Sir Edward Grey stupidly involving Britain in World War I, Britain was still a great power in control of the seas and international trade. The British pound was the world currency. The American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, looked upon British power with envy.
Perhaps Wilkie Collins with his books The Moonstone and The Woman In White was the first English mystery novelist. But it was Agatha Christie’s 66 murder mysteries, most solved not by the British police but by private detective Hercule Poirot and private citizen, Miss Marple. With Agatha Christie you get a murder mystery, not a novel full of character development and psychological theories of crime.
In my view, Christie’s only rival is Dorothy Sayers. Her sleuth, Lord Peter Whimsey, is one up on Christie’s super sleuths. Sayers only wrote a few murder mysteries before moving on to serious work. A couple are simply murder mysteries, but a love interest appears. Lord Peter sees injustice in the case of Harriet Vane, an Oxford University educated woman living in sin with a disreputable character who is murdered, for which Harriet is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to death by hanging. Lord Peter takes up her case, proves her innocence, secures her release and spends five years over, if memory serves, two books, until she finally accepts him to the disgust of his sister-in-law the Duchess of Denver.
Lord Peter, the second son of the Duke of Denver, the richest aristocrat in Britain, is rich by his own ability. Lord Peter is a favorite of the Foreign Office and is sent everywhere in the world to maintain the British position. He is the most desirable batchelor in the realm, and he marries what is perceived as an Oxford educated slut. Remember, this was a century ago before female sexual liberation.
I have always been puzzled by accounts of male promiscuity. Sexual intercourse between heterosexuals requires a male and a female. If only males are libertines, who do they have affairs with?
But to get back on track. Once Harriet Vane appears, Sayers’ murder mysteries become also the development of the relationship between Lord Peter and Harriet. And more subject matter enters. Whey Sayers places a murder in an advertising, or perhaps it was a publishing, corporation, she first goes to the trouble of learning how these businesses operate. In what I think is her mystery masterpiece, The Nine Tailors, she first masters the art of bell ringing. So, a Sayers mystery can be more rewarding that a Christie mystery as it is a richer tale, not just a murder mystery.
My delight in the books is not the murders. Indeed, I can reread many times Christe’s mysteries, because I don’t remember the plots. Wondering about my memory, I realized that I don’t read the books for the mysteries. I read them in order to escape current reality into a civilize time.
One wonders if the picture of police behavior in the mystery novels is correct. I assume it is, because the writers are addressing audiences in their own time and cannot present them with a fantasy. The police are very restrained not only by their own behavior but by what the suspects will accept from the police. Politeness and respect for privacy rule. Police have to be very careful in their questioning not to be impertinent. When have you last heard that word used? Do you know what it means? It means not showing proper respect. The police do not merely want a suspect with which, guilty or innocent, to close the case. The police only want the one who is guilty. Today they could not care less. They just want cases closed. The prosecutor just wants another conviction. The judge just wants a clear docket.
It is so different from today when suspects are browbeat both by their attorney and by the prosecutor to accept a plea bargain, whether innocent or guilty, that quickly disposes of the case, gives the prosecutor another conviction, and keeps the judge’s court docket free.
The limits on the police in the British mystery novels of the 1920s and 1930s are unbelievable today. So is the behavior of characters in the story who refuse to help the police because it would require them to diverge a confidence. Imagine the contrast with today when no one can wait to incriminate someone else.
My conclusion is that I wish I had been born long ago and had passed on before our uncivilized time. Sitting at night reading before bed, I wonder at the civilized world that is lost to us.
Dumbshit Democrats Advocate Dictatorship for Trump
Dumbshit Democrats Advocate Dictatorship for Trump
Look at the many Democrats, who by keeping government closed prevent congressional authorization of SNAP payments, demanding that Trump assume dictatorial power and spend money without congressional authorization. The Democrats who are advocating a Trump Dictatorship include dumbshit federal judge John McConnell, dumnbshit Democrat US Senator Chris Murphy, and dumbshit Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward. Amazing that Democrats prefer a Trump Dictatorship to reopening the government. Trump should take them up on their offer of dictatorship and dispense with the unneeded and dysfunctional US Congress.
Trump Says SNAP Benefits Won’t Be Paid Until Government Reopens
The government had said in filings food stamps would be going out soon.
White House on Oct. 7, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter Epoch Times
11/4/2025|Updated: 11/4/2025
President Donald Trump on Nov. 4 said that benefits will not go to federal food stamp recipients until the government is reopened, as a coalition of plaintiffs urged a judge to take action.
Benefits for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
A federal judge recently ordered the Trump administration to partially or fully fund SNAP benefits for November.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in Washington later Tuesday that the Trump administration “is fully complying with the court order.”
“The recipients of these SNAP benefits need to understand it’s going to take some time to receive this money, because the Democrats have forced the administration into a very untenable position. We are digging into a contingency fund that is supposed to be for emergencies, catastrophes, for war, and the president does not want to have to tap into this fund in the future, and that’s what he was referring to in his Truth Social post,” she stated.
Trump administration officials told the judge, U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr., on Monday that they would spend approximately $4.6 billion in contingency money to partially fund the November benefits for the approximately 42 million SNAP enrollees.
USDA Warns Grocery Stores Against Illegal Discounts for SNAP Recipients
Trump Admin Will Partially Fund November Food Stamps: Filing
U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said that states must recode their systems to adjust for the reduced benefits and that it could take states from a few weeks to several months to do so.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on X on Tuesday that “this will be a cumbersome process, including revised eligibility systems, State notification procedures, and ultimately, delayed benefits for weeks, but we will help States navigate those challenges.”
She also urged Democrats to reopen the government.
Democrats in Congress have largely voted against measures that would end the government shutdown, which started on Oct. 1. Republicans on Nov. 3 blocked a resolution from Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) that would require the government to fully fund November SNAP payments.
In a Nov. 4 motion to U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr., who recently ordered the administration to at least partially fund the November payments, the Rhode Island State Council of Churches and other plaintiffs in the case said that McConnell should enforce his order, which stated that officials needed to “expeditiously resolve the administrative and clerical burdens” with partial payments if they chose to go that route, and “under no circumstances shall the partial payments be made later than Wednesday, November 5.”
“Because it is now clear that due to Defendants’ course of conduct, and by their own admission, undertaking a partial payment plan at this point cannot meet the Court’s directives or adequately remedy the harm Plaintiffs are suffering, the Court should grant Plaintiffs’ motion to enforce and should temporarily enjoin and compel Defendants to release the withheld funding, in its entirety, for November SNAP benefits,” the plaintiffs wrote.
A woman walks by a sign advertising the acceptance of food stamps, in Miami, Fla., on Oct. 31, 2025. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which is representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement that the administration needs to fully fund SNAP benefits.
“We should not need to go to court to force the administration to provide food all people are entitled to in this country, but here we are—back in court to demand that the administration acts consistent with the judge’s order,” Perryman said in a statement.
McConnell on Tuesday scheduled a hearing on the motion for the afternoon of Nov. 6. He also said the government must respond to the motion by the end of Wednesday.
“The President doesn’t get to pick and choose which court orders he complies with,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday after seeing Trump’s post. “The court said he has to start paying SNAP benefits, and he has to start paying SNAP benefits.”
Nathan Worcester contributed to this report.
Immigrant-invaders are taking over Democrat political jurisdictions
Immigrant-invaders are taking over Democrat political jurisdictions
The Times They Are a-Changin
The Times They Are a-Changin
Paul Craig Roberts
On the surface Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York supports my contention that American democracy has become riven with faction and left-wing ideology and has become dysfunctional. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/10/30/the-days-of-democracy-are-over/
Mamdani’s agenda of rent freezes, city-run non-profit grocery stores, more taxes on the rich, free subways, reduced police presence, and the rest of his promised handouts to the unproductive brings the redistributive character of US democracy to the breaking point at which the productive leave a city where public safety is declining along with the rewards to work and responsible behavior.
Will we see “Escape from New York” or on the other hand, perhaps Mamdani is just a political opportunist riding the rise of the woke era to personal riches from the kickbacks from the New York building trades’ profits from building his affordable public housing to fill the role of private-supplied housing blocked by Mamdani’s rent controls.
America’s founding fathers were aware of the dangers of faction that democracy brings, and they were aware of the tendency of mobs to seize property and of the tendency of females to make emotive instead of rational decisions. To hinder and to delay the impact of these destabilizing tendencies, the founding fathers restricted democracy to the judgment of male property owners.
As years passed the protective shields that made democracy functional were removed. The appointment of US senators by state legislators to insure that the senators represented their states and not the interests of national lobbies that provide campaign funds was removed, and the Senate, like the House, became subject to demagogic elections often determined by slander, fraud, and vote-buying. Weak men gave in and bestowed the vote on women. It made little difference for a long time, because men still predominated in societal institutions. But as Helen Andrews reports, in the US all societal institutions have now been feminized. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/11/05/societal-death-by-feminization/
The goal of excluding “toxic males” from societal decision-making has largely succeeded. The replacement of men by women has dramatically reduced the birth rate in all Western societies. As women choose career over motherhood, calls intensify for more non-white immigration to fill the gap from the declining white birth rate. If this trend continues, white ethnicities will disappear, as Jean Raspail predicted they would. It seems that my generation and perhaps the one that followed are the last to experience life in the context of Western civilization.
Over the course of my life I have watched the decline in the legal protections of defendants, and I have watched the rise of status-based privileges push aside equality under law. See, for example, my books, The Tyranny of Good Intentions and The New Color Line. These books had enthusiastic reviews from the right people and places, but failed to slow down, much less halt, the collapse of American society into disunity and status-based law.
New York, once the financial capital of the world, has fallen, according to the narrative, to the communist agenda of an immigrant-invader from Kampala, Uganda. But perhaps that is only Mamdani’s pose assumed in our woke era to gain access to wealth that comes from the political award of contracts. Regardless, the electorate’s choice of Mamdani shows a complete change in outlook and a Democrat Party that has moved outside the American tradition.
I remember when the Democrats’ political constituency consisted of the poor and the working class, now disparaged as “the Trump deplorables.” Today the Democrats’ political constituency is college-educated women and weak men who have accepted their subordination in the interest of a career. Whereas once Democrats focused on confiscating income and wealth from the successful (who were referred to as “fortunate”) and redistributing it to the unsuccessful (called “less fortunate”), they now confiscate the earnings and wealth of citizens to support immigrant-invaders. This and other such word tricks pushed the questions of merit and citizenship out of the picture. For women the issue was one of the caring against the hard-hearted. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/11/05/societal-death-by-feminization/
Today Democrat political constituencies are focused on redistributing the incomes of American citizens to illegal aliens. Not only do Americans who support themselves also support 42 million Americans who do not or who are gaming the system, they also support the 14 million immigrant-invaders that the Obama and Biden regimes policy of open borders imported into America.
While these devastating trends were developing, Wall Street and corporate executives exported American manufacturing jobs to Asia and Mexico, thereby dismantling the ladders of upward mobility that had made the US an opportunity society. Today the focus of the Democrat Party is on opportunity for immigrant-invaders. Democrats fight tooth and nail to prevent the federal government from deporting illegals. Indeed, Democrats want illegals to have voting rights, and Democrat judges have ruled that proof of citizenship is unnecessary in order to vote. Essentially, Democrats have no conception of the United States as a nation. Indeed, they are hostile to those who think that citizenship and the US Constitution have meaning, dismissing both as tools of white supremacists.
Where liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and leftists went horribly wrong was in assuming that government was an independent institution. The liberal-left imagined government as a moral institution that redistributed ill-gotten wealth from those who stole it to the deserving poor from whom it was stolen. The conservative-libertarian contingent saw government as a threat to private property, merit, and individual freedom. No one saw if for what it is: an instrument for political and material interests to use to further their agendas and their fortunes.
The “public interest” is a false narrative. No one serves any such interest. Government is a privatized institution that serves private interests. It is fought over because it can bestow on favored factions the incomes of others. The Party in control gets to hand out the money. That is the only important issue.
Today in America the welfare class supported by the work force is 25% of the size of the work force. If the Democrats win the battle over illegals, and Obama and Biden’s 14 million illegals are added to the 42 million welfare class, those dependent on the incomes of the work force rise to one-third the size of the work force.
With the advent of AI and robotics, the outlook for working Americans seems bleak. If the unemployment from AI predicted by experts is accurate, most of the US work force will be without jobs. Who then supports the welfare class enlarged by illegal immigration?
Elon Musk said that the advent of AI brings with it communism as the earnings of AI will have to be redistributed to the population in order that people will have the money to sustain their lives by purchasing the products of AI produced goods and services.
What we seem to be facing is a social revolution brought by technology. There is very little awareness and discussion of this massive challenge to human society. If it comes upon unprepared populations, the result will be chaotic, especially in the Western World where white ethnicities are demonized as racists and exploiters of people of color. The white populations will be the first to be exterminated in order to reduce the claim on resources.
In the Democrat mind, freedom today means the suppression of freedom. Freedom of speech is racist and hurtful. Freedom of protest and association is a plot for insurrection if it is done by aversive racists. Family values are suppressive of women. Citizenship is non-inclusive. A common language, mores, and history are suppressive of multiculturalism and diversity. Nothing that once defined an American is acceptable in the era of wokeness.
For all practical purposes, the USA is being erased.
The New York City Mayor’s constituency:
Everyone says the Rothchilds are the richest, but apparently it is an Indian.
Everyone says the Rothchilds are the richest, but apparently it is an Indian.
https://www.rt.com/news/627378-head-of-britains-richest-family/
Societal Death by Feminization
Societal Death by Feminization
Paul Craig Roberts
Helen Andrews has written an important article, “The Great Feminization,” thus saving me the effort. https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-great-feminization/
I have never cared for former Harvard University President Larry Summers’ economics or his role as a Treasury official in blocking Brooksley Born from regulating dark derivatives, but I have always thought Summers got a raw deal when Harvard’s female faculty cancelled him as president for expressing a truth. The women couldn’t wait to get a male, even a Jewish one.
Andrews writes that the feminist attack on Summers changed the way she viewed the world. She saw it as the birth of “wokeness, an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.” Females emote and males reason. A concentration of females leads to emotion regardless of fact prevailing over reason and analysis. This is the symbol of our era. Facts no longer matter. The feminization of society has destroyed the influence of facts.
Andrews reports that law schools became majority female in 2016, with dire consequences for law. Journalism became majority female in 2018, with the consequence that emotional commitments have replaced objective reporting, or what little of it that had survived liberal bias.
“Medical schools became majority female in 2019. Women became a majority of the college-educated workforce nationwide in 2019. Women became a majority of college instructors in 2023. Women are not yet a majority of the managers in America but they might be soon, as they are now 46 percent. So the timing fits. Wokeness arose around the same time that many important institutions tipped demographically from majority male to majority female.
“The substance fits, too. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. Other writers who have proposed their own versions of the Great Feminization thesis, such as Noah Carl or Bo Winegard and Cory Clark, who looked at feminization’s effects on academia, offer survey data showing sex differences in political values.”
Andrews sees a problematic future. “If wokeness really is the result of the Great Feminization, then the eruption of insanity in 2020 was just a small taste of what the future holds. Imagine what will happen as the remaining men age out of these society-shaping professions and the younger, more feminized generations take full control.” We are already living in a world where “in-group consensus can suppress unpopular facts.”
“The rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female.” Emoting will lead to judgments based on where female sentiment resides. At the moment it resides with black criminals instead of with their victims and with illegal aliens instead of with US citizens.
Increasingly men are feminized, and men are accustomed to living under governments headed by women, especially in Europe. Andrews, like Hanne Herland and Joakim Andersen ( https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/the-great-feminization?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1990457&post_id=177233965&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dx5km&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email ) sees the collapse of rational, merit-based society “as the remaining men age out of these society-shaping professions and the younger, more feminized generations take full control.” A society in which “in-group consensus can suppress unpopular facts” is a society divorced from reality. The few men who remain are driven away “by imposing feminine norms on previously male institutions.” This, it seems, is the future of all Western societies.
The video I posted recently of the female head of Canada’s Armed Forces crying because of racism in the Canadian military is a picture of our future. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/11/02/canadas-highest-ranking-military-general-is-a-female/
More Provocations for Putin
More Provocations for Putin
UK Sends Ukraine More Storm Shadow Missiles to Strike in Russia
Caitlin Johnstone Has No Remorse Over Dick Cheney’s Death
Caitlin Johnstone Has No Remorse Over Dick Cheney’s Death
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/05/cheney-should-have-died-alone-in-a-cage/
It is likely the case that Dick Cheney and the Zionist neoconservatives that occupied the high positions in the George W. Bush regime masterminded the 9/11 attack in order to produce the New Pearl Harbor necessary for Washington to destroy for Israel the Arab countries that prevented Israel’s expansion of Israel’s borders. The Americans were deceived into thinking the US was in a “war against terror” when in fact America was deceived into a war for Israel’s expansion.
Netanyahu who is under criminal indictment throws in prison Israel’s top military lawyer for revealing vicious IDF abuse of Palestinians
Netanyahu who is under criminal indictment throws in prison Israel’s top military lawyer for revealing vicious IDF abuse of Palestinians
https://apnews.com/article/israel-military-scandal-prisoners-abuse-7becb2de4079b76b656910cc3c640d0d
The Defining Characteristics of the American Liberal-Left Are Hate and Violence
The Defining Characteristics of the American Liberal-Left Are Hate and Violence
Liberal-Left Thought Controllers Have Destroyed American Scholarship
Liberal-Left Thought Controllers Have Destroyed American Scholarship