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Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org April 27, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

This question came to mind from reading Edward Curtin\u2019s essays, \u201cAt the Lost and Found,\u201d (Clarity Press, 2025), in which he shares with readers his intellectual encounters with the rising criminality of the governments of the United States since the 1960s. Edward Curtin is a decent person with a sense of justice and a moral conscience, traits more common in his time than today. \u00a0I found his moral responses reassuring, and wonder if recent generations would respond in the same way.<\/p>\n

Curtin, I suspect, was a member of the old moderate left, which was concerned with fairness and pushing a reform here and there.\u00a0 Today this left remains only in its elderly remnants.\u00a0 The modern left is not reformist.\u00a0 It is revolutionary, committed to using law, government, and media to overthrow traditional society and replace it with a Sodom & Gomorrah Tower of Babel in which merit is regarded as a white racist tool.<\/p>\n

Today the left, as epitomized by the Biden regime, pushes DEI over merit, sexual perversity over love between a man and a woman, sexualization of young children, demonization of white people as racists, and ideology over truth. Today for the left the truth resides in the ideological agenda, not in facts.<\/p>\n

Despite the digital revolution, the Internet, social media, email, and texting, the acquisition of truthful information has become ever more difficult.\u00a0 The reason is that for almost all parties concerned, it is the agenda that is important, not the facts.\u00a0 A consequence is that, unlike in the past, today we live in narratives orchestrated to serve agendas. As Curtin puts it, \u201cwe are living in a pretend society\u201d in which truth is not present.<\/p>\n

Curtin\u2019s essays, like my own, vary in quality, but every decent person will enjoy escape from social media into thought about what is happening to us.\u00a0 I am not going to attempt to organize Curtin\u2019s essays around a theme.\u00a0 I am going to limit my comments to two of his essays.<\/p>\n

The first is about what has become of Christmas.\u00a0 As my readers know, for several decades it has been my habit to republish my Christmas essay, \u201cThe Greatest Gift of All,\u201d to remind people that Christianity gave us freedom and meaning in our lives.\u00a0 In the Massachusetts town in which Curtin and his wife live, Christmas fireworks are a feature.\u00a0 As he and his wife inside their home sit holding and trying to calm the family dogs, \u201csentient animals with deep feelings,\u201d who are quaking uncontrollably, Curtin thinks of \u201cchildren in Gaza quivering in fear as the Israelis bomb them night and day in savage attacks\u201d and thinks of \u201cthe visceral sense of what those Palestinians\u00a0 must be feeling as they hold their trembling children\u201d who are declared by Israel\u2019s leader to be \u201cuseless objects.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is America\u2019s shame that the entire government of the United States, including President Trump, the media, and the brainwashed and indoctrinated hapless American population \u00a0accept the destruction of a people, even enable it with weapons and money and deportation of persons with sufficient moral conscience to protest the genocide of a nation.\u00a0 Curtin has every right to raise the question, what kind of people have Americans become?<\/p>\n

The second essay is about Curtin\u2019s \u201cKnown Knowns,\u201d which consists of the massive lies that the US government has based its rule upon, regardless of whether Republican or Democrat, since the 1960s.\u00a0 In a mere 8 pages Curtin presents the history of the US government\u2019s degeneration into evil kept in power by lies.<\/p>\n

He begins with the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and goes on to Allan Dulles who engineered slaughter of one million Indonesians, the orchestrated Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal orchestrated by the CIA to drive Nixon from power, the neoconservatives\u2019 Iran-Contra scandal, the orchestrated Persian Gulf War, the Clinton regime\u2019s bombing of four countries in four months \u2013Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, and Yugoslavia, the 9\/11 false flag attacks on the World Trade Center, the George W. Bush regime\u2019s fake \u201cwar on terror,\u201d used to strip Americans of civil liberties and to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama who institutionalized the warfare state and bombed seven countries, Trump who allowed the deadly Covid vaccine to be imposed on us and subjects the conscience of America to the support of Israel\u2019s genocide of Palestine, and Biden who engineered the anti-Russian coup in Ukraine, renewed war with Russia, and imprisoned American citizens for exercising their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

From the standpoint of the American Establishment, the problem with Curtin\u2019s indictment is that it is true.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s America, to tell the truth is becoming an indication of treason for which whistleblowers, allegedly protected by federal law, are being imprisoned. This is not changing under Trump.\u00a0 Instead, it is expanding.\u00a0 If you criticize Israel, you are deported.\u00a0 Thus, under the Trump regime, if you speak the truth about Israel, you are considered an enemy of the state.<\/p>\n

Americans really do need to think about how they arrived at this position.\u00a0 Curtin\u2019s essays will help you.<\/p>\n

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