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Will Coronavirus be A Reality Check On Democracy Itself?

John Derbyshire • April 5, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 71 Comments • Reply

[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com.] It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and the coronavirus panic has some winners. The stock of Zoom video-conferencing software has been soaring, notwithstanding some bad publicity about its security features, or lack of them. Less well-publicized has been the bonanza for... Read More

Bad Decisions Have Spread Coronavirus

Paul Craig Roberts • February 25, 2020

• 300 Words • 22 Comments • Reply

The coronavirus was spread throughout China by travel associated with the Chinese new year. Now the virus is being spread throughout the US by travel associated with spring break. The coronavirus escaped from China, because governments and airlines waited too long before they stopped flights in and out of China. The US government and airlines... Read More

The Consequence of Globalism Is World Instability

Paul Craig Roberts • February 5, 2020

• 500 Words

If the coronavirus proves to be serious, as it does not appear to be at the present time, many economies could be adversely affected. China is the source of many parts supplied to producers in other countries, and China is the source of the finished products of many US firms such as Apple. If shipments... Read More

The Global Economy Can Kill Us In More Ways Than One

Paul Craig Roberts • January 25, 2020

• 200 Words

61 years ago Walter M. Miller Jr. published A Canticle for Leibowitz. The story spans thousands of years as humans rebuild civilization after a devastating nuclear war. Among the episodes is a conflict between warring nomads and a settled people who rely on cunning instead of arms and introduce hoof and mouth disease into the... Read More

What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China

Paul Craig Roberts • August 21, 2019

• 1,100 Words

The main problem with the US economy is that globalism has been deconstructing it. The offshoring of US jobs has reduced US manufacturing and industrial capability and associated innovation, research, development, supply chains, consumer purchasing power, and tax base of state and local governments. Corporations have increased short-term profits at the expense of these long-term... Read More

Corbyn Is Being Destroyed – Like Blowing Up a Bridge to Stop an Advancing Army

Jonathan Cook • August 26, 2018

• 2,700 Words • 107 Comments • Reply

The latest “scandal” gripping Britain – or to be more accurate, British elites – is over the use of the term “Zionist” by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the opposition and possibly the country’s next prime minister. Yet again, Corbyn has found himself ensnared in what a small group of Jewish leadership... Read More

Imperialists’ Fear and Loathing. . . of Being Colonized

James Petras • July 30, 2018

• 900 Words • 4 Comments • Reply

Introduction For decades and longer, the United States and Europe lectured and encouraged countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia to welcome and accept foreign investment as the virtuous path to modernization, growth and prosperity. With few notable exceptions western leaders and academics promoted unlimited flows of capital (and the outflows of profits). No section... Read More

Trump’s Warsaw Speech and the Real “Clash of Civilizations”

Steven Yates • July 22, 2017

• 4,100 Words • 75 Comments • Reply

As everyone doubtless knows, President Trump gave the pot a hefty stirring in Warsaw, Poland prior to attending the G20 summit. His message was well-received by immediate listeners but aroused a Sturm und Drang and a half from the usual Western media suspects who couldn’t be more predictable if they tried. First of all, the... Read More

Corbyn Crazy–But Shows Anti-Establishment Fury Still Rising

John Derbyshire • June 9, 2017

• 1,100 Words • 173 Comments • Reply

The really striking feature of the June 8 U.K. election was the relative success of the Labour Party under its leader Jeremy Corbyn. This crazy old Lefty, who never saw a commie dictator or an anti-British terrorist he didn’t want to kiss up to, and who won the endorsement of the British Communist Party for... Read More

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.

Sydney Schanberg

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America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?