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Changes in Superimperialism, by Michael Hudson
The Unz Review - Feb 7th 2021 8:52pm ESTOscar Brisset: Welcome to the first event of the Oxford Economics Society for this academic year. I’m Oscar, the Co-President of our society, and I’m glad to welcome you back for another term of exciting discussions. Although we were hoping last term to be back in-person by January, due to the worsening Covid-19 situation in…
Senator Marco Rubio Introduces Bill to Suspend Gun Rights of Anyone Who Has Ever Been “Investigated” for Domestic Terrorism, by Eric Striker
The Unz Review - Feb 7th 2021 7:06am ESTRepublican lawmaker Marco Rubio has reintroduced legislation that seeks to suspend the Second Amendment rights of any person who has been investigated for “terrorism” related offenses within 10 years of attempting a gun purchase. The Senate bill, named the Terror Intelligence Improvement Act, was reentered last week in hopes of exploiting the hysteria surrounding the…
The UK-EU Clash Over Northern Ireland Will Have Grave Consequences, by Patrick Cockburn
The Unz Review - Feb 7th 2021 6:52am ESTGet your retaliation in first,” is a cynical old saying in Northern Irish politics that means you hit your opponent whenever you can without waiting for a provocation. It neatly captures the violent traditions of the province and explains why the political temperature there is always close to boiling over. Imagine then the pleasure of…
American Anosognosia—the Capitol Hill “Insurrection,” BLM/Antifa Riots, and Our National Reality Crisis, by John Derbyshire
The Unz Review - Feb 6th 2021 8:22pm EST[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] A leading candidate for the title Truer Words Were Never Said is surely T.S. Eliot’s observation that, If you want a set, that quote pairs off nicely with science fiction writer and occasional LSD user Philip K. Dick’s observation in a speech he gave…
Christian Zionism as a Parasitic Ideology, by Andrew Joyce
The Unz Review - Feb 6th 2021 2:22pm ESTWith Trump out of office, now would be a good time to critically re-examine one of the most remarkable, and ultimately problematic, features of his time as President — the extravagant support he enjoyed from evangelical Christians and the resurgence of Christian Zionism. Back in November, I linked Trump’s popularity among Red State Christians to…
Israel Leading Scientist Admits: “the Vaccine May Not be as Effective as We Thought.”, by Gilad Atzmon
The Unz Review - Feb 6th 2021 1:36pm ESTIntroduction by GA: Israel struggles to understand its chaotic COVID-19 situation. The country voluntarily decided to mass vaccinate itself. Israel is clearly winning in the vaccination contest, yet the numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths aren’t encouraging to say the least. As for this morning, Israel’s R number is back at 1. The Times of…
The People’s Square Tonight at 9 PM ET: Author Josh Neal’s New Book, “American Extremist”, by Eric Striker
The Unz Review - Feb 5th 2021 8:07pm ESTJosh Neal, the author of newly released work American Extremist , will be joining us tonight for a chat. You can listen live here. MP3 version will be archived here.
Ideological Imperialism Is Leading to a Bad End, by Pat Buchanan
The Unz Review - Feb 5th 2021 12:00am ESTWhen it was learned in 2016 that Russia may have hacked the emails of John Podesta and the DNC, and passed the fruits on to WikiLeaks to aid candidate Donald Trump, mighty was the outrage of the American establishment. If Russia’s security services filched those emails, and a troll farm in Saint Petersburg sent tweets…
Trumpeting the Hardcore Libertarian Take On Jan. 6 Capitol Incident, by Ilana Mercer
The Unz Review - Feb 4th 2021 8:37pm ESTI’m not even sure one can still speak freely about theoretical matters. Nevertheless, against the background din of “insurrection” charges against MAGA America, I’ve tried to distill the hardcore libertarian take regarding the storming of the Capitol Building, on January 6, in a brief YouTube clip. It is very plainly this: Principled libertarians will distinguish…
Mr. Biden: Appoint a Race-Reality Czar, by Gregory Hood
The Unz Review - Feb 4th 2021 2:19pm ESTThe New York Times is hostile to free speech. Last year, it published a column with the title “Free Speech is Killing Us.” Nor is the Times friendly to whites. Onetime editorial board member Sarah Jeong complained — among many other things — about “dumbass f**king white people marking up the internet with their opinions…
Jewish Organization Behind Tech Censorship Funded Study Saying It’s A Figment of Your Imagination, by Eric Striker
The Unz Review - Feb 4th 2021 11:16am ESTA New York University study released this week claiming that Twitter and Facebook do not censor the “political right” has been widely mocked and lambasted as a symbol of the conflict of interests and lack of credibility in American academia. The most Orwellian aspect of this story is that the paper was financed by tech…
The Digital Police State Is Being Institutionalized Throughout the Western World, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Feb 4th 2021 11:16am ESTThis report sounds like science fiction, but it comes from a credentialed source and is posted on a respected website. If correct, the only possible conclusion is that a police state is being institutionalized throughout the Western world and perhaps all of the world. If correct, the report certainly validates my conclusion that the digital…
Why Always Israel? Only One Country Matters to Congress and the Media, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Feb 4th 2021 11:16am ESTPandering to Israel as part of the political process in the United States has become part of the DNA of both major parties. The job of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations must have some kind of curse on it as it seems to attract a type of woman who seeks to prove her suitability…
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…