The Biden administration was slow to react after the 2023 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train hauling carcinogenic chemicals near the small town of East Palestine, Ohio. The air was filled with plumes of dangerous gas during a “controlled release” burn. Despite residents reporting mysterious rashes and headaches following…
In 1976 the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd predicted the down fall of the Soviet Union. In After The Empire, first published in French in 2001, he predicted the (relative) decline of the United States. In his latest (and last) book, La Défaite de l’Occident (The Defeat of the West), he laments the…
For years, political experts have claimed that Barack Obama left no real legacy. But that’s not true. He did leave one; it’s just not the one anyone wants to talk about. Obama didn’t unify the country. He didn’t heal racial wounds. He absolutely did fundamentally transform America, just not…
“The Caliphate looms; it is inevitable, and the road to its gates is paved with the skulls of English children.” —Peachy Keenan Do you hear those alarm bells ringing? Looks like June is bustin’ out all over, as the old Broadway ditty goes. Bedlam is in the air, and…
In Ed Curtin’s collection of essays that I recently reviewed ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/27/are-americans-still-americans/ ), he explains in an essay, “Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms,” who created and maintains the fictionalized narrative-controlled world in which Americans live in ignorance of the real operating agendas. Curtin says it is the CIA, not…
With whatever savings DOGE may have achieved about to become a drop of piss in the ocean by the “Big Beautiful Bill” – which codifies exactly zero of DOGE’s cost-saving efforts, raises the debt limit by $5 trillion, and increases the deficit by $2.5 trillion over 10 years (per CRFB)…
Since generative AI is adept at manipulating digital text, voice and images, many assume this automatically infers it will be adept at the entirety of human endeavor and work. But this is false logic. The same false logic leads many to assume that since a humanoid robot can jump over…
Ukraine’s 18-month plan to execute “Russia’s Pearl Harbor” leaves humanity at the edge of extinction, and Western analysts are giddy. In a segment titled, “Ukraine burns Putin, but also schools Trump with surprise drone attack,” MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow chatted giddily after a paradigm-shifting operation…
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard continues to declassify documents that show how the Biden administration defined political opponents as “Domestic Violent Extremists” (DVEs). In a December 13, 2021, intelligence product entitled, “DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation,…
The Ever-Widening War. With Putin focused on useless “peace talks,” Ukraine (or Washington or NATO) attacked four Russian Air Force bases and destroyed a number of strategic Russian bombers. The BBC reports: “In an operation said to have taken 18 months to prepare, scores of small drones were smuggled…
