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The US Navy Faces a Major Challenge in Sustaining Combat Operations Off the Coast of Iran, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jan 31st 2026 12:20am ESTI have posted three of my recent podcasts at the end of this article, but if you only have time to watch one ignore me and focus on the fourth video… It is Danny Davis interviewing the retired Royal Navy Commodore, Steve Jeremy. Jeremy describes in precise detail the problems and challenges the US Navy…
Our Rulers Are Psychopaths and They’re Making Everything Awful, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Jan 31st 2026 12:00am ESTI don’t know what to say today. We are ruled by abusive monsters. The US is preparing for war with Iran. They’re going in for the kill shot on Cuba. The latest batch of Epstein emails looks horrifying. The US is full of protests because ICE keeps killing people. Israel is still massacring civilians in…
Truthless Tongue: The Lie-Loving Language of Leftism, by Tobias Langdon
The Unz Review - Jan 31st 2026 12:00am ESTTruthless Tongue: The Lie-Loving Language of Leftism I’m bilingual in English and English. That is, I’m bilingual in standard England and leftist English — I’ll call the latter Lynglish to blend the concepts of “leftist English” and “lying.” Standard English and Lynglish look the same but often mean very different or even entirely opposite things….
The Ukrainian Deal Is All Talk, No Reality, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jan 31st 2026 12:00am ESTOh January 30 I asked if Putin is being taken to the cleaners again as he was with the Minsk agreement. Putin’s “peace” negotiator, Kirill Dmitriev educated at Stanford and Harvard universities, tells Putin that “great progress” is being made. As this is music to Putin’s ears, he believes it. Steve Witkoff, an American real…
The Ukrainian Deal Is All Talk, No Reality, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jan 31st 2026 12:00am ESTOh January 30 I asked if Putin is being taken to the cleaners again as he was with the Minsk agreement. Putin’s “peace” negotiator, Kirill Dmitriev educated at Stanford and Harvard universities, tells Putin that “great progress” is being made. As this is music to Putin’s ears, he believes it. Steve Witkoff, an American real…
Reposting a Short Satire on the American Leader, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Jan 31st 2026 12:00am ESTA friend forwarded a short satire written in August 2025 by Oliver Kornetzke whose work I enjoy on Substack. His description of Trump, the guy whose image defines the word idiot on Google search, is funny and deadly accurate. I couldn’t find the article where the paragraph originates. So instead of re-stacking the article, I’ll…
Exclusive: Trump May Launch Strikes on Iran — Regime Change, Not Nukes, Is the Goal, by Joshua Scheer
The Unz Review - Jan 30th 2026 12:20am ESTDrop Site News exclusive reports that senior U.S. military officials have informed the leadership of a key Middle Eastern ally that President Donald Trump could authorize direct military strikes on Iran as early as this weekend, with targets potentially extending beyond nuclear and missile facilities to include senior Iranian leadership — a push some strategists…
Trump’s New Trade War Isn’t About Trade — It’s About Regime Power, by Joshua Scheer
The Unz Review - Jan 30th 2026 12:00am ESTDonald Trump is taking his economic threats international. Fresh off Davos, Trump launched an unprecedented attack on Canada, threatening to impose a 50% tariff on all Canadian aircraft sold in the U.S. and decertifying every new plane made in Canada, including Bombardier jets, until Gulfstream — a “Great American Company” — is certified to his…
The US Is Pushing So Many Regime Change Agendas It’s Hard to Keep Up, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Jan 30th 2026 12:00am ESTIt’s just incredible how quickly and aggressively the US is advancing longstanding agendas of global conquest under the Trump administration. Now they’re racing to take out Cuba. The US president has signed an executive order to impose new tariffs on countries which supply oil to Cuba, even indirectly, which is expected to dramatically increase the…
Is It Time to Replace NATO with EATO?, by Ian Proud
The Unz Review - Jan 30th 2026 12:00am ESTTime to think about a Eurasian Treaty to secure peace and security between Russia and Europe In recent weeks, there has been renewed discussion of the future of NATO as a guarantor of security on the European mainland. The recently published U.S. National Defense Strategy has made it clear that it is for European States…
ICE Left Out In the Cold, by Eric Striker
The Unz Review - Jan 29th 2026 12:10am ESTIn early December, Jaylani Hussein, executive director of CAIR Minnesota, delivered a press conference warning of a leaked document exposing a Jewish-funded marketing campaign, through an Israeli foreign ministry contract with PR firm Stagwell, to target Minneapolis-St Paul’s Somalis. The goal, according to Hussein, was to manufacture anti-Muslim animosity among MAGA supporters in hopes of…
The BBC Pushes the Case for an Illegal War on Iran with Even Bigger Lies Than Trump’s, by Jonathan Cook
The Unz Review - Jan 29th 2026 12:00am ESTThe UK state broadcaster streams disinformation into our living rooms – deceptions that not only leave us clueless about important international events but drive us ever closer to global conflagration Here is another example of utterly irresponsible journalism from the BBC on tonight’s News at Ten. Diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley starts by credulously amplifying a…
The BBC Pushes the Case for an Illegal War on Iran with Even Bigger Lies Than Trump’s, by Jonathan Cook
The Unz Review - Jan 29th 2026 12:00am ESTThe UK state broadcaster streams disinformation into our living rooms – deceptions that not only leave us clueless about important international events but drive us ever closer to global conflagration Here is another example of utterly irresponsible journalism from the BBC on tonight’s News at Ten. Diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley starts by credulously amplifying a…
The BBC Pushes the Case for an Illegal War on Iran with Even Bigger Lies Than Trump’s, by Jonathan Cook
The Unz Review - Jan 29th 2026 12:00am ESTThe UK state broadcaster streams disinformation into our living rooms – deceptions that not only leave us clueless about important international events but drive us ever closer to global conflagration Here is another example of utterly irresponsible journalism from the BBC on tonight’s News at Ten. Diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley starts by credulously amplifying a…
Did the Disasters of the 20th Century Save the West, or At Least Stave Off Its Demise for Several Decades?, by Jung-Freud
The Unz Review - Jan 28th 2026 1:56am ESTIt’s often been said that the woes facing the current West derive from the disasters beginning with the Great War, or World War I, which opened the floodgates to the communist takeover of Russia, followed by the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany, which led to World War II, the aftermath of which was…
‘Apple Pie Fascism’, by Patrick Lawrence
The Unz Review - Jan 27th 2026 12:00am EST6 JANUARY—Yesterday, news having arrived Saturday that Immigration and Enforcement agents have shot another resident of Minneapolis—this the third, the second that amounts to point-blank murder—The New York Times ran a headline in its Sunday editions that bears a very heavy load. “Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis” is a Times magazine piece by Charles Homans,…
Is Donald Trump Playing 27-Dimensional Chess?, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Jan 26th 2026 12:00am ESTI’ve never liked Karl Rove, but I’ve always respected his competence as a political strategist given his success in winning two presidential terms for an idiot like “W.” Soon after his patron left the White House amid record-low approval ratings, Rove became a weekly columnist at the Wall Street Journal. Although I’ve almost never read…
ICE Minnesota Raid Is Pure Theater as Texas & Other Red States Swell with Illegals, by Jose Alberto Nino
The Unz Review - Jan 25th 2026 12:10am ESTThe Trump administration has deployed thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to Minnesota in what amounts to little more than political theater. Two Americans are already dead from this operation, yet the state hosts a fraction of the illegal immigrant population found in Republican strongholds like Texas, Florida, and Georgia. The numbers tell a…
ICE Minnesota Raid Is Pure Theater as Texas & Other Red States Swell with Illegals, by Jose Alberto Nino
The Unz Review - Jan 25th 2026 12:10am ESTThe Trump administration has deployed thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to Minnesota in what amounts to little more than political theater. Two Americans are already dead from this operation, yet the state hosts a fraction of the illegal immigrant population found in Republican strongholds like Texas, Florida, and Georgia. The numbers tell a…
No Healthy Person Wants to Rule the World or Become A Billionaire, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Jan 25th 2026 12:00am ESTNo mentally healthy person wants to rule the world. Nobody with a functioning conscience and a working empathy center in their brain is interested in becoming a billionaire. We are ruled by the most dysfunctional members of our species. The most wounded, neurotic and sociopathic among us. The least wise, caring and insightful. What drives…
It’s Not About “Spheres of Influence.” It’s About Balls of Influence., by Thomas Zaja
The Unz Review - Jan 25th 2026 12:00am ESTThe year of the fire horse is set to lead the way into the second quarter of the 21st century. If the current geopolitical buildup does not represent an ominous window of chaos then nothing does, as Trump threatens to go scorched earth on the permafrost of Greenland among other places. One can’t go shopping…
Living in China, Part 2: The Downsides, by Walt King
The Unz Review - Jan 25th 2026 12:00am ESTBack in April last year, commissioned originally by Ron Unz of the Unz Review, I wrote an extended article titled Living in China based on almost 20 years experience, the most recent being of five years’ permanent residence in Shenzhen, apart from holidays abroad. I said then that China was about the best country in…
ICE Executes Beloved ICU Nurse in Minneapolis — Nation Erupts, Government Lies Exposed., by Joshua Scheer
The Unz Review - Jan 24th 2026 12:10am ESTSome of the responses to the brutal murder of Alex Pretti by federal agents. Pretti, a U.S. citizen and an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital known for his care and compassion, was shot and killed Saturday morning near Nicollet Avenue. Family members and colleagues say he was participating in protests against federal immigration…
Trump’s Senility Has Exposed His Sociopathic Narcissism, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Jan 24th 2026 12:00am ESTRumble link Bitchute link Press TV: Joining us at the city of Saidia, Morocco is Dr. Kevin Barrett. Dr. Barrett, always a pleasure, sir. Now, this policy of a crackdown on immigration and mass deportations, we saw with the Democrats, we’re seeing with Trump. Why does Trump get so much blowback when what he does…
Using Carl Menger’s Insights to Understand Jew-Gentile Polarizations, by Jorge Besada
The Unz Review - Jan 23rd 2026 12:10am ESTIn my article “Carl Menger’s Overlooked Vital Evolutionary Insights,” I tried to summarize and bring attention to founder of the Austrian School of economics Carl Menger’s “vital evolutionary insights” regarding the evolved, non-human-designed emergence of social institutions like “law, of language, of the origin of markets, the origin of communities and of states.” And Menger’s…