pcr on the trump show and where it may be going;

Is Trump committing political suicide?

Paul Craig Roberts

Gilbert Doctorow has given up on Donald Trump, a convincing illustration that Trump is losing the support of the few intelligent people who thought there might be some hope in him. I also have found my hopes that Trump would repair at least some of America’s crumbling foundation disappointed.

By all appearances, Trump places pleasing Netanyahu above all other considerations. To accommodate the Israel Lobby, Trump sacrificed the support of his two strongest supporters in the House of Representatives – Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massey. Greene resigned from Congress and Massey faces a Trump-Israel Lobby effort to defeat his reelection.

When I was young, and the United States and Europe had a semi-independent media, concern for truth resided only in the Western world. The rest of the world was accustomed to the rule by power and to governments lying for their own convenience. Respect for truth was a Western thing. In the last 30 or 40 years I have watched the Western media take on the attribute of lying for the convenience of advertisers, monied  interests, and governments in exchange for “scoops,” that is, planted stories serving hidden agendas.

As far as I can tell, Western education has succeeded in discrediting the concept of truth. Educators, as they are called, teach that truth is just an expression of self-interest, or one’s preferences, or in the case of white gentiles expression of racism and antisemitism. With truth, discredited, appeals to its authority are weak. Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuelan president Maduro and his wife and Trump’s cooperation with Netanyahu in destabilizing Iran in preparation to attacking the country are based on lies and orchestrated events. Few in the United States or Europe, have the intelligence and knowledge to see what is happening, and those few who do are dismissed as “conspiracy theorists.”..........more.........