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<item><title>American Pravda: A Dozen Unknown Books and the World War II History They Reveal, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-a-dozen-unknown-books-and-the-world-war-ii-history-they-reveal/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-a-dozen-unknown-books-and-the-world-war-ii-history-they-reveal/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:10:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551001</guid><description><![CDATA[During the early 1990s Germar Rudolf was a young chemist employed at Germany's prestigious Max Planck Institute with a bright future ahead of him. But then he was hired to conduct a chemical analysis of the walls of the Auschwitz concentration camp. One thing led to another and he spent the next thirty-odd years suffering...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>247</slash:comments></item><item><title>John Charmley and the Story of Winston Churchill, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/john-charmley-and-the-story-of-winston-churchill/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/john-charmley-and-the-story-of-winston-churchill/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:10:29 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550973</guid><description><![CDATA[For more than thirty years, I'd occasionally come across harsh attacks against a British historian named John Charmley for writing a highly-critical biography of Winston Churchill, the famed British leader, and that was about the only thing I knew of that author. I'd always vaguely wondered exactly what he'd said about Churchill that had infuriated...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>396</slash:comments></item><item><title>Donald Trump as Our Mad Emperor of the Bubble, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/donald-trump-as-our-mad-emperor-of-the-bubble/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/donald-trump-as-our-mad-emperor-of-the-bubble/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:25:42 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550841</guid><description><![CDATA[These days the Wall Street Journal probably ranks as America's most influential and credible print outlet, so Friday morning's front-page story describing a sudden new escalation in our episodic trade war with China caught my attention. As emphasized in the first several paragraphs, the Chinese had suddenly imposed an unprecedented new wave of licensing requirements...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>543</slash:comments></item><item><title>Tucker Carlson and the Resurrection of the 9/11 Truth Movement? Part II, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/tucker-carlson-and-the-resurrection-of-the-9-11-truth-movement-part-ii/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/tucker-carlson-and-the-resurrection-of-the-9-11-truth-movement-part-ii/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:27:31 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550571</guid><description><![CDATA[Last week I published an article on the release of Tucker Carlson's new 9/11 series, suggesting that it had the potential to resurrect the now dormant 9/11 Truth movement. Each year, those momentous events of 2001 had received less and less discussion. On the recent twenty-fourth anniversary, they passed almost totally unnoticed, completely swept aside...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>405</slash:comments></item><item><title>Tucker Carlson and the Resurrection of the 9/11 Truth Movement? Part I, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/tucker-carlson-and-the-resurrection-of-the-9-11-truth-movement-part-i/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/tucker-carlson-and-the-resurrection-of-the-9-11-truth-movement-part-i/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:25:40 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550000</guid><description><![CDATA[The twenty-fourth anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks passed with virtually no media attention this year, and that hardly surprised me. However, I did discuss it to a limited extent in my own article last week, and in a couple of paragraphs I briefly summarized the enormous historic impact of those 2001 terrorist attacks: During the...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>466</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Pravda: Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the 9/11 Attacks, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/israel-charlie-kirk-and-the-911-attacks/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/israel-charlie-kirk-and-the-911-attacks/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:10:46 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550184</guid><description><![CDATA[Although the September 10th assassination of Charlie Kirk was horrifying, the death of that young conservative activist was merely the latest in a long history of such high-profile killings in our deeply troubled society. Just a few months earlier, an agitated gunman had shot and killed Melissa Hortman, the former Democratic Speaker of the Minnesota...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>758</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Assassination of Charlie Kirk, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:10:30 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550042</guid><description><![CDATA[I don't spend any time on social media nor do I have any interest in the mainstream conservative movement, so I'd only been very slightly aware of Charlie Kirk prior to his sudden assassination on Wednesday, shot dead at the age of 31 by a sniper while speaking at the University of Utah Utah Valley...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>930</slash:comments></item><item><title>President Donald Trump as Founding Father of the Newer World Order, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/president-donald-trump-as-founding-father-of-the-newer-world-order/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/president-donald-trump-as-founding-father-of-the-newer-world-order/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549209</guid><description><![CDATA[Thirty-five years ago this Thursday, President George H.W. Bush gave an important speech entitled "Toward a New World Order." Wikipedia has excerpted a few of its central elements: Bush's public address before a joint session of Congress emphasized the successful conclusion of our decades-long Cold War against Soviet Communism, a struggle ending in a complete...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>457</slash:comments></item><item><title>History as Farce with Donald Trump's Tariff Policies, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/history-as-farce-with-donald-trumps-tariff-policies/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/history-as-farce-with-donald-trumps-tariff-policies/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 04:10:05 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548948</guid><description><![CDATA[Decades ago during my years in college and grad school, I had a strong side-interest in Soviet history, and read quite a number of weighty books in that subject. Most of these heavily focused upon the Stalin era, describing the almost unprecedented loss of life that occurred during that period from the combination of executions,...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>407</slash:comments></item><item><title>Marked for Death by a Reckless America?, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/marked-for-death-by-a-reckless-america/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/marked-for-death-by-a-reckless-america/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 04:10:55 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548707</guid><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I published an article noting that the State of Israel and the Zionist movement that gave rise to it have probably employed assassination as a tool of statecraft more heavily than any other political entity in recorded history. Indeed, their deadly activities had easily eclipsed those of the notorious Muslim sect...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>1094</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Pravda: Jeffrey Epstein, the Franklin Scandal, Pedophilia, and Political Blackmail, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-jeffrey-epstein-the-franklin-scandal-pedophilia-and-political-blackmail/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-jeffrey-epstein-the-franklin-scandal-pedophilia-and-political-blackmail/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:10:24 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548428</guid><description><![CDATA[Several months ago, the Trump Administration fulfilled one of its campaign pledges and declassified a large batch of JFK Assassination files, finally making them publicly available after sixty-odd years. Few of these unredacted documents seemed to contain anything new or interesting, with the most dramatic memo being the report that longtime CIA Counter-Intelligence Chief James...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>362</slash:comments></item><item><title>ICE Raids, Asylum Policies, and Other Immigration Controversies, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/ice-raids-asylum-policies-and-other-immigration-controversies/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/ice-raids-asylum-policies-and-other-immigration-controversies/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:10:27 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548271</guid><description><![CDATA[The Economist surely ranks as the world's most influential newsweekly, and the cover story of its latest issue must have greatly surprised many longtime readers of that staunchly neoliberal publication. The headline was "Scrap the Asylum System" and the inside pages fleshed out this emphatic statement in a leader backed by a long article. For...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>311</slash:comments></item><item><title>Fact-Checking the Jeffrey Epstein Case and Many Other Conspiracy Theories, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/fact-checking-the-jeffrey-epstein-case-and-many-other-conspiracy-theories/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/fact-checking-the-jeffrey-epstein-case-and-many-other-conspiracy-theories/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:10:43 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548158</guid><description><![CDATA[I've spent a good deal of my time over the last couple of months processing fact-checking runs produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT Deep Research AI. While ordinary chatbots respond to questions within seconds, this Deep Research AI system may easily take thirty minutes or more to produce its response to complex research requests, being widely regarded...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>335</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Pravda: President Franklin Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the New Deal, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-franklin-roosevelt-the-great-depression-and-the-new-deal/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-franklin-roosevelt-the-great-depression-and-the-new-deal/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546586</guid><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I'd published an article on Father Charles Coughlin, the notorious radio priest of the 1930s, and my extensive reading revealed that he had been a far more formidable figure than I'd ever realized. Although he was relegated to just a sentence or two in my introductory history textbooks, Coughlin had pioneered...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>442</slash:comments></item><item><title>A Forceful Russian Response to NATO Recklessness, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/a-forceful-russian-response-to-nato-recklessness/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/a-forceful-russian-response-to-nato-recklessness/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 04:10:23 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547278</guid><description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Israel launched its sudden surprise attack against Iran and within hours successfully decapitated most of that country's top military leadership. The resulting Israel-Iran war soon drew America into the conflict, with President Donald Trump ordering a massive bombing attack against Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities and the Iranians retaliating with missile...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>634</slash:comments></item><item><title>Zionist Israel as the Assassination Nation, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/zionist-israel-as-the-assassination-nation/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/zionist-israel-as-the-assassination-nation/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:10:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547447</guid><description><![CDATA[Ten days ago a sudden surprise Israeli attack inflicted a terrible, decapitating blow upon the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, successfully assassinating the country's top military commanders, its chief nuclear weapons negotiator, and nearly all of its most prominent nuclear scientists. Many of these victims were killed in their own homes together with...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>390</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Israeli Strike on Iran, the JFK Assassination, and the 9/11 Attacks, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/the-israeli-strike-on-iran-the-jfk-assassination-and-the-9-11-attacks/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/the-israeli-strike-on-iran-the-jfk-assassination-and-the-9-11-attacks/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:10:41 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547340</guid><description><![CDATA[Much like individuals, countries may often become victims of their own great success. This risk certainly applies to criminals, including criminal regimes. Even if they effectively conceal their direct involvement in particular incidents, over time their method of operation---their "M.O."---may become obvious. This allows the ready identification of their handiwork, whether by law enforcement agencies...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>596</slash:comments></item><item><title>Fact-Checking 9/11, the JFK Assassination, the Covid Outbreak, the Holocaust, and Other Controversial Topics, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/fact-checking-9-11-the-jfk-assassination-the-covid-outbreak-the-holocaust-and-other-controversial-topics/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/fact-checking-9-11-the-jfk-assassination-the-covid-outbreak-the-holocaust-and-other-controversial-topics/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 04:10:37 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546925</guid><description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I first began exploring the powerful new AI systems that had been receiving so much public attention, and incorporated some of their features into our website. For myself and many of our other writers, I added focused chatbots that used the corpus of the written works hosted on our website to...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>356</slash:comments></item><item><title>The True History of World War II, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/the-true-history-of-world-war-ii/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/the-true-history-of-world-war-ii/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:10:57 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546290</guid><description><![CDATA[World War II was certainly the most colossal military conflict in human history and it became the shaping event of our modern world, with its consequences and influence still extremely important nearly eighty years after the guns fell silent. Major wars are naturally accompanied by a great deal of governmental media propaganda, and t]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>1085</slash:comments></item><item><title>Fact-Checking the American Pravda Series, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/fact-checking-american-pravda/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/fact-checking-american-pravda/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546585</guid><description><![CDATA[Although ChatGPT and other AI systems have received massive media attention since late 2022, I only began dipping my toe in those waters about a year ago. At that time, I released a series of chatbots for many of the individual authors on our website, with each of these produced by focusing it individually upon...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>218</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Pravda: Father Charles Coughlin, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-father-charles-coughlin/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-father-charles-coughlin/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:10:18 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546003</guid><description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of months President Donald Trump and his administration have launched a series of outrageous attacks against American freedom of speech and academic freedom, and critics have often denounced these as examples of McCarthyism, the notorious anti-Communist political movement of the 1950s. This prompted me to carefully investigate that important historical topic...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>183</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part III - The Jewish Angle, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mccarthyism-part-iii-the-jewish-angle/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mccarthyism-part-iii-the-jewish-angle/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 04:10:06 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546041</guid><description><![CDATA[The dramatic ongoing crackdown against free speech and academic freedom by the Trump Administration has been very widely condemned as "McCarthyism" by its numerous public critics. Although these current proposals vastly exceeded any of the anti-Communist measures advocated by the junior senator from Wisconsin during the early 1950s, this controversy prompted me to investigate that...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>305</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part II - Political Payback, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mccarthyism-part-ii-political-payback/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mccarthyism-part-ii-political-payback/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 04:10:16 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=545866</guid><description><![CDATA[Last week I published a long article exploring the history of Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, whose anti-Communist crusade dominated our politics of the early 1950s. His activities gave rise to "McCarthyism" as a term of abuse and despite the passage of three generations, that expression still seems so widely used today that it has...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>218</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Pravda: McCarthyism, Part I - The Man, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mccarthyism-part-i-the-man/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-mccarthyism-part-i-the-man/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 04:10:44 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=544976</guid><description><![CDATA[Last month the Trump Administration launched an unprecedented assault against academic and intellectual freedom in America, targeting many of our most elite institutions of higher education. As an example of this, enormous pressure was exerted against Columbia University in New York City by withdrawing $400 million in annual federal funding and demanding its full cooperation...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>240</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump vs. Harvard in a Political Wrestling Match, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/trump-vs-harvard-in-a-political-wrestling-match/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/trump-vs-harvard-in-a-political-wrestling-match/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:10:45 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=545618</guid><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>257</slash:comments></item></channel></rss>