by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:

On December 31 this website will be eight years old. It originated when readers called me out of retirement—all two months of it—and put me back to work. The readership has expanded dramatically, but the financial burden is carried by a relatively few core group of monthly donors, supplemented by responses to my quarterly calls for donations. These occur in March, June, September, and December. This is my quarterly call for donations in December 2019.

I never expected to still be working at my current age. It is hard work. Reliable information is harder and harder to come by, even on the Internet, which is filling up with websites sponsored by corporate interests, intelligence services, the Israel Lobby, and every interest group that benefits from controlled explanations. They control the print and TV media and NPR, and are gaining control over the Internet media.