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This Hell, by Craig Murray
The Unz Review - Apr 9th 2025 12:00am EDTIt is all a part of the same phenomenon. Western governments actively assisting genocide in Gaza; attacks on benefits for the disabled; a deliberate official narrative of Russophobia; rampant Islamophobia boosting the rise of extreme right-wing parties and fueled by government anti-immigrant rhetoric; an incredible accumulation of wealth by the ultra-rich; rampant erosion of freedoms…
April 15 Provides A Wonderful Lesson On How Government Conditioned Americans to Tyranny, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 9th 2025 12:00am EDTAmericans have become so accustomed to living under tyranny that they are probably incapable of recognizing tyranny. Once upon a time, April 15 was the annual day of infamy. It was the day you had to pay your income taxes. Americans have been subjected to a tax on their working lives for less than half…
The Tariff Issue, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 8th 2025 12:10am EDTThe tariff controversy is being colored in the most scary ways possible, because the Democrats, media, and ruling establishment want rid of Trump. It is also important to understand that tariffs are not the only way to limit imports. There are other means, such as quotas. Quotas on imports into the US of Japanese cars…
“Indeed, Why Are There Negotiations at All?”, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 8th 2025 12:00am EDTThe GEOFOR editorial board asked Paul Craig Roberts – Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy (USA), a PhD in Economics and US Undersecretary of Treasury in the Reagan administration – with a request to assess the course of negotiations between Russia and the United States, as well as their prospects. – Despite numerous statements…
Ultimately, It Wasn’t Communism or Capitalism But Jewish Supremacism That Undermined Western Nationalism, by Jung Freud
The Unz Review - Apr 7th 2025 2:26am EDTOne could make a theoretical case of Marxism or communism as having been opposed to nationalism. After all, Marxism developed as an international movement linking the ‘workers of the world’ against their oppressors, i.e. if capitalists exerted their influence on a global scale, then workers too had to think beyond ‘petty’ national interests. In theory,…
President Donald Trump and Chairman Mao, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Apr 7th 2025 12:00am EDTI’ve never met Donald Trump nor had any dealings with him, and since I don’t watch television, I’d barely paid attention to his antics until his unexpectedly strong run for the White House began attracting heavy media coverage in 2015. But some time ago I was privately meeting on other matters with one of Trump’s…
Trump Orders Iran to Give Up Its “Perfectly Legal” Defensive Weapons, by Mike Whitney
The Unz Review - Apr 6th 2025 12:10am EDTThe Trump administration is demanding that Iran give up its strategic missile program as part of any nuclear deal. But Iran’s ballistic missiles do not violate international law nor is there any global treaty under which they are banned. Article 51 of the UN Charter clearly states that countries have the sovereign right to develop…
Will the West’s Paranoia of Russia Destroy the World?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 6th 2025 12:00am EDTDo you remember the James Bond film in which a deranged Soviet General wanted to launch a nuclear war, or Dr. Strangelove, an American deranged general who wanted to do the same? Well, Dr. Strangelove is still with us, but he is no longer considered insane. In today’s Pentagon spreading nuclear weapons among allies who…
Explaining How Israel Killed the Kennedys, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Apr 4th 2025 4:59am EDTThe Trump Administration recently declassified and released some 60,000 government documents relating to the JFK Assassination, provoking a great deal of discussion on social media and the rest of the Internet. This prompted Mike Whitney to interview me on that subject, providing me an excellent opportunity to draw together and summarize the many articles I…
Lynching the Messenger, by Brett Redmayne-Titley
The Unz Review - Apr 4th 2025 12:00am EDTLike the rest of the moral and civilized world, one towards which Israel cheerfully chooses to flaunt its middle finger multiple times daily, I was again outraged that the Israeli settlers-the most barbaric of religious zealots- had kidnapped, tortured and nearly killed Palestinian Oscar-winning director Hamda Ballal after dragging him from his home. Then they…
Trump’s Trade Policies: A Fast Track to Economic Ruin, by Michael Hudson
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2025 12:10am EDTNIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolfer back with us. Welcome back. Let’s talk about the Liberation Day and the new tariffs on each and every country on this planet. And here is what the press secretary, the White House press secretary said about…
Trump’s Absurd Trade Policies Will Impoverish Americans and Harm the World, by Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2025 12:05am EDTU.S. President Donald Trump is trashing the world trade system over a basic economic fallacy. He wrongly claims that America’s trade deficit is caused by the rest of the world ripping off the U.S., repeatedly stating things such as, “Over the decades, they ripped us off like no country has never been ripped off in…
The United States Has Become a Two-Tier Country, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2025 12:01am EDTI recently read an article by investigative historian Eric Zuesse, author of America’s Empire of Evil, that began “One of the core features of nazism (not the German political Party but its core ideology) is racism, which allows some ethnicities (or “races”) to be advantaged by law, and other ethnicities to be discriminated against by…
The Western World Has Abandoned Democracy, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 3rd 2025 12:00am EDTOnce upon a time political establishments would focus on defeating their opponent/challenger in elections. Now they imprison them or stop them from running, as the Democrats tried to do to trump with four criminal indictments. In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro faces alleged coup charges. In Romania, a host country for a US missile base on Russia’s…
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History, by Chris Hedges
The Unz Review - Apr 2nd 2025 12:10am EDTPresident Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology. History will be used to justify the power of the ruling elites in the present by deifying the ruling…
Are Trump’s Advisors Lying to Him About Iran??, by Mike Whitney
The Unz Review - Apr 2nd 2025 12:05am EDTI have repeatedly argued that launching an attack against Iran would result in a catastrophic defeat for the US military. I believe this for many reasons, foremost among them my long-held conviction that the aircraft carrier is an obsolete relic of a bygone era that will not survive a war against a peer or near-peer…
The West Has Been Destroyed by Inconsistencies in Its Enlightenment Heritage, Not by Jews., by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 2nd 2025 12:00am EDTWho destroyed American education? In a recent article, “The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education,” Ron Unz blames it on the Jews. Clearly they had a hand in it, but was it intentional or a product of intellectual ideas German Jewish Cultural Marxists brought to the US in the 1930s? And how powerful an influence…
Adulating “Adolescence”, by Tobias Langdon
The Unz Review - Apr 2nd 2025 12:00am EDTWhat a gift to leftists! For days, they’ve been adulating a television fantasy called Adolescence. In leftist eyes, the show fearlessly confronts misogynist murder and the horrific threat posed to women and girls by toxic masculinity. And in the midst of their hosannas, as though God Zirself wanted to join the fight for females, reality…
Is Brigitte Macron a Man?, by Martin Lichtmesz
The Unz Review - Apr 1st 2025 12:10am EDTI wanted to believe it so badly. But the story was too delicious, too outrageous to be true. We are talking about the recent conspiracy theory according to which Brigitte Macron, the wife of Emmanuel Macron, is in fact a man. However far-fetched it may sound, it is currently doing the rounds in American and…
China ‘s Strategy to Defeat the US – Bankrupt It with Trump’s Help, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Apr 1st 2025 12:05am EDTAs Trump rolls out his tariffs on the world on “liberation day”, China watches with glee. It doesn’t happen everyday when one’s adversary blows his head off in front of you on his own initiative. Talk about never interrupt your enemy when he is making the mother of all mistakes… The inevitable result of Trump’s…
Unconquerable Yemen, by Pepe Escobar
The Unz Review - Apr 1st 2025 12:00am EDTAnsarallah won’t back down, staring down the Empire in the Red Sea SANA’A, Yemen – No wonder the Roman Empire called it Arabia Felix. It’s 3 pm in Al-Sabeen square in the Haddah neighborhood of Sana’a on Friday, March 28, Al Quds Day, at Ramadan, only two days before Eid al-Fikr, and the crowd of…
Reality Is Not a Participant in the War Planning and Foreign Policy Discussions, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 1st 2025 12:00am EDTHow do we reconcile this: With these: THIS ONE ESPECIALLY MAKES NO SENSE AS IT IS NOT RUSSIA VIOLATING THE AGREEMENT The story published in the NY Times on Saturday, clearly a CIA plant, says that the conflict in Ukraine was orchestrated by Washington and run as a US directed war against Russia with the…
The Deep State Has Used the NY Times to Announce Its Withdrawal from Washington’s Conflict with Russia, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2025 12:10am EDTLast Saturday the New York Times completely abandoned the official narrative of the Ukraine Conflict, thus overturning the apple cart full of lies. Jeff Childers gives us the gist of the New York Times abandonment of the ruling lie. What is the explanation? My guess is that the Deep State has decided to abandon the…
The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Mar 31st 2025 12:00am EDTWe may be witnessing the ongoing destruction of one of the greatest pillars of postwar American global influence and hegemony. Late last week an astonishing event occurred in American society, and video clips of that incident quickly went viral across the Internet. A 30-year-old Tufts doctoral student and Fulbright Scholar from Turkey was walking across…
160 Years of Racial Discrimination Against White Americans, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Mar 30th 2025 12:00am EDTThirty years after the publication of my book, The New Color Line, Jared Taylor asks if racial discrimination is illegal or not. As I made crystal clear three decades ago, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution make it totally certain that racial discrimination, as practiced by 60 years…