News From The Unz Review, Page 7
War Is Creeping Up On Us, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 5th 2025 12:20am EDTGilbert Doctorow is a thoughtful and well-informed commentator on the challenges with which the West confronts Putin. In his most recent postings, he asks and answers the questions, “What do the Russians think of Putin? Does his war of attrition strategy today enjoy support? Or do Russians want to end the War as quickly as…
Israel Droned Flotilla Activists and Then Abused Greta Thunberg, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 4th 2025 12:20am EDTWho would have imagined five years ago when we were seeing Greta Thunberg amplified by every mainstream western liberal institution that we would one day hear reports that she has been captured and tormented by the Israeli military for trying to bring formula to starving babies? The Guardian reports the following: “In an email sent…
The Met Police Chief Proves He’s as Dishonest and Racist as the Force He Leads, by Jonathan Cook
The Unz Review - Oct 4th 2025 12:00am EDTSir Mark Rowley claims he is worried about rising ‘community tensions’. But the only tensions he cares about are those belonging to an imaginary community he has created of a Jewish hive mind Once again, the BBC laps up outright disinformation from Sir Mark Rowley, police commissioner of the institutionally racist and corrupt Met. Watch…
I Don’t Know Whether Chinese Weapons Work. But I Wouldn’t Bet Against Them, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Oct 4th 2025 12:00am EDTBeijing put dozens of new high-tech weapons such as hypersonic missiles and unmanned stealth jets on display during the September 3 military parade. The stock response from western media has been who knows whether they work or not. On the one hand, it’s understandable that questions are raised about the effectiveness of weapons that have…
Vladimir Putin Makes the Castling Move, by John Helmer
The Unz Review - Oct 3rd 2025 2:49pm EDTOn June 30, 2021, during his Direct Line programme, President Vladimir Putin was asked what games he liked to play during his schooldays. “I am tempted to say chess,” he replied, “but, unfortunately, it was not chess.” Four years have gone by until his appearance yesterday at the Valdai Club, when the president was asked…
Putin-the-Unready?, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 3rd 2025 12:15am EDTLeaders of European countries with limited military ability are openly declaring their preparation for war with Russia. The Baltic states, Poland, Netherlands, France, Germany, and the UK speak if they look forward to a war that would utterly destroy them. It is a mystery as Russia poses no threat to them and wants nothing from…
Democracy Is a Fraud, a Cover for Rule by Private Interests, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 3rd 2025 12:00am EDTPolitical campaign contributions, not voters, elect the president and members of the Senate and House. Consequently, elected representatives represent the private interests that fund their campaigns. Democracy serves as a cloak, a guise, that hides the fact that the government belongs to the private lobbies that purchased it. In every election the emphasis is on…
On the Manchester Synagogue Attack, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Oct 2nd 2025 12:15am EDTTwo people were reportedly murdered on Thursday while attending a Manchester synagogue in what the British government has labeled a terrorist incident. Four others were seriously injured. Police say they shot and killed the suspect, a British citizen of Syrian descent. After the attack an Arab-Israeli hasbarist named Jonathan Elkhoury jumped on Twitter to tell…
How Israel Controls America, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 2nd 2025 12:00am EDTThe Israel Lobby Wants Thomas Massie Gone. Will American Voters Obey their Israeli Masters? “Pro-Israel Republican megadonors recently set up the MAGA Kentucky super PAC with $2 million specifically to oust Massie. Paul Singer contributed $1 million, John Paulson added $250,000, and Miriam Adelson’s Preserve America PAC provided $750,000. The Republican Jewish Coalition has promised…
Ending the War on Warriors, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Oct 1st 2025 12:10am EDTIf you missed the Secretary of War’s speech, here it is: Long overdue. The Democrats’ DEI policy was designed to destroy the military. Had Hegseth waited any longer, there would have been no institutional base left for a real military. My concern is whether the assumption or pretense that we have enemies, such as China…
Was Trump’s Meeting with the US Military Brass Today a Cover for Action? and a Charlie Kirk Update, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Sep 30th 2025 12:20am EDTf you watched today’s spectacle at the Quantico Marine Base, where Donald Trump and Secretary of War delivered awful speeches to more than 800 General Officers, I imagine you are hearing Peggy Lee sing, Is that All There Is? Well, leave it to the brilliant Yves Smith to explain the reason for the meeting. She…
The Trumpanyahu “Peace” Plan, and Other Notes, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Sep 30th 2025 12:20am EDTThe Trumpanyahu administration is pushing a “peace plan” for Gaza which critics are saying would damn Palestinians to permanent subjugation under the thumb of Israel. The proposed plan would see Gaza supervised by Trump and by war criminal Tony Blair, and Netanyahu is already saying that the deal will allow the IDF to remain in…
Leaked Israeli Transcripts Reveal Trump Lied About Attack on Iran, by Kevin Barrett
The Unz Review - Sep 30th 2025 12:00am EDTIsrael’s June 13 attack on Iran, which the US joined on June 22, was framed as a desperate attempt to pre-empt an imminent Iranian nuclear threat. On June 21, Donald Trump insisted that his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was mistaken when she testified, in March, that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon….
Filling in Gaps on the Forrestal Case, by Greg Garros
The Unz Review - Sep 30th 2025 12:00am EDTJim Forrestal’s ghost, like Banquo’s, still walks and may yet destroy Macbeth.” -Quote from Frank Kluckhohn (p. 62, Chapter “Who Killed Forrestal?” in The Drew Pearson Story). Special Advisor to James Forrestal, 1948. Previously a columnist for the NY Times and the first American to interview Hirohito following the surrender of Japan in 1945. FILLING…
China’s Rare Earth Ban Is Widening the Weapons Gap with Its Enemies, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Sep 30th 2025 12:00am EDTWhen I first wrote about China’s rare earth export control in reaction to Trump’s tariff war back in April, the topic was an obscure technical one. Over the past months, mainstream media has given the subject saturation coverage and now everyone realizes the importance of rare earth in high tech production, especially for weapon systems….
Tucker Carlson and the Resurrection of the 9/11 Truth Movement, Part I, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Sep 29th 2025 12:25am EDTThe twenty-fourth anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks passed with virtually no media attention this year, and that hardly surprised me. However, I did discuss it to a limited extent in my own article last week, and in a couple of paragraphs I briefly summarized the enormous historic impact of those 2001 terrorist attacks: During the…
The Single Dumbest Conspiracy Theory In the Entire World, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Sep 29th 2025 12:00am EDTThe single dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire world is that every major humanitarian institution on earth is conspiring to falsely frame Israel for the crime of genocide. And yet believing this bat shit insane conspiracy theory is the only way to think it’s not a genocide. There is no other way to claim that…
Presidents Have Little Control Over Their Governments, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Sep 29th 2025 12:00am EDTThe Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a wake-up call for President John F. Kennedy and his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Both leaders realized that the military competition between the two nuclear powers could end in the annihilation of both countries. The table was…
Trump Tyranny, Digital IDs, and Other Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Sep 28th 2025 12:15am EDTAuthoritarianism continues to surge under the western empire. Ken Klippenstein has drawn attention to the fact that President Trump has signed a national security directive which expands federal power to “disrupt” individuals or groups which “foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.” The president’s memorandum states that such groups can be…
US Military/Security Complex Wants More War, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Sep 28th 2025 12:15am EDTUS preparing options for strikes inside Venezuela The attacks could happen “in a matter of weeks” The excuse is strikes inside Venezuela on alleged drug traffickers. This is a hoax like the “Muslim Terrorist Threat” that was Washington’s excuse for its wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and the attack on Iran’s nuclear…
ONLY IN AMERICA — Illegal Alien Is Superintendent of Iowa’s Largest School District, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Sep 28th 2025 12:00am EDTAn illegal alien from Guyana has been serving as the Superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa at a salary and benefits of $305,917 yearly. He has been arrested by ICE and faces a deportation order. Democrats are rallying to the illegal’s cause. As far as I know he was doing a good job….
Quotes from the Founding Fathers of Israel and the US and Other Jewish Luminaries on Politics, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Sep 28th 2025 12:00am EDTBen Gurion, the founding Israeli prime minister, pronounced a future Pax Judaica in 1962, “all armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all continents, this will be the seat…
The World Doesn’t Hate Jews, the World Hates Israel, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Sep 27th 2025 12:00am EDTIt’s so crazy that we’re two years into a genocide and we’re still being hammered by propagandists pretending to believe that the world has just spontaneously started hating Israel for no reason in some inexplicable explosion of Jew-hatred. “U.S. registers most outbreaks of global antisemitism in August,” reads a recent headline from Fox News. “Report:…
I Warned Putin Many Times About the Consequences of His Never-ending Ever-widening “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Sep 27th 2025 12:00am EDTPutin has done everything he can to avoid war, and that is the problem. He did too much, and Russia is discounted. World war imminent, if Kiev’s false flag sabotage plans materialize says Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova Maria Zakharova drew attention to reports in several Hungarian media outlets about Vladimir Zelensky’s plans to…
It Has Taken 9 Years for Those Responsible for the Russiagate Coup to be Held Accountable, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Sep 26th 2025 12:10am EDT“One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former Corrupt Head of the FBI. He has been so bad for our Country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation.” — President Trump The Russiagate…