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EXCLUSIVE: The Real Story Behind Nuclear Iran and the Islamabad Accord, by Pepe Escobar

9 June 2026 at 05:25
MOSCOW and ST. PETERSBURG - On Monday, June 1st, on Power Shift, a new independent geopolitical platform, Zulfiqar Ali, Larry Johnson and myself revealed what for all practical purposes is an uber-bombshell piece of information: if long dark clouds keep coming down, Tehran is ready to pivot from nuclear ambiguity to actually detonating a nuclear...

The Fight to Save America, by Chris Hedges

9 June 2026 at 05:00
The street battles against the abuses by ICE are the front lines of our struggle to prevent the consolidation of the police state. NEWARK, N.J. — The worst is not the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private contractors, wielding baseball bats and batons, who flood the parking lot at the end of their shifts...

The US Starts Wars On the Other Side of the Planet and Then Claims "Self-Defense", by Caitlin Johnstone

9 June 2026 at 05:10
The US is bombing Iran again after an American attack helicopter was downed over the Strait of Hormuz amid renewed escalations in the conflict. CENTCOM said the following in a statement on the airstrikes: It always amazes me how the US can start an unprovoked war of aggression on the other side of the planet...

Fugue of Ideas, by Greg Johnson

9 June 2026 at 05:00
Ibram X. Kendi Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age New York: One World, 2026 Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas is on the Great Replacement, which he describes as “the most dominant political theory of our time” (p. xxx). Kendi is one of America’s most prominent skintellectuals. His 2017 book Stamped from...

Your Mission: Reconquer America, by Kevin DeAnna

9 June 2026 at 05:00
A beheading in Belfast, a defeat in Los Angeles, a post-American mayor in New York — Western cities are under outright occupation. Remigration is a necessity for our countries to exist in any kind of meaningful way in the future. But that makes taking and using power, including imposing it on unwilling local authorities who...

The Other Holocaust, by Mark Gullick

9 June 2026 at 05:00
History has a way of drawing a discreet veil over certain events. That is to say, those who control the historical narrative will conceal that which they deem against their interests. In recent history, the Armenian genocide during World War I comes to mind, during which up to 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered by Ottomans....

When Harry Met Vibrancy, by Tobias Langdon

9 June 2026 at 05:00
“Thought-crime.” That’s a famous concept from Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). “Big Brother” is the same. But what about “crimestop”? It’s an Orwellian concept that isn’t famous. But it deserves to be, because it captures so much of what’s dishonest and demented in leftist sloppaganda. This is how Orwell describes the concept in his book: Victims...

Iran’s New Policy Could Be a Middle East Game Changer, by Larry C. Johnson

9 June 2026 at 05:00
Iran says it will no longer wait for threats, declaring new strategic regional defense doctrine, so says Sadeq Larijani. Larijani is a prominent Iranian Shia cleric, conservative politician, and senior regime figure. He is best known for serving as Chief Justice (Head of the Judiciary) of Iran from 2009 to 2019 and as Chairman of...

Debts That Cannot Be Paid Won’t Be, by Michael Hudson

8 June 2026 at 05:00
For an issue organised around the question “What is to be done?”, R. C. J. Cranstoun spoke with Michael Hudson about debt, rentier capitalism, and the geopolitical fracture around sanctions, energy, and the dollar system. What follows is a lightly edited transcript. CRANSTOUN: The theme of this issue is “What is to be done?” Before...

Blind Submission to Authority Is Caused By Bad Parenting, by Caitlin Johnstone

8 June 2026 at 05:00
Blind submission to authority is the result of propaganda and indoctrination, but it’s also the result of bad parenting. Raising kids who aren’t allowed to say no to you is raising adults who don’t think anyone should be allowed to oppose their rulers. That’s mainly what you’re seeing in the comments section of any viral...
Received — 8 June 2026 The Unz Review

We Should Not ‘Integrate’ Our Military with Any Foreign Nation!, by Ron Paul

8 June 2026 at 05:00
Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA’s Section 224, the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” would...

Gatekeeping the Right: Inside Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Ideological Pivot, by Jose Alberto Nino

8 June 2026 at 05:00
Batya Ungar-Sargon once mourned Hillary Clinton’s defeat so deeply that she wrote a 2016 essay for Dame magazine titled “Trump Ruined My Favorite Haunt”—lamenting that she could no longer enjoy a neighborhood bar whose regulars and bartenders had voted for Donald Trump. Fast forward to the present, she now calls herself a “MAGA leftist” and...

Israel, Iran, and Holocaust Denial, by Ron Unz

8 June 2026 at 05:20
For many years, Gen. Qasem Soleimani had been one of Iran's most important and influential military commanders, a top figure in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). He had played a central role in organizing the defeat of the radical Sunni ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq, and was also the architect of his country's...

Gold Topples the Dollar’s Throne as the World Quietly Moves Beyond U.S. Financial Dominance, by Joshua Scheer

8 June 2026 at 05:00
As central banks stockpile gold and reduce reliance on U.S. Treasury debt, a decades-long shift away from dollar hegemony is accelerating—driven by sanctions, war, and a growing distrust of Washington’s financial power. For generations, the U.S. dollar has served as the undisputed foundation of the global financial system. But beneath the headlines and market fluctuations,...
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