Ideology Category Archive - The Unz Review

Conspiracy Theories from the Elders of Zion to Epstein’s Youngsters

Gilad Atzmon • August 17, 2019

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Following Jeffery Epstein’s alleged suicide last week we have been deluged by a tsunami of narratives that do not adhere to the shifting official reports of his death. Presumably a few of the intimate secrets of the most powerful people on this planet will be buried with Epstein. While it is rational to believe that... Read More

Is White Genocide in Our Future?

Paul Craig Roberts • August 16, 2019

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“The perception that mass shootings are a “white man’s problem” lingers around the country because white mass shooters tend to get more publicity. And, the twisted young male who goes on a public shooting spree fits a certain kind of media narrative. But when we actually study the mass shootings that took place in 2019,... Read More

Trump's Great Gamble

Pat Buchanan • August 16, 2019

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President Donald Trump's reelection hopes hinge on two things: the state of the economy in 2020 and the identity of the Democratic nominee. The further left the Democrats go to select their candidate, the greater the probability Trump wins a second term. Thus Trump got good news this week. The verbal flubs of Joe Biden... Read More

The Root Cause of Mass Shootings Is the Rage of Alienation

Ted Rall • August 16, 2019

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Mass shootings prompt simple explanations of the gunman's motivation. At Columbine High School in Colorado, the killers supposedly snapped after being bullied. The guy who shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, was wild-eyed, carrot-topped nuts. After a massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, an anti-immigrant manifesto posted online pointed to right-wing... Read More

“White Supremacy”—the “Devil Term” Invented to Dispossess Americans

F. Roger Devlin • August 16, 2019

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See, earlier, by John Derbyshire: “Racism” (The Word) Becoming Obsolete Because Of Racism—Anti-White, That Is Founding stock Americans are now perilously close to becoming a powerless minority ruled over by aliens who cherish a carefully cultivated resentment—not to say hatred—towards us. If nothing is done to change the trajectory in which our society is moving,... Read More

The Cathedral Redux: Michael Malice’s the NEW RIGHT Underestimates How Trump’s Election Has Actually Strengthened the Left—for Now

James Kirkpatrick • August 15, 2019

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Michael Malice’s book The New Right is interesting but he’s fundamentally wrong about the Trump presidency’s impact on American politics. “In my view, the salient thing about the Trump presidency is how he has mainstreamed several formerly marginalized strands of right-wing thought and behavior,” he writes. Yet the Republican Establishment has largely co-opted Trump. Main... Read More

Color-Coded Theory of Crime and Suicide

Ilana Mercer • August 15, 2019

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A CNN profiler was speaking about the El Paso shooting, on August 6, in which 22 people were murdered by an angry white man. She blamed the killer’s sense of white privilege. Mass murder carried out by white, young men, the “analyst” was saying, occurs because these young men cannot adjust to a changing society.... Read More

President Nixon’s Accomplishments in Protecting the Environment Are Being Destroyed by the Trump Regime

Paul Craig Roberts • August 15, 2019

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Two days ago I wrote about how our allegedly full employment economy’s need for jobs had caused the Trump regime to overule the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and permit extractive companies to destroy protected lands ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/08/13/gold-over-life-literally/ ). Today our subject thanks to Stephen Lendman ( https://stephenlendman.org/2019/08/trump-regime-gutting-the-endangered-species-act/ ) is the Trump regime’s destruction of the... Read More

The complexity of an ant. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Supremacy of Stupid

How Dumb Ideas about Race Flourish on the Left

Tobias Langdon • August 14, 2019

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An ant is an amazing creature, a marvel of miniaturization and compressed complexity. With only a tiny brain, it absorbs and interprets a flood of data from its myriad sense-organs, navigating a complex and constantly changing world, co-operating and communicating with its nest-mates, collaborating in prodigies of architecture, engineering and logistics. No human robot can... Read More

The Shootings, the Stats, and the Violent War Against the Deplorables

Boyd D. Cathey • August 13, 2019

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To listen to almost all the reporters on Fox News—and most of the Establishment Media experts—after the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, you would have thought that President Donald Trump needed to do exactly what the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart did back a few years ago: get on TV and cry and bawl, and... Read More

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer

Israel's man in the House of Representatives

Philip Giraldi • August 13, 2019

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It is astonishing that in the wake of the two mass killings in Dayton and El Paso that have been attributed both by the media and the Democrats to “racism,” a senior U.S. Congressman has led a delegation of 41 of his Democratic Party colleagues plus spouses on a week-long luxury all-expenses-paid trip to Israel,... Read More

The Kochtopus Moves Left. and It’s Coming for the Historic American Nation

Washington Watcher II • August 13, 2019

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See also The Strange (Well, Actually, Absolutely Predictable) Death Of Left-Libertarianism Donors to Donald Trump’s election campaign now have to worry about being doxxed and harassed by crazed totalitarian Democrats [Shaming Trump donors by revealing they donated to Trump? What’s wrong with that?, by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2019]. But one well-known... Read More

“Gold Over Life, Literally”

Paul Craig Roberts • August 13, 2019

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The decision by Alaska’s governor Mike Dunleavy and US president Donald Trump to sacrifice the environment for a gold mine is an extremely bad one, but I understand why it has happened. The offshoring of Americans’ jobs to Mexico and Asia has put millions of Americans into a situation in which their livelihood is not... Read More

“Hook It Up”: My Personal Disenchantment with the Narrative of Black Victimhood

Nicolás Palacios Navarro • August 12, 2019

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My mother would often tell me about the first time she ever saw a black person in the flesh. “I felt like I was watching an exotic animal, the kind you only read about in text books,” she would explain with wide-eyed recall about the ones in the Van Nuys neighborhood where my parents lived... Read More

Roth, Dylan and the Nobel Prize

Gilad Atzmon • August 12, 2019

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schrub says: I recently heard a rather revealing story about Phillip Roth. In or 2015 or 2016 the committee that was to chose the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature came under intense pressure to award the prize to the then-ailing Roth since Nobel Prizes cannot be awarded after a recipient’s death. Besides the... Read More

Charlottesville After Two Years: An Alt-History of What Should Have Happened

Charlotteville Survivor • August 11, 2019

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See earlier, by Charlottesville Survivor:THE SYSTEM REPUDIATED: City’s Own Report Confirms Charlottesville Police, Politicians Conspired To Suppress Unite The Right Rally America is in the midst of another Ruling Class-orchestrated Moral Panicafter El Paso, this time aimed at suppressing all debate on immigration, two years after the Democrat mugging of the August 11-12 2017 Unite... Read More

Jeffrey Epstein RIP

But Many More Questions Remain to be Answered

Philip Giraldi • August 10, 2019

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The Jeffrey Epstein saga goes on even though convicted pedophile Epstein himself has been found hanged in his jail cell in Manhattan. One has to wonder how he managed to kill himself, if that is indeed the case, as he was reportedly on suicide watch at the prison and it is to be presumed that... Read More

The Survival of the Fittest

Paul Craig Roberts • August 10, 2019

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CJ Hopkins doesn’t say it, but he shows that within all of the Western countries in which the white core populations are experiencing fierce attack from anti-white ideologues in the media and governments that rule them, there is unity of voice from the media that “Trump is a White Supremacist who inspires Terrorism.” This unity... Read More

I'm Impressed with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Whoever He Is) On El Paso Shootings

John Derbyshire • August 10, 2019

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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively on VDARE.com Last week's headliners were two mass shootings: one in El Paso, Texas last Saturday morning, followed in the small hours of Sunday morning by another in Dayton, Ohio. The El Paso shooter killed 22 people; the second killed nine. The El Paso guy is in... Read More

Biden Goes All In on the Race Issue

Pat Buchanan • August 9, 2019

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Those who believed America's racial divide would begin to close with the civil rights acts of the 1960s and the election of a black president in this century appear to have been overly optimistic. The race divide seems deeper and wider than at any time in our lifetimes. Most of the aspiring leaders of the... Read More

Why Congress Won't Act on Gun Violence, Climate Change, Impeaching Trump or Anything Else

Ted Rall • August 9, 2019

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I'm from Dayton, so I'm thinking about this today: Why hasn't Congress done anything to address our national epidemic of mass shootings, namely reviving the assault weapons ban? People — Democrats and not a few Republicans — ask me that all the time. I bet all left-leaning pundits get that question. The answer is simple.... Read More

The War on White Supremacist Terror

C.J. Hopkins • August 8, 2019

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If you enjoyed the global corporatocracy’s original War on Islamicist Terror, you’re going to love their latest spinoff, The War on White Supremacist Terror. It’s basically just like the old War on Terror, except that this time the bad guys are all white supremacists, and Donald Trump is Osama bin Laden … unless Putin is... Read More

The Conservative Country Club and the Zionism Problem

Christopher DeGroot • August 8, 2019

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In our time, the only challenge for someone who’s peddling nonsense is to keep up a steady supply for the public’s insatiable appetite. Not that our most powerful citizens aren’t happy to satisfy the national hunger. Thus, on July 8 in D.C., at the annual gathering of Christians United for Israel, Secretary of State Mike... Read More

Dem’s Dystopia: End Anglo-America, Welcome the World, Evict the Unborn

Ilana Mercer • August 8, 2019

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How does one distill the worldview of the Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination? Outrace each other on racial righteousness? End Anglo-America? Welcome The World? Evict the unborn? Speak Spanish; English is your second language? All the above—and worse. On display, again, during the second in a series of Democratic primary debates were the... Read More

‘Red Flag’ Laws Could Get White Conservatives Killed

Bradley Moore • August 7, 2019

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Imagine you are playing someone in an online video game. You beat him, turn the game off, and forget it. Your opponent gets mad. He calls the police and claims there’s a hostage-taking at your house. The SWAT team arrives. You hear a noise. You answer the door. The police kill you. This actually happened... Read More

Trump Blows El Paso Response, and Maybe the Election. He Better Hope Congress Fails to Pass His Terrible Proposals

Washington Watcher II • August 6, 2019

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President Donald Trump responded to the El Paso and Dayton shootings in the worst way possible. He called for gun control, the death penalty for “hate crimes,” and more tech censorship. It’s a plan Kamala Harris would envy and if implemented, would let the federal government silence Trump voters on social media and take their... Read More

Exploiting Massacres to Raise Poll Ratings

Pat Buchanan • August 6, 2019

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It was two days of contrast that tell us about America 2019. In El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, following the mass murders of Saturday and Sunday morning, the local folks on camera -- police, prosecutors, mayors, FBI and city officials -- were nonpartisan, patient, polite and dignified in the unity and solemnity of their... Read More

Feeding the Israel Lobby

Congress gives the Jewish state whatever it wants

Philip Giraldi • August 6, 2019

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If you have been wondering when the twenty Democratic aspirants for the presidency will begin a serious discussion of American foreign policy in the Middle East, where Washington has been bogged down in both current and impending wars, you are not alone. With the honorable exception of Tulsi Gabbard, no one seems keen to touch... Read More

Mass Shootings and Responses to Them Have Unintended Consequences

Paul Craig Roberts • August 5, 2019

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The unintended consequences of mass shootings and the attempts to use these shootings for various agendas can be far worse than the shootings themselves and ultimately endanger far more people. I was listening to NPR this morning prior to President Trump’s 10 AM EST address on the shootings. NPR set Trump up for blame. Trump... Read More

Marianne Williamson Is Right: We Need a Spiritual Awakening—and a Real Investigation of 9/11

Kevin Barrett • August 5, 2019

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Is the mainstream mind-control machine starting to worry about Marianne Williamson? Boston Globe: “It’s a very good bet Williamson won’t win the nomination. But her growing prominence in the Democratic field gives her the biggest platform she’s ever had. And as we now know all too well, an entertaining fringe candidate can sometimes catch on.”... Read More

Congress Spending Surge Is National Suicide

Ron Paul • August 5, 2019

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With a national debt approaching $23 trillion and a trillion dollar deficit for this year alone, Congress last week decided to double down on suicidal spending, passing a two year budget that has the United States careening toward catastrophe. While we cannot say precisely when the economic crash will occur, we do know that it... Read More

Tulsi Gabbard: R.I.P.

Paul Craig Roberts • August 5, 2019

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It is unfortunate that Tulsi Gabbard succumbed to the Israel Lobby. The forces of the Empire saw it as a sign of weakness and have set about destroying her. The ruling elite see Gabbard as a threat just as they saw Trump as a threat. A threat is an attractive political candidate who questions the... Read More

Trump’s ‘Thatcher Effect’: Obstacle to White Nationalism?

Andrew Joyce • August 4, 2019

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A rising White Nationalist movement that is somehow stunted in what should be its greatest moment of opportunity. A politically incorrect candidate for office, seemingly unafraid to discuss immigration, and who uses controversial rhetoric touching on race to attract mass support and move victoriously into government. An anti-fascist and left-liberal coalition driven to apoplexy by... Read More

Predators United

Gilad Atzmon • August 4, 2019

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In this part study I intend to delve into a deeply troublesome topic. Due to the growing sensitivity concerning ‘anti-Semitism’ and new legislation designed to restrict discussion of topics related to Jewish politics, culture and history, I have limited myself to sources that are Jewish, Israeli or mainstream news. From Weinstein to Epstein and Beyond... Read More

The 2017 Anti-Semitism Scare: Made in Israel?

Franklin Stahl • August 3, 2019

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“Hate Crime Survey Reports” (unz.com, posted on 7/21/2019) seeks to explain the significant up-tick in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the first quarter of 2017, following President’s Trump’s election. The key feature of this increase was hundreds of bomb threat phone calls made to U.S. Jewish Community Centers. On April 21, 2017, the U.S. Department of... Read More

Never Again Action’s Communist Jews Want Open Borders to Wipe Out America—and Israel

Nicholas Stix • August 2, 2019

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So now, we learn from a fawning Buzzfeed, “young Jews” have founded Never Again Action [Tweet them] to condemn President Trump, call for the elimination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and shut down those awful “concentration camps” for “migrants” at the southwest border—part, they claim of a new “Holocaust” [As The US Debates “Concentration Camps,”... Read More

Who the Hell Is Mitch McConnell Anyway?

And Why Would Anyone Care?

Fred Reed • August 2, 2019

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It is curious: Though I have for decades worked in journalism, mostly in Washington, I know almost nothing of Congress. I mean this literally. I do not know who Mitch McConnell is, his function, or his politics, though I have the impression that he is a Republican. Who was, or is, Paul (I think it... Read More

A Multicultural Mugging of Uncle Joe

Pat Buchanan • August 2, 2019

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In his opening statement at Wednesday's Democratic debate in Detroit, Joe Biden addressed Donald Trump while pointing proudly to the racial and ethnic diversity of the nine Democrats standing beside him. "Mr. President, this is America and we are strong and great because of this diversity, not in spite of it. ... We love it.... Read More

What I Am Fighting for?

Preface to My Russian Book

Andre Vltchek • August 2, 2019

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I am Russian. That’s how I feel and therefore, that’s what I am. I was born in Russia, in the Soviet Union – in what was and still is a stunningly beautiful city on the Neva River called Leningrad. For some reason, out of the almost 20 books that I have written, only 2 (if... Read More

Bernie's Plan to Address the Retirement Crisis: Good It Exists, But Not Nearly Enough to Solve the Problem

Ted Rall • August 2, 2019

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Two weeks ago, Bernie Sanders announced his "right to a secure retirement" plan. The media didn't notice, the voters didn't care, and no one's talking about it. But the problem is huge and about to get huger. And the government isn't doing jack. As I wrote a year ago in a column that no one... Read More

July Diary: IQ and Immigration, Strip-Mining the Smart Fraction, Numbers, and Visit to China, Etc.

John Derbyshire • August 1, 2019

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Regular readers of VDARE will be familiar with what Steve Sailer calls The World's Most Important Graph. That's the one that shows the U.N. population projections, by region, through the end of this century. If that's The World's Most Important Graph, I hereby nominate David Becker's "Global distribution of national IQs from psychometric measurements and... Read More

The Best Guide for the Perplexed Progressive in 2020 Is 2016

Only Bernie and Tulsi walked the walk in 2016

John V. Walsh • July 31, 2019

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The current round of presidential debates is packed with plans, programs, promises, claims and counter-claims. The question, as always, is which candidates are we to believe. The closer we get to an election, unscrupulous candidates tailor what they say to what the voters want to hear. The problem is separating the flimflam pols from the... Read More

Is Trump Capturing the 'Law and Order' Issue?

Pat Buchanan • July 30, 2019

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Did President Donald Trump launch his Twitter barrage at Elijah Cummings simply because the Baltimore congressman was black? Was it just a "racist" attack on a member of the Black Caucus? Or did Trump go after Cummings after a Saturday Fox News report that his district was in far worse condition than the Mexican border... Read More

John McCain, 2009 Official Senate Portrait

American Pravda: John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate

Our Reigning Political Puppets, Dancing to Invisible Strings

Ron Unz • July 29, 2019

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The death of Sen. John McCain last August revealed some important truths about the nature of our establishment media. McCain's family had released word of his incurable brain cancer many months earlier and his passing at age 84 was long expected, so media outlets great and small had possessed all the time necessary for producing... Read More

The Manson Murders, JFK, 9/11, and the Psychopathy of Power

A Review of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Kevin Barrett • July 29, 2019

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I moved out of Southern California in the summer of 1969. I was ten years old, and my parents were fleeing decadence and depravity in favor of the more wholesome Midwest. Before our move, a story had circulated about some local (Newport Beach) high schoolers who had “gone on an LSD trip” and gotten caught... Read More

What Makes NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’s Race-Denying Editor Susan Goldberg Run?

Lance Welton • July 27, 2019

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Founded in 1888 as the journal of the National Geographic Society, National Geographic took on its current photography-heavy, serious travel magazine style in 1905. But even though its stated purpose during the Cold War was to provide as balanced a view as possible of life behind the Iron Curtain, the magazine was never openly Leftist—until... Read More

Mamet’s Bitter Wheat, #MeToo and the Role of Jewish Parody

Gilad Atzmon • July 27, 2019

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David Mamet’s “Bitter Wheat” tackles the contemporary saga of a Hollywood sex predator at the centre of #MeToo. Barney Fein, the protagonist of Mamet’s new play, refers to himself as a ‘fat kike.’ He is as monstrous and arrogant as anyone could possibly be. And in addition to his arrogance, his thievery of creative work... Read More

Americans Are Consigning Themselves to the Trash Bin of History

Paul Craig Roberts • July 26, 2019

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The Democrats are even more insane than I thought. The Trump-hater Nadler had a press conference with other Trump-hating Democrats and claimed, despite the absence of any evidence from Mueller, that Trump is a criminal. Reassured by this certitude, the Democrats will continue their impeachment investigation, says Nadler. Among the most crazed elements of the... Read More

Amy Wax, “National Conservatism,” and the Futility of Nuance—Why Not An Immigration Moratorium?

John Derbyshire • July 26, 2019

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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively on VDARE.com Amy Wax, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, in trouble again—in a way that points to the fundamental contradictions of Yoram Hazony’s recent National Conservatism conference a.k.a. The Gatekeeper’s Ball. In March last year, Prof. Wax did a Bloggingheads interviews with black Economics... Read More

We Aren’t Americans; We ARE the World (Part II)

Ilana Mercer • July 26, 2019

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Asked and answered in part 1 of this inquiry was the following question: “Do we still have a country, when every single passive, non-aggressive act taken to repel people crossing into our country is considered de facto illegal, or inhumane, or in violation of international and U.S. law, or in contraventions of some hidden clause... Read More