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Intelligence Has Departed Every Government, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 18th 2025 12:00am EDTIran had the strategic advantage over Israel and could have wiped Israel out. Instead, the hapless Iranians sat passively on their butts, gave a gratuitous demonstration of their capability, thus putting Israel on guard without doing any damage to Israel. Next the Iranian government failed to see the many indications that it was about to…
The Definition of Insanity – Reading a Neocon Think Tank Report on Russia, by Ian Proud
The Unz Review - Jun 18th 2025 12:00am EDTLet’s do what we’ve been doing for a decade and hope for a different result Apparently, there is no evidence that Albert Einstein ever said ‘the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’. And yet the aphorism rings true whenever a neocon think tank produces a…
What China’s Position Should be with the Iran Israel War, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Jun 18th 2025 12:00am EDTThere are many comments on my last piece on the Iran Israel war – Iran’s predicament is largely a result of its follies. As planned, I have been putting together the next installment detailing China’s likely position and the rationale. Hopefully I’ll publish the essay in the next 24 hours. Meanwhile, I’d like to restack…
Iran’s Predicament Is Largely a Result of Its Own Folly, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Jun 17th 2025 12:07am EDTI received many thoughtful reader comments for the essay Revolution is not a dinner party. I thought it worthwhile to share some additional perspectives on why I think Iran’s crisis is at least partly a result of its own mistakes and poor judgement. I will also attempt to speculate, hopefully intelligently, what China’s position would…
Stop Netanyahu Before He Gets Us All Killed, by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares
The Unz Review - Jun 17th 2025 12:05am EDTFor nearly 30 years, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has driven the Middle East into war and destruction. The man is a powder keg of violence. Throughout all the wars that he has championed, Netanyahu has always dreamed of the big one: to defeat and overthrow the Iranian Government. His long-sought war, just launched, might…
Fox News – “if I Were the Ayatollah Watching This Fox News Coverage, and I Hope He Is, of This Parade, I Would be Very Frightened and I Would be Thinking Twice About Whether I Would Want to Retaliate, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Jun 17th 2025 12:00am EDTJust heard the above quote from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show today. You cannot make this shit up. Which parade was Fox News referring to?
Fragility of MAGA Idealism, Terminological Perversion of ‘Anti-Semitism’, and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Iranian Fatalism on the Nuclear Debate, by Jung-Freud
The Unz Review - Jun 16th 2025 5:23am EDTMAGA rots. In any movement, there’s elitism and populism, and then there is a sliver of idealism. Idealists are always in the minority but lend the luster of integrity and principles. Elitists mainly care about position, status, and privilege. Populists mainly crave red-meat, a sense that the Great Man is watching out for them and…
The Israeli Strike on Iran, the JFK Assassination, and the 9/11 Attacks, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Jun 16th 2025 12:00am EDTMuch like individuals, countries may often become victims of their own great success. This risk certainly applies to criminals, including criminal regimes. Even if they effectively conceal their direct involvement in particular incidents, over time their method of operation—their “M.O.”—may become obvious. This allows the ready identification of their handiwork, whether by law enforcement agencies…
How to Say in Russian Happy Birthday Donald, Happy Us Army and Flag Day, by John Helmer
The Unz Review - Jun 15th 2025 12:00am EDTThere are no flies on President Vladimir Putin. That’s an expression which originated in the fly-blown goldrush mines of Australia in 1840 and then moved with the flies to the goldrush mines of California a few years later. Literally, it means a man who is too quick for a fly to settle on him. Metaphorically,…
TACO Trump’s Harsh Optics While Selling Out On Immigration Will End In Disaster, by Robert Stark
The Unz Review - Jun 14th 2025 12:15am EDTsource: @DonMiami3 on X Trump’s ICE raids feel performative as the actual number of illegal immigrants deported is not that much. For a while, ICE was releasing illegal immigrants due to limited capacity in detention spaces. There is this performative cruelty of singling out a small number of people as a deterrent or to scare…
Iran-the-Unready, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 14th 2025 12:00am EDTLike all opponents of Washington and Israel, Iran proved itself unready. Muslims never seize the initiative. They sit on their butts until they are decapitated. Instead of taking Israel out, Iran suffered a serious attack and then feebly retaliated. Wars are not won by retaliation. The mystery is why was Iran unready? Iran has had…
Morgan Stanley Predicts China Will Lead the $5 Trillion Humanoid Market, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Jun 14th 2025 12:00am EDTAn investor friend sent me a Morgan Stanley report published in April titled Humanoids: A $5 Trillion Market. The report validates my hypothesis that embodied AI (i.e. humanoids) is the next frontier beyond foundational LLMs. The opening of the report is certainly attention-catching: While Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Elon Musk remain the biggest celebrity promoters…
Will War be the Hallmark of the Trump Administration?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 13th 2025 12:10am EDTIran has responded to Israel’s blatant attack in the weakest way possible–an appeal to the United Nations. The attack killed the Iranian commander of the Revolutionary Guards, the deputy chief of the army and several scientists, destroyed facilities and residential housing. Washington disavows any responsibility for Israel’s act of war, but was quick to assure…
Memo from Iran: WE ARE READY, by Mike Whitney
The Unz Review - Jun 12th 2025 12:15am EDTTest Your Political IQ; See if you can connect the dots: Total Pro-Israel Contributions to Trump’s 2024 Presidential Campaign: …. pro-Israel interest groups and individuals contributed over $230 million to efforts benefiting Trump since 2020, with the bulk tied to the 2024 cycle. This figure includes direct campaign contributions, independent expenditures, and super PAC spending,…
For Whom the Drones Buzz, by Patrick Lawrence
The Unz Review - Jun 11th 2025 12:05am EDTThose drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report from Moscow yet, but three figures’ worth of Ukrainian drones launched from the backs of trucks destroyed some number of strategic bombers in the Russian fleet. Now we read all over the place — well, all over mainstream…
An EMP Attack on the U.S. Power Grids and Critical National Infrastructure, by Steven Starr
The Unz Review - Jun 11th 2025 12:00am EDTThe detonation of a 1.44-megaton W49 nuclear warhead 250 miles above Johnston Island in 1958 resulted in the first recorded high-altitude electromagnetic pulse. The photo was taken 860 miles away in Hawaii, far enough away to prevent severe retinal burns in the eyes of observers in Honolulu (military officials had moved the site of the…
Another Promise Made and Promise Undelivered, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Jun 10th 2025 12:25am EDTAccording to the Trump regime, an explicit goal of launching the “liberation day” tariff war is to force US companies to move manufacturing back to the US, especially from China. After two months of on-again-off-again flip flop, the verdict is in on the effectiveness of the stable genius’s “easy to win” tariff war. Last Friday,…
Two Charts Showing China Will Shape Future High Tech Economy of the World, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Jun 10th 2025 12:20am EDTCritical minerals will affect high tech manufacturing; and electricity will power AI, mobility, and high-tech warfare such as directed energy weapons. In both areas, China has taken over dominant positions to shape global economies for decades to come.
Is Putin’s Soft Touch Bringing War in Its Train?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 10th 2025 12:05am EDT“If Mr. Putin genuinely wants to save the lives of his soldiers and of his civilians then he should end the war conclusively and dramatically right now. This, I believe, is well within his power if he has the will and the vision to act as the situation requires.” — Gilbert Doctorow I am pleased…
Can Reality Any Longer be Acknowledged? “the Attack on Russia’s Strategic Forces”, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 10th 2025 12:00am EDTThe attack on Russian strategic forces by Ukraine, with or without President Trump’s knowledge and with or without help from Washington and the British, could have been the most dangerous event in East-West relations during my lifetime. The reason is that recently revised Russian war doctrine states that an attack, even by a non-nuclear country,…
The Most Dangerous Contradiction in the World: The Lone Superpower in the World, the United States, Itself Lacks Sovereignty — and What This Does to the Psyche of Blanka Hundos(White Dog Cucks), by Jung Freud
The Unz Review - Jun 9th 2025 6:01pm EDTThe most dangerous condition surrounding World Affairs is that the US, the lone superpower that threatens or denies the sovereignty of many countries, is itself without sovereignty, which is outrageously ironic. The most powerful country without sovereignty? How is that possible? It’s because American white goy elites have been captured by the Empire of Judea…
The Camp of the Saints, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 9th 2025 12:10am EDTI have never understood why rioters, protestors, whatever you want to call them, burn people’s cars. Insurance seldom covers such events. Violent protests harm innocents. I also don’t understand why the National Guard is called out as they are not permitted to use their weapons. Try to imagine the National Guard using deadly force to…
Fact-Checking 9/11, the JFK Assassination, the Covid Outbreak, the Holocaust, and Other Controversial Topics, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Jun 9th 2025 12:00am EDTAbout a year ago, I first began exploring the powerful new AI systems that had been receiving so much public attention, and incorporated some of their features into our website. For myself and many of our other writers, I added focused chatbots that used the corpus of the written works hosted on our website to…
White or Western Specialness Forfeited by Blind Unconditional Obedience to Zion, or Now, the Myth of White Uniqueness in the West Gone Cuck, by Jung Freud
The Unz Review - Jun 8th 2025 3:04am EDTIt’s often voiced or at least felt within the white community that whites advanced and developed far ahead of all the other peoples to better appreciate the values of freedom, personal conscience, and individual thought. It’s still openly voiced in the white racial dissident sphere, e.g. white people appreciate principles like Free Speech whereas nonwhites…
1How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World (w/ Orlando Reade), by Chris Hedges
The Unz Review - Jun 6th 2025 12:00am EDTThere are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and relevant throughout history as John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Thomas Jefferson, Malcolm X, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Paine and dozens more drew inspiration from and studied Milton’s grand work and the revolutionary themes within it. Professor Orlando Reade, in his book, What in Me Is Dark:…