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Peace Is at Hand? Don’t Hold Your Breath, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - May 23rd 2026 12:20am EDTNot since Neville Chamberlain returned from negotiating with Hitler in Munich on September 30, 1938 have we seen such a spectacle of deception and false hope. Trump, using his Truth Social platform, has been busy this weekend proclaiming: An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic…
“Alice in Wonderland Garbage” — Chris Hedges on America’s War Delusions, by Joshua Scheer
The Unz Review - May 23rd 2026 12:03am EDTAs the United States sinks deeper into another catastrophic Middle East confrontation, veteran journalist Chris Hedges joins political scientist Stephen Walt and journalist Ryan Grim for a blistering discussion on the unraveling of American power, the dangerous illusions driving Washington’s war machine, and the growing global consequences of the conflict with Iran. Drawing direct parallels…
Who Is the Real Monster? Hezbollah or Israel… A Response to the Munk Debate, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - May 23rd 2026 12:00am EDTI plunked down $25 to watch the Wednesday night Munk debate between the team of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt vesus the team of Victoria Nuland and Mike Pompeo. The debate was titled, Foreign Wars Debate: Be it resolved, don’t go hunting monsters. The premise of the debate, in my opinion, was faulty… Monsters are…
What, Realistically, Can Be Done for Africa? Part I, by F. Roger Devlin
The Unz Review - May 22nd 2026 12:10am EDTLipton Matthews, Busting African Delusions: Intelligence, Institutions, and the Path to Progress, Independently Published, 2026, 236 pages, $16.07 paperback American Renaissance has long stressed the legitimacy of whites promoting their own interests. Having assimilated this message, some readers may dismiss any talk of black uplift. This is a mistake, for it is certainly in our…
Acting Attorney General Conveys Privileges to Israel and Trump Family That Are Denied to Americans, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - May 22nd 2026 12:00am EDTTodd Blanche, the current acting US Attorney General, is Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer. Notice in the May 19 Department of Justice press release that Trump’s DOJ defines upholding civil rights as preventing criticism of Israel. In other words, suppressing or limiting the First Amendment is “upholding civil rights.” What the Trump DOJ…
Looks Like CIA Analysts Are Doing a Pretty Good Job Regarding Iran, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - May 22nd 2026 12:00am EDTUntil recently I had serious concerns that my old outfit, i.e., the CIA, was failing to do its job in providing accurate analysis to the President. Looks like my concerns were misplaced. While there have been a few occasions in the history of the CIA that the analysts told the then active administration what they…
An Immigration Bill We Could Like, by Jared Taylor
The Unz Review - May 21st 2026 12:10am EDTThis video is available on Rumble, Bitchute, Odysee, Telegram, and X. Donald Trump has cut illegal border crossings to zero and tried to expel illegals. He has banned immigration from the most awful countries, slapped new fees in H1-B visas, slashed refugee admissions, and issued a lot fewer visas for students and for families of…
The Rape of Nanking: Massacre or Myth?, by Jonas E. Alexis
The Unz Review - May 21st 2026 12:10am EDTThe Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang was unquestionably an incendiary and highly tendentious work that quickly generated considerable controversy in both the United States and Japan following its publication in 1997. The book received praise from major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, the…
A Religious Reason the Saudis Are Blocking a New Attack on Iran, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - May 21st 2026 12:00am EDTThe HAJJ. The Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is one of the Five Pillars of Islam — the core religious obligations that define Muslim practice. Every Muslim who is physically and financially able is required to perform the Hajj at least once in their lifetime. This obligation is drawn…
Why Immigration Restriction Is DOA in Congress, by Jose Alberto Nino
The Unz Review - May 20th 2026 12:10am EDTRep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) announced on May 14, 2026 the introduction of his 83 page ASSIMILATION Act, legislation he claims would “GUT the Hart-Celler Act of 1965” and “scrap provisions of the Immigration Act of the 1990s.” “The goal of this bill is simple: end replacement migration and ensure American cultural cohesion,” Ogles tweeted. “This…
Trump’s Self-serving Business Deals Have Prostituted the Office of the President, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - May 20th 2026 12:00am EDTAs far as I can tell, Donald Trump is the first American president in my lifetime to be actively engaged in business while serving as President of the United States. I have no memory of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush starting and running businesses while occupying the…
The Judaism-Zionism Bifurcation: Chosenness (Part 1), by Ilana Mercer
The Unz Review - May 20th 2026 12:00am EDT©2026 By ilana mercer Pro-Palestine commentators and activists, Jews and non-Jews, are religious about maintaining a bifurcation—a divide—between Judaism and Zionism. Advocates of this duality portray Judaism as humanistic, universal and pastoral, and Zionism as its opposite. In the commingled rumble of commentary over Zionism; Arab commentators have been conditioned, by necessity, to internalize the…
Trump Wants to Attack Iran, But Does Saudi Arabia Hold the Keys?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - May 20th 2026 12:00am EDTI have been in contact with a friend who is privy to a source in West Asia that has some interesting insights into the behind the scenes activity to prevent a new US attack on Iran. Russia and China are busy trying to erect a new security architecture in the Persian Gulf, which includes Turkiye,…
America’s Century of Humiliation Has Begun, by Greg Johnson
The Unz Review - May 19th 2026 12:03am EDTChina’s “Century of Humiliation” began in 1839 with the First Opium War. The Qing Dynasty was in decline, and foreign powers began stealing territories and extorting trade concessions through wars and military expeditions. It was a long century that only really ended in 1949 with the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. But even…
“Without Weapons, We Can Do Anything”, by Joshua Scheer
The Unz Review - May 19th 2026 12:00am EDT“They called her dangerous because she carried no weapon at all — only a medical vest, courage, and the belief that Palestinian lives mattered.” In a world drowning in propaganda, war crimes, and the routine dehumanization of Palestinians, the story of Rozan al-Najjar cuts through the noise with devastating clarity. She wasn’t armed. She wasn’t…
The President Who Cries War, Then Peace, Then War, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - May 19th 2026 12:00am EDTThe lad who inspired Aesop to write, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” (also known as “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf”), has grown up and is now President of the United States. Since February 28, 2026, Donald Trump has released 11 statements suggesting the war with Iran was over or that a negotiated deal is…
President Donald Trump: “Let Them Eat Cake”, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - May 18th 2026 12:00am EDTIt’s an undeniable fact that many of the most famous or infamous historical quotes are actually incorrect, having been distorted, garbled, or even entirely invented. For example, the former president of General Motors never said “What’s good for GM is good for America.” Voltaire never said “I disapprove of what you say, but I will…
Charles Fourier: The Father of Antisemitic Socialism, by Jose Alberto Nino
The Unz Review - May 17th 2026 12:00am EDTFrench socialist thinker Charles Fourier remains one of history’s most daring economic visionaries, a man whose blueprint for human harmony challenged the very foundations of the modern world. Yet, lurking beneath his celebrated theories of labor is a dimension of his thought that modern socialist circles have scrubbed from the record: his uncompromising, foundational antisemitism….
The Digital Revolution: Humanity’s Greatest Enemy, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - May 17th 2026 12:00am EDTFor several or more years I have emphasized that the digital revolution and artificial intelligence were, along with nuclear weapons, the worst of human mistakes. People have gained an understanding of the destructive power of nuclear weapons, but they have been indoctrinated into seeing the digital revolution and artificial intelligence as a great boost to…
What the US Media Is Saying About Trump’s Trip to China, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - May 16th 2026 12:20am EDTI thought it would be useful to highlight the reporting and analysis of the New York Times, the Washington Post and Politico regarding President Donald Trump’s trip to China. I read it so you don’t have to. All three publications converged on the same bottom line, differing mainly in tone and emphasis: China achieved its…
1The Wolfowitz Doctrine Is Dead, by Philip Kraske
The Unz Review - May 16th 2026 12:00am EDTAmong the many shattered illusions that the very short Iran War has effected is that of the Wolfowitz Doctrine. No doubt it still has a great many fans in the Deep State and the military, but like people who believed in philandering televengelists, they are now churning out reasons for its continued validity. Just so…
AOC Can’t Be Trusted on Foreign Policy, by Jose Alberto Nino
The Unz Review - May 16th 2026 12:00am EDTRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) refuses to work with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on opposing funding for Israel but she had no problem joining Republican superhawks to take punitive action against China. That contradiction showcases the fake nature of AOC’s progressive dissent. At a University of Chicago Institute of Politics appearance in May 2026, a…
Trump’s Failed Mission to China, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - May 15th 2026 12:20am EDTThe Beijing circus is over and Donald Trump’s talks with Xi Jinping produced nothing more than some pleasing photo ops and some performative diplomacy with no substantive accomplishments. There was no final communique at the end of Trump’s two days of meetings with Xi Jinping. Instead, we are left to rely on the statements from…
Why the West Is Replacing Its White Population, by Ricardo Duchesne
The Unz Review - May 15th 2026 12:00am EDTThe Great Replacement is now almost locked in. This is not because of a grand conspiracy, a secret “Kalergi Plan,” a deliberate plot by elites to destroy the West through “bio-Leninism,” an attempt to import a new electorate, or any single “demonic” scheme. Nor is it simply the result of excessive “suicidal empathy” or conservative…
Which of the Gulf Arab Countries Are Most Important to the Global Economy?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - May 15th 2026 12:00am EDTI will wait to post on the meeting between Trump and Xi until Friday night. So far it is a nothing burger with regards to the war with Iran. Let’s focus instead on the global economic disruption that is going to hurt almost every country over the next six months. As a result of the…