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Without Truth There Is No Freedom, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 1st 2021 10:32am EDTThe United States is best understood today as the Disunited States. There is less unity than in 1860. Civility is gone from debate; indeed, debate itself is gone. Integrity and respect for truth have lost out to worship of money and the rule of power. Ideology has shoved aside facts. Money and power are all…. […]
Recantations Are All the Rage, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Jun 1st 2021 12:00am EDTSeveral things are happening simultaneously. Most important, Israel has lost the public opinion war in much of the world through its brutality during the recent attack on Gaza and it continues to lose ground even in the wake of a cease fire due to mass arrests of Palestinians and armed police intrusions in and around… […]
American Pravda: George Orwell’s Virus Lab-Leak, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - May 31st 2021 8:47am EDTIt’s been decades since I last read George Orwell’s 1984, but portions of that classic dystopian novel have become part of our common political culture. There’s that famous scene in which an orator is giving a lengthy wartime speech at a political rally, praising the heroic ally of Eurasia and denouncing the arch-foe of Eastasia,… […]
This Memorial Day, Mourn for Occupied America—and Organize to Get It Back, by James Kirkpatrick
The Unz Review - May 30th 2021 9:47pm EDTSee also Memorial Day Is About America’s Honored Dead…NOT George Floyd It’s a new post-American age, and thus a new Memorial Day. This year, the “hero” being memorialized is George Floyd, not American servicemen. The battle being remembered is the Tulsa “race massacre,” not any victory of American arms. As for the American military, it… […]
Lost in (Hebrew) Translation, by Gilad Atzmon
The Unz Review - May 30th 2021 3:02pm EDTThose who follow my work are probably familiar with the idea that there is no modern Hebrew word for peace (meaning harmony and reconciliation). The Hebrew Word Shalom (שלום) is interpreted in modern Hebrew as ‘security for the Jews.’ In Israel the reference to ‘shalom negotiation’ is construed as a premeditated set of conditions that… […]
The Abduction of NEXTA, by Israel Shamir
The Unz Review - May 30th 2021 6:02am EDTWhat does Lukashenko think of himself and of his country? Doesn’t he act like the King of Israel? Israel permits itself to kill and kidnap its enemies, wherever they are. The US also entitles itself to do whatever it finds necessary; kidnapping hundreds and dumping them in Guantanamo, or just killing them, as they killed… […]
Dear Albi, by Linh Dinh
The Unz Review - May 29th 2021 8:17am EDTBorges and Bioy-Casares created a detective who solved crimes from a jail cell. Don Isidro Parodi could help others, but not extricate himself from a false accusation. Removing themselves from the world, desert hermits were still sought out by those overwhelmed by day-to-day problems, whether financial, familial or perhaps even sexual. Nathaniel West’s Miss Lonelyhearts… […]
This Anti-White St. George Floyd Cult Is A Disgrace to America, by John Derbyshire
The Unz Review - May 28th 2021 11:47pm EDTEarlier by John Derbyshire (June 6, 2020) I Will Not Genuflect To This Church Of Antiracism If you know any Shakespeare at all, you know the speech that Henry the Fifth gave to rally his troops at the battle of Agincourt. It ends with the words: “Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George!” There’s… […]
Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter. Protests Matter, by Ted Rall
The Unz Review - May 28th 2021 10:47pm EDTYour opinion doesn’t matter — not by itself. No matter how heartfelt or important to you personally, your thoughts about Gaza or legal weed or the war on skinny jeans don’t mean anything merely because they reside inside your brain. Your opinion matters only if you express it. Expression of an opinion doesn’t change anything… […]
Does Our Diversity Portend Disintegration?, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - May 28th 2021 12:00am EDTAfter nine people were shot to death by a public transit worker, who then killed himself in San Jose, the latest mass murder in America, California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke for many on the eve of this Memorial Day weekend. “What the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell… […]
So the Ruling Class Was WRONG WRONG WRONG About Covid-19. What Else Are They Wrong About?, by Lance Welton
The Unz Review - May 27th 2021 11:17pm EDTEarlier by Ann Coulter: “I Will Not Be Scienced”—Experts Wrong, Covid Could Have Come From Wuhan Lab After All The sudden dramatic collapse of the elite-enforced Narrative that Covid-19 could not possibly have originated in a Chinese laboratory is one of the most extraordinary developments in modern political history [That Didn’t Age Well: Wuhan Propaganda… […]
From Here On, Palestine Calls the Shots, by Taxi
The Unz Review - May 27th 2021 10:33am EDTFrom rocks to rockets. This is now the recorded evolution of the armed Palestinian Resistance. From throwing Intifada rocks that barely scratched occupation tanks, to lobbing rockets that can now reach anywhere in Israel: this is presently the undeniable status of the Palestinian Resistance. Hard, therefore, not to deduce that some impressive progress has been… […]
The Iranian Presidential Shocker, by Pepe Escobar
The Unz Review - May 26th 2021 3:32pm EDTWhen Iran’s Interior Ministry released on Tuesday the final list of candidates approved by the 12-member Guardian Council to run for President in the upcoming June 18 election, all hell was breaking loose in Tehran for at least 24 hours. An “unofficial” list of the 7 candidates for the presidential election was already circulating and… […]
Insouciance Destroyed America, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - May 26th 2021 10:17am EDTMost Americans have no idea how far gone their country is. We not only have the Biden regime announcing solidarity with BLM and flying the BLM flag at US embassies and consular missions, US military recruitment videos stressing recruitment of lesbian females, men dressing as women, and Americans having their genitals removed so they can… […]
Palestine: Hamas Defeats Israel, by The Saker
The Unz Review - May 25th 2021 10:02pm EDTJust like in 2006, when both Ehud Olmert and George Bush declared that the “invincible IDF” had, yet again, achieved a “glorious victory” and the entire Middle-East almost died laughing hearing this ridiculous claim, today both the US and Israeli propaganda machine have declared another “glorious” victory for the “Jewish state of Israel” cum “sole… […]
The Zionists on the Defensive, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - May 25th 2021 12:00am EDTYes folks, there is an international conspiracy and it is all about “protecting” Israel. It operates through front and lobbying groups that uniquely promote the interests of a foreign country, Israel, even when those interests do serious damage to the host country where the lobbyists actually live. In Britain, for example, there are a Conservative… […]
Merkel Flips Off Biden’s Protest — to Buy Putin’s Gas, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - May 25th 2021 12:00am EDTWhen the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defend Germany against the 400,000 Russian troops on the eastern side of the Elbe River. Seventy years later, Germany has decided to double its dependence on Vladimir Putin’s Russia for the natural gas needed to run… […]
Israel Is a Giant Machine for Generating Anti-Semitism, by Colin Liddell
The Unz Review - May 24th 2021 12:33pm EDTYou may or may not have noticed it, but the World has a funny old way of working. For thousands of years Anti-Semitism had been a pretty established thing, then, along came the Nazis, and suddenly, just a few short years later, everybody was ready to cut the Jews plenty of slack. Yes, the Nazis’… […]
The Cult of Ugly: Leftist Lies, Jewish Junk, and the Malign Martyrdom of George Floyd, by Tobias Langdon
The Unz Review - May 24th 2021 12:17pm EDTIt’s a perfect image for our insane and ugly age: an overweight gender-fluid Black woman in a Wu-Flu mask pressing her head in worship against a giant mural of George Floyd at the site of his martyrdom in Minneapolis. The martyr is ugly, the mural is ugly and the mourner is ugly: In its ugliness,… […]
America’s Public Health System Is Utterly Corrupt, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - May 24th 2021 9:02am EDTA sure sign of a country’s collapse is the open corruption of its public and private institutions. When corruption no longer has to be hidden but can be openly flouted, the values and standards that comprised the country’s soul have eroded away. Try to find an American institution that is not corrupt. Even when presented… […]
Then They Came for “Christian Nationalism”—Pastor Brett McAtee vs. America’s Hostile Elite, by Kevin Sullivan
The Unz Review - May 22nd 2021 10:02pm EDT“Christian Nationalism” has emerged as the latest bogeyperson, not only for the leftist Corporate Media but also for secular and even cuckChristian elites, since the “Jericho March” in December [Trump-Supporting ‘Jericho March’ Ends In Protest, Burning Of BLM Banners, by Jillian Cheney, Religion Unplugged, December 14, 2020] and the January 6 Mostly Peaceful Protest at… […]
10 “Good News” Stories You Probably Missed, by Mike Whitney
The Unz Review - May 22nd 2021 1:32pm EDTIf you’re one of the millions of Americans who’d like to see the country return to normal ASAP, there’s plenty of good news to report this week. As cases and fatalities have continued to drop, the cloud of fear that has enveloped the nation for the last 14 months, is gradually lifting. More and more… […]
Scandal: More Black Than White Children in Special Schools., by James Thompson
The Unz Review - May 21st 2021 8:57am EDTThe British Broadcasting Corporation is one of the world’s largest (35,000 employees including part-timers) and best funded news organisations, against which few can compete. Not only does it have a budget which in 2018-19 amounted to £4.0 billion ($5.6 billion), but it is virtually guaranteed the continuation of that level of income by a government… […]
Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet?, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - May 21st 2021 12:00am EDTWhen he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Commission, Mitch McConnell may have salvaged his party’s chances to recapture the House in 2022. For that commission, being spun as a “bipartisan” effort to learn what “really happened” in the Capitol that fateful day, is a Democratic scheme to have… […]
“King of Kings” (1927) and the Origins of Jewish Cultural Censorship, by Andrew Joyce
The Unz Review - May 20th 2021 3:48pm EDTInitially established in 1913 to manage fallout from the conviction of Jewish murderer Leo Frank, the ADL’s first major effort to engage in cultural censorship began in the early 1920s in the form of a campaign against Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent essay series “The International Jew.” The campaign began with a cross-denominational conference in September… […]