Vaccination Side Effects, by James Thompson
The Unz Review - Feb 3rd 2021 7:39am ESTIn this part of the world, the first side effect of vaccines has been political. Europe’s nations are now competing to get vaccinated, and the ructions have been considerable. From the start, the UK took a vaccine friendly stance. Early on it decided that vaccination was the long-term solution, and all else was merely a…
Zionists Lie As Naturally As They Breathe, by Tobias Langdon
The Unz Review - Feb 2nd 2021 4:37pm ESTParasite’s grin: Bibi Netanyahu greets Jonathan Pollard, the Jewish spy who did huge harm to his “own nation” of America on behalf of Israel Like all decent people, I stand unshakably with the powerless Jewish community against the vile scourge of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish racism. And in order to better defend cowering Jews against their…
XI and Putin Make the Case for Win-Win vs. Zero-Sum, by Pepe Escobar
The Unz Review - Feb 2nd 2021 11:38am ESTSo the Davos Agenda has come and gone. That was the virtual Great Reset preview, hosted by Kissinger acolyte cum World Economic Forum (WEF) oracle Herr Klaus Schwab. Still, corporate/political so-called “leaders” will continue to wax lyrical about the Fourth Industrial Revolution – or its mild spin-offs such as Build Back Better, the favorite slogan…
Israel Cracks the Whip, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Feb 2nd 2021 12:00am ESTAnyone who persists in believing that the United States is not Israel’s poodle should pay attention to the comedy that is playing out right now. Joe Biden was president for less than a week when the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government announced that he would soon be receiving a possibly unwelcome visitor in the form…
Who Are the True ‘Domestic Terrorists’?, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - Feb 2nd 2021 12:00am EST“Never allow a good crisis (to) go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do the things you once thought were impossible.” Thus did chief of staff Rahm Emanuel advise Barack Obama on the financial crisis he inherited in 2009. Following the Capitol riot by a mob of pro-Donald Trump protesters, the left took Rahm’s counsel,…
On the Cusp of the “Blue Terror”, by Alan Sabrosky
The Unz Review - Feb 1st 2021 4:38pm ESTOne of the great paradoxes of American democracy is that much of what makes it worth having also renders it vulnerable to mortal threats. This is particularly true when the threats are internal, and the domestic enemies adept at using their constitutionally guaranteed rights and privileges to gnaw away at the society that nurtured and…
Libertarian Terrorists?, by Ron Paul
The Unz Review - Feb 1st 2021 11:31am ESTThe Department of Homeland Security issued on Wednesday a nationwide terror alert lasting until April 30. The alert warns of potential terrorist attacks from Americans who are “ideologically motivated” and have “objections to the exercise of government authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives.” The language used…
Meritocracy and American Pravda Collections Now Available in Kindle and EPub Formats, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Jan 31st 2021 5:30am ESTSeveral years ago I published a hardcover collection of my more substantial articles, entitled The Myth of American Meritocracy and Other Essays. More recently, various people had suggested that I produce a similar collection of my American Pravda articles, so I’ve now done so in an eBook format. The full title is Our American Pravda…
A Brief Examination of Some Facts Related to Mass Vaccination, by Gilad Atzmon
The Unz Review - Jan 30th 2021 12:53pm ESTThe case of Israel, leading the world by far in the mass vaccination contest, doesn’t leave much maneuvering room for skeptics. Since Israel launched its vast vaccination campaign in December, it has been witnessing an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths. By now, the British Mutant has become Israel’s dominant COVID strain. Israel’s health…
The Scottish Independence Movement Will Now be Very Difficult to Stop, by Patrick Cockburn
The Unz Review - Jan 30th 2021 12:37pm ESTPredictions of the break-up of the UK may be reaching a crescendo, but they are scarcely new. In 1707, Jonathan Swift wrote a poem deriding the Act of Union between England and Scotland, which had just been passed, for seeking to combine two incompatible peoples in one state: “As if a man in making posies/…
Finance Capitalism vs. Industrial Capitalism, by Michael Hudson
The Unz Review - Jan 29th 2021 9:07pm ESTSummary[1a] Marx and many of his less radical contemporary reformers saw the historical role of industrial capitalism as being to clear away the legacy of feudalism – the landlords, bankers and monopolists extracting economic rent without producing real value. But that reform movement failed. Today, the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector has regained…
Who Breeds in California, by Robert Stark
The Unz Review - Jan 29th 2021 4:37pm ESTCalifornia’s population growth is at its lowest recorded level since 1900 adding “just 21,200 residents” in the fiscal year that ended on July 1, which was just a “0.05% increase.” This decline is in large part due to the post-pandemic exodus on top of an already rapidly ageing population. The average fertility rate for Californians…
Is the Establishment Still Terrified of Trump?, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - Jan 29th 2021 12:00am ESTAs soon as the Senate received the lone article of impeachment accusing President Donald Trump of “incitement of insurrection” in the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol, Rand Paul rose to object. The Senate, he said, has no right to try a private citizen, which Trump now is. Thus, what we are about to…
Vaccination, English Style, by James Thompson
The Unz Review - Jan 28th 2021 10:00am ESTA General Practitioner is the English term for what in other countries is called a Family Doctor. She rang us up last week to offer us vaccinations, asking three questions: are you fit and well; have you had a flu vaccination in the last week; have you had allergic reactions to anything? Then we were…
National Justice Exclusive: Lead FBI Investigator In “Ricky Vaughn” Case Revealed to be Gay Liberal, by Eric Striker
The Unz Review - Jan 28th 2021 8:38am ESTThe FBI’s arrest of social media influencer Douglass Mackey, aka “Ricky Vaughn,” over satirical memes he posted on the internet in 2016 has provoked indignation from the public. The case is a dramatic new escalation in the war on the First Amendment. According to a complaint filed last week by FBI Special Agent Maegan Rees…
With “Biden” in the White House, the Kremlin Now Needs to Change Gear, by The Saker
The Unz Review - Jan 27th 2021 7:07pm ESTFirst, a clarification. When I speak of “Biden” I don’t mean the fungus (to use Tom Luongo’s apt expression) which was recently planted in the White House, I am referring to the “collective Biden” which I defined here . With this caveat, now let’s see why Russia might want to change gears in 2021. First,…
How Long Before Washington’s Demonization of Russia, China, and Iran Leads to War?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jan 27th 2021 9:53am ESTBiden, the current occupant of the White House, and President Putin of Russia have had their first telephone meeting. President Putin stressed that it is in the interest of the US, Russia, and the entire world for the tense relationship between Washington and the Kremlin to be normalized. Biden apparently, was noncommittal on this overriding…
To Remind: More Than One Year in Advance I Predicted President Trump’s Demise at the Hands of the Establishment., by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jan 27th 2021 8:37am ESTTrump Is History and So Is the USA
The Trump Administration Viewed from the Right, by John Morgan
The Unz Review - Jan 26th 2021 8:36am ESTThe Trump experiment is over, and the strange journey that the last five years have been is now at an end. There are already lots of assessments being made about the meaning of Trump’s presidency, but most of them are from either liberal or conservative viewpoints. It also needs to be evaluated from the viewpoint…
America Descends Into Virtual Night, by Israel Shamir
The Unz Review - Jan 26th 2021 7:23am ESTAt 78, after a prolonged illness and without recovering consciousness, Joe Biden succumbed to the Presidency. The last hopes of the last QAnon believers vanished like smoke in the night, with Biden assuming the mighty US throne. This is truly a dark day for America and for the world, as the US example will be…
Coexistence or Cold War with China?, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - Jan 26th 2021 12:00am EST“The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States… does not challenge that position.” Thus did President Nixon, in the Shanghai Communique of 1972, accept China’s territorial claim to the island of Taiwan….
Trump’s Unpardonable Pardons, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Jan 26th 2021 12:00am ESTOne keeps hearing that former President Donald Trump will be judged well by the history books because he was the only American head of state in recent memory who did not start any new wars. Well, the claim is itself questionable as Jimmy Carter, for all his faults, managed to avoid entering into any new…
Vaccines and Trust: Shortages, by James Thompson
The Unz Review - Jan 25th 2021 11:46am ESTIn the continuing story of coronavirus, this week brings two stories about limitations. The first is that production of both Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines in Europe is faltering, and from Monday supplies will be reduced for the next few weeks. There have been production problems, of the sort which happen in all manufacturing. It should…
Down the Path Into Tyranny, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jan 25th 2021 10:07am ESTPresstitute propaganda of a white supremacist insurrection on inauguration day caused 26,000 national guardsmen to be sent by states to D.C. to put down the Trump sedition. Of course, there was no insurrection. It was all just another media hoax, and the National Guardsmen experienced no security incidents. But now that the propaganda show is…
You Tell Me Why Americans Elected Biden When All Knew Biden Did Not Represent Them, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jan 25th 2021 9:52am ESTSexual deviants, pedophiles, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, illegal aliens, feminist-indoctrinated women who think they are superior, defense contractors, organized interest groups that pay well and their Washington lobbies are Biden’s base. Numerically Biden’s base is very small. It is comprised of the least desirable elements in the country. Here is Biden Giving the Bird to…