News Briefs August 30-Sept. 5/2009
September 5th, 2009
- Eric Margolis on Qaddafi: Mad Like a Fox.
- The Futurists’ assault on our lugholes: Futurist music did not appeal to the emotions, but to the senses, in that it sought to generate a combination of frenzied mania and ecstasy… early Futurist music was like ‘modern heavy metal music’ and ‘electronic music’.
- Even the World Socialists hate Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. More here.
- Inconvenient History: A Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Inquiry. A new revisionist online journal…
- The Last Mountain Village in Bosnia: Set high on a remote mountainside, inaccessible for most of the year, the villagers of Lukomir, continue to live life much as their forebears did for centuries before them.
- The Monarchist Manifesto: A monarch is a constant, lasting symbol of a nation that patriotism and unity can rally behind. A monarch is not only a symbol of a nation within it’s own boarders, but is a recognisable personification of the nation around the world.
- Fire the boss! Hostile business reaction shows that workers’ co-ops gaining visibility.
- The Elusive Oakeshott: The great British philosopher defined conservatism less as a political program.
- Ireland bans samurai swords.
- Lamenting the increased use of English by Romanian Pop Stars.
- Full Spectrum Dominance: America’s ‘arc of instability’ just gets bigger.
- The wobbly bits that shook the world: Finally, a more realistic female form- as opposed to the dominant media-generated and shame-driven image of what women should look like.
- Taliban’s Tank-Killing Bombs Came from U.S., Not Iran.
- Is the Taliban on the U.S. Government Payroll?
- The Virtues of Deglobalization: 11 Pillars of the Alternative.