News Briefs April 26-May 2/2009
May 2nd, 2009
- SYNTHESIS – Journal du Cercle de la Rose Noire has been updated for Walpurgis Night 2009. Book and music reviews, articles, poetry, short stories and much more…
- The people behind the very successful SYNTHESIS webzine would like to invite you to participate in their brand new forum, Tradition and Revolution: The intellectual nerve centre of Synthesis and Le Cercle de la Rose Noire.
- Integral Tradition Publishing’s new and completely redesigned Web site is now on-line. Check it out!
- Souha Bechara, Arab nationalist and ex-POW, speaks.
- Swine flu not kosher in Israel.
- Freedom of Expression, Dissenting Historians, and the Holocaust Revisionists. A long scholarly paper (PDF file) by the UK Libertarian Alliance.
- Why I am an Anarcho-Pluralist: Part Two, by Keith at AttacktheSystem.com.
- A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast: “Hime Island is North Korea, just a livable version” (login required, get yours here).
- The Few, The Proud, The Scalpel-Happy? US Marines provide safe circumcisions for Filipinos. The “glories” of imperial military service!
- On Earth Day, think Thoreau: Environmental protection can be done more efficiently and for less cost at the local level.
- France’s Communist Daily, Le Monde, refers to Wajda’s Katyn as a “fictional” film. Le Monde’s ombudsman dismisses the controversy as a mere “detail”.
- Nikolai Bukharin claimed one of the Bolshevik Revolution’s principal tasks was “to alter people’s actual psychology”. Britain is not Bolshevik, but a campaign to alter people’s psychology and create a new Homo britannicus is under way without even a fig leaf of disguise.
- Swiss canton bans nekkid Wandervogel: “The cantonal government recommended the ban after citizens objected to encountering walkers wearing nothing but hiking boots and socks.” The nationalist Swiss People’s Party approves the restriction.
- Excerpt from Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers by paleoconservative Paul Gottfried
- Legion of the Damned: Did Boudicca’s curse cause 6,000 of Rome’s fiercest warriors to vanish without trace?
- Was Jackie Chan right about China and democracy? “Chan’s remarks reignited what is actually an old and fundamental question about whether Western-style freedoms are culturally specific to the West, or are universal values appropriate for everybody.”