Ron Unz on COVID Origins and Israeli Assassinations

Rumble link Bitchute linkRon Unz discusses his new articles “Israeli Assassinations and Public Scrutiny” and “After Four Years and Thirty Million Deaths.” The former reflects on the hidden history of Israel’s outrageously bad behavior, some of which is now becoming better known in the wake of the accelerated genocide of Gaza, while the latter summarizes and updates Ron’s work on COVID, including his groundbreaking articles arguing that the pandemic emerged from a US bio-attack on China and Iran.Extract from the interview:The best way to think about it is there are really three reasonable hypotheses. The covid virus could be a natural virus. It could be a Chinese virus. Or it could be an American virus. And the problem is the entire debate, virtually 99% of the debate in the media, even more than that, has been between options one and two, a natural virus or a Chinese virus that came from the Wuhan lab. And therefore, in a sense, both of the competing camps have sometimes been talking past each other. Most of the individuals, most of the groups that advocate a natural virus, focus on the fact that there's very little evidence of any lab leak in the Wuhan lab. There's really quite a lot of evidence that the virus did not come from the Wuhan lab. And so they say that proves the virus must be a natural virus.On the other hand, the advocates of the Wuhan lab leak theory focus almost entirely on the very strong evidence that the virus was bioengineered, that it was produced in a laboratory somewhere. And by default, they assume it must have been the Wuhan lab. While on the other hand, they seem to focus very little on any evidence that the virus came from the lab.The single best eyewitness we have from the Wuhan lab, Danielle Anderson, an experienced virologist who was working at the lab at that point in time, says there's absolutely no evidence, no hints from the people she was working with, that any sort of lab leak had occurred, or any indications that they were working on that type of virus. So there really isn't any evidence for a lab leak while there's overwhelming evidence that the virus was bioengineered. And that by a vector sum, I think, leads one to the third option, which is that the virus was the result of an American bio-warfare attack against China and Iran.There's a lot of other evidence besides. For example, the fact that the two earliest outbreaks in the world, the two epicenters, were China and Iran, the two countries that America was most hostile towards. The fact that in the Crimson Contagion exercise, America's chief biowarfare advocate, Robert Kadlec, spent eight months in a major federal-state training exercise on how to prepare America. for the appearance of a COVID-like virus in China if it spread to the United States. And that exercise was concluded just a couple of months before the virus suddenly appeared in Wuhan.Or for example, the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency produced a secret report in November 2019 saying that there was a potentially cataclysmic disease outbreak taking place in the city of Wuhan before there was any outbreak in the city of Wuhan.So, with all that evidence, none of it is basically known by most of the individuals who debate the COVID origins hypothesis on either side of the scale. And so if those facts simply became more widely known, (the case for) the virus having been produced in an American laboratory and then used in a biowarfare attack against China would simply be overwhelming.So my piece was really a long piece, but it was almost entirely recapitulation. of the arguments I've been making over four years. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com