by Paul Craig Roberts
Democracy cannot function without an honest and independent media, and no such media exists anywhere in the Western World. Instead, the Western media functions as an enforcer of the explanations that serve the interest of the ruling elites.
Everyone who challenges the lies— whether they are American, Canadian, Australian, British, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Austrian, Jewish, gentile, black, white, Hispanic, Muslim, or Asian—that rule us is branded a “conspiracy theorist,” a “white supremacist,” an “uncle Tom,” an “anti-semite,” a “holocaust denier,” a “self-hating Jew,” and a variety of other derogatory labels.
Given the weakness of character of so many present-day Western people, the establishment’s name-calling is effective in scaring people away from truth-tellers. This makes it difficult for truth to spread.
Without truth there is no freedom, no liberty, no accountability of government to the people in the Western democracies. Indeed, there are no real democracies. The Western “democracies” are just Potemkin villages.
Restoring what has been lost is the most difficult of all tasks. The Greeks failed at it. The Romans failed at it. It seems too that we are failing at it.
Consider the controlled media’s multi-year campaign against Donald Trump. When Russiagate was exposed as a hoax, the presstitutes did not apologize for misleading the peoples of the world for years. Instead, the presstitutes launched into impeach-gate.
Allegedly Trump threatened the Ukranian president with withholding of US funds unless the Ukrainian investigation, which was closed down by Vice President Biden, was reopened. No evidence of this accusation against Trump has been found, and the President of Ukraine denies it.
However, there is conclusive evidence that VP Biden did what the presstitutes accuse Trump of doing. Moreover, there is a video available online and posted on this site and many others, of Biden giving the President of Ukraine 6 hours to fire the investigating prosecutor or forfeit $1 billion US dollars.
What are we to conclude from this? The effort of the House Democrats and the pressitutes to impeach Trump began with false accusations that Trump propositioned the Ukrainian president to come up with evidence against Biden or forfeit $1 billion US.
No such evidence has been provided by an anti-Trump FBI, CIA, State Department, media, or any other source. Yet there is conclusive undeniable evidence that Biden is totally guilty of what Trump is accused.
Biden brags about it in his own words before the Council on Foreign Relations: Fire the prosecutor investigating the company of which my son is a highly paid director or forfeit $1 billion.
Yet Biden is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the US and he is not burdened by having committed the offense for which the House Democrats initially launched their impeachment of the President of the United States.
This contrast shows how extreme the double standards are. And there is ZERO protest from the Western media.
Trump has to be impeached, because allegedly he did what Biden did, but it is OK for Biden, who actually did what Trump is falsely accused of doing, to replace Trump as President.
It is difficult to see a future for a country in which an accusation of an unproven charge is more serious against one party than the actual commitment of the disqualifying offense by the favored party.
What is very frightening is that the Western media does not mind demonstrating that it has no integrity whatsoever, no regard whatsoever for truth. The serial liars have no shame. And the presstitutes have no compunction about calling those who do tell the truth names.
During 2019 telling the truth brought me many libelous names. I see these names as Badges of Honor and I thank my readers for seeing them the same way. As my combined readership is now many times that of the New York Times, we are a force to be reckoned with.
Let’s keep it that way. Onward in the New Year.
This article was reprinted, with permission, from PaulCraigRoberts.org. It had the title “The Year Before Us”, and was dated January 2, 2020.
Under my article yesterday (Jan 4, 2020), Julius Skoolafish gave a link to Accuracy in Media, so we could learn about “Benghazi.” I was surprised to hear how a citizen group was able to tap officials for the real story. Here is a portion:
“Retired Rear Admiral Chuck Kubic [said he was] was asked by those surrounding Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to deliver a message to the American government that Muammar Qaddafi was prepared to negotiate his abdication under a white flag of truce.
“Kubic delivered the offer, but the response from the Obama administration was silence. Instead, the bombing in Libya began, and the U.S. government, and especially the Hillary Clinton State Department, began to facilitate the flow of arms to al Qaeda-connected terrorists, who then killed Qaddafi and precipitated Libya’s descent into complete chaos. We called this report, ‘How America Switched Sides in the War on Terror’.”
IMO killing Gaddafi was criminal and Hillary mal fides is disclosed in the video that shows her clapping and chortling that she or we? came, saw and he’s dead.
Why does that revelation come as a surprise, when the exact same scenario existed with Saddam in Iraq ???????????
Thank you Paul Craig Roberts for your many articles written over the years. It helps citizens like myself to gather the truth about our criminal governments and their cohorts in the military, media and banking establishments.
Our authorities in Australia are as evil as any around the World. No such thing as democracy.
The people that do speak up are not taken into account. As you say we are treated as “nut cases” and victimised.
I am proud to be classed as anti-Semitic, even though my great grandfather was a practising Jew.
That classification means I am awake to many of the atrocities created by the Zionist Jews over the centuries, to the present day. My grandfather may have had an inkling about what was going on, as he was married twice, each time to a Christian woman and therefore had no Jew off-springs.
May you have a very healthy New Year and are able to continue writing.
Correction, 3rd paragraph: My great grandfather may have had…………..
What is democracy ? My take, by the people for the people. I assume there are many other interpretations.
The Greek and Roman empires, did not have democracy any more than our “western democracies”.
Is Donald Trump a democracy supporter. No, he will not even consult congress over, wars and pre-emptive attack, little alone the people.
Trying to restore what we never had is a fools errand.The sooner we disarm these war-mongers, the sooner we can simply live, as we want, as people.
ive heard it said the closest thing in recent history to a proper democracy was gaddafis libya
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/01/12/gaddafis-libya-was-africas-most-prosperous-democracy/
Thanks, Fair. Here is a quote from that article:
During the NATO bombardment of Libya, western media conveniently forgot to mention that the United Nations had just prepared a lengthy dossier praising Mr. Gaddafi’s human rights achievements. The UN report commended Libya for bettering its “legal protections” for citizens, making human rights a “priority,” improving women’s rights, educational opportunities and access to housing. During Mr. Gaddafi’s era housing was considered a human right. Consequently, there was virtually no homelessness or Libyans living under bridges. How many Libyan homes and bridges did NATO destroy?
There were now only 5 nations on the world left without a Rothschild controlled central bank: Iran; Iceland, North Korea; Sudan; Cuba. (Libya recently was, but with the murder of Gaddafi1 Libya is now gone.2 )
1 Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi (1942 – 20 October 2011)
Under Gaddafi’s rule, just before the Rothschild financed and French-led NATO intervention early 2011, Libya’s GDP per person capita was USD$29,000, it is currently USD$11,000 (PPP), more than a double drop in living standards. Contrary to what the western deception Media tell you, Healthcare for Libyans was free as was education and the Illiteracy rate was 20%. Now 600 schools are closed and 270,000 Libyan children obtain no schooling. Household electricity was free and generous subsidies were given for housing and car purchases. Now Libyans have to pay full price for everything all controlled by Rothschild’s owned Central Bank of Lybia. Contrary to what your TV News told you sectarian violence was unheard of and now there are tensions among all major clans. The whole thing just as every other country the Rothschild’s NATO has interfered in was just another SCAM.
2 The Central Bank of Libya (CBL)
“I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.”
1 John 2:21 (KJB)
Another Vietnam?
The selfless humanitarian aid shown by the followers of Islam, to sudden homeless victims of fires recently. Certainly looked better than Scott with hands in his pockets.
“Given the weakness of character of so many present-day Western people, the establishment’s name-calling is effective in scaring people away from truth-tellers.”
If there was more ‘character’ in the masses, then the West wouldn’t be collapsing. However, everything is upside down, with all the liars and manipulators, an honest person is at a disadvantage in Western culture. The honest person is seen as a threat to the cultural majority.
The collapse of the education system must also play a large part in the mindless acceptance of the masses to the propaganda of the media. The people don’t have the necessary basic education to understand the reality around them. The recent Extinction Rebellion fools are a case on point, it is impossible to discuss the science with them. As one commentator quipped, “The liberal arts students are taking over the society”. Forget hard science and math classes, now they can float through college taking ‘gender studies’, ‘critical race theory’, ‘queer theory’, and other useless classes.
I read an article where the 15 year old students in America are 4 (FOUR!) years behind Chinese students in math. These are the ‘leaders’ of tomorrow for the West.
Stick a fork in it, the West is ‘done’.
We need granparents to srep up in educating their descendants in all the basics ….. spelling, grammer, maths ( including algebra) scientific experiments and integrity.
We have delightful simple science experiment books available from most decent book stores.
Some simple effort to prepare the material. Take a full balloon, some duck tape and srick a pin in the middle of the tape stuck to the ballon and into the balloon.
Bang? No.
Well, it is a start.
Sorry, i forgot, i am a bank ,manager’s son.
Tell the gc about money, where it comes from, what it is, nterest rates and affect, who profits, who runs the show and save.
If you want silly indulgences, be a friend of a idiot and enjoy their facilities.
And tell them about insurance companies and the necessity to fully inform the insurers of pertinent risks. E.G with car insurance. The insurer will void the insurance if it can find a fault.
Oh. Do not forget to tell the gc that they can be a male or female, as time spent informing them in class be saved.
That enables our teachers to educate the %99.9 of the rest on what the gc are at school for…… our country’s future.
Sorry; correction.
‘THEIR country’s future’
“He who controls the weather controls the world.” – LBJ
Not sure why Americians use the word liberty.
Liberty is what prisioners get when they are permitted to enter the exerise yard. Liberty is what soldiers get when they are permitted to go home to their families for a few days.
Is liberty really nothing more than permisison from someone else to do something we want to do?
For me, I would much rather have freedom.
Alert, off sibject.
Mike Rivero at whatreallyhappened.com has not posted since the first of January.
It is strange that he has not told us; e.g that he (and Claire) are on ‘holidays.
Trust all is ok?
The Jews, Churchill wrote, “grasped and proclaimed an idea of which all the genius of Greece and all the power of Rome were incapable.”
https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/churchill-and-the-jews-a-curious-match/
Like previous empires, this part of the one we live in, is falling apart to make way for the new occupiers. How convenient it is, to clear this eastern coast, making way for the one belt fast train agenda. A crisis to create a solution. Half or dozen new major cities to build, so as to accomodate the CCP elite, with the slaves needed to service them.
When communism supposedly fell in Eastern Europe and Jugoslavia (although communists are still entrenched in all their beurocracies) many party members came here, in the nineties and later, to set up the establishment of this new disorder. It’s all a formal batten change from crown to bolshevism. The two connected by the brother/sisterhood of ‘unity or death’ (freemasonry).
These days the communist kabal are an international global network and sadly, this land has been gifted to the new China down under.
I pray that my gut feelings are completely wrong and that we can overcome this paganism which is threatening all lovers of truth and fair play, that is the middle way. He preached under the church of the open sky. Children understand it, before training, yet we still don’t get it. Artificial intelligence is the fakest of all lies.
56, your perceptions are quite grounded > https://www.vic.gov.au › sites › default › files › Belt-and-Road-Initiative-…
THE SILK ROAD ECONOMIC BELT. AND THE 21ST CENTURY MARITIME SILK ROAD. INITIATIVE. The Government of the State of Victoria, Australia…
Patrick Wood gives an update > https://www.technocracy.news/day-7-china-is-a-technocracy/
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36 (KJV)
Blaming “the media” for one’s own gullibility is the Scourge of the Age
Chabad is boss, communists rule and everyone else is set up for the fall, unless they take the number of the beast.
The iPhone is the chip. With AI implants are coming for convenience (won’t have to carry a gadget). Taking it a step further, there will be no need for people cause the robots will do the work.
This empire has feet of clay, this weakness will bring about its undoing.
@56 – Daniel’s prophecy of the feet of iron and clay represents the imminent advent of trans-humanism. The clay is human – from which we were made by the Potter – and the iron is the machines with which we will (be coerced to) merge.