News From The Unz Review, Page 129
Wherefore Art Thou Ghislaine Maxwell?, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Mar 9th 2021 12:00am ESTIt is now going on a year and a half since “financier” and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died, allegedly by hanging himself in a New York City prison. Since that time it has surfaced that there were a number of “administrative” errors in the jail, meaning that Epstein was not being observed or on suicide watch…
The Emerging Existential Crisis at the Border, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - Mar 9th 2021 12:00am ESTDuring a Democratic debate in 2020, the candidates were asked if their health care plans would cover “undocumented immigrants.” Each raised his or her hand, including front-runner Joe Biden. From that stage, the message went forth: If the Democrats win this election, then it is amnesty for all and open borders in America. The message…
Pod-Living vs. the White Picket Fence, by Robert Stark
The Unz Review - Mar 8th 2021 12:46pm ESTThe debate over urban planning models is now as polarized as any other culture war issue with a strong partisan divide in support for denser walkable development with democrats being much more sympathetic to the idea. Some on the right view denser urban living as part of a leftist or elite sponsored agenda for us…
The New Normal (Phase 2), by C.J. Hopkins
The Unz Review - Mar 8th 2021 8:46am ESTSo, we’re almost a year into the “New Normal” (a/k/a “pathologized totalitarianism”) and things are still looking … well, pretty totalitarian. Most of Western Europe is still in “lockdown,” or “under curfew,” or in some other state of “health emergency.” Police are fining and arresting people for “being outdoors without a valid reason.” Protest is…
The Pink Fog, by Guillaume Durocher
The Unz Review - Mar 8th 2021 8:16am ESTA strange phenomenon in postmodern life is the schizophrenic attitude towards differences between men and women. On the one hand, our culture denies that there are any significant psychological differences between men and women which might explain the radically different preferences of the sexes in many sectors. If virtually all UberEats food delivery bikers are…
Vaccine Diabolus and the Impending Wave of Rare Neurodegenerative Disorders, by Mike Whitney
The Unz Review - Mar 7th 2021 11:31pm ESTThe problem with the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, is not that it’s a vaccine. It’s that it’s not safe. That’s the issue: Safety. This view is shared by a great many professionals who believe that these potentially-toxic concoctions pose a significant threat to the health and well-being of anyone who chooses to get inoculated. Do you…
“De Haut En Bas”: the Ruling Class Is Getting Nastier, by John Derbyshire
The Unz Review - Mar 6th 2021 12:32am EST[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] The news recently has featured a spate of people behaving badly. It reveals an increasingly prominent class issue: the widening rift between working-class and lower-middle-class people (manual workers, clerks, small business owners, low-level government staff) and their social superiors in the Ruling Class (billionaires,…
The Sturgeon-Salmond Feud Threatens to Capsize Scottish Nationalism, by Patrick Cockburn
The Unz Review - Mar 5th 2021 7:46pm ESTMost nationalist movements wait until they have achieved independence before having a civil war over who runs the country. But Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond have jumped the gun by opening hostilities while Scottish self-determination is still well over the horizon. Could it remain an unattainable goal thanks to the open warfare between the past…
The Power of Progressive Conspiracy Theories, by Gregory Hood
The Unz Review - Mar 5th 2021 2:16pm ESTThere is a story about Dr. Samuel Johnson and his famous dictionary. Some ladies told him they were glad he had omitted “indelicate and objectionable” words. Dr. Johnson said he was sorry they had looked for them. That could be a story about conservatives and progressives. Progressives are dying to find hate crimes and neo-Nazis…
Who Really Imperils the Republic?, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - Mar 5th 2021 12:00am EST“That attack, that siege” of the Capitol, FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress, “was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it was behavior we at the FBI view as domestic terrorism.” “Domestic terrorism,” said Wray, echoing his boss. For what had been President-elect Joe Biden’s reaction to the Capitol riot? “Don’t dare call them protesters….
Dispatches from the New Cold War, by Fred Reed
The Unz Review - Mar 4th 2021 12:46pm ESTToday’s characteristically luminous insights will be disordered and structurally horrifying, the sort of essay that would have sent my high-school English teacher into anaphylactic shock. In exculpation I plead laziness. Recently I wrote a column on China’s digital yuan, now in late-stage testing. Bare-bones explanation: You download a digital-wallet app with which you can then…
Some Doggie Stories: Even Companion Animals Are Being Politicized, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Mar 4th 2021 12:01pm ESTWhy are people spending their time and money rescuing dogs who are the victims of abandonment or abuse being labeled “white supremacists?” In most countries, dogs are regarded either as “working” or as companions and they rarely venture into the realm of politics apart from occasionally serving as props to demonstrate that their owners are…
Lorena Gonzales Versus Frank Wilkinson, by Carl Boggs
The Unz Review - Mar 4th 2021 7:01am ESTThe mounting Democratic assault on free speech is finally producing blowback – most lately, from a bill proposed by California State Senator Melissa Melendez to protect diversity of political belief and affiliation. Her much-overdue legislation (Senate bills 238 and 249) are together known as the Diversity of Thought Act, which seeks to modify both California…
Is Trump Really the Answer?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Mar 3rd 2021 10:31am ESTIn 2016 I predicted that Trump’s presidency would fail, because Trump had no idea who to appoint to his government and, therefore, would end up staffed with the establishment that he intended to overthrow. That is exactly what occurred. In his entire four years Trump only made one good appointment—General Flynn—and Trump did not have…
Comedian Raided By FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force After Jewish Organization Takes Offense to His Jokes, by Eric Striker
The Unz Review - Mar 3rd 2021 5:46am ESTA social media comedian was arrested in an explosive FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force raid yesterday morning. Paul N. Miller, a 32-year-old Romani entertainer who uses the moniker “GypsyCrusader,” was snatched from his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida ostensibly over committing a gun offense three years ago. Neighbors expressed that they were more terrorized by…
Rhymes Against Humanity, by Tobias Langdon
The Unz Review - Mar 2nd 2021 12:10am EST“History never repeats, but it does rhyme.” It’s a good line (though Mark Twain probably never said it). I see history rhyming in modern leftist ideology, which seems to contain blasphemous corruptions of three central Catholic doctrines: miraculous birth, immaculate conception and transubstantiation. Leftists mock and reject these doctrines in their original Christian form, but…
Putin Blasts W.E.F. Honchos at Davos Gabfest, by Mike Whitney
The Unz Review - Mar 2nd 2021 12:00am ESTWhy is Vladimir Putin standing up to the richest and most powerful men in the world? Why is he bad-mouthing their “pet project” Globalization and trash-talking their “Great Reset”? Does he really think these corporate mandarins and “silver spoon” elites are going to listen to what he has to say or does he realize that…
More Suggestions for Dealing with Israel, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Mar 2nd 2021 12:00am ESTMy article last week that made some suggestions about what ordinary Americans can do to put pressure on Israel and on the lopsided bilateral relationship with Washington that has done so much damage to the United States proved to be quite popular. It also resulted in some comments by readers who saw other issues that…
Democrats Imprison First Amendment for Sedition, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Feb 25th 2021 9:21am ESTGlenn Greenwald explains the Democrats’ determination to obliterate the First Amendment. The Democrats have resurrected the Third Reich in America: To further stamp out opposition to their one-party rule, the Democrats intend to criminalize American gun owners, thus obliterating the Second Amendment. To relieve the Establishment of the bother of independent citizens is why the…
Vaccination Procrastination, by James Thompson
The Unz Review - Feb 24th 2021 5:08am ESTOn Monday England was given an indication as to how it will eventually get out of lockdown. Gradually, and in very careful stages, seems to be the answer. We are in our third lockdown, and have staggered through two false dawns. What is different now is that vaccinations have been completed on 17.7 million citizens…
The Ukraine’s Many Ticking Time Bombs, by The Saker
The Unz Review - Feb 23rd 2021 7:36pm ESTWhile the Ukraine has mostly been out of the news, there were bigger stories out there, things have gone disastrously wrong under “Ze” (Zelenskii) and the Ukraine is now looking at several time bombs which could explode at any minute. Here is a partial list of problems which the Ze administration will have to deal…
What to Do About Israel?, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Feb 23rd 2021 12:00am ESTCritics of U.S. policy with and about Israel like myself have been relatively successful in describing the considerable downside in the bilateral status quo. We have demonstrated that the lopsided relationship supports absolutely no U.S. interest and that, on the contrary, considerable damage is done to the American people, to include involvement in armed conflict…
Biden: No New Cold Wars or Democracy Crusades, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - Feb 23rd 2021 12:00am EST“What is America’s mission?” is a question that has been debated since George Washington’s Farewell Address in 1797. At last week’s Munich Security Conference, President Joe Biden laid out his vision as to what is America’s mission. And the contrast with the mission enunciated by George W. Bush in his second inaugural could not have…
The Art of Being a Spectacularly Misguided Oracle, by Pepe Escobar
The Unz Review - Feb 22nd 2021 11:12am ESTThe late Dr. Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski for some time dispensed wisdom as an oracle of US foreign policy, side by side with the perennial Henry Kissinger – who, in vast swathes of the Global South, is regarded as nothing but a war criminal. Brzezinski never achieved the same notoriety. At best he claimed bragging…
Unintended Consequences and the Texas ‘Big Freeze’ Energy Disaster, by Ron Paul
The Unz Review - Feb 22nd 2021 10:21am ESTLast week Texas experienced a cold snap that resulted in serious statewide damage, death, and destruction. The collapse of the state’s energy grid left millions of Texans in the dark and freezing for days at a time. Tragically, at least 30 people died. There are many reasons why Texas became like a Third World country,…