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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback? •ï¿½55m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½April 21, 2020

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Nearly 30,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus during the last two weeks, and by some estimates this is a substantial under-count, while the death-toll continues to rapidly mount. Meanwhile, measures to control the spread of this deadly infection have already cost 22 million Americans their jobs, an unprecedented economic collapse that has pushed our... Read More

American Pravda: Understanding World War II •ï¿½2h31m ▶

The Shaping Event of Our Modern World

Ron Unz •ï¿½September 23, 2019

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In late 2006 I was approached by Scott McConnell, editor of The American Conservative (TAC), who told me that his small magazine was on the verge of closing without a large financial infusion. I'd been on friendly terms with McConnell since around 1999, and greatly appreciated that he and his TAC co-founders had been providing... Read More

John McCain, 2009 Official Senate Portrait

American Pravda: John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate •ï¿½45m ▶

Our Reigning Political Puppets, Dancing to Invisible Strings

Ron Unz •ï¿½July 29, 2019

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The death of Sen. John McCain last August revealed some important truths about the nature of our establishment media. McCain's family had released word of his incurable brain cancer many months earlier and his passing at age 84 was long expected, so media outlets great and small had possessed all the time necessary for producing... Read More

The Honorable David L. Bazelon, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

American Pravda: The Power of Organized Crime •ï¿½1h37m ▶

How a Young Syndicate Lawyer from Chicago Earned a Fortune Looting the Property of the Japanese-Americans, then Lived...

Ron Unz •ï¿½July 15, 2019

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As I was growing up in the suburban San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s, organized crime seemed like a very distant thing, confined to the densely-populated cities of the East Coast or to America's past, much like the corrupt political machines with which it was usually associated. I never heard... Read More

American Pravda: Secrets of Military Intelligence •ï¿½1h29m ▶

The Hidden Information in Our Government Archives

Ron Unz •ï¿½June 10, 2019

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Some may remember that in 2005 a major media controversy engulfed Harvard President Larry Summers over his remarks at an academic conference. Casually speaking off-the-record at the private gathering, Summers had gingerly raised the hypothetical possibility that on average men might be a bit better at mathematics than women, perhaps partially explaining the far larger... Read More

Israel as One Man: A Theory of Jewish Power

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½June 10, 2019

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So wrote Henry Ford in The International Jew. Indeed, no other people has been capable of such perseverance toward an unwavering goal, pursued step by step over many generationsâ€”a hundred generations if we trace the Zionist project back to the period of the Babylonian Exile. Jews often find themselves divided on crucial issues and involved... Read More

American Pravda: How Hitler Saved the Allies •ï¿½59m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½May 13, 2019

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A couple of years ago I happened to be reading the World War II memoirs of Sisley Huddleston, an American journalist living in France. Although long since forgotten, Huddleston had spent decades as one of our most prominent foreign correspondents, and dozens of his major articles had appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic,... Read More

The Holy Hook

Yahwehâ€™s Trojan Horse into the Gentile City

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½May 8, 2019

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I concluded an earlier article by what I regard as the most important â€œrevelationâ€ of modern biblical scholarship, one that has the potential to free the Western world from a two-thousand-year-old psychopathic bond: the jealous Yahweh was originally just the national god of Israel, repackaged into â€œthe God of Heaven and Earthâ€ during the Babylonian... Read More

Zionism, Crypto-Judaism, and the Biblical Hoax

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½April 8, 2019

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â€œWhatâ€™s a neocon?â€ clueless George W. Bush once asked his father in 2003. â€œDo you want names, or a description?â€ answered Bush 41. â€œDescription.â€ â€œWell,â€ said 41, â€œIâ€™ll give it to you in one word: Israel.â€ True or not, that exchange quoted by Andrew Cockburn[1] sums it up: the neoconservatives are crypto-Israelis. Their true loyalty... Read More

Immigration, Building a Wall, and Hispanic Crime •ï¿½42m ▶

Ron Unz •ï¿½January 14, 2019

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Back in November I published a long column discussing the results of the 2018 midterm elections and then a couple of weeks ago I also released a private letter I'd distributed to prominent figures in the Alt-Right movement back in 2017, suggesting some of the ways that their public positions had severely damaged their credibility... Read More

13-year-old Mary Phagan, the girl raped and murdered by Leo Frank, the founding hero of the ADL

American Pravda: The ADL in American Society •ï¿½51m ▶

From the Leo Frank Case to the Present Day

Ron Unz •ï¿½October 15, 2018

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In our modern era, there are surely few organizations that so terrify powerful Americans as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith, a central organ of the organized Jewish community. Mel Gibson had long been one of the most popular stars in Hollywood and his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ became among the... Read More

American Pravda: Holocaust Denial •ï¿½2h8m ▶

Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement

Ron Unz •ï¿½August 27, 2018

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A few years ago I somehow heard about a ferocious online dispute involving a left-leaning journalist named Mark Ames and the editors of Reason magazine, the glossy flagship publication of America's burgeoning libertarian movement. Although I was deep in my difficult programming work, curiosity got the better of me, so I decided to take a... Read More

American Pravda: Jews and Nazis •ï¿½50m ▶

The Hidden History of the 1930s and 1940s

Ron Unz •ï¿½August 6, 2018

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Around 35 years ago, I was sitting in my college dorm-room closely reading the New York Times as I did each and every morning when I noticed an astonishing article about the controversial new Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Back in those long-gone days, the Gray Lady was strictly a black-and-white print publication, lacking the... Read More

American Pravda: Oddities of the Jewish Religion •ï¿½55m ▶

The Surprising Elements of Talmudic Judaism

Ron Unz •ï¿½July 16, 2018

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About a decade ago, I happened to be talking with an eminent academic scholar who had become known for his sharp criticism of Israeli policies in the Middle East and America's strong support for them. I mentioned that I myself had come to very similar conclusions some time before, and he asked when that had... Read More

Pizzagate

Aedon Cassiel •ï¿½December 2, 2016

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Beginning in 1997, in an English town of more than 100,000 people, eight Pakistani men stood at the core of a group involving as many as three hundred suspects who abused, gang-raped, pimped and trafficked, by the most conservative estimate, well over a thousand of the townâ€™s young girls for years. The police were eventually... Read More

A "Grand Bargain" on Immigration Reform? •ï¿½36m ▶

An alliance of pro-immigrant Democrats and anti-immigration Republicans could finally fix our broken system

Ron Unz •ï¿½October 3, 2016

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From everything I've heard Swedes seem like very pleasant people, rather agreeable to have around, while my personal experience with Mexicans leads me to a similar conclusion. But suppose so many millions of Swedes poured across the borders into our southern neighbor that within just a few decades Mexico City had become majority Swedish, while... Read More

An Obituary of The New York Times

Johannes Wahlstrom •ï¿½September 14, 2016

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A few years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and Bill Keller at The New York Times building on Manhattan. Keller was the long time editor in chief of the newspaper and Sulzberger its proprietor. We met at what must have been the 50th floor of the company headquarters, on 8th... Read More

Are We Becoming What We Once Hated?

Living in the USSA

Eric Margolis •ï¿½August 3, 2013

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In the late 1980â€™s, an old friend of mine based in Moscow was calling her husband in the USA late one night. She said it was a â€œtypical dumb husband/wife call,â€ mostly about a broken garage door. Around midnight, a gruff voice broke into the call. â€œThis is your KGB listener. This is the most... Read More

YouSSR, MeSSR

Not What Tom Jefferson Had in Mind

Fred Reed •ï¿½June 24, 2013

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How does one tell whether one is living in a dictatorship, or almost? The signs need not be so obvious as having a squat little man raving from balconies. Methinks the following indicators serve. In a dictatorship: (1) Sweeping laws are made without reference to the will of the people. A few examples follow. Whether... Read More

Our American Pravda •ï¿½31m ▶

The major media overlooked Communist spies and Madoffâ€™s fraud. What are they missing today?

Ron Unz •ï¿½April 29, 2013

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In mid-March, the Wall Street Journal carried a long discussion of the origins of the Bretton Woods system, the international financial framework that governed the Western world for decades after World War II. A photo showed the two individuals who negotiated that agreement. Britain was represented by John Maynard Keynes, a towering economic figure of... Read More

Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston

Ron Paul •ï¿½April 29, 2013

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Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down. These were not the scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic, but rather... Read More

Immigration, Republicans, and the End of White America •ï¿½1h32m ▶

The sources of Americaâ€™s immigration problemsâ€”and a possible solution

Ron Unz •ï¿½The American Conservative •ï¿½September 19, 2011

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Will mass immigration destroy the GOP? Can our middle-class society survive high immigration levels? Is there any political solution to our current immigration difficulties? Last June the U.S. Census disclosed that non-white births in America were on the verge of surpassing the white total and might do so as early as the end of this... Read More

Zionism vs Dominionism

Robert Bonomo •ï¿½September 15, 2011

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Both Eric Cantor and Michele Bachmann have extreme religious views. In Cantor's Zionism God expressly desires a piece of land in Middle East be ruled and occupied by Jews. Bachmann's Dominionism asserts that Christians should play a special role in the American Republic. However, the major news outlets have treated their religous beliefs very differently.... Read More

How the Left Won the Cold War

Paul Gottfried •ï¿½November 5, 2010

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The following address was delivered to the HL Mencken Clubâ€˜s annual meeting in Baltimore, October 22, 2010. Iâ€™m often asked why there is need for an independent or non-aligned Right. Arenâ€™t Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin and Rich Lowry covering all our bases? Why should we create a movement on the right when FOX and those... Read More

From Liberal to Libertarian: Bush, Obama and the Final Bubble

Robert Bonomo •ï¿½September 9, 2010

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Americaâ€™s once vibrant Republic has morphed into an imperial oligarchy. The regime has weaved a new dogma preached faithfully by pundits and politicians of both parties. As that dogma crumbles in the face an impending economic collapse, the vast majority of citizens will be left in an ideological vacuum. Palin or Obama, Fox or CNN,... Read More

In Search of Anti-Semitism

Paul Gottfried •ï¿½April 6, 2009

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Among those authors considered politically incorrect, and even those considered really politically incorrect, Kevin MacDonald holds a special place of honor or shame. A feature story in the May 9 (Los Angeles) Jewish Journal describes this small-boned, soft-spoken 64-year-old professor of psychology at California State University at Long Beach as â€œthe professors anti-Semites love.â€ Alluding... Read More

How Radio Wrecks the Right

Limbaugh and company certainly entertain. But a steady diet of ideological comfort food is no substitute for hearty...

John Derbyshire •ï¿½February 23, 2009

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You canâ€™t help but admire Rush Limbaughâ€™s talent for publicity. His radio talk show is probablyâ€”reliable figures only go back to 1991â€”in its third decade as the number-one rated radio show in the country. And here he is in the news again, trading verbal punches with the president of the United States. Limbaugh remarked on... Read More

The Transparent Cabal

Paul Gottfried •ï¿½September 17, 2008

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Stephen J. Sniegoskiâ€™s The Transparent Cabal would be the book of the year in a less manipulated society than our own. I suggest as much in my introduction; and former Congressman Paul Findley, who wrote the foreword, lavishes equally high praise on this monument to diligence. Almost as interesting as the bookâ€™s content are certain... Read More

The Limits of Race

Paul Gottfried •ï¿½June 30, 2008

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Although it might be disturbing to some readers that in my following remarks about white nationalists I treat my subjects with respect, this should cause no surprise to anyone who is familiar with my work. I am accustomed to show respect for intelligent people, including those with whom I disagree. In writing about the post-Marxist... Read More

Why Do They Hate the South and Its Symbols?

Confederate Flag Day, State Capitol, Raleigh, N.C. -- March 3, 2007

Paul Gottfried •ï¿½March 3, 2007

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[A major oration, previously unpublished, by Prof. Paul Gottfried] Those Southern secessionists whose national flag we are now celebrating have become identified not only with a lost cause but with a now publicly condemned one. Confederate flags have been removed from government and educational buildings throughout the South, while Confederate dignitaries whose names and statues... Read More

Crunchy Calumny

Critics of the Iraq War weren't really "anti-Semites"

Paul Gottfried •ï¿½February 6, 2007

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Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. This explains why so many of those who leapt on the bandwagon, or led the parade, that marched American soldiers off to war in Iraq are now disclaiming paternity, or screaming for blood tests. (No matter that many of these same folks are priming the pumps... Read More

Neocons Downplay `Moral Issue' In Election. Stupid Party Believes Them

Sam Francis •ï¿½November 15, 2004

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It didn't take the neoconservatives long to figure out the real truth about the election and explain to us, hanging breathless, what we should think about it. David Brooks in the New York Times was perhaps the first to unveil it to the rest of us out here in the boonies. The truth, you see,... Read More

A Paleo-Con Comeback for GOP?

Sam Francis •ï¿½October 14, 2004

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After nearly two years of bitter controversy about the role of neo-conservatives in dragging the country into a useless and apparently endless war in the Middle East, it has finally begun to dawn on some of the neo-cons' liberal enemies that their critics on the right have been warning about them for years. In Sunday's... Read More

How Far Does Israeli Spy Case Go?

Sam Francis •ï¿½September 9, 2004

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The first reaction from Washington insiders to news reports that the FBI was hot on the trail of an Israeli spy inside the Pentagon was to wonder what a spy could possibly tell the Israelis they don't already know. Since this administration, most of the Congress and its staff, and much of the media are... Read More

The Marx of the Anti-Semites

The Culture of Critique, Kevin MacDonald, 1stBooks, 466 pages

John Derbyshire •ï¿½March 10, 2003

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One evening early on in my career as an opinion journalist in the USA, I found myself in a roomful of mainstream conservative types standing around in groups and gossiping. Because I was new to the scene, many of the names they were tossing about were unknown to me, so I could not take much... Read More

How the Republicans Lost California •ï¿½10m ▶

The Golden State isn't too liberal for the GOP. Its leaders simply scared away immigrant voters

Ron Unz •ï¿½The Wall Street Journal •ï¿½August 28, 2000

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Just 10 years ago, California was a GOP bastion, regarded as the cornerstone of the Republican Electoral College "lock." The 1990 elections merely confirmed this impression, with the GOP winning its third gubernatorial race in a row, its fifth of seven. Two years earlier, the 1988 presidential race had marked the sixth straight California victory... Read More

An Infantile Disorder

Sam Francis •ï¿½February 2, 1998

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"Why, we could lick them in a month!" boasts Stuart Tarleton soon after the Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. "Gentlemen always fight better than rabble. A monthâ€”why, one battle." At that point, young Mr. Tarleton is interrupted by Rhett Butler, a rather darker character in Mitchell's novel than... Read More

Toward a New Fusionism?

The Old Right makes new alliances

Paul Gottfried •ï¿½September 1, 1987

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The Spring 1986 issue of the Intercollegiate Review included a symposium on the state of conservatism. The seven participants, all of them self-identified Old Conservatives, expressed disapproval over the recent drift of the American intellectual Right. Amid complaints about the general spiritual decline of the modern era was the more specific criticism that the postwar... Read More

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