THE UNZ REVIEW - An Alternative Media Selection

I have explained on many occasions in writing, interviews, and podcasts that an American president has little more than nominal control over the policies of his administration. Partly this is due to the vast size of the US government that the liberals have created, far different from what the Founders intended. The government is far...

Medea Benjamin and CODEPINK, the organization she cofounded, are synonymous with accosting power in the United States. Their fearless confrontations with the nation’s most prominent and powerful politicians in the halls of Congress, often seen through viral videos, are a stark embodiment of the First Amendment. Despite over 20 years of activism and consistent critique...

Las Vegas is a city of spectacle, but nothing prepared locals for the drama that erupted in August after Israeli cybersecurity official Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was arrested for trying to solicit sex from what he thought was a 15-year-old girl. Alexandrovich, the Executive Director for Defense at Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, fell straight into a...

Tuesday was an unremarkable day for President Donald Trump — except for the cuts in electricity for his escalator at the United Nations (UN) building and then for his teleprompter at the General Assembly podium. “Absolutely sabotage”, Trump announced after thinking about it for twenty-four hours. In his UN script and then his answers to...

Featuring Jared Taylor. The assassination of Charlie Kirk proves a brutal truth: terrorism works. Intimidation and propaganda are used to silence conservatives and normalize political violence. Kevin is joined by Jared Taylor to discuss the legal and political risks of labeling groups as terrorists, the shifting role of the ACLU, and the rise of racial...

Yesterday afternoon at the Kremlin meeting of the Security Council, President Vladimir Putin proposed to extend the current strategic nuclear weapons limitations of the New START Treaty expiring in February 2026, for one more year into 2027. This is the time Putin is giving President Donald Trump to choose between his Golden Dome escalation in...

In the last few days, a significant number of countries have announced their decision to recognize a Palestinian state. At the same time, the leaders of these countries have repeatedly condemned the attacks of October 7. Can you see the problem here? The two positions are logically incompatible. It makes no sense to repudiate the...

One of the most problematic aspects of the trans movement, largely ignored by the mainstream media, is the sale of “DIY HRT”: Do It Yourself Hormone Replacement Therapy. This involves the illegal trafficking of hormones by trans activists and online pharmacies. The rate of DIY HRT use varies depending on country and age group, but...

Who pulls the plug on a nation’s credit? For decades, Barclays Capital has been a pillar of the City of London’s support for Israeli government debt as one of the twelve primary dealers whose role is to finance the debts of the Israeli state and funnel international capital to Tel Aviv. No longer. New figures...

Although the September 10th assassination of Charlie Kirk was horrifying, his death of that young conservative activist was merely the latest in a long history of such high-profile killings in our deeply troubled society. Just a few months earlier, an agitated gunman had shot and killed Melissa Hortman, the former Democratic Speaker of the Minnesota...

Rumble link Bitchute link It’s good news, but how good? Will this end the genocide? Will the genocide perps attempt to “flee forward” into a bigger war—perhaps by launching another huge, 9/11 style false flag? And to what extent is the genocidal Jewish state rooted in Jewish identity and thought, specifically in Jewish millenarian-messianic eschatology?...

Remarks delivered in late August at the annual congress of Mut zur Ethik, which translates (a little awkwardly) as “the courage of one’s ethics.” This group gathers in Zürich’s environs each summer to hear a variety of speakers consider a selected theme. This year’s theme was “Reason and Humanity.” — Patrick Lawrence I have titled...

The Global Sumud Flotilla which is bringing aid to break the Israeli siege on Gaza has once again come under attack. Activists say drones are dropping explosive objects which have reportedly burned the arm of one crew member and destroyed the main mast of one of the boats. As Middle East Eye recently noted, US...

Prior to the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska by a Black man on August 22nd, 2025, there was much talk about “black fatigue.” According to the Urban Dictionary, “black fatigue” refers to the “deep mental exhaustion from being forced to care about Black people and their actions 24/7”[1]—an understandable state of mind for Whites confronted...

Nearly half of respondents to a survey said they prefer the economic model of Cuba and the USSR over capitalism. This development is not only due to the fact that freedom is no longer a value taught in American education but also to the fact that university graduates have poor employment and career prospects. This...

Netanyahu will soon find that Israel has lost America – and the rest of the world, too. ‘Gaza is on fire; the Jewish state will not relent’, Israeli Defence Minister Katz excitedly proclaims: “The IDF is striking with an Iron fist at terrorist infrastructure”. In fact, over recent weeks Israel has struck at ‘infrastructure’ in...

The covid lockdowns caused many Americans to stop trusting the government’s propaganda and led to a 39 percent increase in homeschooling in the 2020-21 school year. While the number of homeschoolers did decline some after this jump, homeschooling has continued growing in popularity over the last several years. Today, approximately six percent of American school...

It wasn’t until the evening that I learned that Charlie Kirk had been shot. As the sun was going down, I began a routine phone call with a politically involved friend of mine, and I asked how he was doing. He sounded distressed and told me that he was shaken by the news of the...

There is something ineffably eternal about the “drum beating and bell chiming from sundown to daybreak” when it comes to the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower standing in the north end of ancient Beijing. There can hardly be equal structures around the world when it comes to architecture as music. They are like two...

The United States is edging toward an unprecedented military showdown with Venezuela. The crisis escalated earlier this month after a U.S. drone strike killed 11 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — the first such strike in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama. This was followed by another strike on...