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• Fact-Checking the American Pravda Series
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • May 26, 2025 • 8,600 Words
• The True History of World War II
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • June 2, 2025 • 14,300 Words
• Fact-Checking 9/11, the JFK Assassination, the Covid Outbreak, the Holocaust, and Other Controversial Topics
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • June 9, 2025 • 7,400 Words

My long article on the true history of World War II is a written companion piece to the talk I recently gave at a Mises Institute conference, which will be published in their proceedings. The talk itself is available online for those interested:

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• American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part II – Political Payback
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • May 5, 2025 • 7,100 Words
• American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part III – The Jewish Angle
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • May 12, 2025 • 11,400 Words
• American Pravda: Father Charles Coughlin
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • May 19, 2025 • 8,000 Words

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• Trump vs. Harvard in an Political Wrestling Match
  The Unz Review • April 21, 2025 • 6,700 Words
• American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part I – The Man
  The Unz Review • April 28, 2025 • 12,700 Words

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• President Donald Trump and Chairman Mao
  The Unz Review • April 7, 2025 • 3,800 Words
• Donald Trump’s Looney Tunes Trade Policy
  The Unz Review • April 14, 2025 • 3,800 Words

I’d also very strongly recommend this long discussion at the Hong Kong Asia Society by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University:

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• How Israel Killed the Kennedys
  The Unz Review • March 24, 2025 • 11,500 Words
• The Zionist Destruction of American Higher Education
  The Unz Review • March 31, 2025 • 7,300 Words

Here’s a long podcast interview I just did yesterday covering those same subjects and it seemed to go quite well:

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For those interested, here’s my most recent article:

• How Israel Killed the Kennedys
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • March 24, 2025 • 11,500 Words

On this same topic, here’s Laurent Guyénot’s YouTube documentary. Although it’s perhaps a little too hagiographic, I think it’s the best single video introduction to this issue:

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And despite being somewhat disorganized, I would also recommend Ryan Dawson’s complementary 2023 documentary, focusing heavily upon Israel’s nuclear weapons development program:

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Finally, conservative podcaster Candace Owens had a good 3 minute summary of the entire story:

At this stage, if you don’t fully agree that Israel Mossad was the main culprit behind JFK assassination, then you’re either blackmailed, reetarded, bribed, and/or jewish. pic.twitter.com/ZNwXepIdd6

— Machiavelli (@TheRISEofROD) March 21, 2025

Imagine being a White guy getting an aerospace engineering degree from a top university. Perhaps you get an MBA too. You secure an amazing job with Lockheed Martin, where you get to work on the F-35, one of the the most advanced fighter jets in the world. You do superb work, excel at your job and have a manager who sees how well you are doing and have the opportunity to get a hefty bonus based on your performance.

Your whole career post-high school was to study hard for that 4.0, miss out on time with friends and a relationship with that cute girl you always smiled your way as you passed by her in the Quad. As your about to get your first big bonus, you think about her, wondering what ever happened to her and where you’d be together now if you had just said “hello.”

Then La Wanda Moorer enters your life and your dreams for advancement at Lockheed Martin are stymied because of the color of your skin. DEI, the ultimate manifestation of anti-Whiteness strikes. [Whistleblower: Lockheed Martin Awarded Bonuses Based on Race: The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.”, City Journal, June 12, 2025]:

Many believe that masculine industries, such as military and defense, are naturally immune to left-wing race and gender ideologies. This is mostly a myth. These institutions are organized according to prestige and profit—and when those signals point to “woke,” industry leaders have dutifully followed.

Take America’s largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin. As we have previously reported, after the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Lockheed adopted radical DEI policies and, in one instance, required white men in leadership positions to attend a racial reeducation program and atone for their “white male privilege.”

Now, a whistleblower has come forward to claim that Lockheed executives were so committed to DEI policies that they awarded...

The anti-racist interpretation of the United States of America is coming to an end. The amount of lawsuits potentially on the verge of being filed is a staggering proposition to contemplate but one legal counsel for every Fortune 500 company is currently contemplating. [The Supreme Court just made it easier for White workers to sue for bias. Here’s why.: A Supreme Court ruling making it easier for “majority” groups such as white people and men to sue for on-the-job bias is expected to unleash a new wave of reverse discrimination claims, USA Today, June 5, 2025]:

For decades, men, straight people and White people were often held to a higher legal standard when bringing workplace bias claims than groups that historically faced discrimination.

No longer. The Supreme Court made it easier for members of so-called majority groups to sue for discrimination by siding with an Ohio woman, Marlean Ames, who claimed she twice lost jobs to lesser-qualified gay candidates because she is straight.

Federal civil rights law does not distinguish between members of majority and minority groups, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in the unanimous decision June 5 striking down the standard used in nearly half of federal circuit courts.

Legal experts say the closely watched ruling could spur more reverse discrimination complaints at a moment when workplace diversity equity and inclusion programs are already under threat from the Trump administration.

“The ruling certainly puts employers on notice that discrimination against ‘majority’ employees is just as unlawful as discrimination against minority employees,” said William Jacobson, Cornell University law professor and founder of the Equal Protection Project, an advocacy group that opposes race-based policies. “There is no safe haven or carve-out for so-called ‘reverse discrimination.’”

Employers will have to change how they approach discrimination claims, said Johnny C. Taylor Jr., CEO of the Society...

Buried in this drearily written story about the demise of the USNS Harvey Milk is the news of a ship named for a Confederate named Maury who saw its namesake changed in 2023. This wasn’t a lone Confederate, but the founder of modern oceanography and “The Pathfinder of the Seas,” Matthew Maury, one of the most accomplished men in American history.

He served as a pallbearer at Robert E. Lee’s funeral, and was revered for his accomplishments and contributions.

Once his statue was found on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, but in the madness of 2020, it was removed by the black mayor of the city.

But none of this matters anymore, because he’s nothing more than a Dead White Male, his life’s work forfeit because he falls on the wrong side of history.

And until the start of Pride Month 2025, the moral arc of justice appeared to be transforming before our eyes into an ever more conspicuous rainbow, honoring individuals such as Harvey Milk.

Alas, history has no side for those celebrating the touchdown early before they crossed the goal line. [Navy set to rename USNS Harvey Milk, mulls new names for other ships named for civil rights leaders, CBS News, June 3, 2025]

W ashington — The U.S. Navy plans to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler named after the slain gay rights leader and Navy veteran, and is considering renaming multiple naval ships named after civil rights leaders and prominent American voices, CBS News has learned.

The documents obtained by CBS News also show other vessels named after prominent leaders are also on the Navy’s renaming “recommended list.”

Among them are the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.

CBS News found that a December 2024 web article from Naval Sea Systems Command about the laying of the keel for the future USNS Thurgood Marshall has been dele...

At the end of November of 2024, more than 400 black women joined a virtual conference titled “The Power of Black Women.” Despite 92 percent of black women voting for Kamala Harris earlier in the month, she lost her bid to be the President of the United States. A “central theme of the night was how much Black women take care of everyone and everything but themselves and wind up burnt out,” so one can only ponder how deeply exhausting the news of Trump’s tariffs must be when they impact an industry almost exclusive to black women. [The Black hair industry imports products from China. Here’s what tariffs mean for braids and wigs: President Donald Trump’s tariffs are driving up prices for products many Black women consider essential, Boston.com, May 31, 2025]:

ATLANTA (AP) — Before the oppressive summer heat descends on Atlanta, therapist Brittanee Sims usually gets her thick, curly hair braided at a salon to preserve her healthy mane.

But it’s more expensive this year. So she’ll only pay for her teenage daughter and son to get their summer hairdos. Not having braided hair “creates more of a hassle for everything,” said Sims, who counts herself among the tens of millions of women who regularly spend on the Black hair care industry.

Now, she said, she has to “go home and figure out what I’m gonna do to my hair in the morning, after I went to the gym and it’s messed up with sweating and frizz.”

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are driving up prices for products many Black women consider essential, squeezing shoppers and stylists even more as they grapple with inflation and higher rents. Much of the synthetic braiding hair, human hair for extensions, wigs and weaves, styling tools, braiding gel and other products are imported from or have packaging from China, which was subject to a combined 145% tariff in April. India is also a major global source of human hair.

Many Black women have hair types and workplace-favored...

Oh, the goal is nothing more than the complete repudiation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the restoration of Freedom of Association in America. Until then, it’s important to remember the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed specifically to punish individual White males collectively and enshrine into law disparate impact. But, until the act that usurped the US Constitution is repealed, it’s at least gratifying to know the Trump Administration believes civil rights protections codified into law should also protect White males. [Analysis: For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men, NY Times, May 25, 2025]:

In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Donald Trump has expressed outright hostility to civil rights protections.

He ordered federal agencies to abandon some of the core tenets of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, on the basis that they represented a “pernicious” attempt to make decisions based on diversity rather than merit.

But in recent weeks, Trump has turned to those same measures — not to help groups that have historically been discriminated against, but to remedy what he sees as the disenfranchisement of white men.

The pattern fits into a broader trend in the administration, as Trump officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. Across the government, agencies that have historically worked to fight discrimination against Black people, women and other groups have pivoted to investigating institutions accused of favoring them.

“The plain message that they are conveying is: If you even think about, talk about or claim to be in favor of diversity, of equity, of inclusion, of accessibility, you will be targeted,” said Maya Wiley, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

“They’re conveying that white men are the most discriminated against people in American society,” she added, “and therefore...

“I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”

-Bob Seger, Against the Wind

“Maybe this is just a dream
And maybe we’re still asleep
But I, I will miss you when I’m gone.”

– The Midnight, Los Angeles

Shot. [Corporate America Pledged $50B To Racial Equity After George Floyd’s Death, Now They’ll Profit From Their Promises, Washington Post, August 24, 2021]

Chaser. [Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.: The year after Black Lives Matter protests, the S&P 100 added more than 300,000 jobs — 94% went to people of color., Bloomberg, September 26, 2023]

Sobriety. [Houston building with George Floyd mural demolished days before fifth anniversary of his murder: It’s unclear why the building, at the intersection of Elgin and Ennis streets in the Third Ward, was torn down., Houston Public Media, May 25, 2025]:

A man who calls himself Bobby said the abandoned laundromat on the corner of Elgin and Ennis streets in Houston’s Third Ward had been his home for years. He remembers when the mural of George Floyd was first painted on the building’s southeast wall nearly five years ago, shortly after Floyd’s murder.

“They did such a fantastic job [painting the mural],” Bobby said while sitting on the foundation of the now-demolished building. “I’m homeless and there was a laundromat there, so I was living inside. And now I’m more homeless. But I have relatives and things that I will go see and I have friends. I’m an old Boy Scout, so I like the outside.”

Bobby, who declined to share his last name due to his unhoused status and history of squatting at the property, said he had once worked in the building before it closed more than a decade ago.

“I had all my things in there,” he said. “They gave me like a week’s warning, and I didn’t [leave] because I didn’t think they were actually coming...

Back in 1996, the then World Wrestling Federation was doing a tour of South Africa. A few months after Wrestlemania XII, the former Heavyweight Champion Bret Hart was taking a step back from the ring to pursue acting (and mull a contract offer from rival World Championship Wrestling owned by Ted Turner) but was coaxed to join the tour as a favor to WWF Chairman, Vince McMahon. He immortalized this trip in his bestselling 2008 autobiography, and inadvertently let slip a truth about life in post-Apartheid South Africa (and the history of the nation):

“Cape Town has to be the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen. everywhere I looked, whichever way I turned, there was another stunning view.; black mountains, endless shoreline, spectacular foliage. The houses had a uaint charm, a legacy of the Dutch who’d settled there some three hiundred years ago. Every afternoon in summer a cloudy mist, like thin white cotton, bubbles over Table Mountain, pours over the edge and hangs over the city until it vanishes again. It’s some quirky manifestation of the weather and the lay of the land, but I was far more intereste din its ethereal beauty than where it came from. And I was struck, of course, by the contrasts of the poor black townships that cirlced the city like rings in Dante’s hell, where ntothing had changed despite the end of apartheid.

I flew to Johannesburg for two huge outdoor shows. Of the whole lineup I got the best reactions from the crowd every night, and in a big TV special being filmed in Sun City, I’d headline against Steve Austin, who was now going by the name Stone Cold. Johannesburg was a sparwaling place where black-on-white crime was rampant. Most whites I knew there carried pistols. I learned this while following them through the necessary metal detectors at local nightclubs.” p. 397, Hitman: My Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

Thanks Bret for this pertinent anecdote from your hagiography detailing how you brought...

A headline from the Chicago CBS affiliate puts it bluntly, but leaves out the punchline: Chicago faces DOJ probe over alleged racial bias in hiring practices

Who/whom is being impacted by racial bias in the black mayor’s administration in Chicago? White people, which is specifically what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to create. Look no further than Atlanta under the control of the city’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He bragged about creating a black millionaire class via Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) programs, which basically mandated the city work exclusively with black contractors.

It was all illegal. It was all racial discrimination, and the Hartsfield International Airport is basically a Petri dish for massive lawsuits against majority black contractors/black-owned businesses who have unfairly benefited from this practice, with a much needed airport on the Northside of the city on permanent hiatus because of what it would do to this racially bias pipeline (cut it off entirely and see most flyers chose that airport over the one nestled in the blackest part of Fulton/Clayton County).

Pretty much every city with a black mayor has since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 operated without legal oversight as Atlanta has, creating an artificial black middle class filled almost entirely of a black bureaucracy/black city employees/connect majority-owned black business unfairly benefiting from minority set-aside contracts.

Foolishly, Chicago’s black mayor bragged about it in 2025, a year Noticing is going not only going viral, but public. And the pushback is in its infancy. [DOJ investigating Chicago hiring practices amid backlash over Mayor Johnson’s viral comments, ABC7Chicago, May 20, 2025]:

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Justice Department has launched an investigation into the City of Chicago to determine whether Mayor Brandon Johnson or others have engaged in “a pattern or practice of racial discrimination” in their...