News From The Unz Review, Page 2
With Iran and the US Exchanging Blows in the Persian Gulf, the MoU’s Survival Is in Doubt, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 27th 2026 12:10am EDTLast I heard the US and Iran are supposed to meet in Switzerland starting Sunday, 28 June, to continue negotiations over the MoU. However, today’s exchange of missiles and drones in the Strait of Hormuz may have put a nail in the coffin of the MoU. Today’s escalation was the most serious exchange since the…
The Shooting in the Strait Ain’t Over, But…, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 27th 2026 12:00am EDTA little over a week since the US and Iran signed the MoU, some ships that had been trapped in the Persian rushed to travel through the corridor, with many trying to use an alternative route on the southern side of the Strait along the Omani coast. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) had coordinated this…
Lothrop Stoddard’s “The French Revolution in San Domingo”, by Kevin MacDonald
The Unz Review - Jun 26th 2026 12:02am EDTThis is a foreword that I wrote for Lothrop Stoddard’s The French Revolution in San Domingo, published in 2011 but sadly out of print. Stoddard (birthday on June 29, 1883) was an important racial theorist in the 1920s, along with Madison Grant, Henry Pratt Fairchild, William Ripley, Gustav Le Bon, Charles Davenport, and William McDougall….
Dismissed by the West, Driven by History: The Secret to China’s Century of Rejuvenation, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Jun 26th 2026 12:00am EDTThe Communist Party of China (CPC) is the last and only original, uninterrupted Communist Party in power in the world today. And with its 105 years of age, it is also a conservative. All the other original Communist parties from the 1920s spawned under the Communist International (Comintern), founded by the Bolsheviks in Moscow in…
13-18 DAYS: The PRACTICAL DIESEL BUFFER… Does It Preclude Bombing Iran?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 26th 2026 12:00am EDTI am indebted to my new friend who is an energy expert ,and currently working in the Persian Gulf, for explaining why the US is facing a very serious risk of a domestic energy crisis. If ignorance is bliss then I’ve spent my last 71 years happily believing that the conversion of oil to fuel…
Gaza Deals Blow to Democrats in NYC Primaries, by Jake Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 25th 2026 12:05am EDTThree progressive candidates emerged victorious from U.S. congressional primaries in New York on Tuesday, overcoming millions of dollars in spending by corporate interests and AIPAC with grassroots campaigns that centered the working class. Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller, defeated Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman in New York’s 10th Congressional District, nearly doubling the…
The Day of the Jackal 2.0, by E. Michael Jones
The Unz Review - Jun 25th 2026 12:00am EDTAfter pissing away $113 billion and killing over 7,000 people including around 120 schoolchildren (primarily aged 6–13) who were killed in the February 28, 2026 strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Hormozgan province, in a war against Iran that lasted 100 days, Donald Trump was forced to sign the most humiliating peace agreement…
Dire Straits… Not the Band, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 25th 2026 12:00am EDTOn Wednesday, June 24, 2026, President Donald Trump claimed that a record volume of oil was flowing through the Strait of Hormuz following the recent US-Iran ceasefire deal. He announced that 19 million barrels of oil had moved through the strait the previous day (Tuesday). He highlighted that pre-war flows averaged over 20 million barrels…
Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary, by Dennis Kucinich and Elizabeth Kucinich
The Unz Review - Jun 24th 2026 12:00am EDTTake Action to Defeat a Dangerous Expansion of the National Security State, Military Power Over Civilian Government, Foreign Policy Entrenchment, and the Erosion of Constitutional Self-Government Dennis Kucinich and Elizabeth Kucinich June 22, 2026 The United States Congress, on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, is…
America on the Ropes, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 24th 2026 12:00am EDTDear Readers, our politicians don’t rile us up against “foreign enemies,” Russians, Iranians, Chinese, and “Muslim terrorists”–Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Gadaffi in Libya, Assad in Syria, and whoever the invented “terrorists” were in Somalia– only in order to make money at our expense for the profits and power of the…
When Models Replace Reality, by Mark Keenan
The Unz Review - Jun 24th 2026 12:00am EDTModern science is no longer used primarily to describe reality, but to construct models that are then treated as reality itself. This shift spans cosmology, climate science, pandemic response, and artificial intelligence. Across these domains, models increasingly mediate how reality is interpreted, from theoretical structures in cosmology, through institutional policy models in climate science and…
Putin Warns the West: Russia Is Ready, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 24th 2026 12:00am EDTIt has been a while since I have written about Russia and the war in Ukraine, but Vladimir Putin’s speech on Tuesday (23 June) to graduates of Russia’s higher military academies and security institutions (military cadets/officers) at the Kremlin merits attention because it carries an indirect but profound warning to the West. This was a…
Blaming Ordinary People for the Ecocidal Consequences of AI, and Other Notes, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Jun 23rd 2026 12:00am EDTI just saw an article in The Conversation titled “Your AI habit is wasting precious resources. Here’s how to use it responsibly,” and it pisses me off because you can already see where this is going. Neoliberalism is already doing that thing where they shift all the blame for the environmental consequences of ecocidal capitalism…
Iran Sweetens the Deal to Placate Trump, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Jun 23rd 2026 12:00am EDTRumble link Bitchute link Dissociated Press In a characteristically brilliant diplomatic coup, US president Donald “3D Chess” Trump has convinced the Iranian government to sweeten the Memorandum of Understanding so Trump can claim it includes something—anything—other than abject and unconditional surrender. Below are the additional 10 amendments to the MOU leaked to Dissociated Press by…
Which Country Is the Big Loser from the Ramadan War?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 23rd 2026 12:00am EDTWhile the US certainly suffered some reputational damage and significant economic costs from its unprovoked attack on Iran, the United Arab Emirates may really be the big loser. Let’s focus on Dubai. Think of Dubai as the World’s most expensive adult theme park that has no emergency exit. For decades, Dubai sold itself to the…
1Has President Donald Trump Finally Capitulated to the Iranians?, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Jun 22nd 2026 12:00am EDTOver the last few weeks I’d been paying less and less attention to our continuing Iran War mostly because less and less seemed to be happening. Every few days President Donald Trump would loudly announce that a peace agreement was about to be signed that would fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker…
Every White Ethnicity Faces Demise, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 21st 2026 12:00am EDTIn every Western country intellectuals and governments have elevated a multicultural tower of babel above an ethnic-based nation state. In the past few days the Lowe Report in Britain has made clear some of the adverse consequences for the white ethnicities that once comprised the European nations, now towers of babel and no longer nations….
Strategic Oil Reserve Nears Collapse… US Must Choose: Guns or Butter, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 21st 2026 12:00am EDTAs of the week ending June 12, 2026, the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) held approximately 340.25 million barrels of crude oil… Sounds like a lot, but it is approaching the danger zone. In late May, that number was 372 million barrels, which consisted of Sweet crude: ~142 MMB | Sour crude: ~230 MMB, according…
Fatalities from Israel’s Vast Gaza Genocide Deliberately Undercounted, by Ralph Nader
The Unz Review - Jun 20th 2026 12:10am EDTThe mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000) from the Assad Dictatorship’s Civil War in Syria, nor the estimated deaths in the wars in Ukraine, Sudan, or Iran. Somehow, media editors do not let their investigative reporters assess the extent of Israel’s mass murder of civilians in Gaza—an exposed, defenseless population of 2.3…
Iran Warns Washington: Put a Collar on Israel or Else, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 20th 2026 12:00am EDTMy old friend and new collaborator, Pepe Escobar, along with Mr. Z, broke news Friday afternoon regarding relations between the US and Iran (I’ve posted the video below). Despite the MoU stipulation that: by signing this memorandum of understanding, declare an immediate and permanent cessation of military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, and commit…
Thomas Massie Honors the USS Liberty 59 Years Later, by Jose Alberto Nino
The Unz Review - Jun 19th 2026 12:00am EDTOn June 8, 2026, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) stood on the House floor and formally honored the survivors of the USS Liberty attack, demanding an investigation into Israel’s 1967 assault on an American naval vessel that killed 34 crew members and wounded 174 others. Survivors of the attack watched from the House gallery as Massie…
US and Iran Will Not Meet in Switzerland… Israel Derails the Negotiation, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 19th 2026 12:00am EDTWell, that didn’t take long. If you placed a wager on the Polymarket that Iran and the US would fail to meet in Switzerland on Friday, then go collect your winnings and send me a tip. Israel ignored Donald Trump’s request that it halt military operations in Lebanon and chose instead to escalate its attacks…
We Are a Long Way from a Peace Deal, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Jun 18th 2026 12:00am EDTFriday came on Wednesday. Last night the Memorandum of Understanding that was supposed to be signed tomorrow in Switzerland was signed digitally by the US and Iranian presidents. The Iranian explanation for the digital signing is that “When the text is signed by the highest authorities of both countries, violating it will naturally carry greater…
The Forgotten Divide Between the Original Jesus Movement and the Modern Church, by Mark Keenan
The Unz Review - Jun 18th 2026 12:00am EDTIf Jesus of Nazareth were to walk into a modern church on a Sunday morning, would he recognise the religion that bears his name? It is a question that many believers instinctively avoid asking. Yet it is perhaps one of the most important questions in the entire history of Christianity. Jesus never wrote a book….
What Triggered Trump to Make the Deal with Iran?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Jun 18th 2026 12:00am EDTTo quote James Carville, “Its the economy stupid!” On Monday I wrote: So the question we ought to ask is why did Donald Trump blink and accept the proposal that Iran proffered way back in April? I think there are several reasons, but the principal one is that the US is running out of oil,…