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Trump Is Putting Americans Into Digital Prison, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 28th 2026 12:00am EDTThe Trump regime has shown that its true agenda is to dump Americans into captivity. Trump and his Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, a George Soros lackey, are using undocumented aliens as an excuse to force American citizens into total digital surveillance. The Burning Platform explains: “In a move that exposes the true agenda behind the…
Iranian Leaders Are Not Divided… the Trump Administration Is, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 28th 2026 12:00am EDTOver the course of the last two weeks, Donald Trump and his national security sycophants have been parroting the claim that there is chaos among the Iranian political and military leaders and that no one is in charge. This is a lie… and I will shortly explain what I believe is the source of that…
The Rise and Fall and Rise of American Publishing, by Steve Wasserman
The Unz Review - Apr 27th 2026 12:00am EDTIn January, I wrote for the Winter 2026 issue of LIBERTIES quarterly journal a lengthy consideration of the state of American publishing. LIBERTIES was founded five years ago by Leon Wieseltier, the former longtime literary editor of The New Republic, and my essay is reprinted by ScheerPost with permission. You can access LIBERTIES website at:…
Does Trump Represent America or Israel?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 27th 2026 12:00am EDTThe account of the Iranian situation by Simplicius is reasonably accurate. Trump has revealed time and again that he took us to war against Iran for Israel. Trump thinks no oil price is too high to pay to protect Israel from an alleged “Iran threat.” It was Israel, not Iran, that started the war. It…
The Mechanistic Fallacy — Why the West So Often Fails at Geo-politics, by Alastair Crooke
The Unz Review - Apr 27th 2026 12:00am EDTWashington will not be able to think straight about Iran, and will opt for the wrong tactics. Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future…
Is the US Military Recommending No Further Strikes on Iran?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 26th 2026 12:20am EDTI expected the US to renew its attack on Iran today, but that did not happen and, based on recent developments, I think it will not… At least if the views of the officers in command of the war against Iran are considered. Let’s be clear on the chain of command: the Commander of US…
The US War Machine Underwhelms – Part 2, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Apr 26th 2026 12:02am EDTA word of caution: Substack alerted me the article is too long for email (over 7,000 words). I guess I got a bit technical and overzealous with details. So, if it is truncated in your email, readers can read it on Substack website or app, if it intrigues you. Thanks. In my last article, I…
Brief Comment on the White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting… Trump Continues to Send Mix Signals on Negotiations with Iran, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 26th 2026 12:00am EDTThe oxygen was sucked out of the discussion about the possible renewal of attacks on Iran by a lone gunman — reportedly a 31 year old teacher from California — who ran through the corridors of the Washington Hilton Hotel, which was hosting the White House Correspondents Association dinner. The dinner has been described in…
Australia’s “Antisemitism Envoy” Makes It Clear That Israel’s Critics Are the Real Target, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Apr 25th 2026 12:15am EDTAustralia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal has published a handbook which unequivocally clarifies that her office exists not to protect Australian Jews from discrimination, but to stomp out criticism of the state of Israel. However bad you’re imagining it is, it’s worse. The handbook, set to be formally launched later this week under the title “Understanding…
Donald Trump Goes to War, by Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review - Apr 25th 2026 12:00am EDTSometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army the big developing story was the Roman Republic’s impending Civil War pitting Caesar against the country’s Senate and Pompey the Great, but the…
Marriage of Iron and Earth: Why Iran War Forced China to Finally Wed Russia, by Marco de Wit
The Unz Review - Apr 25th 2026 12:00am EDTImage: Summary of the article. (This Substack distills every article into clear images and diagrams—saving readers time and preventing shaky premises and reasoning from being hidden behind a torrent of words.) Introduction The global geopolitical landscape is undergoing a tectonic shift as two of Eurasia’s most formidable powers, Russia and China, solidify a partnership many…
Israel Apologists Lie About Their Feelings and Beliefs, and Other Notes, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Apr 25th 2026 12:00am EDTOne of the most frustrating things about Israel apologists is how they constantly pretend to believe things they don’t really believe in order to push Israeli PR. There’s a tweet going around by a rabbi named Elchanan Poupko that says “I had never met a Zionist who does not care also for the lives of…
‘Territorial Theft with Better Branding’, by Stephen Prager
The Unz Review - Apr 24th 2026 12:10am EDTOne Palestinian American researcher warned that Israel is seeking “annexation without legal burden.” Israel’s gradual advancement of its “yellow line” to occupy more territory in the Gaza Strip is fueling concerns that it is seeking to effectively annex and colonize the majority of the territory without any formal agreement. The Guardian reported on Wednesday that…
John Helmer Reports: Israel Has Turned America Into a War Criminal, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 24th 2026 12:00am EDTJohn Helmer has published a disturbing report of a US submarine attack on an unarmed Iranian frigate, IRIS Dena, returning from participation in an Indian exercise in the Indian Ocean. Washington knew the Iranian ship was unarmed, because only unarmed ships were permitted to participate in the exercise. Seeing an easy target that could not…
When It Comes to Using Proxies, the US Far Surpasses Iran as a Sponsor of Terrorism, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 24th 2026 12:00am EDThave previously addressed the lie that Iran is the number one sponsor of terrorism. Now I want to look specifically at the question of how many Americans, both civilian and military, have been killed by proxies who have received assistance from Iran. The I will flip the script… How many Iranians, civilian and military, have…
Orthodox Pravda: Christ Is Risen, by Hieromonk Nilus
The Unz Review - Apr 23rd 2026 12:00am EDTOver the past generation, a current of historical and theological criticism has argued with increasing seriousness that Christianity did not merely absorb Jewish scripture as a preparatory text but was, in its structural logic, shaped by it in ways its adherents have not fully reckoned with. The charge, in its most developed form, runs as…
US Bases Iran Will Eliminate If the War Returns and More Delusional Nonsense from Sy Hersh, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 23rd 2026 12:00am EDTMost of the US military bases and facilities in the Persian Gulf (listed below) have been hit by Iran during the first five weeks of the war. And many of these are no longer operating or have been effectively destroyed. The US Naval base in Bahrain is no longer operational and cannot service US ships….
Replay: Israel’s Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Christians from the Holy Land, by Richard Cook
The Unz Review - Apr 22nd 2026 8:12am EDTIsrael has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel and the foreign Churches The photo of an Israeli soldier striking a statue of Jesus with a sledgehammer in a village in south Lebanon went…
How the UAE Became Israel’s Hidden Partner in the Gulf, by Jose Alberto Nino
The Unz Review - Apr 22nd 2026 12:10am EDTThe recent conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran has stripped away many illusions about the Middle East’s true alignments. When Iranian missiles and drones began raining down on Emirati territory in early 2026, striking Al Dhafra Air Base, Fujairah oil terminals, Jebel Ali port, and Dubai International Airport, the carefully cultivated fiction of…
Trump Does TACO Tuesday, But Still Sabotages Exit Ramp… JCPOA 2, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 22nd 2026 12:00am EDTThe saga of TACO Trump (i.e., Trump Always Chickens Out) continues to add new chapters… A few hours before the end of the two week ceasefire with Iran, Trump unilaterally announced an indefinite extension of the ceasefire (see image above), but also kept the blockade in place. After threatening to end Iran as a civilization,…
Trump the God, by Chris Hedges
The Unz Review - Apr 21st 2026 12:02am EDTTrump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders. During the two years I spent writing “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America,” I encountered numerous mini-Trumps. These self-proclaimed pastors — very few had any formal religious training — preyed on the despair of their congregants….
“Antisemitism—its History and Causes as Seen … by a Jew” April 1944 – Special Issue Titled “I Hate You”, by Francis Goumain
The Unz Review - Apr 21st 2026 12:00am EDTWe reproduce below the thirty-third article from the special issue “I hate you” published in April 1944. §§§§§§ * * * If we want to write a complete history of anti-Semitism — not forgetting any of the manifestations of this sentiment, following its various phases and modifications — we must undertake the history of Israel…
Is There a Way Out of the Iran War? (w/ John Mearsheimer), by Chris Hedges
The Unz Review - Apr 21st 2026 12:00am EDTAs ceasefire talks hang by a thread, rising tensions over the Strait of Hormuz reveal a stark reality: escalation could trigger a global economic catastrophe—and the United States may have far less control than it claims. Joshua Scheer The illusion of control is collapsing. The story being told to the public is one of control—measured…
Is Trump Going for Armageddon?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 21st 2026 12:00am EDTPakistan is trying desperately to hold a new round of talks in Islamabad between the US and Iran. After conflicting statements from the Trump administration, it appears that JD Vance, accompanied by his Zionist watchers — Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — are headed back to Islamabad. As of 22:20 hours eastern, Iran’s lead negotiator,…
Will Donald Trump’s Iran War Crash the Global Economy?, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Apr 20th 2026 12:00am EDTThroughout most of our history leprosy has probably ranked as one of the most horrifying human conditions. That slow, wasting disease lacked any cure and produced hideous deformities, leading to the creation of isolated confinement colonies for the afflicted. It’s hardly surprising that in the New Testament, Jesus extended his healing touch to lepers as…