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Carols, Children, by James Thompson
The Unz Review - Dec 24th 2025 12:24pm ESTTo the Church of St James, of the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, as is my custom, to celebrate the habits of my tribe, as they have done since 1211. After last year’s restoration the church is open again, the tiled floor resplendent, the interior warmer and less damp, despite a cold winter’s day. A villager…
RIP Vladislav Krasnov, Russian Dissident Who Spent Six Decades Getting It Right, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Dec 24th 2025 12:00am ESTToday I received some sad news: Vladislav Georgievich Krasnov (AKA W. George Krasnow) passed away peacefully at the age of 88 on 23 November 2025 at the home of his daughter and son-in-law in Crockett, California…Vladislav graduated from Moscow State University in 1960 with a diploma in history and anthropology and worked with the Swedish…
Star Baby and Straw Blasphemy, by Tobias Langdon
The Unz Review - Dec 23rd 2025 12:10am ESTVarsk’vlavi. That’s a strange word from a strange language. At least, it’s a strange word if your mother-tongue is English and not Georgian, the mother-tongue of Joseph Stalin. As a boy, Stalin himself would have found the word right at the beginning of the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew: Yes, varsk’vlavi, ვარსკვლავი, means…
Israel Mocks Trump’s “Peace Plan”, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Dec 23rd 2025 12:00am ESTWas US President Trump’s ceasefire agreement, signed by Israel and Hamas October 10, a step in the right direction? Many observers were skeptical, citing the pact’s vagueness and Israel’s record of shamelessly violating virtually every agreement it has ever signed. Others extended Trump the benefit of the doubt. They pointed out that the US theoretically…
Donald Trump and His Immigration Policies, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Dec 22nd 2025 12:00am ESTLast week I’d published an article noting the considerable similarities between the reign of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula and the second term of our own President Donald Trump. According to the ancient sources, Caligula had best been known for proclaiming himself a living god and for declaring that he would appoint his horse to…
Notes On Bondi Beach and Free Speech, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Dec 21st 2025 12:20am ESTThe dumbest thing we are being asked to believe today is that pro-Palestinian protests caused the Bondi shooting. It’s self-evidently moronic. No one sincerely believes it. They’re just pretending to believe it to get protests banned and criticism of Israel outlawed. Nobody actually believes pro-Palestine protests caused the Bondi shooting. They’re just pretending to believe…
End of Year Statement, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Dec 21st 2025 12:20am ESTThe most critical issue Americans face is their continued national existence as an ethnic sovereign nation. Ignoring the issue pushes the United States into a Tower of Babel in which a nation cannot exist. On Monday, tomorrow, I will post my traditional Christmas column. Perhaps it will remind some of us of our roots in…
Yearend Note to My Substack Readers, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Dec 21st 2025 12:00am EST2025 has been a momentous year for the world. We are going through accelerating changes – technological, economic, political, and social – that continue to force us to revisit our frame of reference and adjust the way we look at the world. President Xi called this “changes not seen in a hundred years”. I believe…
Vladimir Putin Leaves No Doubt About Russia’s Demands to End the War in Ukraine… Do Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff Understand?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Dec 19th 2025 12:15am ESTRussian President Vladimir Putin held his annual combined “Direct Line” call-in and year-end press conference on December 19, 2025, in Moscow, lasting over 4 hours. Ukraine and peace negotiations dominated early questions, with Putin projecting confidence in Russia’s military position while expressing conditional openness to diplomacy, but he insisted that Russia will not soften its…
We’re Workers Too, by Ted Rall
The Unz Review - Dec 19th 2025 12:00am ESTFrom an economic standpoint, governments look at citizens as workers, consumers or both. Most people, of course, are both: We work and earn, and we spend. Our dual economic roles inform the core of the affordability discussion at the center of current politics. For as long as everyone but the oldest of us can remember,…
Here’s Why You Should Move to Morocco, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Dec 19th 2025 12:00am ESTRumble link Bitchute link Podcast guest K. Barrett Bilali has recently published articles on ChatGPT’s crisis and AI in (Moroccan) art and music. An American “MomOf4” drew a quarter-million views with her YouTube video “Why I Moved to Morocco.” Apparently, moving to Morocco is becoming a thing. The other Kevin Barrett, who moved to Morocco…
A Battered America Awaits Trump’s Next Move, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Dec 18th 2025 12:20am ESTPresident Donald Trump’s end of year speech to the American public that took place on December 17th was full of conceits over how the United States under the new regime in power is moving ahead on all fronts to benefit the American people. The reality is somewhat different with a struggling economy, inflation and growing…
Julian Assange Is Back in Action, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Dec 18th 2025 12:10am ESTJulian Assange has brought an “instrument of war” legal case against the Nobel Foundation for illegally awarding the Nobel peace prize to a war-monger advocating the invasion of her country, Venezuela, by the United States. Maria Corina Machado was awarded the peace prize by the Nobel committee most likely on orders from Washington in order…
US Officials, Including Witkoff and Kushner, Are Getting Russia Wrong, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Dec 17th 2025 12:10am ESTMy old friend, Sy Hersh, is out with a new piece on Substack that reveals a staggering ignorance and delusional thinking on the part of Steven Witkoff, Jared Kushner and other advisors in the Trump administration. Sy is a reporter… He records what his sources tell him; he does not opine. Here is what his…
Trump’s Geo-politics, by Alastair Crooke
The Unz Review - Dec 17th 2025 12:05am ESTThe NSS is not a pivot from Empire; it does, nonetheless, conclude that the means to domination requires a ‘Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine’. In his speech in Riyadh in May, President Trump set out his rationale to his transactional mode of policy formulation – making peace through commerce, rather than war. The language…
Jack Welch, Financialization, and the True Force Behind US Deindustrialization, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Dec 17th 2025 12:00am ESTWhen I studied business in the mid-90s, there was no company more revered than General Electric and no CEO more respected than Jack Welch. For years, GE was honored as the most admired company in the world and was the most valuable by market cap. Jack Welch was the idol corporate chieftain case-studied in every…
No Future for “Israel”, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Dec 17th 2025 12:00am ESTQods News Agency interviews Kevin Barrett More than 1000 people, including over 200 children, have been murdered by “Israeli” soldiers and settlers in the West Bank during the past two years. As of late 2025, the attacks are growing much more frequent. The United Nations counted more than 260 settler attacks in October, the most…
The MacDonald-Alexis Debate on Survival of the Fittest, White Identity, and Jewish Power, Part II, by Jonas E. Alexis
The Unz Review - Dec 16th 2025 12:15am ESTI will respond to the points MacDonald raised in his previous correspondence in the order in which he presented them. Some responses may appear to overlap, but I have sought to address his claims from a wide range of perspectives—particularly those relevant to the Darwinian framework that MacDonald himself endorses in several of his works….
Israel, Shylock Merchant of the Levant, by Elias Akleh
The Unz Review - Dec 16th 2025 12:02am ESTShylock, a Jewish moneylender/usurer, is a main character in William Shakespeare’s 16th-century five-acts play “Merchant of Venice”. Antonio, a Venetian merchant, borrowed money from Shylock with a bond stating that if he defaults the loan on time Shylock is entitled to a pound of Antonio’s flesh. Antonio defaulted the loan because his trade ships were…
Piers Morgan vs. Nick Fuentes Dust-Up: Succinctness Serum Brings Out the Gist, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Dec 16th 2025 12:00am ESTDissociated Press One of the nice things about Morocco, I guess, is that I can afford to watch TV. We pay a few dollars a month for an internet-based system with access to countless thousands of channels in every language known to man, with possibly a few extraterrestrial ones thrown in as well, for all…
Donald Trump as Our President Caligula, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Dec 15th 2025 12:25am ESTBack when I was in college, more years ago than I’d like to consider, one of my majors was Classical History, and I did quite a lot of original research in that field. Then after I graduated and began my doctoral studies in Theoretical Physics, I took a little time to write up some of…
Australians Being Massacred Shouldn’t Bother Us More Than Palestinians Being Massacred, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Dec 15th 2025 12:20am ESTOn March 16 of this year, Reuters published an article titled “Israeli strikes kill 15 people in Gaza over past day, Palestinian medics say”. Does anyone remember the 15 Palestinians who died on March 16, 2025? Does that day stand out in anyone’s memory as particularly significant in terms of mass murder? No? Same here….
How Countries Are Destroyed, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Dec 15th 2025 12:05am ESTVirginia, formerly a proud and distinguished state, is the home of many of the founding fathers of the United States–George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason–has fallen into the hands of people ashamed of Virginia’s proud heritage. The state of Virginia was destroyed by the influx of lobbyists and federal government bureaucrats…
Israel Apologists Hasten to Use Bondi Shooting to Attack Anti-Genocide Activists, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Dec 14th 2025 12:10am ESTTwo shooters attacked a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing fifteen people and injuring dozens of others. Police report that the shooters were a father and his son; the father was killed by police, and the son was captured. The shooters appear to have been Muslim, but, much to the inconvenience of…
Israel Apologists Hasten to Use Bondi Shooting to Attack Anti-Genocide Activists, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Dec 14th 2025 12:10am ESTTwo shooters attacked a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing fifteen people and injuring dozens of others. Police report that the shooters were a father and his son; the father was killed by police, and the son was captured. The shooters appear to have been Muslim, but, much to the inconvenience of…