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American Pravda: "The Truth" and "The Whole Truth" About the Origins of Covid-19

Ron Unz • May 10, 2021

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As every fan of the old Perry Mason show remembers, courtroom witnesses swear "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." There's a reason for that particular choice of words. A pattern of selective omissions in an otherwise entirely truthful presentation can easily mislead us as much as any outright lie.... Read More

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A Movable Feast

Israel Shamir • April 10, 2021

• 2,800 Words • 170 Comments • Reply

Israeli elections are a movable feast. The fourth round is over, and they already anticipate the fifth, perhaps in August. The Israelis just can’t form a stable government. They’ve got the Italian merry-go-round virus of unstable governments. Italians get a new government at an average of one every thirteen months. The Israeli mutation of the... Read More

Why Is Biden Creating His Own Crises?

Pat Buchanan • March 23, 2021

• 800 Words • 43 Comments • Reply

Our mainstream media largely ignored it, the world media did not. Ascending the stairs of Air Force One on Friday, to fly to Georgia, President Joe Biden slipped and stumbled. Getting up, he slipped again and then fell. The scene was jolting and disquieting. Adversaries abroad will use it as a metaphor for the decline... Read More

Starters or Main Course

Israel Shamir • March 21, 2021

• 2,800 Words • 214 Comments • Reply

The pandemic was sent to us, by grace of Masters of Covid, in their great mercy, instead of a ‘real’ nuclear war. It was sent in order to dump old government debts and issue new debt; to restart the dollar; to raise the demand for credit, and correspondingly, the interest rate. At the same time... Read More

Brazil’s Lula in a Wilderness of Mirrors

Pepe Escobar • March 17, 2021

• 1,700 Words • 25 Comments • Reply

A surprising Supreme Court decision that, while not definitive, restores Lula’s political rights has hit Brazil like a semiotic bomb and plunged the nation into a reality show being played in a wilderness of shattered mirrors. At first, it looked like three key variables would remain immutable. The Brazilian military run the show – and... Read More

American Pravda: Covid-19, Its Impact and Origins After One Year

As We Rapidly Approach a Million American Deaths

Ron Unz • March 15, 2021

• 8,700 Words • 974 Comments • Reply

Winston Churchill famously observed that in wartime the truth must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. Many of my own long and most controversial articles have followed a somewhat analogous presentation, with the opening sections that sometimes run hundreds of words or longer often being rather innocuous or even somewhat off-topic. These are intended... Read More

The Ukraine’s Many Ticking Time Bombs

The Saker • February 23, 2021

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While the Ukraine has mostly been out of the news, there were bigger stories out there, things have gone disastrously wrong under “Ze” (Zelenskii) and the Ukraine is now looking at several time bombs which could explode at any minute. Here is a partial list of problems which the Ze administration will have to deal... Read More

AP and Atlantic Council Anoint Me “COVID Conspiracy Super-Spreader”— and Erase Ron Unz

Kevin Barrett • February 16, 2021

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The bad news is that two of the most powerful institutions in America have anointed me a “COVID super-spreader.” The good news is that I stand accused of super-spreading “COVID conspiracy theories,” not the actual disease. But the worse news is that the way things are going, “conspiracy spreaders” may soon be quarantined in COVID... Read More

Is a Revolutionary Movement Developing in Europe?

Paul Craig Roberts • February 16, 2021

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US media provides little news of Europe. What is provided is strictly “narrated.” Consequently, Americans are unaware of what seems to be a spontaneous, leaderless, popular uprising against mandated lockdowns and masks. There are large demonstrations in Germany, and they have spread to Vienna and to Copenhagen. The people have more sense than the public... Read More

The Great Covid Conspiracy of Silence

Godfree Roberts • February 15, 2021

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Because Coronaviruses have been with us for as long as conspiracies, it’s natural for people to link them. But the history of epidemics offers better explanations than any conspiracy theory and useful advice to those who study it and respond appropriately. This is the story of two civilizations: one that studied history and one that... Read More

The Tycoon Plot

Israel Shamir • February 11, 2021

• 2,900 Words • 187 Comments • Reply

Millionaires want to make money. Billionaires want to make history. We may add that multi-billionaires take it further; they want mankind to adapt to their needs and wishes. As for people who control trillions, why, they care about our wishes as much as we care about ants while sweeping the garden. We do not apply... Read More

Where Did Covid Come from?

Paul Craig Roberts • December 30, 2020

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The focus of the worldwide public’s attention on masks, lockdowns, infection rates, and vaccines serves to prevent any investigation of Covid’s origin. Did a disease of bats or some other creature mutate so that humans became susceptible? If so, why was research on how to make pathogens more infectious going on at the University of... Read More

We Are Paying for the Mistakes of Boris Johnson and His Government

Patrick Cockburn • December 27, 2020

• 1,100 Words • 13 Comments • Reply

Fear is at a high point in Britain at the moment and with very good reason. There is much to be frightened of as it turns out that Covid-19 has been quicker to learn from experience than bumbling Boris Johnson and his third-eleven team during a calamitous year in which they have zig-zagged between panic... Read More

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! A Year of a Good Old Enemy!

Russia is the Enemy Number One

Israel Shamir • December 26, 2020

• 2,200 Words • 115 Comments • Reply

St Petersburg, the Tsars’ seat and still the most civilised city, the culture capital of Russia, enjoys its wonderful Yuletide. Fluffy snow had covered the streets, decorated hills and seashore, softened the air, and turned this fascinating city into a fairy winter tale. Christmas trees adorn the city squares and private dwellings. The magnificent imperial... Read More

The Politics of COVID Vaccinations: Who Will Get Them and When?

Philip Giraldi • December 10, 2020

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The first thing to understand is that there will not be enough COVID-19 vaccine to go around for many months to come, so the process of who comes first will essentially be a political decision since governments at various levels will inevitably be managing the distribution process. And there will be considerable confusion when the... Read More

Eat Your Lemon!

Israel Shamir • November 26, 2020

• 1,700 Words • 134 Comments • Reply

The G20 leaders have reached a consensus of a magnitude previously observed at Warsaw Pact summits. News in brief: they want to vaccinate us, and then, before we become restless, switch to combating global warming. If we survive masks and vaccines, austerity will kill off the survivors. Remember, before the pandemic there was Greta? Greta... Read More

Give Us Liberty or Give Us Artificial Intelligence Victory Over China? I Choose Liberty

John Derbyshire • October 24, 2020

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Earlier (2011): John Derbyshire On Understanding China And The Chinese [Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Having been writing about China for forty years, I was naturally interested to see what Trump and Biden had to say about the country in last Thursday’s debate. Answer: Nothing with any real insight... Read More

Actually, COVID Comes Courtesy of the Chinese PEOPLE

Ilana Mercer • October 22, 2020

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China’s plague-delivery pedigree is solid. Courtesy of China, the West got the H2N2 virus in 1957 and the H3N2 virus in 1968. Granted, the Chinese viral supply chain was broken with H1N1 flu; it came from Mexico. But, with the bird flu, SARS and SARS-Cov-2, China has fully reestablished its disease-delivery credentials. Alas, going by... Read More

When Does Incompetence Turn Into a Crime?

Patrick Cockburn • October 18, 2020

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I was in Baghdad in 1998 during US airstrikes, watching missiles explode in great flashes of light as they hit their targets. There was some ineffectual anti-aircraft fire, the only result of which was pieces of shrapnel falling from the sky and making it dangerous to step outside the building we were in. To my... Read More

Wars and Pandemics Produce the Same Sort of Lethal Government Bungling

Patrick Cockburn • October 10, 2020

• 1,100 Words • 30 Comments • Reply

The battle against Covid-19 is often compared to real war. The analogy encourages a “we are all in it together” solidarity and suggests that it is unpatriotic to criticise or oppose government decisions. Yet the comparison should not be entirely dismissed as self-serving bluster by political leaders because a war and a pandemic have many... Read More

Britain Will Seek 'Herd Immunity' Covertly or by Default

Patrick Cockburn • September 26, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 15 Comments • Reply

I was six years old in 1956 when my parents decided to return to Ireland from London, though a polio epidemic was in full swing in Cork city thirty miles from where we lived. They thought we would be safe in our house deep in the countryside and were encouraged by the fact that there... Read More

Enemies Lists on Display at the United Nations

Philip Giraldi • September 26, 2020

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The opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York each September is generally notable for its two weeks of speeches by heads of state, foreign ministers and other government officials addressing their own fellow citizens through the medium of a world forum. This year was no exception except for the fact that the... Read More

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Engineering Contagion: UPMC, Corona-Thrax and “the Darkest Winter”

Whitney Webb • September 25, 2020

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Researchers at a BSL-3 lab tied to the organizers of the 2001 Dark Winter simulation, DARPA, and the post-9/11 biodefense industrial complex are genetically modifying anthrax to express Covid-19 components, according to FOIA documents. Soon after having been fired from his post as secretary of the treasury in December 2002, after a policy clash with... Read More

From 9/11 to the Great Reset

Pepe Escobar • September 10, 2020

• 1,900 Words • 315 Comments • Reply

9/11 was the foundation stone of the new millennium – ever as much indecipherable as the Mysteries of Eleusis. A year ago, on Asia Times, once again I raised a number of questions that still find no answer. A lightning speed breakdown of the slings and arrows of outrageous (mis)fortune trespassing these two decades will... Read More

31,000 Words Missing from The Atlantic and The New York Times Sunday Magazine

Ron Unz • September 9, 2020

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For many years I had predicted to my friends that the increasingly bizarre and incompetent behavior of America's ruling elites might soon result in a major "negative discontinuity" for our unfortunate country, the sort of massive event that future authors would use to divide one section of a thick history textbook from the next. I... Read More

Syrian Coronavirus Crisis ‘10 Times Worse’ Than Regime Claims

Patrick Cockburn • August 26, 2020

• 1,100 Words • 12 Comments • Reply

“I cannot tell my true name,” says Ramiz Halawani, a 37-year-old teacher in Damascus. “You know how bad and violent our security intelligence are. They have spies everywhere. So, I am using another name.” Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Independent, Mr Halawani said he contracted Covid-19 earlier this month, as the epidemic swept... Read More

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Truth is somewhere in between

Philip Giraldi • August 25, 2020

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Many journalists and op-ed pundits have been observing how the United States has become two nations that are seemingly divided along a red-blue line, each side believing in “facts” that are irreconcilable with those “facts” believed to be true by the other side. Some are even suggesting that the United States is on the verge... Read More

Half a Pulitzer Prize to the Wall Street Journal

Ron Unz • August 23, 2020

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For forty years I carefully read the New York Times in hard copy each and every morning, eager to discover what had transpired since the previous day. But just in the last few months, my commitment has begun to flag, and my eyes often only lightly glance at half or more of the articles and... Read More

Syrians Face Calamity as Trump’s Sanctions Mix with Surging Covid-19

Patrick Cockburn • August 23, 2020

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“If I don’t buy masks or medicine, I may die or survive, but if I don’t buy bread for the family, we will all die of starvation,” says a retired 68-year-old teacher in Damascus, explaining why he does not have masks, sterilisers or medicines. “We need two bundles of loaves every day which costs us... Read More

Company Set to Manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine for US Intentionally Sold Faulty Biodefense Products

Whitney Webb • August 20, 2020

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Evidence of the corruption of the company Emergent BioSolutions has emerged yet again as the firm, set to play a key role in the manufacture of four leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates, has been caught selling the US government a biodefense product it knew was non-functional. Internal documents and e-mails from the “life sciences” company Emergent... Read More

Guaido, President of Belarus

Israel Shamir • August 14, 2020

• 2,900 Words • 25 Comments • Reply

It’s not over yet, but can Lukashenko survive the storm? Ever since the presidential elections of 8/9/2020, Belarus has experienced fitful waves of protests. The protesters claim the elections were rigged, just as the pussy-hat ladies accused Trump in 2016. The protests are presented to the world through the magnifying glass of the global fake... Read More

There Is a Historic Change Taking Place in the Middle East

Patrick Cockburn • August 14, 2020

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President Donald Trump is cock-a-hoop over the United Arab Emirates becoming the first Arab Gulf state to normalise its relations with Israel. He needs all the good news he can get in the months before the US presidential election. “HUGE breakthrough today! Historic Peace Agreement between our two GREAT friends, Israel and the United Arab... Read More

Lockdowns, Coronavirus, and Banks: Following the Money

Tony Hall • August 13, 2020

• 20,300 Words • 149 Comments • Reply

It usually makes sense to follow the money when seeking understanding of almost any major change. The strategy of following the money in our current convergence of crises in late summer of 2020 leads us directly to the lockdowns. The lockdowns were first imposed on people in the Wuhan area of China. Then other populations... Read More

The Failed Centralised Track and Trace System Is a Disaster

Patrick Cockburn • July 31, 2020

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When I got polio on a farm in the middle of the Irish countryside in 1956, an Irish Health Ministry official visited our nearest neighbour, a farmer called Dick Cunningham, the next day. He told him what had happened and advised him to keep his children at home. Other farmers in the area, none of... Read More

Israel Between Lockdown and Annexation

Israel Shamir • July 20, 2020

• 2,100 Words • 68 Comments • Reply

Violent demonstrations have broken out in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Thousands marched, dozens were arrested, but more citizens continued to arrive and join the protests. The people of the only Jewish state are upset and unhappy. They expected a better outcome from their fight with corona. Israel was the first state to implement a full... Read More

As Cold War Tensions Escalate, What Are Governments Trying to Hide?

Patrick Cockburn • July 18, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 37 Comments • Reply

The new Cold War launched by the West against China and Russia is escalating by the day. In a single week, the Kremlin has been unmasked trying to discover the secrets of Britain’s pursuit of a vaccine against coronavirus and revelations are promised about covert Russian interference in British politics. Boris Johnson made a U-turn... Read More

Israeli Proxies Profit from U.S. Coronavirus Funding

Half a billion dollars goes to companies and foundations

Philip Giraldi • July 14, 2020

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Washington D.C. is surely one of the most corrupt places on earth. Money talks and nearly everyone into the game sometimes referred to as politics has his or her hand out and expects to end up a millionaire. Given that, it should surprise no one to learn that a large chunk of the CARES Business... Read More

Meet the Israeli Intelligence-Linked Firm Using AI to Profile Americans and Guide US Lockdown Policy

Whitney Webb • July 2, 2020

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AN ISRAELI GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR FOUNDED BY A FORMER ISRAELI SPY HAS PARTNERED WITH ONE U.S. STATE AND IS SET TO ANNOUNCE A SERIES OF NEW PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER STATES AND U.S. HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TO MONITOR CIVILIAN HEALTH AND USE AN IDF-DESIGNED AI SYSTEM TO PROFILE AMERICANS LIKELY TO CONTRACT CORONAVIRUS AND TO INFORM U.S. GOVERNMENT... Read More

Some Conspiracy Theories Are for Real

Philip Giraldi • July 2, 2020

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What is the best way to debunk a conspiracy theory? Call it a conspiracy theory, a label which in and of itself implies disbelief. The only problem with that is there have been many actual conspiracies both historically and currently and many of them are not in the least theoretical in nature. Conspiracies of several... Read More

Netanyahu and Covid19

Gilad Atzmon • June 30, 2020

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An interview conducted by Iran’s FNA FNA: Netanyahu was very quick to administrate a lockdown at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak in Israel. Was Covid-19 his only reason for the lockdown? Gilad: You are tapping here into a crucial aspect of the Covid 19 affair which none of the Western media has been brave... Read More

Incompetence Links Britain’s Recent Wars and Its Coronavirus Response

Patrick Cockburn • June 26, 2020

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The government’s controversial Prevent programme aims to stop individuals becoming terrorists, but it would be much more effective if it taught British political leaders not to engage in wars that become the seed-beds of terrorism. Consider the case of Khairi Saadallah, the suspect in the killing of three people in a park in Reading who... Read More

Why Iran Won’t be Broken

Pepe Escobar • June 26, 2020

• 1,600 Words • 70 Comments • Reply

So what’s goin’ on in Iran? How did the Islamic Republic really respond to Covid-19? How is it coping with Washington’s relentless “maximum pressure”? These questions were the subject of a long phone call I placed to Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran – one of Iran’s premier, globally recognized analysts. As Marandi... Read More

COVID-19: China Reseeded with COVID-20

Larry Romanoff • June 22, 2020

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From the date of the initial outbreak in Wuhan I watched carefully on a daily basis the dispersion and progression of the coronavirus in China and then abroad, collecting as much data as were available on each location. By late May of 2020, China had been infection-free for many weeks, the concern turning to the... Read More

Were COVID-19 and COVID-20 Created in a US Lab?

Larry Romanoff • June 21, 2020

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It was amusing to watch the emergence of this debate on the US-China stage. The Chinese were understandably unwilling to be blamed for the emergence of a virus in which they had no part, and thus reacted strongly to accusations the virus originated in a Wuhan lab. The Americans proved to be even more terrified... Read More

Now We Are Paying for the Incompetence of Brexit Leaders

Patrick Cockburn • June 5, 2020

• 1,200 Words • 21 Comments • Reply

Britain is failing to cope with the Covid-19 epidemic as well as other countries in Europe and East Asia have. Out of 62,000 excess deaths in the UK, says former chief medical officer Sir David King, “40,000 excess deaths could have been avoided if government had acted responsibly”. The failure is devastating: on a single... Read More

COVID-19: FEMA and Mossad Stealing from Peter to Pay Paul

Larry Romanoff • June 4, 2020

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Masks and Medical Supplies First, let's accept that the need in March, April and May of 2020 for face masks, respirators and ventilators was urgent and real in every nation, so much so that the US was experiencing enormous blowback from the medical community. There were too many media reports to list, of health care... Read More

The Pandemic Revives Fears the U.S. Is Developing ‘ethnic Bioweapons’ Against Russia

Max Parry • June 2, 2020

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It has been 75 years since the surrender of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Russia postponed its annual Victory Day celebrations last month due to the health crisis as did other former Soviet states, with the sole exception of Belarus which went ahead with... Read More

Corona-Bonds: Mama Merkel Promises €500 Billion to Shore Up Rickety EU

Guillaume Durocher • May 27, 2020

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France and Germany recently agreed in principle to create a €500 billion three-year fund to relaunch the European economy after the coronavirus crisis. This would be funded by the EU raising funds on financial markets and then using these to invest in those countries and sectors worst-hit by the crisis. This represents a great leap... Read More

Ron Unz and Other Truth-Seekers to Explore Corona Bioweapon Hypothesis This Sunday

Kevin Barrett • May 27, 2020

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The Unz Review has been blacklisted by Facebook and Google in apparent retaliation for its articles exploring the COVID-19 bioweapon hypothesis, especially Ron Unz’s blockbuster “American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?” When deep state censors react that way, we may reasonably assume that they have something to hide. By sending such a strong... Read More

China Has Problems In New Bipolar World—But U.S. Has Worse

John Derbyshire • May 25, 2020

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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See also: GOP Plans To Scapegoat China. But That Must Include ENDING CHINESE IMMIGRATION! One thing that, it seems to me, is much more apparent than it was three months ago: we are living in a bipolar world, or soon shall be. I know... Read More

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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

Ron Unz

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American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations

The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?

Ron Unz

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV