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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…
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…