News Briefs July 26-August 1/2009
August 1st, 2009
- Bomber Joe and Russia: Why is Biden Channeling Cheney? The reaction from Russia: Shut it, Joe! MORE: “Reset” Means Obedience.
- Oops! Al Qaeda militants successfully infiltrated MI5.
- Nietzsche—The Dionysian Impulse
- National Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov arrested in Moscow protest.
- The English rebel — culturally affronted rather than ideologically left-wing — is an honourable archetype of our nation’s history. MORE: Irate men.
- Kuehnelt-Leddihn: The Last Knight of the Habsburg Empire.
- Truckin’ with Mishima.
- The Shah of Venezuela. An overwrought article tying Hugo Chavez to Bolivar, Plekhanov, Carlyle and, most interestingly, Norberto Ceresole. The latter was an Argentinean sociologist and Chavez advisor “who was born in 1943 and died in 2003, moved easily between the Soviet left and the neo-Nazi right. He was an advisor to Juan Velasco Alvarado; a member of the Montoneros, a Peronist guerrilla group; a spokesman for Peron during his exile in Madrid; a leader of the Carapintadas, an ultra-right military movement; a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Soviet Military Academy; a representative of Hezbollah in Madrid; a neo-Nazi militant and a vociferous Holocaust denier. Ceresole was the author of several books of geopolitics explicitly inspired by the Nazi general Karl Haushofer.”
- The Empire’s paranoia about the Pashtuns.
- On a World without Growth: excerpts from Herman Daly’s interview with ecological economist Tom Green.
- Wacko Jacko vs. V.I. Lenin?: “How can you compare the leader of the world proletariat with a paedophile drug addict who sang with a squeaky voice?“
- A veritable orgy of traffic camera destruction!
- Mocking the Welsh is the last permitted bigotry.
- US, UK Troops facilitate the return of child-raping Afghan police.
- Mali’s Gift Economy.
- A quarter century later, India orders arrest of Union Carbide honcho for Bhopal massacre.
- Patriarch Kirill calls Kiev a “shared Jerusalem” for Russia and Ukraine. MORE: Defending Kirill With A Cossack Whip.
- 51 Headless Vikings Found in English Execution Pit?
- Whew! Nazi gnomes in the clear.
- Hipster subculture ripe for parodying.
- Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US until 9/11.
- Mon Dieu! Sunday Work Hours Upset French Devotion to Rest.