THE UNZ REVIEW - An Alternative Media Selection

It was two thousand years ago that the Roman writer Juvenal warned us to beware of our dreams coming true. An attractive Roman noblewoman may go to great lengths in her self-adornment only to discover how intensely she is hated by her less physically endowed female companions. Comes the time when the envy of her...

The US government likes to say that it is in confrontation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rather than against the Chinese people. The US Congress often takes pains to label its anti-China legislations as anti-CCP. The controlled media also follows this politically correct approach to describe the US-China competition. I often wonder why. I...

So Alice Weidel was interviewed by Elon Musk on 9 January 2025. Actually, it was quite a disappointment in more ways than one. For one, it is strange that the leader of the AfD, Germany’s supposedly conservative party, should be a lesbian who is married to a woman from the island of Ceylon. Upon closer...

Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza — but Israel habitually fails to implement subsequent phases that would lead...

Vulture, which is a subsidiary website of New York Magazine, has published an excruciatingly long article claiming that the Jewish pervert author Neil Gaiman is a pervert. The article is written by Lila Shapiro, a Jew feminist. She was shocked to find out that this guy: Is actually a pervert. Most people will not read...

Nancy Mace is so awful. I prefer the tranny-obsessed negress and would also bet money on her winning the fight. NBC News: I don’t think she incited violence so much as threatened it? Maybe this is yet another case of niggers using words without understanding the meaning of those words.

Well, Tulsi Gabbard now says she is all for the unconstitutional law that permits the national security state to surveil Americans without obtaining legal warrants beforehand — a law Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence has previously and vigorously pledged to repeal. As President-elect Trump’s inauguration approaches and his cabinet appointments will be...

I recently did a detailed article on Elon Musk’s Gamer Fraud scandal, which went into all of the details showing that he is an absolute fraud, claiming to be one of the best players in Path of Exile 2 after having paid someone to build his account. Just so people understand the basic thing here:...

Well, you don’t expect this. Macro Rubio, a Cuban homosexual, is one of the most extreme living neocons, supporting every war forever regardless of the possibility of any kind of victory. He is hated by everyone in the world for his pro-war agenda and sickening homosexual activities. No he’s on the comeback trail. What’s next?...

This guy was supposed to be the liberal version of Jesus. But not anymore. Four years after black people ascended to a status of “holy objects” to be worshiped as gods by the masses of pathetic whites, many people are looking back on the George Floyd movement and wondering what the hell was even going...

It would have been very easy for this doddering old coot to mention that Elon Musk has been exposed as a Fraud Gamer, and yet he chose to instead opt for ominous vagueness. One would guess he’s also “warning” about Mark Zuckerberg, who is based and redpilled unlike Fraud Gamer. The Zuck Man, who is...

No one is even trying to explain why the government allowed for a known cancer-causing chemical to be put in food for years. Remember that this is the same government that is so concerned about your health they force you to take vaccines and stop smoking cigarettes. They won’t prevent corporations from dumping PFAS in...

UPDATE: So, Trump is completely full of shit. Or someone lied to him. Let’s just give him the benefit of the doubt and say his own advisors lied to him about what was in the deal. We try not to be unnecessarily hard on Trump and it doesn’t really make sense he would purposefully post...

Dear Friends, I am as tired of challenging and distressing news as you. Today there is a treat instead. The treat is “the Tall Texan,” the American pianist Van Cliburn playing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto at the first Soviet international competition in Moscow in 1958, which Van Cliburn won. Khrushchev, the General Secretary of the...

Iraq is a developing democracy, but its location — between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Syria — means that it always faces pressure from outside its borders. The list of challenges it faced in 2024 ranged from ongoing security threats, including attacks on U.S. military bases by armed groups, political shifts and discussions about the...

American Empire is upon us. President-elect Donald Trump has spoken in recent weeks about several potential new territorial additions, including all of Canada (as the 51st state). The one he is most serious about is clearly Greenland. Rather amusingly, he even refused to rule out military action to take it. Eldest son Donald Trump Jr....

The war to destroy Russia has been an evil in which the British, Americans, Germans and French have combined for more than a century now. In the present stage on the Ukrainian battlefield, every weapon and force fielded by the Anglo-Americans and their allies has been defeated; the Ukraine itself, territorially and politically, has been...

Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza. How is a ‘sovereign and viable Palestinian state’, or a ‘better future’, going to emerge out of ruins on that scale? There are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that...

Is American imperialism back on the menu? Since taking back the White House this past November, president-elect Donald Trump has hinted at acquiring Greenland from Denmark, using military force to take back the Panama Canal, and even made veiled threats to annex Canada. Greenland and Panama have strategic importance to the United States, as the...

During a recent field trip around Italy with a group of college students from both the US and Europe, I nonchalantly tossed this question: what in their opinion – without searching on their i-phones - was the worst disaster at sea in terms of lives lost from the sinking of a single ship? Hint: despite...