The Unz Review: Ron Unz's Articles

Feb 01 2025 25 ep. 68 mins 167

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A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media

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Confucius, DeepSeek, and Why China Would Win a War with the United States, by Ron Unz and Mike Whitney

Feb 01 2025 77 mins

Is the western media even-handed in its coverage of China? And how has this impacted public perception of China in America? Ron Unz---I think the Western media has been overwhelmingly biased against China, a bias that stretches back for decades but has steadily grown worse during the 2010s and especially the last few years. Coverage...

American Pravda: "If Anything Happens to Me...", by Ron Unz

Jan 26 2025 71 mins

Elections have consequences and the remarkable return of Donald Trump to the White House has already led to a flurry of major reversals across numerous policy areas. The weekend newspapers revealed that these now included the longstanding Covid origins debate, which had largely disappeared from the headlines over the last year or two. John Radcliffe,...

American Pravda: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, by Ron Unz

Jan 19 2025 99 mins

Last week I published a long article on the growing global confrontation between China and America, comparing their relative strengths with regard to economic, technological, and military factors. My assessment drew very heavily upon the writings of a retired Chinese business executive named Hua Bin, whose recent posts on his Substack I cited and excerpted....

American Pravda: China vs. America, by Ron Unz

Jan 12 2025 114 mins

Over the last year I gradually became familiar with Chas Freeman, one of America's most distinguished professional diplomats and a longtime expert on China. Despite his illustrious career, he had rarely appeared anywhere in our mainstream media, but once I discovered his interviews on several YouTube channels, I was extremely impressed by the depth of...

Five Years and Thirty Million Deaths, by Ron Unz

Jan 05 2025 95 mins

In recent years the sharp decline in quality of the New York Times has left the Wall Street Journal as America's best major newspaper, a development that no one had expected when Rupert Murdoch purchased that venerable publication in 2007. Over the last couple of years, I've spent fewer and fewer minutes each morning reading...

American Pravda: UFOs, Alien Abductions, and Other Strange Things, by Ron Unz

Dec 29 2024 65 mins

Decades ago I became fully convinced that UFOs were real. I even accepted that past visits to our planet of such space aliens had been the basis for many of the religious myths of different societies all around the world, just as Erich von Däniken had argued in his massive 1971 bestseller Chariots of the...

Assassinating a Top Russian General, by Ron Unz

Dec 22 2024 42 mins

Last week a top Russian general named Igor Kirillov was assassinated outside his Moscow home. Lt. Gen. Kirillov had served since 2017 as head of Russia's Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Defense Troops, obviously a position of great importance, and together with an aide, he was killed by an explosive device, with the Ukrainian government immediately...

American Pravda: Propaganda-Hoaxes vs. Chinese Reality, by Ron Unz

Dec 15 2024 48 mins

Last week I published an article discussing former Ambassador Chas Freeman, one of America's most highly-regarded professional diplomats of the last half-century. Very early in his career, Freeman had been the personal interpreter for President Richard Nixon during his historic 1972 trip to China and meetings with Mao, and that country remained one of his...

Ambassador Chas Freeman on Our Cold War Against China, by Ron Unz

Dec 08 2024 58 mins

Although his public service career stretches back for nearly sixty years and he probably ranks as one of our most distinguished professional diplomats, until the last year or so I was only dimly aware of Charles W. "Chas" Freeman, Jr. I had occasionally read some of his opinion columns and perhaps one or two of...

American Pravda: Dangerous Foods, by Ron Unz

Dec 01 2024 80 mins

Donald Trump has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services in his new administration, and the latter has declared that his mission will be to "Make America Healthy Again." But even if Kennedy is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he faces a very stiff challenge in fulfilling that...