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Soon Truth Will be Too Costly to Tell
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Dear Readers, June is upon us, and it is time for my quarterly appeal for support from the website’s readers. For 15 years this website has been providing alternative information to the concocted false narratives that disguise secret agendas. For example, 9/11 was a false flag operation to set the justification and framework for a hoax “war on terror” that was used to destroy independent Arab states. The Maidan Revolution in Ukraine was orchestrated in the hopes of restoring Washington’s hegemony by destabilizing Russia. I can go on, but this is not an article about all of the lies we have been officially told, narratives designed to deceive us and to convince us that “our leaders” are protecting our freedom, when actually they have been busy taking freedom away from us along with our understanding of reality. Those articles have already been written, and they are archived on this website.

The effort on my part to tell the truth is costly, not merely financially. The large costs are to my reputation and to my freedom. For example, some years ago a website called PropOrNot, funded by we-don’t-know-who, perhaps the US Department of State, or US AID, or George Soros, or Israel, identified me as a “Putin agent/dupe.” I was designated a “Russian agent” because I asked a simple question: Is it really in our interest to risk war with Russia, which in all likelihood will end up nuclear, for the sake of Washington’s hegemony?

If one complains of the annihilation of Palestinians and Palestine by the Israelis, one is labeled an “anti-semite” and “Holocaust Denier.”

If one complains about white ethnic America being overrun by immigrant-invaders, one is labeled racist.

And so on. Hopefully, my readers know the drill.

It is not only my reputation. Can I risk showing up at an airport and going through TSA? What is the likelihood that I am on a list? If Tulsi Gabbard can be harassed by TSA and forced to miss flights while they search her for the third time in a row, what can I expect from DEI hires who find my name on a list? In America today, I can be denied a flight by a Muslim TSA employee or an immigrant-invader who just walked across the border and was integrated into America with a TSA job.

Think about this for a moment. A former presidential appointee as Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury confirmed in office by the US Senate has no assurance that he will be able to board a US airliner in a US airport.

If I make a trip abroad, will I be harassed on re-entry?

This is the cost of telling the truth.

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I sometimes wonder what the value of truth is to most Americans, or perhaps I should say a better approximation to the truth than is available in official narratives. Most Americans want to hear what they already believe. When they hear something different it upsets them because it doesn’t fit the framework from which they understand what they mistakenly think is reality. I have found in my life that telling the truth is the best way to make enemies. That’s why so few people tell the truth.

A person who takes the risk of telling the truth likes to see that there are people who appreciate it. This site receives no support from the Ford Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pew Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, George Soros, US AID, the Israel Lobby, corporations, foreign governments. This website is financed by monthly donations of who I think are the 5,000 Americans who encouraged me about 15 years ago to continue writing. They constitute less than 1% of the readership.

So quarterly I reach out to the 99% and ask that they support the website if it serves them, which I assume it does as the website has 2 million readers and 5 million visits annually. At times when I have checked, Word Press has reported that my website is read in every country on planet Earth. In some countries tens of thousands read it; in others three or four people, probably CIA station chiefs.

In a world with nuclear weapons and biolabs busy at work weaponizing viruses or whatever they are, life is precarious. There is huge worrying on the left about “global warming,” but little about nuclear winter and US biolabs sprinkled all over the world. Recently, the Trump administration had to stop US funding of the weaponization of bird flu in the Wuhan lab in China. How was it possible for this funding to exist? What kind of insanity is ruling over us?

If you look closely, you will see that in the Western World life is no longer viewed as positive, something to be protected. I am not just speaking about abortion. The World Economic Forum, a collection of anti-human elites and Bill Gates, seem committed to reducing human life on Earth from 7 or 8 billion to 500 million. Perhaps this is why no one in the West is disturbed by Israel’s genocide of Palestine–a mere 2 million–and not only the genocide of the Palestinians but also their country.

Ask yourself, why is your life precarious? Compare yourself to those on the American frontier in the 19th century. They are threatened by competent and committed warriors–Apaches, Comanches, Sioux–a real but minuscule threat compared to nuclear war and bioweapons and laboratory prepared and released pandemics. Americans today are far less safe than Americans on the frontier in the 1800s.

This should disturb Americans, but they seem unaware of it.

If you appreciate my efforts to elevate your understanding of our time, show it with a contribution. It is the only way I have of knowing my efforts are appreciated.

(Republished from paulcraigroberts by permission of author or representative)
 
• Category: Foreign Policy • Tags: Russia, Ukraine