News Briefs Nov. 1-7/2009
November 4th, 2009
- Dionysian faith: Was Nietzsche Pious?
Inside the shadowy (and very lucrative) world of Blair Inc: How the ex-PM has become a one-man multinational money-making machine. - The Florida-born right-wing Jewish terrorist responsible for the pipe bomb attack on historian Zeev Sternhell is captured in Israel. Sternhell wrote several key books on early European fascism, including Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France and The Birth of Fascist Ideology. MORE: Israel’s new breed of terrorist.
- We typically see burial places as solemn and sorrowful, but these seven amazing collections of human bones artistically remind us to embrace life every day.
- Political Correctness rears its ugly head at the venerable Beefeaters.
- British SAS linked to CIA ‘extraordinary rendition’ operation.
- Tectonic shift in the Middle East: Turkey’s rift with America, Israel & NATO.
- Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part Seven – Cyberpunk. Part Eight – Some antecedents to cyberpunk. Part Nine – Alternative History. Part Ten – Three key works. Part Eleven – The origins of SF and fantasy.
- Murderous Idealism: “The failure of Soviet communism confirms that humans motivated by lofty ideals are capable of inflicting great suffering with a clear conscience.“
- Iraqi Christians: Long History, Precarious Future
- Bear kills two Kalashnikov-armed Kashmiri militants!
- Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
- The Evil of Banality: Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger.
- Russian Monasticism After Communism: An interview with an Orthodox Monk on Old and New Challenges.
- Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius.
- Ostalgie and the character of the DDR.
- Leviathan Is Born: The Annexation of Europe
- Babies ‘cry in mother’s tongue’: German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents’ accents while still in the womb.
- Heil Hitler on The Mall: The day London played host to a Nazi funeral . . . within yards of Buckingham Palace
- Europe is “dying’’ because its secular residents are too selfish to have children, according to Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of Britain.
- Al-Qaeda apparently publishes two magazines despite the global media downturn.