
On April 21, 2025, Easter Monday, Pope Francis — born Jorge Mario Bergoglio to a working-class Italo-Argentine family — died at age 88, felled by a stroke after battling pneumonia. The date, coinciding with the traditional anniversary of Rome’s founding, carries a poignant symbolism: The eternal city, cradle of the Roman Empire, mourns a pontiff...
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Ron Unz • April 21, 2025 • 6,700 Words
Back when I was a young child my grandfather enjoyed watching professional wrestling on his old black-and-white television, so I occasionally did the same. In those distant days, television wrestling possessed almost no money nor prestige and was barely even considered a real sport, probably tied with roller derby as occupying the bottommost-tier of audience...
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Interview with Hua Bin
Question 1---What are Trump's tariffs on China supposed to achieve, and will they succeed? Hua Bin--- I don't think Trump has a clear idea himself because many of the supposed goals are contradictory and historically he is a shoot-from-the-hip type guy - no deep thinking, always swinging, and never ashamed of his own blatant lies....
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The situation in this world is becoming increasingly muddled and unpredictable. Trump has misjudged the Chinese, Putin is not backing down and Iran is too big a chunk for the Americans. In addition, there is historic instability in the financial markets. Introduction We sent greetings at the end of 2024 with the card below. “Anything...
Read MoreMeta killed stories, throttled conservatives, and suppressed voter information in 2020 — all while quietly building CCP-approved censorship tools. Mark Zuckerberg appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” in January sporting a new hairstyle and a gold chain — an image makeover that began with the billionaire tech mogul sparring with MMA fighters in 2023. He...
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Every decade seems to give us a spectacular legal case that shows America’s racial reality. In the 1990s, it was the OJ Simpson case. When OJ was acquitted, whites around the country reacted with stunned horror while blacks celebrated. It might have been because they thought he was guilty that they celebrated. The more charitable...
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Trump supporters are celebrating economic collapse to own the libs
source: @Karl_Was_Right on X The message from MAGA figures regarding the tariffs is that Americans must sacrifice and suffer now for the national good and a brighter future. This is an attitude that has not existed in America since the New Deal and World War II, in contrast to the late 20th Century mantra, which...
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Israel is no friend to Jesus
My rewrite of the famous quote by Lord Palmerston regarding “interests” to have it reflect the reality of Israel and its powerful friends would go something like this: “I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that Israel is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual friend of the...
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They say the most dangerous animal you can encounter in the wild is one that is dying and cornered. A trapped coyote will lash out and attack you with every fiber of its being, even if it’s mortally wounded. Especially if it’s mortally wounded. The American Empire and the so-called state of Israel are a...
Read MoreThe election is only a couple weeks away, and the prevailing mood seems to be a general lack of excitement for any party or candidate or policy. Australia is in a rapid state of decline in both individual quality of life and general national strength, yet there is no real challenge to the status quo...
Read MoreIn the discussion on the place and role of the US in the world, it may be useful to also take into account some opinions...
The opinions that Americans have on the Rest of the World are sometimes interesting and even valuable, but often not. Sometimes such opinions are based on personal experiences and observations, but quite often not. Sometimes these are based on thorough research and solid knowledge, but quite often not. Americans often cannot resist a deep-rooted urge...
Read MoreIt’s Easter for Christians, and President Donald Trump’s message is a religious one. He aims to be one of the angels of deliverance whom the gospels report to have showed themselves at the tomb of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion. Rolling the stone from the entrance to the tomb, and in place of his corpse,...
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Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years. The Trump ‘shock’ – his ‘de-centring’ of America from serving as pivot to the post-war ‘order’ via the dollar – has triggered a deep cleavage between those who gained huge benefit from the status...
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Focus on the Angleton-Israel connection
To my knowledge, no earth-shattering revelations or damning evidence has emerged from the 64,000 documents made public since March 18th on the assassination of John Kennedy. Nevertheless, the theory of Israeli guilt is reinforced by clarifications on James Jesus Angleton's proximity to the Mossad. And the word is spreading on the social networks. As shown...
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Here's what the media is not telling you about last Saturday's nuclear negotiations with Iran: There were no negotiations. Not in the conventional sense of the word, at least. What actually took place was more akin to a late-night comedy skit than a gathering of diplomats hammering out a deal on nuclear enrichment. At no...
Read MoreHow Australia’s Attack on Rusal’s Alumina in Queensland Has Triggered Russia’s Attack on Rio Tinto’s Copper in...
At 10 on Monday morning this week, the official White House log shows that President Donald Trump was preparing himself to greet the President of Salvador who was arriving at the White House door in an hour’s time. But in a tweet Trump composed beforehand, he announced: “The War between Russia and Ukraine is Biden’s...
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A black judge has released accused murderer Karmelo Anthony in the latest case of “we should not be forced to live with these people.” Angela Tucker, a graduate of SMU’s ironically named Dedman School of Law, serves on the bench of Texas’ 199th District Court where she was elected as a Republican in 2012. She...
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Ron Unz • April 14, 2025 • 3,800 Words
In an amusing display of British pride and solipsism, the venerable Times of London once ran the headline "Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off." Overly arrogant individuals sometimes find it difficult to recognize that they are not the center of the universe, and that instead they might actually be considerably less large and powerful...
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King Trump is the emperor with no clothes
Hua Bin • April 14, 2025 • 2,200 Words
When I wrote my last essay China’s Strategy to Defeat US by Bankrupting It ( just before Trump’s “liberation day”, I thought I would do a follow up in a month’s time after the dust settles down a little. Things have moved along the trajectory as predicted but at a much faster pace than I...
Read MoreStarmer’s policy pivot on trade and investment shows a level of clarity and purpose not seen in his faltering first six months on foreign policy Britain and Russia find themselves in a fascinating position of taking a moderate line on Trump’s Tariff war while at the same time building close economic ties with China. I...
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Rumble link Bitchute link In The Pursuit of the Millennium, Jewish historian and eschatology scholar Norman Cohn writes: It is natural enough that the earliest of these prophecies should have been produced by Jews…Precisely because they were so utterly certain of being the Chosen People, Jews tended to react to peril, oppression and hardship by...
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Meet The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market. He may not have acknowledged this to himself, but the global financial tumult he caused.... has locked him in a fiscal prison. ....He is totally in hock to the...
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The tech firm beloved by the WEF and founded by Peter Thiel and Zionist zealot, Alex Karp — that is watching every...
Palantir Technologies — its name derived from the “seeing-stones” of deception (Palantir) that allow their holder to see across great distances to track friends and foes, in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings — has been called the “most evil company on the planet” by critics[1] — on both the traditional Left and Right....
Read MoreAs current events progress to a potential climax, it seems possible that future history books - if any are to be written, let alone printed and read - will record that the Chagos Islands were the starting point of the Third World War. Why would one of the most remote locations in the world suddenly...
Read MoreIt is said, “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” and so it is with France and Algeria. Relations between France and Algeria have recently deteriorated due to a combination of diplomatic disputes, immigration policies, and historical grievances. France’s 132-year rule of Algeria, ending in 1962 after an eight-year war of independence, still...
Read MoreTrump is more than a Faustian committed to Making America Great Again. He aims to reconnect the US with its own history.
Contrary to what many seem to believe, it just may be that Donald Trump is not so much the man who personifies what is Faustian, but in the first place the resurgence of the old American South, the Confederacy. Trump’s fight to drain the swamp and Make America Great Again can be interpreted as symbolic...
Read MoreThree wise monkeys are perfectly aware of what a pigeon posing as eagle is really up to. The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit. It won’t work. Trump claimed that China would call him to “make...
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Writing in his cell as a political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” A century later, we are in...
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Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, William Morrow, 2025, $23.14 (hardcover) 352 pp., $14.99 (kindle) Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House has a far different tone than the authors’ last campaign book, Shattered, which was about the 2016 election. Shattered was mostly about the...
Read MoreKirill Dmtiriev (lead image) is the Stanford and Harvard educated official appointed by President Vladimir Putin to persuade American businessmen to invest in the profits to be made from dismantling US economic sanctions against Russia. Today at the Kremlin (April 11), he tried again in fresh talks with Putin and Stephen Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s...
Read MoreStrange things are happening in Guatemala. In February 2025, Guatemalan authorities arrested Yoel Alter, a senior leader of the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish cult Lev Tahor, outside a government childcare facility in Guatemala City. Alter is wanted in Guatemala and Mexico in connection to human trafficking allegations. He had recently been organizing protests as a direct response...
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Trump caved on tariffs but the US economy is still f-ed
source: @Schuldensuehner on X Last Friday was the worst day for stocks since the COVID crash, and the worst week for stocks since the 2008 financial crisis. This crash was one of three instances with back-to-back 5% or more declines, along with the 1929 Great Depression and the 2008 Financial Crisis. While even perma bull...
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The Trump tariff extravaganza was never about trade deficits, reindustrialization, or bringing jobs back to America. It was always about China. Now that Trump has either eased or lifted the tariffs on 90 other countries, we can see what's actually going on. Trump is using the 'tariffs smokescreen' to implement his decoupling policy, a strategy...
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It Rescues Rapists, Elevates Incompetents and Is Building the Blacklash
Here’s a fascinating new concept: the one-off rape. It’s a rape committed in a moment of aberration by a special kind of man who is otherwise entirely respectable and worthy. Obviously, then, the man doesn’t need to be seriously punished or censured for the rape, because he has never raped before and he’s never going...
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One day we will really all be victims
Many Americans will be relieved to learn that US Embassy employees and their families in China can no longer have "romantic or sexual relations" with local Chinese. It is certainly a move long past due which will keep us safer together with those 125% tariffs that we will be hitting the Chinks with. But beyond...
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Well, a lot of us are
This video is available on Rumble, Bitchute, Odysee, Telegram, and X. When people who hate me get tired of calling me a fascist or a white supremacist, they let fly with “eugenicist.” But “eugenicist” may be losing its sting. Just last week, the New York Times astonished me by publishing an article called “Should Human...
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He's just incoherent and obnoxious
Stripe is Substack’s only processor and they debanked me, so you can no longer pay me through Substack. Now I am posting everything on Substack free and asking people to sign up for recurring donations at my Paypal donation page…or better yet, the free speech platform SPdonate. Note that you may need to do a...
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It is all a part of the same phenomenon. Western governments actively assisting genocide in Gaza; attacks on benefits for the disabled; a deliberate official narrative of Russophobia; rampant Islamophobia boosting the rise of extreme right-wing parties and fueled by government anti-immigrant rhetoric; an incredible accumulation of wealth by the ultra-rich; rampant erosion of freedoms...
Read MoreAccording to the official White House schedule, President Donald Trump doesn’t start his day until lunchtime when he sits down with his political heir, Vice President J.D. Vance, at 12:30. He has more lunches with Vance than he receives briefings from his secret services on the threats of his enemies. Trump knows to keep his...
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Responding to Joel Davis and Keith Woods
Before a hot war begins, when the bullets start flying and the bombs start exploding, political warfare rages. We witness political warfare these days almost every time politicians open their mouths. Before political warfare, however, we have cultural warfare, which is where metapolitics becomes important. This kind of warfare consists of various historical, ideological, or...
Read MoreIn 2022, Giorgia Meloni swept into power promising to defend Italy’s people, cultural identity, and borders. Millions of Italians worldwide saw her as a savior — someone finally committed to putting Italy first after decades of unchecked migration and political cowardice. But as time passes, the mask is slipping. I am among the millions with...
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Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump's war is singularly directed at the transformational global 'changes they are driving together.' Russia and Iran are at the forefront of the multi-layered Eurasia integration process...
Read MoreUntil recently it was impossible to grow bananas in Russia except in the greenhouse of Count Pyotr Sheremetev at Kuskovo. That eighteenth-century establishment was so costly to operate, the fruit was a rarity meant for the tsar’s table, and not too tasty either. More than two hundred years of Russian banana history have elapsed since...
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It's a huge mistake to conflate Jewish-capitalist concocted 'Wokeness' with Communism and to bet the future on an...
One could make a theoretical case of Marxism or communism as having been opposed to nationalism. After all, Marxism developed as an international movement linking the ‘workers of the world’ against their oppressors, i.e. if capitalists exerted their influence on a global scale, then workers too had to think beyond 'petty' national interests. In theory,...
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Ron Unz • April 7, 2025 • 3,800 Words
I've never met Donald Trump nor had any dealings with him, and since I don't watch television, I'd barely paid attention to his antics until his unexpectedly strong run for the White House began attracting heavy media coverage in 2015. But some time ago I was privately meeting on other matters with one of Trump's...
Read MoreGreetings, Tom! How are you and your family doing? We are exercising the art of psychic survival amidst our troubled times. Having survived the fraud of communism, there is no reason we cannot survive the deception of liberalism. You have actively followed Trump’s second term and carefully assessed its impact on global politics. Was Trump’s...
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Trump has threatened Iran over an ultimatum that likely cannot be met
What is understood now is that ‘we’re no longer playing chess’. There are no rules anymore. Trump’s ultimatum to Iran? Colonel Doug Macgregor compares the Trump ultimatum to Iran to that which Austria-Hungary delivered to Serbia in 1914: An offer, in short, that ‘could not be refused’. Serbia accepted nine out of the ten demands....
Read MorePresident Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Republican President William McKinley, highlighting his use of tariffs as a model for economic policy. But as critics note, Trump’s tariffs, which are intended to protect U.S. interests, have instead fueled a stock market nosedive, provoked tit-for-tat tariffs from key partners, risk a broader trade withdrawal, and...
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This is the first of four reports on the crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and how Germans think about finding their way forward once again. I thank Eva–Maria Föllmer–Müller and Karl–Jürgen Müller of Bazenheid, Switzerland, for their unsparing assistance as I reported and wrote this series....
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The Trump administration is demanding that Iran give up its strategic missile program as part of any nuclear deal. But Iran’s ballistic missiles do not violate international law nor is there any global treaty under which they are banned. Article 51 of the UN Charter clearly states that countries have the sovereign right to develop...
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