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More Clarity on CSAR Mission to Rescue the WSO… Re-Examining Assumptions, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 7th 2026 12:00am EDTThere is more information emerging about the rescue of the second crew member from the downed F-15E. The story the Trump administration is telling is, in my opinion, an exaggeration. It is now clear that once the plane crashed, the CIA and the Pentagon launched a massive disinformation campaign to convince the Iranians that the…
Is Donald Trump Facing a Military Mutiny Over His Losing War with Iran?, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Apr 6th 2026 12:00am EDTOver the last couple of weeks there have growing media reports that we were preparing to launch a ground invasion of Iranian territory even as more and more American troops were brought into the region. But at this very moment, the Trump Administration suddenly fired Randy George, America’s top Army general, along with a couple…
Christianity as a Jewish Evolutionary Strategy, by Laurent Guyénot
The Unz Review - Apr 5th 2026 12:05am EDTIntroduction In recent posts, I have made a series of arguments that the Christianization of the Roman Empire was good for the Jews (here and here) and bad for the Gentiles (here and here), and that it has paved the way for the subversion and subjugation of Western civilization by Jewish Power. Since Christianity is…
The Great War for Civilization, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Apr 5th 2026 12:00am EDTRumble link Bitchute link FFWN link Anyone who listens to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and compares his witty, reasonable, thoughtful, pertinent, reality-based comments to the mad drivel emanating from the likes of Trump and Hegseth and Netanayahu, can see that Iran is the civilized party to the current conflict, while the other side is…
Know Your Adversary… Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Not a Fortunate Son, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 4th 2026 12:10am EDTI say adversary instead of enemy. Mr. Khamenei and the Iranian people are not the enemies of the US. They did not attack us on February 28, we attacked them… And we did so while the Iranians were engaged in good faith negotiations, or so they thought. Iran’s new Ayatollah shares something in common with…
Ground War with Iran? Chris Hedges and Larry Wilkerson Warn of a Catastrophe Washington May Already be Sliding Toward, by Chris Hedges
The Unz Review - Apr 4th 2026 12:00am EDTIn a stark and unsettling conversation on The Chris Hedges Report, journalist Chris Hedges sits down with retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson to confront a question now hanging over Washington’s war planning: Is the United States preparing to send ground forces into Iran? The interview arrives at a moment when the American-Israeli war on Iran…
Trump’s Premature Claim About Air Supremacy and Obliterated Iranian Air Defenses, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 4th 2026 12:00am EDTDuring his Wednesday night speech, Donald Trump made the following claim about Iran’s air defenses: They have no anti-aircraft equipment, their radar’s 100% annihilated, we are unstoppable as a military force. It appears that President Trump was a bit premature. The US Air Force had a difficult day on Friday: ➡️F-15E (48th Fighter Wing) —…
The Mass Media Are Evil But They’re Also Really Dumb, and Other Notes, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2026 12:10am EDTThe New York Times has printed an article with the headline “A North American Treaty Organization Without America?”, apparently having spent the entire Ukraine war completely unaware that NATO stands for North ATLANTIC Treaty Organization. At the same time, CNN ran a segment on an American bomber whose plane was shot down over Iran in…
There’s Going to be a Ground Invasion of Iran, by Greg Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2026 12:10am EDTOn April Fools’ Day, Donald Trump addressed the nation about the Iran War. It would have been too painful to listen to his adenoidal droning and borscht-belt insult comedian shtick, so I just read the transcript. He said nothing new. It was just a live version of his social media tweets: rambling, mendacious, self-contradictory, delusional,…
Experts Warned for Years That A War with Iran Would Happen This Way, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2026 12:00am EDTTime has a new article out in which unnamed sources assert that the Pentagon was caught totally off-guard by Iran’s aggressive retaliation against the US-Israeli onslaught which began last month, reporting the following: It’s so wild how we keep seeing reports that Iran’s retaliation caught the US off guard. For all the years I’ve been…
From 9/11 to War on Iran, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2026 12:00am EDTRumble link Bitchute link TruthJihad link Jim Hogue’s radio program, “House at Pooh Corner”, where he interviewed Daniel Ellsberg and many other whistle-blowers, lasted for 29 years on WGDR-FM (91.1) in Plainfield, Vermont…until Hogue criticized Israel for genocide and got canceled. He now has a television program by the same name with ORCA Media in…
Is Trump Purging Generals Opposed to a Ground War in Iran, or Is It Something Bigger?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2026 12:00am EDTSoldiers talk, and the talk on social media from active duty and retired US Army Rangers and others is largely expressing shock and outrage over the forced resignations of Gen. Randy A. George, Gen. David M. Hodne and Maj. Gen. William “Bill” Green Jr. The word on the street is that General George opposes launching…
Open Thread #12, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Apr 2nd 2026 6:08am EDTA New Open Thread
The China-Pakistan-GCC Riddle, by Pepe Escobar
The Unz Review - Apr 1st 2026 12:15am EDTNo one is betting that most GCC petro-monarchies in West Asia have seen which way the wind is blowin’. China and Pakistan released a joint 5-points statement on the war on Iran that at face value might be considered as lame as it gets. Immediate ceasefire & humanitarian access to all affected areas. Early peace…
There Are No Good Zionists, and Other Notes, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Apr 1st 2026 12:00am EDTI don’t believe you can be a good Zionist anymore than I believe someone can be a decent Nazi. The ideology itself describes a major character flaw. I cannot take seriously the idea that some ethnicities or religious groups are inherently prone to nefarious behavior; it goes against everything I’ve learned about the human condition…
Trump to Give “Important Update on Iran” Wednesday in Prime-Time Speech, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 1st 2026 12:00am EDTWhat is Donald Trump going to say about Iran on Wednesday night? Before I layout three possible outcomes, let’s examine what Trump is actually doing in terms of some key military assets (all of this is from open source reporting). A-10 Squadron (Confirmed New Deployment) Since Friday, March 27, 2026, the most prominently reported new…
Who Else, Besides Pete Hegseth, Is Trying to Use the War in Iran to Get Rich?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2026 12:10am EDTLooks like Pete Hegseth tried to make a financial killing off of the war of aggression the US launched against Iran on 28 February 2026. According to the Financial Times: Pete Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February to make a multimillion-dollar investment in a defense-focused Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) called IDEF. This $3.2…
Are Modern Jews Khazars?, by Keith Woods
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2026 12:05am EDTThe theory that Ashkenazi Jews descend primarily from converts in the medieval Khazar Khaganate, a Turkic polity in the Caucasus region, has been around for over a century. Though it was largely seen as put to bed by modern genetic science, this theory has recently taken on renewed popularity, driven by the rise in anti-Zionist…
Was America’s World War II ‘Crusade’ Worthwhile?, by Spencer J. Quinn
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2026 12:05am EDTIf forced to briefly describe America’s Second Crusade, William Henry Chamberlin’s revisionist account of Allied leadership during the Second World War, two words come to mind: sober accounting. In nearly every chapter, the author holds the United States and Britain to the standards they themselves had set for what they hoped to accomplish by defeating…
Big Picture: Realist Geopolitics in Two Diagrams, by Marco de Wit
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2026 12:02am EDTIntroduction There are two “ultra-realist” schools of political science: Offensive Realism and Austro-Libertarianism. While they differ methodologically in defining the state and the nature of geopolitics, they agree on a fundamental conclusion: states are inherently self-interested aggressive organizations. Furthermore, both schools believe that small, powerful elite groups can capture a state’s foreign policy apparatus to…
A Civilization Whose Defense Is Abandoned Is a Civilization That Is Lost, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2026 12:00am EDTFor many years I have expressed concern that Western Civilization was being destroyed intentionally from within by failing to convey the civilization’s achievements to succeeding generations via education. Instead, education was used to alienate generations from their own civilization by stressing evils such as wars, slavery, oppression of blacks and women, oppression of other peoples…
U.S. Political Theology: Weaponizing the Bible, by Tom Sunic
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2026 12:00am EDTWith regard to the ticking time bomb in the Middle East and the Gulf, it is misleading to pin the blame solely on President Trump or Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu. Many experts on the Middle East overlook a significant factor: the century-long American, Bible-inspired mission to regenerate the world—today playing itself out in Iran. This…
Israel Is Making Sure Trump Can’t Find An Off-Ramp In Iran, by Jonathan Cook
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2026 12:00am EDTIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must have persuaded Donald Trump that a war on Iran would unfold much like the pager attack in Lebanon 18 months ago. The two militaries would jointly decapitate the leadership in Tehran, and it would crumble just as Hezbollah had collapsed – or so it then seemed – after Israel…
The Fall of Singapore, Dien Bien Phu… and the Battle for Kharg Island?, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Mar 30th 2026 12:00am EDTThe World War II chapters of my introductory history textbooks always devoted a great deal of space to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought our country into the conflict. But they only spent a couple of paragraphs on the major military victories of Japan that had soon followed. Perhaps a single sentence was…
Iran’s Victory Would Have a Silver Lining, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Mar 29th 2026 12:10am EDTFormer Israeli Army officer says Israel’s military is “on the brink of collapse.” Israel’s capability, with US help, is assassinations and sneak attacks. Israel’s army is good at bombing civilians and shooting mothers and babies in the head. But when it comes to fighting, Israel is pitiful. Twice the vaunted IDF tried to occupy Southern…