THE UNZ REVIEW - An Alternative Media Selection

It would be an interesting exercise if one might view and consider in retrospect the week that began with the United Nations General Assembly speech in New York on September 23rd that included the “Your countries are going to hell” performance by President Donald Trump followed on the 26th by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu experiencing...

Despite the obvious hype, there is no doubt AI and semiconductors are key drivers of scientific and technological progress for the world for decades to come. As silicon-based chips shrink toward their physical limits, the industry is desperately searching for alternatives to continue the progress defined by Moore’s Law — the trend that Intel co-founder...

John Brown’s 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and his subsequent arrest and execution, set the stage for the First American Civil War. Brown, a Christian anti-slavery activist, raided a federal armory, seized weapons, and attempted to incite a slave uprising. The violence of his raid (seven were killed and ten injured) followed by his...

If 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...

Featuring The Warrior Philosopher. The Left has built a permanent system of power where laws only apply one way. Antifa can riot, block traffic, even threaten ICE officers on camera — and they walk free. But if you so much as push back, the full weight of the media, the courts, and the state come...

Paul Kersey and Sam Dickson discuss the important symbolism of the FBI firing agents who kneeled before BLM in 2020. They also discuss the NAACP haranguing white students over supposed blackface and the revelation that a black illegal alien served as superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa.

John Helmer thinks that the Russian response to the ever-widening war that Putin has conducted will be the Oreshnik missile, which means good-bye to several European capitals, if not all of them. Washington giving missiles to Ukraine that can reach Moscow and St. Petersburg does not “normalize relations.” This is the path to war, not...

As it turns out, Donald Trump assembled all his generals and admirals NOT to declare World War III on Russia, China, Iran, or Venezuela, but instead to declare war on Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, and (above all) Portland. I participated in a live running commentary on Trump’s anticlimactic and hilariously idiotic speech on the Eurabiamania...

It should be evident by now to anyone paying even casual attention that exerting full-spectrum control over American media is among the Trump regime’s most perniciously obsessive projects. Of all the extra-constitutional messes this vulgar ignoramus is making, I count his assaults on media his gravest attempt to destroy what remains of American democracy and...

Factual information about Israel and Palestine may soon be outlawed in the California K-12 school system. Assembly Bill 715 is currently on Governor Newsom's desk. The legislation was recently rushed through the California legislature, amended just days before passage, and voted on at 1 a.m. with almost no time for public comment. The hurry is...

f 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 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...

The news cycle has rules every rookie journalist understands. When the media choose to break them, you can be sure it is for entirely non-journalistic reasons You can tell much from how the media choose to cover a news story – and from the facts they decide to emphasise in a headline. And you can...

Israel’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....

Fascists, historically, are surprisingly candid about the world they intend to create. Those they target, despite this transparency, are surprisingly obtuse about what is coming. The most ominous warning to date from our homegrown fascists is the latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence.” It accuses any critic of law enforcement, Immigration...

Jim 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...

The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements, 3rd edition Kevin MacDonald Antelope Hill Publishing, 2025 (recently banned on Amazon) 666+c pages, $39.89 paperback In the later half of the twentieth century, the United States of America—hitherto the world’s most powerful and prosperous country—opened its borders to...

The clock at the Tass office in Moscow was reading 14:24 on Tuesday afternoon when Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, was reported as saying the following about the Gaza plan of President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and ex-prime minister Tony Blair: “Russia always supports and welcomes any steps by Trump that...

When 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....

The 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...