THE UNZ REVIEW - An Alternative Media Selection

The new book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York is so much more than a biography of Prince Andrew (the Queen’s second, and favourite, son) and his ex-wife (and current girlfriend) Sarah Ferguson. Especially considering all of the publicity surrounding it, and its serialisation in The Mail Online, I am surprised...

Rumble link Bitchute link In two years of fighting, Israel couldn’t even come close to defeating Hamas and allied Resistance groups. All they could do is commit genocide, taking their frustration out on women and children and hospitals and starving people lined up for food. The basics of this deal—a prisoner swap, an end to...

Israel continued to hammer Gaza with military explosives on Thursday despite the announcement of the first stages of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Israel always does this. When normal people get a ceasefire agreement they think “Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing.” Whenever Israelis get a ceasefire agreement they go, “This...

The new edition of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This month’s issue features a painting of Global Sumud Flotilla activist Greg Stoker calmly enjoying a smoke while the IDF was spraying the boats with skunk water in preparation to kidnap them. My favorite thing about...

China is producing more STEM graduates, publishing more high impact research papers, and filing for more patents than any other country today. People are amazed with the seemingly sudden outburst of Chinese scientific and technological prowess. But few understand how this has happened. I’ll dive into some arcane programs launched since Deng’s reform to explore...

ON THE ROAD IN XINJIANG – Xuanzang, the itinerant Buddhist monk, has got to be one of the most extraordinary figures in History. He certainly is regarded as such in China. In the early Tang dynasty in the 7th century, Xuanzang set out from the imperial capital Chang’an (today’s Xian), breaching a veto to travel...

Historian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, joins host Chris Hedges to detail the dwindling academic freedom in American universities and society at large as Donald Trump’s grip on free speech tightens. Khalidi notes that while the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is an old tactic to stifle academic scrutiny of...

Neither Europe nor the U.S. seemingly possesses the mettle for real war. And certainly, neither do their publics. Creeping, thunderous changes are underway in the West. A new political doctrine has taken root: Western Conservative (and younger) populist thinking is being rebuilt as something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental, or tolerant. It aspires to...

The other day, waiting for a connecting flight in Porto, Portugal, I decided to visit the old city center. Stopping for a coffee in a local cafe, I was surprised to be attended by personnel addressing me in American English, despite my placing the order in Portuguese, though with a Brazilian accent. As my ears...

Charlie Kirk’s wife says she is going to continue Charlie’s work. I hope she can. The trouble is that within a few days of Charlie’s death, Israel had taken over Charlie’s organization. At the 12:22 mark Nima shows a video of Charlie’s successors: Israel is the most likely candidate to be responsible for Kirk’s assassination....

Never forget October 7th 2023, that fateful day when Israelis were brutally massacred by Israeli tanks and Israeli helicopters and Israeli drones and Israeli soldiers and Israeli bullets, and also by Hamas a bit. ❖ I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown...

Recently I explained that “Presidents have little control over their governments.” The same holds for monarchs and “authoritarians.” There are many examples. I will use one in front of me at this moment as I reread Harry Elmer Barnes’ book, The Genesis of the World War. World War I was planned by the French President,...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the prestigious Nature magazine’s 2024 Nature Index ranking of global research institutions based on the quantity and impact of their research output in high end science journals. ( ) Chinese research institutes and universities were prominently featured in the 2024 results. Recently, the latest Nature Index came out, reaffirming...

Rumble link Bitchute link Check out Josh Mitteldorf’s Unauthorized Science Substack. Is “antisemitism” a thing? Both sides seem to think so. Netanyahu, the ADL, and the rest of Organized Jewry won’t shut up about it. Meanwhile, more and more people are expressing negative views of Jews—sometimes reasonably and intelligently, other times not so much. That...

​​If you’ve ever wondered why American ideas travel farther and faster than American armies, the answer isn’t just Hollywood or Harvard. You can thank Melvin Lasky for that. From Berlin’s lecture halls to London’s literary circles, he perfected the art of wrapping geopolitics in glossy prose, making soft power feel like common sense while keeping...

PCR discusses with Nima the path to nuclear war. PCR comes on at the 1:01 mark. During the first hour Larry Johnson discusses with Nima the coming war with Iran. You will learn far more from these discussions that you ever could from CNN, NPR, Fox News, NY Times and the rest of the whore...

Everything before October 7 explains why October 7 happened, and so does everything that’s happened since. Look at what happened before October 7 and you’ll see year after year of murder, oppression and abuse. Look at everything that’s happened since October 7 and you’ll understand the kind of sadistic, psychopathic regime the Palestinians have been...

President Trump’s 20-point plan offers some constructive proposals on hostages, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction. Yet it is marred by an unmistakable colonial framework: Gaza is to be overseen by Trump himself, with Tony Blair and other outsiders cast as trustees for Palestinian governance—while Palestinian statehood is deferred indefinitely. This logic is not new. It reprises...

By the end of 2019, I encountered a written exchange between Nathan Cofnas and Kevin MacDonald. I was eager to follow this discussion, as I had grown increasingly frustrated with figures such as Steven Pinker and others who made little attempt to engage with the metaphysical framework underlying MacDonald’s views. Rather than addressing his approach...

I know---another Charlie Kirk article. Try not to puke. However, I think his story can provide insight into Mossad-Deep State psychological operations as well as the trajectory of Western Civilization, and perhaps we can even have a bit of fun along the way. Charlie Kirk was a psyop, in both life and death. At first...