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The Unz Review For June 26, 2026


Weekly Digest for June 26, 2026

All of our top four articles this last week dealt with the preliminary peace agreement signed between President Donald Trump and Iran, led by my own article arguing that the terms were so extremely one-sided that they amounted to an American political surrender.  As Trump himself admitted, he was obviously forced to the bargaining table by the prospect that worldwide oil supplies were approaching the sort of huge shortages that would trigger a global Great Depression.  The potential impact upon American influence was enormous, with Prof. John Mearsheimer and others describing the Iran War as the greatest strategic disaster in our national history, and these issues drew more than 250 comments totaling nearly 35,000 words.

The second place piece by Alastair Crooke covered some of these same issues, especially the very serious setback suffered by Israel, which had long sought to destroy its Iranian regional rival and had successfully manipulated America into a war intended to achieve that objective.

Just below was Philip Giraldi’s article on the efforts of the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to torpedo this agreement and the 60 days of peace negotiations aimed at a permanent settlement that were set to follow.

Eric Striker focused on the role of a united front of other Middle Eastern states in forcing America into abandoning its war against war, and the terrible long term economic consequences for our Gulf Arab allies.

Rounding out our most popular articles were two different pieces by Jonas Alexis, the first being an interview with E. Michael Jones on the role of sexual liberation in quietly exerting political control over a society, and the second being an interview with film-maker Merlin Miller on the power of the Jewish elite who control Hollywood and our movie industry.

This Week's Most Popular Features

  • Has President Donald Trump Finally Capitulated to the Iranians?
    Ron Unz • Monday, June 22, 2026 • 6,400 Words • 260 Comments
    Over the last few weeks I'd been paying less and less attention to our continuing Iran War mostly because less and less seemed to be happening. Every few days President Donald Trump would loudly announce that a peace agreement was about to be signed that would fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker traffic. Then a couple of days later he would invariably declare that he was instead about to launch a massive bombing attack against Iran, sometimes...
  • 'Israel Picking Up the Pieces of Its Deep-Seated Hubris'
    Alastair Crooke • Monday, June 22, 2026 • 1,300 Words • 144 Comments
    Trump’s Iran deal shatters Israel’s 40-year dream of regime change. The Iran-U.S. de-escalation framework has been signed. As always, getting a framework agreed is one thing, but preserving it from disruptive actors or malicious distortion of the text is quite another. Who knows how long it will survive intact? The MoU nonetheless constitutes an important phase – albeit one leg – in a long journey ahead for Iran. The Agreement however, may also prompt wider geo-economic ‘plate’ shifts. Iran has...
  • Another Week from Hell
    A bid to end a war might be sabotaged by Netanyahu
    Philip Giraldi • Saturday, June 20, 2026 • 2,300 Words • 167 Comments
    The week started on a positive note with President Donald Trump uncharacteristically declaring that a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) had been achieved by US and Iranian negotiators assisted by Pakistani and Qatari mediators to suspend military action and begin sixty days of discussions in pursuit of a peace agreement. The move was based on a what was described as a fourteen-point listing of the steps that would be undertaken to move the process along, including concessions dealing with what are...
  • How Multipolarity Forced Trump to Capitulate...For Now
    Eric Striker • Friday, June 19, 2026 • 1,000 Words • 126 Comments
    When describing Donald Trump’s new Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, Foreign Policy magazine summarized the seeming end to the war as a “bigger defeat than Vietnam.” This negation of American militarism has been felt strongest in Israel, where the Jewish state’s executors in Jerusalem and Washington/New York are throwing a fit. JD Vance, thrown in front of the cameras to own the administration’s retreat before their masters, is now openly telling the furious Jewish-American press “Trump is your [Israel] only...
  • A Conversation with E. Michael Jones on Psychoanalysis, Sexual Liberation, Political Control, and Libertarianism
    E. Michael Jones and Jonas E. Alexis • Saturday, June 20, 2026 • 6,200 Words • 130 Comments
    E. Michael Jones is a prolific writer and the author of books such as Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury, The Dangers of Beauty, etc. He has been described as "a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest," a colorful expression used to emphasize his willingness to challenge the Powers That Be and prevailing cultural trends despite facing significant opposition. JEA: I read Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation...
  • Close Encounter with the Jewish Elite in Hollywood
    Jonas E. Alexis • Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • 2,900 Words • 185 Comments
    Merlin L. Miller is an independent film director, writer, and producer. He was the 2012 presidential candidate for the American third position party. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the U.S. Army where he commanded two units. Miller’s former classmates at West Point included former C.I.A. director David Petraeus, former National Security Agency director Keith Alexander, and the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Demsey. JEA: Let us discuss...

  • Fatalities from Israel’s Vast Gaza Genocide Deliberately Undercounted
    Shameful US newspapers, magazines, television, and radio disrespect the Palestinians in both life and death.
    Ralph Nader • Saturday, June 20, 2026 • 1,100 Words • 126 Comments
    The mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000) from the Assad Dictatorship’s Civil War in Syria, nor the estimated deaths in the wars in Ukraine, Sudan, or Iran. Somehow, media editors do not let their investigative reporters assess the extent of Israel’s mass murder of civilians in Gaza—an exposed, defenseless population of 2.3 million people in an enclave the geographic size of Pennsylvania. The Associated Press notes that U.S. military historian Robert Pape believes, “Gaza is one of...
  • Trump Ended His Idiotic Iran War. Good.
    Trita Parsi • Thursday, June 18, 2026 • 1,300 Words • 152 Comments
    Was it worth it? Of course not. But comparing his Iran deal with Obama’s or decrying the terms risks falling into the same traps as previous presidents I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove it. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018, I warned that it would eventually bring us to this moment. Ever since, I have consistently argued against the confrontational path he set the United...
  • US Biolabs in Armenia - Russian Journalists Expose Disturbing Info
    Expect a tidal wave of exposes and leaks now that this huge scandal has finally gone mainstream.
    Charles Bausman • Monday, June 22, 2026 • 1,900 Words • 84 Comments
    The main points of the Russian report are at the end of this article. The US’s massive biological weapons program which has continued since the late 1940s, ought to be a much bigger issue than it is. Especially after Covid, a direct outcome of that program, which harmed, woke up, and galvanized so many people. It is clearly one of the greatest risks facing humanity today. For Christian readers, we all know of the plagues envisioned in the Book of...
  • Two Genocides Down; Does Judaism Need A Reformation? and Is This Jew Allowed to Ask?
    Ilana Mercer • Wednesday, June 24, 2026 • 1,400 Words • 123 Comments
    Inescapably, it is not Muslims of the Ummah, in the name of Islam, who have committed the Twenty-First Century’s two Holocausts—in Gaza and Southern Lebanon … In examining the causal factors in the criminal psychopathy on display in contemporary Israel, I have questioned “The Judaism-Zionism Bifurcation,” namely the convention, accepted among solidarity commentators and activists, Jews and non-Jews, that there is a strict divide between Judaism and Zionism. Advocates of this duality portray Judaism as a faith largely beyond reproach—humanistic,...
  • Which Country Is the Big Loser from the Ramadan War?
    Larry C. Johnson • Tuesday, June 23, 2026 • 1,700 Words • 107 Comments
    While the US certainly suffered some reputational damage and significant economic costs from its unprovoked attack on Iran, the United Arab Emirates may really be the big loser. Let’s focus on Dubai. Think of Dubai as the World’s most expensive adult theme park that has no emergency exit. For decades, Dubai sold itself to the world as what would happen if Las Vegas and Disney World had a child together, raised it on sovereign wealth, and sent it to finishing...
  • Why Neo-Crassus Desperately Needs to Cling to HIS Deal
    Pepe Escobar • Wednesday, June 24, 2026 • 1,500 Words • 62 Comments
    History tells us that it was possible to design a war using Persian arrows specifically intended to destroy Crassus and the Roman legions. On this dark street, the sun is black The winter life is coming back On this dark street, it’s cold inside There’s no retreat from time that died Cream, Deserted Cities of the Heart One of my recent columns on How Iran engineered its multipolar breakthrough provoked some serious response by top old school U.S. Deep State...

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