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Richard Hanania’s Economic Illiteracy, by Keith Woods
The Unz Review - Oct 26th 2025 12:05am EDTRichard Hanania penned an article titled The System Everyone Hates Is the One That Has Actually Worked, intended as a defence of every leftist college professor’s favourite ideological punching bag — neoliberalism. Hanania prides himself on attacking the populist beliefs of the left and right alike in favour of the “elite human capital” beliefs which…
Sizing Up Trump and Putin, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 26th 2025 12:00am EDTSizing Up Trump Approaching a year since Trump’s third election as president, how do we sum him up? He has done good things. He has closed the border. He is attempting to deport some of the many millions of illegal immigrants that the Democrats brought into our country. He freed the January 6 protesters framed…
And the Chinese Five-Year Caravan Strolls on, by Pepe Escobar
The Unz Review - Oct 25th 2025 12:00am EDTIn the global chessboard, Beijing will keep stressing the power of the “multilateral trading system.” As in the absolute opposite of Trump 2.0. Four days in Beijing. The fourth plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was really something to behold. Methodology matters. What happened these four days is that…
Guillotine Song, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 25th 2025 12:00am EDTPentagon profiteer plutocrats Genocide gigolos and Raytheon rats Build robot armies and robot cops Boil our water for AI slop Poison our oceans and blacken our skies Enslave our minds with hatred and lies Well hey man I know something nicer Let’s put their melons in the melon slicer Steal our wages and crush dissent…
They Tell Us to Fear Muslims While the US Empire Terrorizes the World, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 24th 2025 12:10am EDTThe other day I published an essay titled “Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It’s Easier Than Getting People To Like Israel,” based on the conspicuous overlap between virulent Israel supporters and people who promote hatred of Muslims. What I didn’t know at the time until readers alerted me was that Drop Site News had put out…
A Nation At War, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Oct 24th 2025 12:00am EDTWe are nine months into the Donald Trump presidency and the road ahead seems pretty clear. There is an unsustainable one trillion dollar Pentagon budget supporting a newly renamed Department of War and Washington is engaged in conflicts that could escalate in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. If it were possible to stage a…
There Will be No Ukraine Peace Deal: Putin Should Quickly Win the Conflict Before It Leaves His Control. Otherwise, a Big War Is in the Making, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 24th 2025 12:00am EDTOne wonders how much longer Putin and Lavrov will take it or even if they comprehend the situation. For four years Putin and Lavrov have demonstrated enormous interest in ending the conflict by resolving the basic cause. The West has never bothered to understand that the basis of the conflict is Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy…
Clearly the Military/Security Complex Does Not Expect Trump to Deliver Peace, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 23rd 2025 12:05am EDTGilbert Doctorow and I have pointed out that Putin’s effort to prevent wider war has caused wider war. The White House’s cancellation of the meeting of Trump with Putin in Hungary is powerful evidence of Putin’s strategic blunder of pretending that the war the West has declared on Russia was merely a limited military operation…
Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It’s Easier Than Getting People to Like Israel, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 22nd 2025 12:00am EDTHave you ever noticed how whenever you see someone promoting hatred toward Muslims, nine times out of ten it will be someone who supports Israel? There’s a reason for that. Zionists promote Islamophobia because convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel. Support for Israel is a hard sell. On…
Desperation Row, by Patrick Lawrence
The Unz Review - Oct 22nd 2025 12:00am EDTWhat a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval Office last Friday. The Ukrainian president (who is no longer legitimately the Ukrainian president) arrived for another summit with President Trump with a shopping list of air defense and weapons systems worth $90 billion. Yes, $90 billion. This compares with…
Can the Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Succeed?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 21st 2025 12:10am EDTThe meeting between Trump and Putin in Hungary, assuming the pre-meeting negotiations between the envoys of the two presidents get that far, is likely the last chance for peace instead of war. An agreement between the two presidents will require large adjustments in position for one or the other or both. Either Trump would have…
The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 20th 2025 12:10am EDTCristina on Twitter asks, “Can you please write another of your beautiful posts about hope. I am not sure I have any left. We need hope.” I don’t understand how anyone can be without hope right now, personally. The imperial propaganda machine is crumbling in ways we’ve never seen in our lifetime. They wouldn’t work…
Who Buried the Investigation of Charlie Kirk’s Murder?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 20th 2025 12:10am EDTIt has been one month and 10 days since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and we still know nothing factual about it. The information or disinformation that has come out is nonsensical. Andrew Kolvet, a spokesman for Turning Point USA and executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, said the doctor who examined Kirk told him that…
John Charmley and the Story of Winston Churchill, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Oct 20th 2025 12:00am EDTFor more than thirty years, I’d occasionally come across harsh attacks against a British historian named John Charmley for writing a highly-critical biography of Winston Churchill, the famed British leader, and that was about the only thing I knew of that author. I’d always vaguely wondered exactly what he’d said about Churchill that had infuriated…
US Politics Is Just Nonstop Fake Revolutions Now, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 19th 2025 12:10am EDTIt’s so silly how American politics is just nonstop fake revolutions now. Millions flooded the US streets for the “No Kings” protests over the weekend to oppose a monarchy which does not exist without making a single tangible demand. Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest….
The No Kings Protest Is Insurrection, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 19th 2025 12:00am EDTAccording to America’s Whore Media, yesterday the No Kings Protests Drew 7 Million Americans at 2,700 separate rallies The No Kings protest is a form of insurrection. The aim is to stop the functioning of democracy in the name of democracy by branding the reduction of DEI, closing of borders, and deportation of illegal aliens,…
Against Chutzpah, by Patrick Lawrence
The Unz Review - Oct 18th 2025 12:00am EDTI have been reading a lot these past days about how the Israelis treated those they detained when they illegally boarded the vessels that comprised the now-famous aid flotilla that never made it to Gaza’s shores. The Irish — naturally, given their bitter familiarity with imperial aggressions — gave fulsome accounts of the gratuitous brutality…
They Said the Massacres Would Stop When the Hostages Were Released. They Haven’t Stopped., by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 18th 2025 12:00am EDTLast year I banged out an angry rant about the way Israel supporters would yell “release the hostages!” at anyone who talked about the latest massacre of Palestinian civilians, saying Hamas was to blame for the killing because of their refusal to release the Israeli captives, and that it would all stop once the hostages…
Israel Foreign Ministry Falsely Claims Palestinians Tore Apart A Beached Whale, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 17th 2025 12:20am EDTIn one of the more freakish acts of genocide propaganda we’ve seen in the last two years, the official Twitter account of the Israel Foreign Ministry made a post smearing desperate, starving civilians as cruel savages using the false allegation that they “tore apart” a “whale” that had become “stranded” on the beach. “Gazans tore…
The Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Is the Last Chance for Peace, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 17th 2025 12:10am EDTGilbert Doctorow and I share the belief that unless Putin responds more firmly than he has been inclined to do to the West’s provocations, war is inevitable. Hungary, led by the only intelligent leader in Europe, has arranged a meeting in Budapest between Trump and Putin. I suspect that this is the last chance to…
Russia No Longer Acknowledges Acts of War, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 16th 2025 12:10am EDTPutin initiated the Russian policy of not acknowledging acts of war when he defined the attack on Russia’s strategic bomber force as an “act of terrorism” in order to evade his responsibility to respond. Anticipating Washington’s delivery of nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, the Kremlin has defined their use against Russia as “terrorist attacks aimed…
Reality, Like Facts, Is No Longer Applicable to Western Decision Making, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 16th 2025 12:00am EDTI have emphasized the extreme danger Western peoples face from empowering leaders or decision makers who do not exist in reality. Instead, they live in false narratives of their own construction. At a meeting of defense ministers of NATO countries, the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte presented a fantasy picture of overwhelming NATO military superiority…
Israel Tortured and Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 15th 2025 12:20am EDTIn an interview with Swedish paper Aftonbladet, Greta Thunberg has corroborated earlier eyewitness reports that she and her fellow Global Sumud Flotilla activists were subjected to monstrous abuses by Israeli officials after being abducted from their boats carrying aid for Palestinians in Gaza. Here are some excerpts (quotes from Thunberg are italicized, quotes from Aftonbladet…
The Onus Is On Israel and Its Allies to End the Genocide, Not Their Victims, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 15th 2025 12:10am EDTIt’s actually never legitimate to withhold aid from starving civilians. It was never legitimate at any time. That’s one of the annoying things about having to discuss Israel’s ridiculous claim that Hamas is hoarding hostage corpses in order to achieve some kind of goal, and therefore justifies reducing aid into Gaza as punishment: the conversation…
Why Trump Brags That He Is Owned By Foreign Agents, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Oct 15th 2025 12:00am EDTRumble link Bitchute link Rasheed Muhammad of the Redpill Diaries interviewed me last night about Trump, Gaza, the decline of US empire, and more. The conversation begins: Rasheed Muhammad: Let’s jump right into it, Professor. I hear a lot of people talking about Trump, and some people think I jump on Trump, but I’ve been…