What is left of America?
Paul Craig Roberts

The Democrats in Minnesota are in an openly declared insurrection against the government of the United States. The insurrection is led by the Jewish Democrat left-wing mayor of Minneapolis and by the Democrat left-wing governor of Minnesota, who Democrats thought was qualified to be vice president of the United States. Unlike the January 6 Trump supporters who attended a rally in support of an honest vote count of the 2020 election, there is a real insurrection underway in Minnesota where violence is being used against federal agents performing their lawful duty of deporting aliens who entered the United States illegally and are residing in the United States illegally. Yet no arrest warrants have been issued by the US Department of Justice for the two ring-leaders of an actual insurrection that is using violent force against federal law enforcement officials.

The Department of Justice has begun a criminal probe into Minnesota governor and Minneapolis mayor, letting them off easy with the charge of impeding federal agents instead of arresting them for insurrection. The two Democrat insurrectionists hypocritically accuse Trump of “weaponizing the justice system, and threatening political opponents.” What do Waltz and Frey think their party did to Trump and his supporters?  The difference is that the Minnesota Democrats are actually guilty of insurrection.

What does this tell us? Does it tell us that Republicans are not permitted to attend a rally but that Democrats may participate in insurrection? Does it tell us that the Department of Justice does not have prosecutors other than those who are members of the Democrat Party who refuse to enforce the law against members of their party? Does it tell us that the Trump administration only consists of a few people at the top and that the millions of US civil service employees are Democrats who only enforce Weaponized Law against Republicans?

Questions naturally arise. Why is President Trump picking fights with Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, Denmark, Iran, Russia, and China when he cannot even put down insurrection inside his own country? Is he unable to govern at home and covers up this fact by claiming to govern foreign countries? Why is it more important to steal Venezuela’s oil and Denmark’s territory then to put down treasonous insurrection on the part of the Democrat party in the streets of the United States?

There are scores of questions in addition to these. For example, for 60 years in complete violation of the 14th amendment and the explicit language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act it has been the policy of the EEOC, a federal government regulatory agency, to enforce discrimination against white maleson the basis of their race and gender. After 60 years of prohibited race and gender discrimination, nothing has been done about it. Successive presidential administrations have accepted and perpetrated six decades of inequality under law. So have the federal courts.

For the first quarter of the 21st century, the US military during the presidencies of George W. Bush, Obama, Trump first term, Biden, and Trump second term has been engaged not in defending the United States, which, during these 25 years has been overrun by illegal immigrant-invaders, but in the service of Israel. American blood and money were used to destroy the Arab nations–Iraq, Libya, Syria–that stood in opposition to the Israeli agenda of “Greater Israel.” Originally “Greater Israel” extended from “the Nile to the Euphrates.” In 2025 the Israeli government extended the claimed territory from “the Nile to Pakistan.”

Today the only remaining Arab countries, other than small oil emirates that are essentially city states, are Yemen, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. Recently Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the Israeli military was preparing for an invasion of Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, with the Trump regime leading the attack. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had President Trump use the US military to attack Iran in 2025. Little doubt Israel will continue to wield the American armed forces against Israel’s opponents.

In American and British universities, indeed throughout the school systems, education consists of the demonization of Western civilization as racist, colonialist, and exploitive. White heterosexual males are especially demonized and experience difficulty in obtaining university admission and employment in universities. No voice is allowed to those chosen as scapegoats. The belief system of Western civilization has been destroyed by the universities, and the peoples who comprise the Western world have been filled with guilt. They are incapable of standing up for themselves. To defend Western civilization is regarded as proof that the defender is a white supremacist. 

There is no intellectual or political diversity at Yale University and very little, if any, at any university.  American universities, like the US Civil Service, are homes for the Democrat liberal-left. They are propaganda ministries engaged in the destruction of the Western belief system.  Surveys by the Harvard Crimson indicate that only between 1% and 3% of the Harvard faculty identify as conservatives. https://www.rt.com/news/631088-report-democratic-tilt-yale-professors/ 

In America and Britain free speech is in the process of being restricted to those who lie in behalf of the official narratives, whereas those who tell the truth are demonized as conspiracy theorists and in Britain as domestic terrorists and are subject to imprisonment. This is especially the case in Britain for those who are critical of Israel’s destruction of Palestine. The British government has imprisoned citizens for holding signs in support of Palestine. In the United States, critics of Israel are fired from their jobs, and are not permitted to work for state governments or to have contracts to supply states with goods and services. If they are American students, they are expelled from the university. If they are foreign students, the Trump regime deports them. Democrats do not rush to their defense as they do to the defense of illegal immigrant-invaders. The Israeli government has demonstrated for all to see that Israel has sufficient power over the United States to be able to cancel the First Amendment. Yet any American who acknowledges Israel’s power over America, power that Israeli Prime Ministers boast about, is dismissed as an antisemite and conspiracy theorist.  In contrast mindless American conservatives sell out their country’s sovereignty with their chant “you can’t be an American if you don’t love Israel.”

The Democrat Party’s use of Weaponized Law against Trump and his supporters, the impotence of the Trump regime to hold accountable the high government officials who attempted to destroy Republicans with Weaponized Law, the refusal of federal agencies to follow the president’s direction, Democrat federal judges’ protection of Democrats’ defiance of federal authority, the imposition by Democrats Obama and Biden of DEI in place of merit, the service of Congress to Israel and campaign contributors at the expense of the American people, the offshoring or export of American jobs while importing via open borders millions of illegal aliens, thus lowering the living standards of the American people, all indicate that the US government is so compromised that it cannot possibly serve any American public interest. 

Indeed, it cannot be said that the United States is a sovereign country.

Hon. Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. A former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service, he is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles and a columnist for Investor's Business Daily. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists.

He was Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During 1981-82 he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. President Reagan and Treasury Secretary Regan credited him with a major role in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, and he was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy." From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy.

In 1987 the French government recognized him as "the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism" and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.

Dr. Roberts' latest books are The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with IPE Fellow Lawrence Stratton, and published by Prima Publishing in May 2000, and Chile: Two Visions - The Allende-Pinochet Era, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen Araujo, and published in Spanish by Universidad Nacional Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile, in November 2000. The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen LaFollette Araujo, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997. A Spanish language edition was published by Oxford in 1999. The New Colorline: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, was published by Regnery in 1995. A paperback edition was published in 1997. Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, co-authored with Karen LaFollette, was published by the Cato Institute in 1990. Harvard University Press published his book, The Supply-Side Revolution, in 1984. Widely reviewed and favorably received, the book was praised by Forbes as "a timely masterpiece that will have real impact on economic thinking in the years ahead." Dr. Roberts is the author of Alienation and the Soviet Economy, published in 1971 and republished in 1990. He is the author of Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis, published in 1973 and republished in 1983. A Spanish language edition was published in 1974.

Dr. Roberts has held numerous academic appointments. He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Finance Quarterly, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance. He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, The National Interest, Harper's, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, London Times, The Financial Times, TLS, The Spectator, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.

Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.), the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College.

He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The Dictionary of International Biography, Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century, and 1000 Leaders of World Influence. His latest book, HOW THE ECONOMY WAS LOST, has just been published by CounterPunch/AK Press. He can be reached at: [email protected]

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