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Truth is an Endangered Species
Paul Craig Roberts
Dear Readers, you have kept this website going longer than I had hoped.  It is a lot of work for me.  My columns and those of guests generate a lot of appreciation and also a lot of demonization and expressions of hatred toward me.  The slightest criticism of Israel labels one an anti-semite.  People who are aware understand that this word is so over-used that it has become meaningless, but the insouciant conclude that if you are labeled an anti-semite you are some kind of monster who wants to harm Jews.  If you point out the double-standards that white people suffer, you get branded a “racist white supremacist.” If you point out that #MeToo feminists are criminalizing heterosexual sexual attraction, you become a misogynist.  If you expose the official lies fed to the American people—Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russian invasion of Ukraine, 9/11, Gulf of Tonkin, and so on—you are dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist” who hates America.  Instead of seeing you as someone who is trying to rescue America, morons ask “If you hate America so much, why don’t you move to Russia?” or Iran, or China, or Venezuela, or to whatever is the demonized and attacked country that the moron believes is getting its just reward. 
Every year it becomes harder to tell the truth about anything.  If you do too much truth-telling, as I am inclined to do, they come after you in droves.  I had to stop websites that reproduce my columns, at least the ones I know about, from posting comments, because all sorts of paid trolls libel me and then spread the libel all over social media.  Their purpose is to discredit me and to scare readers away from my website.  It does work.  When the mysterious site PropOrNot, financed by no one knows who, put me on a list of “Russian agents and Putin stooges,”  thousands dropped off the newsletter list. 
Then they use Wikipedia, being an open biographical source that permits anyone to control your public image, to brand you an anti-semite, a conspiracy theorist, and a holocaust denier.  Perhaps you remember my column, “The Lies About WW II”  (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/05/13/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/), a review of David Irving’s World War II histories—Churchill’s War and Hitler’s War.  These are not the standard victor’s history written to make us feel good about ourselves.  To the contrary, Irving’s histories are based on decades of historical investigation and on official documents, speeches, letters, and memoirs.  Irving went around the world interviewing those who lived the experience. He found documents such as Rommel’s and Goebbels’ diaries, examined every document concerning the German government’s Jewish policy, disproved the fake Hitler diaries, and so on.  His books are regarded by objective historians as masterpieces.  Yet, he was shut down.  He told too much truth, an unacceptable sin.............https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/09/04/truth-is-an-endangered-species/