by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

While insouciant Americans sat on their butts sucking their thumbs or scrolling porn on their cell phones, they lost the protection of the US Constitution. Israel’s special pleading for criticism protection and US wars in the Middle East in behalf of Greater Israel played major roles in the destruction of Americans’ Constitutional rights.
Zionist neoconservatives engineered the hoax “war on terror” to sic America on obstacles to Israeli expansion. The declared goal was seven countries in five years. It did succeed in destroying Iraq, Syria, and Libya over a longer period. Now the US is focused on Iran for Israel while Israel again attempts to incorporate Lebanon into Israel.



Researchers in China have developed an optical artificial intelligence network that performs inference up to 100 times faster than traditional electronic systems while using fewer physical chips, according to a study published in November 2025. The system, described in a report by 
Italian researchers have found a significant presence of microplastics in the blood of patients suffering from the most dangerous type of heart 
Increasingly short of men to fight, Ukraine is relying on foreign mercenaries to feed the meat grinder that the battlefield has become
The death of Charlie Kirk has become more than a criminal investigation. Whether the official prosecution ultimately succeeds or fails, the case has exposed a deeper crisis that extends well beyond one courtroom. Millions of Americans are no longer confident that major investigations are conducted transparently, competently, or free from political influence. That erosion of trust may prove to be the most lasting consequence of the case.
Just look at what is going on in Louisiana …

Meanwhile, sources say Russians mulling attacks on NATO countries that assisted Ukrainian assaults on civilian and energy targets.