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Victor Davis Hanson Exposed, by Jonas E. Alexis
The Unz Review - Oct 15th 2025 12:00am EDTVictor Davis Hanson is a military historian and classicist, best known for works such as A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power, and Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom….
The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Already Sabotaging the Ceasefire, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 14th 2025 12:15am EDTI don’t know who first coined the saying that an Israeli ceasefire means “you cease and we fire,” but it proves reliably accurate time after time. The IDF reportedly killed nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes today under the usual justification that they were traveling in some kind of unauthorized area in ways…
Art, Trade and State Power at the Heart of the Silk Road, by Pepe Escobar
The Unz Review - Oct 14th 2025 12:00am EDTBrilliant Eurasian cultures converged, interacted and spread their wings on the Ancient Silk Roads. DUNHUANG – Across History, the Silk Road – actually a network of roads – is the supreme Highway Star: the most important connectivity corridor ever, rolling across Ancient Eurasia, linking what Chinese scholars consensually define as the main civilization systems in…
Let Us Now Bury the Truth (Again), by Patrick Lawrence
The Unz Review - Oct 14th 2025 12:00am EDTHeadline in the Sunday editions of The New York Times: “A New Test for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?” What a question. Let us set aside our indignation and think about this. The piece below this head is by David Halbfinger, whose trade over the years has been to appear balanced when…
Trump Learns the Cost of Being Tough, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 14th 2025 12:00am EDTRon Unz tells us the consequence of Trump’s Diplomacy by Threat Read the entire article here: The Chinese have “suddenly imposed an unprecedented new wave of licensing requirements on the import and use of the rare earths that they mine and refine, as well as the vital small magnets produced from those compounds. These extremely…
Donald Trump as Our Mad Emperor of the Bubble, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Oct 13th 2025 12:25am EDTThese days the Wall Street Journal probably ranks as America’s most influential and credible print outlet, so Friday morning’s front-page story describing a sudden new escalation in our episodic trade war with China caught my attention. As emphasized in the first several paragraphs, the Chinese had suddenly imposed an unprecedented new wave of licensing requirements…
“African Rulers Virulently Opposed British Antislavery Efforts”–Taki, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 13th 2025 12:10am EDTTaki Theodoracopulos knows his history. African tribes conducted slave wars on one another prior to the discovery of the Americas. The conquering of others and enslaving them released the warriors of the successful tribe from ordinary work, thereby permitting them to concentrate full time on their fighting ability. Surplus slaves were sold for revenues to…
Climbing the Escalation Ladder, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Oct 13th 2025 12:00am EDTAs if following a pre-ordained script, the US China trade and tech war escalated to a peak last week when China launched a range of hard-hitting counter measures against the US in retaliation for its provocations, including severe restrictions on rare earth products. Predictably, Trump went into a blind rage and raised import tariff of…
Restrain the Mad Dog? or Put Him Down?, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Oct 12th 2025 12:00am EDTRumble link Bitchute link False Flag Weekly News link Has US President Donald Trump finally surpassed all of his predecessors since Eisenhower in getting “mad dog Israel” under control? Or are the man and the dog definitely working together? They are working together because the man is vastly smarter than the dog and runs the…
Did the Secret Service Foil “Foreign Government” Plot to Attack U.N. Meeting?, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Oct 11th 2025 12:00am EDTOn Tuesday, September 23, the United Nations General Assembly began its high level debate on peace and human rights. Looming over that event was the bloody spectacle of Gaza. The UN’s Commission of Inquiry had just released a 72-page report condemning Israel for genocide, and UN members were rushing to recognize Palestine. That same day,…
Survey of Dissident, Alternative, and/or Maverick Figures on the Right: Richard Spencer the Preppy Ubermensch Who Threw It All Away, by Jung-Freud
The Unz Review - Oct 10th 2025 7:41pm EDTThe survey begins with Richard Spencer for his key role in the newly emergent Right, which ran parallel with MAGA, each reflecting the limitations and betrayals of the other. Spencer came to prominence as the first noteworthy right-wing figure of the internet age that profoundly altered the nature of political discourse. While other and older…
Apologies to Colonel Gaddafi, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Oct 10th 2025 12:10am EDTKevin Bannett, who I admire, commented on my just published piece that I was unfair to Gaddafi to call Trump’s UN speech Gaddafi-esque. Though I had a general idea of Gaddafi’s 2009 UN speech, I forgot most of the details. So I asked Grok for a quick summary of Gaddafi’s speech and compare it with…
War Is Our Future, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 10th 2025 12:00am EDTThe reason war archives are withheld from publication for years after the war is over is that time is needed for court historians to instill in the minds of the population that the official narrative is correct and that any deviation from the official narrative is a conspiracy theory. The claim that the withholding of…
It Looks Like It Will be War That Resolves the Conflict Between the West and Russia, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 9th 2025 12:01am EDTI have labeled Putin’s conduct of war in Ukraine a strategic blunder that has ever-widened the war and is on the verge of spiraling out of control if Trump delivers nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. The way Putin has conducted the war, now approaching four years in duration, has maximized Russian casualties. Putin stupidly never…
New Issue of JOHNSTONE: They Can’t Arrest Us All, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 8th 2025 12:25am EDTThe new edition of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This month’s issue features a painting of Global Sumud Flotilla activist Greg Stoker calmly enjoying a smoke while the IDF was spraying the boats with skunk water in preparation to kidnap them. My favorite thing about…
Inside America’s Academic Gulags (w/ Rashid Khalidi), by Chris Hedges
The Unz Review - Oct 8th 2025 12:00am EDTHistorian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, joins host Chris Hedges to detail the dwindling academic freedom in American universities and society at large as Donald Trump’s grip on free speech tightens. Khalidi notes that while the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is an old tactic to stifle academic scrutiny of…
Had Hitler Won the War, by Hans Vogel
The Unz Review - Oct 8th 2025 12:00am EDTThe other day, waiting for a connecting flight in Porto, Portugal, I decided to visit the old city center. Stopping for a coffee in a local cafe, I was surprised to be attended by personnel addressing me in American English, despite my placing the order in Portuguese, though with a Brazilian accent. As my ears…
‘Moving Fast; Breaking Things’: A New Doctrine Takes Root; a New Era of Coerced Dominance, by Alastair Crooke
The Unz Review - Oct 8th 2025 12:00am EDTNeither Europe nor the U.S. seemingly possesses the mettle for real war. And certainly, neither do their publics. Creeping, thunderous changes are underway in the West. A new political doctrine has taken root: Western Conservative (and younger) populist thinking is being rebuilt as something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental, or tolerant. It aspires to…
Can War be Evaded?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 8th 2025 12:00am EDTCharlie Kirk’s wife says she is going to continue Charlie’s work. I hope she can. The trouble is that within a few days of Charlie’s death, Israel had taken over Charlie’s organization. At the 12:22 mark Nima shows a video of Charlie’s successors: Israel is the most likely candidate to be responsible for Kirk’s assassination….
Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide for Years and Then Demand Sympathy – And Other Notes, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 7th 2025 12:20am EDTNever forget October 7th 2023, that fateful day when Israelis were brutally massacred by Israeli tanks and Israeli helicopters and Israeli drones and Israeli soldiers and Israeli bullets, and also by Hamas a bit. ❖ I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown…
Our Existence Becomes Increasingly Tenuous by the Day, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 7th 2025 12:10am EDTRecently I explained that “Presidents have little control over their governments.” The same holds for monarchs and “authoritarians.” There are many examples. I will use one in front of me at this moment as I reread Harry Elmer Barnes’ book, The Genesis of the World War. World War I was planned by the French President,…
Tucker Carlson and the Resurrection of the 9/11 Truth Movement, Part II, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Oct 6th 2025 12:27am EDTLast week I published an article on the release of Tucker Carlson’s new 9/11 series, suggesting that it had the potential to resurrect the now dormant 9/11 Truth movement. Each year, those momentous events of 2001 had received less and less discussion. On the recent twenty-fourth anniversary, they passed almost totally unnoticed, completely swept aside…
Tucker Carlson and the Resurrection of the 9/11 Truth Movement, Part II, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Oct 6th 2025 12:27am EDTLast week I published an article on the release of Tucker Carlson’s new 9/11 series, suggesting that it had the potential to resurrect the now dormant 9/11 Truth movement. Each year, those momentous events of 2001 had received less and less discussion. On the recent twenty-fourth anniversary, they passed almost totally unnoticed, completely swept aside…
Innovations in “Old” Industries, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Oct 6th 2025 12:00am EDTMy last piece focused on the world’s fastest car and humanoid made in China by BYD and Robotera. However, breakthrough innovations are happening not only in future industries like EV or robotics. Those of us who follow technology are often blindsided by progress in the “new and shining objects” like AI, humanoid, or space exploration….
They Really Think They’ll be Able to Propagandize the World Into Liking Israel Again, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 5th 2025 12:25am EDTIt’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to manipulate and propagandize the world into liking Israel again. Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities. Sure, buy up the social media platforms that young people are using so you…