THE UNZ REVIEW - An Alternative Media Selection

Doug Harless Black people are right about the cops. The Guardian: Surveillance video provided to local news by Harless’s neighbor showed officers arriving at his home at about 11.50pm, banging on the door and announcing themselves over the sound of barking dogs. The video shows officers moved around the perimeter of the house – with...

Decades ago I became fully convinced that UFOs were real. I even accepted that past visits to our planet of such space aliens had been the basis for many of the religious myths of different societies all around the world, just as Erich von Däniken had argued in his massive 1971 bestseller Chariots of the...

American patriot General George C. Marshall strongly opposed the partitioning of Palestine because he knew that the creation of a Zionist state at the heart of the Arab world would severely undermine US regional interests while fueling endless conflicts across the Middle East. In short, Marshall and his allies at the State Department grasped that...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Playboy Magazine in November, 1976, accompanying Robert Scheer’s famous interview with President Jimmy Carter, and has been pulled from Robert Scheer’s book, ‘Playing President’ and posted here at ScheerPost in light of Carter’s death on December 29, 2024. The book was published by Akashic Books, Ltd. You...

Universities no longer produce educated people, and educated people are ceasing to exist. It is an interesting question, not to be discussed here, whether the disappearance of educated people is cause or result of the rise in barbarity that is engulfing the world. Wherever one looks one sees degeneration. From Bach, Mozart, Beethoven to four-letter...