News Briefs May 31-June 6/2009
June 6th, 2009
- Ernst Junger: The Resolute Life of an Anarch.
- The Political Theory of Carl Schmitt.
- Alexander Dugin’s ideology making deep inroads into Russia’s political and cultural elite.
- Louis Ferdinand Céline, Smasher of Every Known Taboo
- Dr. Tom Sunic will host a new radio program, The New Nationalist Perspective, which brings his thoughtful perspective on matters of contemporary European and European-American identity; addressing a wide range of topics including culture, heritage and meta-politics.
- Also from Dr. Sunic: Who is an anti-Semite?
- A new biography of the controversial Romanian philosopher EM Cioran fails to capture what remains most vital about his work: the style and energy of its opposition to modern liberal pieties.
- Germany, the land of Goethe, Thomas Mann and Beethoven, has an unlikely pop culture hero: Donald Duck. This is a weird one, folks! There is even a fan club called the “German Organization for Non-commercial Followers of Pure Donaldism”, or D.O.N.A.L.D for short.
- Eugenics, Kosher-style: “Just like rabbis supervise the production of Kosher food, we supervise the fertility process.”
- Shalom Y’all: The Crypto-Jews of the Southwestern US.
- How the Canadian Jewish Congress created the Canadian Nazi Party, here and here.
- Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?
- The Art of Manliness- a blog dedicated to uncovering the lost art of being a man. Articles range from How to Hit the Speed Bag Like Rocky Balboa to How To Shave Like Your Grandpa to Become a Renaissance Man Without Spending a Dime.
- We are witnessing the passing of working-class masculinity: Jobs in the new economy require emotion labour, not manual labour
- The Guernsey Experiment: A long-forgotten alternative to unfettered credit creation…
- Book Review: After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by Giles MacDonogh.
- Revisionists challenge D-Day story: “It was rather a shock to find we were not welcomed ecstatically as liberators by the local people, as we were told we should be… They saw us as bringers of destruction and pain.“
- Primordial Traditions – The European Traditions Special (Issue 14 June 2009) is now available online. $10 gets you a four issue PDF subscription.
- Pentti Linkola, the deepest of deep ecologists, has a fan site here.
- Blondes march in Latvia ‘to cheer-up nation’. God bless their little hearts!
- Indigeny: Becoming Native To Your Place.
- The Story of American Revisionism: From the Old Right to the New Left…
- Libertarians Against Sprawl: libertarians are far from being cartoonish defenders of sprawl like John Stossel. Some advocate an anti-sprawl coalition focused on eliminating government subsidies to the car culture and regulatory impediments to mixed use development.
- Bush is gone, but Halliburton keeps cashing checks
- Lebanon’s odd couple, Hizbullah and General Michel Aoun: “For the first time, a mass Maronite movement has allied itself politically and strategically with an organisation that is Islamist, nationalist, anti-American, anti-Israeli and inside the Arab and Islamic sphere of influence.”
- Israeli Spy Fined, Scolded, Released. Kid gloves, anyone?
- The Dark Side of Plan Colombia: “The United States is implicitly subsidizing drug traffickers.”
- Parody: Hercules Still Struggling To Complete 13th Labor.