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The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids, by Robert Scheer
The Unz Review - Apr 25th 2025 12:00am EDTIn this edition of Scheer Intelligence, host Robert Scheer dives into a critical discussion with Dr. Charles LeBaron, a distinguished physician and CDC veteran, who has authored a compelling and essential book, Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids. Dr. LeBaron offers a unique perspective on the opioid crisis,…
Has Putin Stepped Back from His Peace Conditions?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 25th 2025 12:00am EDTarry Sparano and I discuss the report in the Financial Times that Putin has modified his conditions for a settlement of the conflict. No confirmation of the Financial Times’ report has been forthcoming. The lack of comment by the spokespersons for the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Kremlin is puzzling. This morning’s report of the…
How Jewish Is the Christian God?, by Laurent Guyénot
The Unz Review - Apr 24th 2025 12:00am EDTThe notion that the Greeks or Romans — or even the Barbarians — were incapable of rising above polytheism to the concept of a universal God, and that Europeans needed Jewish monotheism — in the form of Christianity — to “know” “God”, is the seminal Jewish lie that has alienated us from our Roman past,…
What Happens to Us if President Trump Loses the Existential War with the Evil American Establishment?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 24th 2025 12:00am EDTA few readers thought I went a bit too far in my column two days ago when I expressed concern that if President Trump loses the existential conflict between Mega Americans and the corrupt anti-American Establishment, a return to power of the Democrats will mean oppression for traditional white ethnic Americans. Not in America, they…
A ‘Trump Deal’? Juggling War, ‘Easy War’ and Negotiation, by Alastair Crooke
The Unz Review - Apr 24th 2025 12:00am EDTThe key MAGA issue is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event. Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form of an ‘industrial concern’ infused with…
A Creative Proposal to Balance China US Trade, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Apr 23rd 2025 12:20am EDTRegardless what we think of Trump’s tariff war, the trade imbalance between China and the US is indeed substantial and unsustainable in the long term. In typical Trump fashion, when he talks about trade, he chooses to cherry pick and talk only about the merchandise trade where the US runs a trillion dollar trade deficit…
According to the Financial Times Russian President Putin Has Signaled His Readiness to Sell Out His Country, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 23rd 2025 12:10am EDTThis morning I wrote that Putin had so badly mishandled the Ukraine conflict that his only choice was surrender or military victory, a victory he has been avoiding for more than three years. If the Financial Times can be believed, Putin has chosen surrender, or perhaps more accurately, partial surrender or semi-surrender. The Financial Times…
US Senator Ron Johnson Notices 9/11 Controlled Demolitions, Pushes Investigation, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Apr 23rd 2025 12:00am EDTRumble link Bitchute link In the podcast posted above, retired physics teacher David Chandler of the International Center for 9/11 Justice and Scientists for 9/11 Truth discusses his recent paper “The Descent and Tilting of the North Tower Antenna.” Read the interview transcript by clicking “transcript” above the video image at my Substack. Almost twenty…
Wife of Former Indiana University Professor Speaks Out Following FBI Raid, by Talia Mullin
The Unz Review - Apr 23rd 2025 12:00am EDTNianli Ma, married to cyber expert and former Indiana University Professor, Xiaofang Wang, spoke out for the first time since the couple’s abrupt dismissals from Indiana University and a raid of their homes by the FBI. Ma said, “I feel trapped in a constant state of worry and sadness. What have we done to deserve…
There Will be No Ukrainian Peace Deal, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 23rd 2025 12:00am EDTThere cannot be a peace deal when President Trump only proposes that Russia keep Crimea, which Russia did not take in war but in an unanimous vote of the population in Crimea to be reunited with Russia from which Crimea had been torn. Trump has not included in the deal Russian Donbas, which also voted…
Iran’s “Fattah-1” Hypersonic Missile Is Accurate, Lethal and Unstoppable, by Mike Whitney
The Unz Review - Apr 22nd 2025 12:10am EDTIn the event that the United States and Israel launch a preemptive attack on Iran, Iran is prepared to deliver a withering response that will destroy US military bases, oil production facilities, critical infrastructure, and command and control centres across the Middle East. In short, Iran has the ability to set the entire region ablaze…
The Real Trump Default Is European War with Russia So the Us Can Escalate War with China – the Case of the Arms Supply Line from Rzeszow to Kiev, by John Helmer
The Unz Review - Apr 22nd 2025 12:00am EDTIn the State Department’s readout of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s telephone call to NATO Secretary-General, Mark Rutte, Rubio said: “while our nation has been committed to helping end the war, if a clear path to peace does not emerge soon, the United States will step back from efforts to broker peace.” That was last…
Trump vs. Harvard in an Political Wresting Match, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Apr 21st 2025 12:00am EDTBack when I was a young child my grandfather enjoyed watching professional wrestling on his old black-and-white television, so I occasionally did the same. In those distant days, television wrestling possessed almost no money nor prestige and was barely even considered a real sport, probably tied with roller derby as occupying the bottommost-tier of audience…
Easter, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 20th 2025 12:00am EDTNow it is the Moldovan government that is attacking Christianity. The true target is the faith of the Moldovan people, which is the basis of their moral guidelines, traditional values and cultural mores. The government’s attack on Christianity is part and parcel of the destruction of a people. Eons ago in the 1970s when I…
The Crucifixion of Palestine (FFWN with J. Michael Springmann), by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Apr 20th 2025 12:00am EDTRumble link Bitchute link FFWN link Today is Easter Sunday. Two days ago, on Good Friday, I had a very interesting conversation with Dennis Kucinich, the former Cleveland mayor and Ohio Congressman who ran for president twice, managed RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign through late 2023, and recently published an eloquent Good Friday article on “The…
Late–Imperial Maladies, by Patrick Lawrence
The Unz Review - Apr 19th 2025 12:15am EDTI am sick of reading that the Israelis’ genocidal murder spree in Gaza is justified as a matter of self-defense. I am sick of reading nothing at all in corporate media, while reading daily in independent media, about the Israelis’ genocidal murder spree in the West Bank. I am sick of reading nothing in mainstream…
Everything Is Possible – Unfortunately, by Peter Haenseler
The Unz Review - Apr 19th 2025 12:02am EDTThe situation in this world is becoming increasingly muddled and unpredictable. Trump has misjudged the Chinese, Putin is not backing down and Iran is too big a chunk for the Americans. In addition, there is historic instability in the financial markets. Introduction We sent greetings at the end of 2024 with the card below. “Anything…
NY Times Transforms Trump Into Plucky Paragon in Propaganda Masterpiece, by Mike Whitney
The Unz Review - Apr 18th 2025 12:25am EDTThe ‘remake’ of Donald Trump into a strong, independent leader—who is not controlled by the wealthy Zionists who got him elected—is the prevailing subtext of the New York Times blockbuster article: Trump Waved Off Israeli Strike After Divisions Emerged in His Administration. The content of the article is not nearly as important as the subtle…
The Suppression of Christianity in Its Birthplace, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Apr 18th 2025 12:00am EDTMy rewrite of the famous quote by Lord Palmerston regarding “interests” to have it reflect the reality of Israel and its powerful friends would go something like this: “I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that Israel is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual friend of the…
American Death Throes, by Georgia Hayduke
The Unz Review - Apr 18th 2025 12:00am EDTThey say the most dangerous animal you can encounter in the wild is one that is dying and cornered. A trapped coyote will lash out and attack you with every fiber of its being, even if it’s mortally wounded. Especially if it’s mortally wounded. The American Empire and the so-called state of Israel are a…
Dennis Kucinich Good Friday Interview: Crucifixion of Gaza, “Passion of Palestine”, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Apr 18th 2025 12:00am EDTRumble link Bitchute link Audio and transcript at my Substack Dennis Kucinich served 16 years in Congress (1997-2013) and ran for president twice (2004 and 2008). His Good Friday message is headined: “The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine: In every parent cradling a lifeless child, we see the Pieta. In every bombed…
UK Supreme Court Rules That the Legal Definition of a Woman Is Biological, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 17th 2025 12:00am EDTThe UK Supreme Court has ruled that in British Law the terms “woman” and “sex” are biological terms and do not include men who identify as “transgender.” The Court ruled that people with “transgender recognition certificates,” whatever that is, are excludable from biological single-sex spaces. There are interesting aspects of this case that deserve comment….
Put the Liberals Last This Election, by Joel Davis
The Unz Review - Apr 17th 2025 12:00am EDTThe election is only a couple weeks away, and the prevailing mood seems to be a general lack of excitement for any party or candidate or policy. Australia is in a rapid state of decline in both individual quality of life and general national strength, yet there is no real challenge to the status quo…
the Angels of Deliverance – Are Trump and Witkoff Rolling the Stone Away?, by John Helmer
The Unz Review - Apr 16th 2025 12:10am EDTIt’s Easter for Christians, and President Donald Trump’s message is a religious one. He aims to be one of the angels of deliverance whom the gospels report to have showed themselves at the tomb of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion. Rolling the stone from the entrance to the tomb, and in place of his corpse,…
What Can We Expect from the Peace Negotiations?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 16th 2025 12:05am EDTAre the peace negotiations leading anywhere we want to go, or are they leading nowhere, or to more conflict? If I had to bet, I would pick one of the last two choices. Most likely more conflict. It is a tendency of peace negotiations to go nowhere except to a ceasefire that is immediately broken….