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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…
The Strait of Hormuz Is Closed Again… Iran Is Serious, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 19th 2026 12:00am EDTStrait of Hormuz 18 April 2026 The two images above show the Strait of Hormuz when it was partially opened and now, when it is closed. For a brief moment on Friday, 17 April 2026, Donald Trump told a partial truth… The Strait of Hormuz was open for business, but only for ships that coordinated…
Trump Pushes Fantasy About Iran, Hormuz and Enriched Uranium, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 18th 2026 12:00am EDTOn Friday, April 17, 2026, President Donald Trump posted a flurry of optimistic messages on Truth Social (and referenced in interviews) framing the US-Iran war as largely over or nearing a swift resolution. His claims centered on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, progress toward a broader peace deal, and US leverage. Most of…
The US War Machine Underwhelms – Part 1, by Hua Bin
The Unz Review - Apr 17th 2026 12:27am EDTIn my mid-March essay Iran Has Already Won, I discussed the strategic failure suffered by the US barely a month into the war. The simple fact the US war goal has changed from “regime change” to “keep the Strait of Hormuz open” already points to the strategic defeat of the US, since the strait was…
The Unseen Israeli Election Fix in 2016, by Jose Alberto Nino
The Unz Review - Apr 17th 2026 12:10am EDTFor years, American media fixated relentlessly on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, yet FBI documents reveal a parallel story of Israeli contacts with the Trump campaign that received virtually no scrutiny despite evidence of attempted foreign intervention. This operation involved high-ranking Israeli officials, secret agents, and a sustained effort to provide Donald Trump’s…
Out of Africa: The Jewish Elephant in the Room, by Pierre Simon
The Unz Review - Apr 17th 2026 12:00am EDT“You and I, indeed, all of us, all over the world, are Africans under the skin; brothers and sisters separated by barely two thousand generations. The old divisive concepts of race are scientifically false,”1 notes Spencer Wells, the Boasian anthropologist responsible from 2005 to 2015 for the Genographic project of the National Geographic. Led by…
The Number of Dead Iranian Protesters Keeps Changing Because It’s A Fictional Story, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Apr 17th 2026 12:00am EDTThe most common pro-war talking point about Iran is that they massacred tens of thousands of protesters in January of this year — but what’s funny is that they never cite the same number. Because it’s a completely fictional story, they can just make up any number they want. In online discourse with empire apologists these past…
Donald Trump and Scott Bessent Destroy Any Chance to Negotiate an End to the War with Iran, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 16th 2026 12:25am EDTLet me give you the bottomline up front… Despite positive developments in expanding the ceasefire to include Lebanon and Hezbollah, the Trump administration announced new sanctions on Iran that will end any chance of negotiations with Iran. Unless Trump reverses course, the US is likely to renew its attacks on Iran and will exacerbate the…
Lessons from the Hungarian Election for MAGA, by David M. Zsutty
The Unz Review - Apr 16th 2026 12:02am EDTPéter Magyar’s landslide victory over Viktor Orbán in the April 2026 Hungarian election presents both a problem and solution to the American Right. It indicates that the Republicans will be slaughtered in the 2026 midterms and quite possibly the 2028 presidential election — if things stay the same. But it also shows a path to…
Four Freedoms Award for the Little Green Devil, by Hans Vogel
The Unz Review - Apr 16th 2026 12:00am EDTVladimir Zelenski, the little guy playing the role of President of the Ukraine, was awarded the Four Freedoms Award by the Roosevelt Foundation. This outfit has a US and a Dutch section, and it is the Dutch section that may award the prize in even years. On April 16, he came all the way to…
Forever War for Israel, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 16th 2026 12:00am EDTPresident Trump has lost focus, or perhaps I should say he has refocused away from US domestic issues and is focused on how to save his and Netanyahu’s political bacon by extracting them from the war he foolishly let Netanyahu drag America into. Trump’s biggest problem seems to be Netanyahu’s unwillingness to let Trump out…
Watch What Trump Does, Ignore What He Says… More War on the Agenda, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 16th 2026 12:00am EDTTrump is going to attack Iran again — perhaps as early as this weekend — as a prelude to declaring victory and withdrawing US forces from the Persian Gulf area. I say this because Trump, via Secretary of War Hegseth, has dispatched 10,000 more US military personnel to the Persian Gulf region, along with the…
They Always Tell You Why the Empire Uses Violence, But Never Why Its Enemies Do, by Caitlin Johnstone
The Unz Review - Apr 15th 2026 12:00am EDTOne common feature of western empire propaganda is that we are always given reasons for the empire’s violence, while the violence of those who resist the empire tends to be framed as happening for no reason at all. We’ve all been fed reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran, and we all know what those…
1April 15 Reminds Us of How Unfree We Are, by Paul Craig Roberts
The Unz Review - Apr 15th 2026 12:00am EDTCitizens of democracies think of themselves as free. This belief reflects their indoctrination, not the facts. Historically, the definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor. A serf and a slave did not own their own labor, and neither does a citizen of a Western democracy today. Today, April 15,…
Is Donald Trump Trying to Create a Nuclear Narrative as His Escape Ramp from the War with Iran?, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 15th 2026 12:00am EDTIf you set aside your logic and rational thought and listen instead to what Donald Trump and his media echo chamber is saying about the war with Iran you are hearing this: The US has wiped out Iran’s military capabilities. The nuclear program is obliterated. Iran’s economy is shattered and it is looking for a…
Trump’s Will be Done, by Kenneth A. Carlson
The Unz Review - Apr 14th 2026 12:00am EDTJoshua Scheer Intro At a moment when political power is increasingly wrapped in spectacle, symbolism, and something closer to religious devotion than democratic accountability, this piece from ScheerPost cuts straight through the illusion. In “Trump’s Will Be Done,” Kenneth A. Carlson examines the dangerous fusion of faith and politics that has helped elevate Donald Trump…
Professor Marandi: The US Walked Away in Islamabad, by Larry C. Johnson
The Unz Review - Apr 14th 2026 12:00am EDTNima conducted an excellent interview of Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi (University of Tehran), a prominent Iranian analyst and a personal friend of mine, who was part of the Iranian delegation in Islamabad. The good professor — in the video posted below — provided Nima with a sharp, critical assessment of the recent Iran-US negotiations. Here…
The War They Started—and Lost, by Chris Hedges and Joe Lauria
The Unz Review - Apr 13th 2026 12:05am EDTOn April 11, independent outlet Consortium News aired a stark assessment of the war on Iran—one that cuts through official narratives and exposes a far more dangerous reality. Hosted by Joe Lauria and featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges, the program delivers a blunt conclusion: The United States and Israel have already lost. Not in…
Iran’s Determination to Break Out from the Panopticon of Western 360° Containment, by Alastair Crooke
The Unz Review - Apr 13th 2026 12:05am EDTIt seems likely that the negotiations will not produce an agreement. The temporary cessation of hostilities across West Asia very much hangs in the balance. Originally, there was to be a cessation of military actions across “all fronts” including Lebanon — that being one of the ten Iranian preconditions to negotiations towards a permanent ceasefire….
Will China Retaliate Against Donald Trump’s Oil Blockade and Force an American Surrender?, by Ron Unz
The Unz Review - Apr 13th 2026 12:00am EDTAs might have been expected, the peace talks in Islamabad between America and Iran quickly ended in complete failure, breaking up in less than 24 hours. President Donald Trump had originally proposed peace negotiations based upon Iran’s 10-point proposal, but all of that was totally ignored when the talks actually began. According to media accounts,…
America’s Suez Moment Is Here — and It’s Losing, by Chris Hedges
The Unz Review - Apr 12th 2026 12:05am EDTAs Washington scrambles to reframe a disastrous war as “diplomacy,” a temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran has opened the door to negotiations that may already be collapsing under their own contradictions. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Hedges speaks with former British diplomat Alastair Crooke, who lays out a stark…