Paul Craig Roberts chuckles at the futility of USA negotiations
Mon 11:38 pm +00:00, 29 Jun 2026Paul Craig Roberts: Lebanon’s Speaker Declares US-Israel Deal “Won’t Be Implemented The Zionist agenda of Greater Israel dictates US actions.
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The Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009. Read more...
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/the-hoax-that-wont-die/ “the first and continuing reports that Jews were being wiped out by the Nazis in Poland were supplied to newspapers around the world by the World Jewish Congress” … HOAX “the first information about Hitler’s decision to ‘exterminate’ European Jewry — attributed to an annonymous German industrialist who is said to have visited Switzerland in July …
Source: https://iaindavis.substack.com/p/functional-oligarchy Democracy? No, we live under an oligarchy, and have done for thousands of years too Rich lists are utterly meaningless, because they exclude the oligarchs ============================ Oligarchy is a very old system of governance and one we have never really escaped. More than 2000 years ago, Aristotle stated that oligarchy (oligarchia) becomes the governance system “when men of …
Tilbrook particularly warns of the rise of Andy Burnham and his undeclared agenda to destroy England. Robin’s solution is to educate the public as to the powers and protections of English Common Law and the English Constitution, and to restore the identity and power of England as a powerful nation state in its own right. …
Multiple fake narratives about Ukraine are created by western media, and US and European diplomacy is also nonsense. The main fake narrative is that Ukraine is winning. Iran shows the same thing – that it is simply impossible to reach a settlement with the USA and the Europeans. Despite earlier attempts by the USA …
Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-new-clash-over-strait-passage-lebanons-capitulation-ignites-new-civil-war.html War On Iran: – New Clash Over Strait Passage – Lebanon’s Capitulation Ignites New Civil War the last days there were two developments in Lebanon and Iran that will likely cause the war to reignite into a much larger conflagration. Iran insists on having control over the Strait of Hormuz. But at least half …
Source: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjune26/dynamics-make-sense6-26.html These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team bad. The roots of this simplistic …
Source: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2026/06/21/the-hypostasis-of-the-archons/ Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work which I have cited in various articles at The Ethical Skeptic. Accordingly, that material is provided in this article. The document commonly called The Hypostasis of The Archons (The Underlying Reality of …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Since diplomacy, in the western understanding of the term, has degenerated into an exchange of insults and the laborious process of negotiating agreements which nobody ever intends to keep, all that remains is war. Or, perhaps, the plural form — wars — is more appropriate, since there are several ones going on …
Itapirkanmaa2 Rules-based piracy. This will call for more red lines surely from Putin. “The Telegraph: London wants to sell Russian oil from the Smyrtos tanker and transfer the money to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine It’s about 98 thousand tons of Russian Urals oil worth about $46.2 million, according to the author of the article. The Smyrtos …
Does Putin want to win the war? He doesn’t use his air force to overpower Ukraine, and blast through Ukrainian defences. Why not? Putin humiliated as troops threaten to ‘turn their weapons’ on him State of emergency declared over power supply crisis in Crimea Russians declare state of emergency in Crimea Russia’s fourth-largest refinery …
Source: https://sonar21.com/13-18-days-the-practical-diesel-buffer-does-it-preclude-bombing-iran/ I am indebted to my new friend who is an energy expert ,and currently working in the Persian Gulf, for explaining why the US is facing a very serious risk of a domestic energy crisis. If ignorance is bliss then I’ve spent my last 71 years happily believing that the conversion of oil to …
Source: https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/how-to-push-back-against-the-advancing The big-picture lesson from the Covid era should have been obvious. It should have screamed loud and clear to every freedom-loving American: The power elites who run things at the local, state and federal levels want to tag and track our movement, but not just our movement. They want to track our diet, our …
Source: https://www.unz.com/article/the-hoax-that-wont-die/ “the first and continuing reports that Jews were being wiped out by the Nazis in Poland were supplied to newspapers around the world by the World Jewish Congress” … HOAX “the first information about Hitler’s decision to ‘exterminate’ European Jewry — attributed to an annonymous German industrialist who is said to have visited Switzerland in July …
Multiple fake narratives about Ukraine are created by western media, and US and European diplomacy is also nonsense. The main fake narrative is that Ukraine is winning. Iran shows the same thing – that it is simply impossible to reach a settlement with the USA and the Europeans. Despite earlier attempts by the USA …
Source: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjune26/dynamics-make-sense6-26.html These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team bad. The roots of this simplistic …
Source, paywall: https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/ Since diplomacy, in the western understanding of the term, has degenerated into an exchange of insults and the laborious process of negotiating agreements which nobody ever intends to keep, all that remains is war. Or, perhaps, the plural form — wars — is more appropriate, since there are several ones going on …
Itapirkanmaa2 Rules-based piracy. This will call for more red lines surely from Putin. “The Telegraph: London wants to sell Russian oil from the Smyrtos tanker and transfer the money to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine It’s about 98 thousand tons of Russian Urals oil worth about $46.2 million, according to the author of the article. The Smyrtos …
Source: https://sonar21.com/13-18-days-the-practical-diesel-buffer-does-it-preclude-bombing-iran/ I am indebted to my new friend who is an energy expert ,and currently working in the Persian Gulf, for explaining why the US is facing a very serious risk of a domestic energy crisis. If ignorance is bliss then I’ve spent my last 71 years happily believing that the conversion of oil to …
Source: https://iaindavis.substack.com/p/functional-oligarchy Democracy? No, we live under an oligarchy, and have done for thousands of years too Rich lists are utterly meaningless, because they exclude the oligarchs ============================ Oligarchy is a very old system of governance and one we have never really escaped. More than 2000 years ago, Aristotle stated that oligarchy (oligarchia) becomes the governance system “when men of …
Tilbrook particularly warns of the rise of Andy Burnham and his undeclared agenda to destroy England. Robin’s solution is to educate the public as to the powers and protections of English Common Law and the English Constitution, and to restore the identity and power of England as a powerful nation state in its own right. …
Source: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-new-clash-over-strait-passage-lebanons-capitulation-ignites-new-civil-war.html War On Iran: – New Clash Over Strait Passage – Lebanon’s Capitulation Ignites New Civil War the last days there were two developments in Lebanon and Iran that will likely cause the war to reignite into a much larger conflagration. Iran insists on having control over the Strait of Hormuz. But at least half …
Source: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2026/06/21/the-hypostasis-of-the-archons/ Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work which I have cited in various articles at The Ethical Skeptic. Accordingly, that material is provided in this article. The document commonly called The Hypostasis of The Archons (The Underlying Reality of …
Does Putin want to win the war? He doesn’t use his air force to overpower Ukraine, and blast through Ukrainian defences. Why not? Putin humiliated as troops threaten to ‘turn their weapons’ on him State of emergency declared over power supply crisis in Crimea Russians declare state of emergency in Crimea Russia’s fourth-largest refinery …
Source: https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/how-to-push-back-against-the-advancing The big-picture lesson from the Covid era should have been obvious. It should have screamed loud and clear to every freedom-loving American: The power elites who run things at the local, state and federal levels want to tag and track our movement, but not just our movement. They want to track our diet, our …
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