Although I’d never had much interest in American history when I was young, the name of Charles A. Lindbergh was certainly known to me, with the story of that early pioneering aviator always rating at least a few sentences in my introductory textbooks. I’d vaguely known that Lindbergh had been the first to cross the Atlantic on a solo flight …
Read More »Confucius, DeepSeek, and Why China would Win a War with The United States, by Ron Unz and Mike Whitney
https://www.unz.com/CONTENTS/AUDIO/runz/Unz-ChinaMikeWhitney.mp3 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 has recently become so …
Read More »American Pravda: “If Anything Happens to Me…”, by Ron Unz
https://www.unz.com/CONTENTS/AUDIO/runz/Unz-AmPravda-FarrarCovid.mp3 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, the new incoming CIA …
Read More »American Pravda: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, by Ron Unz
https://www.unz.com/CONTENTS/AUDIO/runz/Unz-AmPravda-ProtocolsZion.mp3 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. Hua seemed a very …
Read More »China vs. America: A Comprehensive Review of the Economic, Technological, and Military Factors, by Ron Unz
https://www.unz.com/CONTENTS/AUDIO/runz/Unz-HuaChinaAmerica.mp3 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 his knowledge and analysis, …
Read More »Five Years and Thirty Million Deaths, by Ron Unz
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 the nonsense that the Times …
Read More »American Pravda: UFOs, Alien Abductions, and Other Strange Things, by Ron Unz
https://www.unz.com/CONTENTS/AUDIO/runz/Unz-AmPravda-UFOsAliens.mp3 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 Gods? However, I was …
Read More »Assassinating a Top Russian General, by Ron Unz
https://www.unz.com/CONTENTS/AUDIO/runz/Unz-AssassinationCovid.mp3 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 taking full credit for …
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