News Briefs May 24-30/2009
May 27th, 2009
- A rather critical profile of the eclectic French Anti-Zionist Party (PAS), lead by the half-Black comedian Dieudonné. The other leading light in PAS is none other than Alain Soral, the ex-Communist turned Le Pen adviser.
- Revolution in the air: Is England ripe for a repeat of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt?
- “DIY Nation”: How to Start Your Own Country (Three Experts Offer Advice)
- Secessionist movements in the news, from Yemen to South Africa.
- Is Extremism in the Defense of Sodomy No Vice? A must read…
- Orson Scott Card, author of the popular sci-fi novel Ender’s Game, has the liberals’ knickers in a twist for holding politically incorrect views about homosexuals.
- A 12-year-old boy is running for Iran’s presidency, and despite his age he has already honed his anti-Israel platform: “I will buy Hawaii, Obama’s birthplace, from the United States and lease it to Israelis who will go live there – so that they don’t kill the children in Gaza.”
- Zionist terrorist mastermind, 91, dies peacefully in bed. No justice in this world, but perhaps in the next…
- Jewish Anarcho-Nationalism?
- The death of two capitalist icons: the skyscraper and the shopping mall.
- Review of & excerpts from Butler Shaffer’s new libertarian book, Boundaries of Order: “Many people are increasingly identifying themselves with and organizing their lives around various abstractions that transcend nation-state boundaries. Religion, ethnicity, culture, lifestyles, race – even membership in urban gangs…”
- Blowback: Taliban Fighting With US Ammo.
- H. G. Wells: novelist, historian, authoritarian, anticapitalist, eugenicist, and advisor to American presidents.
- Danteworlds: an integrated multimedia journey–combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings–through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
- The Dangerous Urge to Remake the World. Some interesting commentary on G.K. Chesterton’s novel, The Flying Inn.
- Hail the Folkmother! Else Christensen (1913 – 2005), a tribute.
- Jimi Hendrix: right-wing soul brother? No comment…
- Ean Frick’s latest blog: The Subconscious Modernism of Graffiti Removal.
- A new history of the Spartacus War reviewed here.
- Louis XVI’s defiant last testament has been recovered more than two centuries after it disappeared during the French Revolution.
- Making Men Modern: a timely reappraisal of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
- America’s Anti-Militarist Heritage: a review of Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism by Bill Kauffman.
- Ahmadinejad: “the Holocaust is the West’s Achilles heel and its biggest weakness”
- Vikings in Nunavut? Find may indicate medieval Norse presence on Baffin Island.
- The self-contradicting genius of George Orwell.
- A post-mortem on Western Culture’s ‘great five-hundred year Humanist experiment.’