By Richard J. Evans, New Statesman A number of prominent commentators, including the historians Timothy Snyder and Sarah Churchwell, the former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, and the Berkeley public policy professor Robert Reich has been arguing for some time that Donald Trump is a fascist. The writer Rebecca Solnit has even called Trump’s […]
Listen here. Travel back to the very birth of fascism in this episode about the March on Rome. You’ll learn how the first trailblazing fascist dictator took power and destroyed a democracy. There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s pretty much an open secret at this point that all American presidents are certifiable war criminals, even the supposedly good ones. Thomas Jefferson killed the Indians he admired and raped his slaves when he wasn’t busy denouncing slavery. FDR put an entire race in […]
Truth is the daughter of time. Meanwhile, what do we actually know about the events of the 6th? Ashli Babbitt died because she was shot. Three protestors died of medical emergencies (it happens in crowds but still …). And someone killed Brian Sicknick, a Capitol policeman, a Trump supporter and no friend to the deep […]
See how strong governmentalist ideology is in both the principal covid narratives: (a) the surge is because of the failure of the public to obey; and (b) the surge is because of the failure of govt to act. That some things may be beyond state control is not considered. – Guy Herbert
by John Grauerholz I need no gods; I worship myself. I need no church; my ego is powerful enough. I need no faith; I am confident in myself. I need no scriptures; my own presence is inspiration enough. I need no savior; I can handle things myself. I need no government; I […]
by John Grauerholz Let me make this simple for you. Maybe I need to make it easy for you. Perhaps I have to reduce it to a parable in order for you to understand. It is like this …. You have timed it perfectly. You have walked the selfsame streets so many times before that you […]
by John GrauerholzI love the lonely landscapes, the empty places, the solitary spaces. I am beguiled by the barren scenery that is not quite desert, yet a geography that is still too unforgiving to be farmland. A soil that is not devoid of vegetation, but an earth where all the plants have already turned brown. […]
The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...
A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...
The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...
One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →
The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →
I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →
Two things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →
Ideas are neither benign, nor malignant, out of the context of a specific mentality. They depend entirely on our subjective mental context to affect us. As we respond to ideas in one way or another, as we adopt one idea … Continue reading →
This post is a follow up to my previous post, Knowledge Matters, Too: Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race, which introduced the dispositive role that power plays, specifically the overlapping institutions of the police state and militarism. I … Continue reading →
An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century. Kind of like The Retreat of the Elephants. My podcast this week, American Civil War? Richard Hanania thinks […]
“Who To Trust?” That’s the title of chapter 6 of Not Born Yesterday, and this has a very Robert Triver’s vibe (e.g., his book The Folly of Fools: The Logic […]
Peter Bellwood in First Farmers presents a hypothesis for the expansion of the Dravidian languages into southern India in the late Neolithic through the spread of an agro-pastoralist lifestyle through the western Deccan, pushing southward along the Arabian sea fringe. At the time I was skeptical, but now I am modestly confident that this is […]
My second post ever on this blog was titled with the internet-age utopian phrase Information Wants To Be Free. Even at that time one of my blog-inspirations (which I cited there) had been shuttered, I think after the professor behind it was found and “cancelled” (before that was a common term, and before the same […]
I often point people to William Stuntz’ “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice” via my review. There are a lot of details in that book I regret not being able to include, but I just found this review (which pre-dates mine by years) from Handle (who I mostly remember as a commenter years ago rather […]
I have at various times expressed my complete contempt for the police and military branches of the United States government (as well as foreign governments, though they don't pose as much of a direct threat to me). The bourgeoisie nerds in the libertarian movement (much less the boot-licking 2nd Amendment queers) are often at pains […]
It is a good idea to both own and be proficient with at least one firearm. The most important factor is that you are comfortable shooting it, and that you practice a lot. Do not buy into bullshit like 'stopping power', 'hydrostatic shock' or cults of particular weapons. It is important that your weapon and […]
Death Wish was generally panned by film critics - who are almost all a bunch of weak faggots that are scared of guns. That, and not its content, is the main reason it suffered in the reviews. While Death Wish is nowhere near as cool as the original, it's certainly not bad as far as […]
We live in interesting times. The internet was supposed to usher in an era of increased knowledge, understanding, and maybe even human harmony. Instead it has turned us all into conspiracy theorists. Don’t get hoity-toity and claim that it’s only those Bad Guys over on the other side of the aisle who believe in conspiracies. […]
My husband made a good point yesterday, that an historian a hundred years from now could reasonably argue that Trump was never truly president because he was never allowed by the rest of the system to assume full power. For these four years America has been essentially sans-president. The system has chosen Biden; never mind […]
I think one of the problems with the teaching of history/our understanding of morality is that we look back on he past and think, “Oh it’s so OBVIOUS that X was evil, only evil people could have supported X. If I lived back then, I’d have been a good person who opposed X.” For example, […]
“Blacks have lower income than Whites in the USA. That proves ‘systemic racism’”. Scientific honesty requires to inform about all weaknesses in this statement. Reprinted with permission from SINCERITY.net Scientific honesty* requires full and total disclosure of all relevant issues regarding the theory in discussion. Dishonesty must be shunned, deception be taboo. Scientific honesty should […]
Cluelessness about suicides, bankruptcies, economic disasters, and co-morbidities related to Covid-19 lockdowns is chastised by Germany’s former secret service chief Hans Georg Massen. Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net 1) why we don’t differentiate between deaths BY Coronavirus and death WITH Coronavirus (and other causes of death) Why is Covid-19 so dangerous if there were no […]
Movie producers lose money, producing movies that people don’t want to see. Producers sacrifice profits to brainwash the “narrative” into people’s brains. Where is the OUTRAGE? Is there any research that the spectators want to watch female fighters and black heroes? Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net NBC Preps ‘Zorro’ With Female Lead Who Fights for […]
My second post ever on this blog was titled with the internet-age utopian phrase Information Wants To Be Free. Even at that time one of my blog-inspirations (which I cited there) had been shuttered, I think after the professor behind it was found and “cancelled” (before that was a common term, and before the same […]
I often point people to William Stuntz’ “The Collapse of American Criminal Justice” via my review. There are a lot of details in that book I regret not being able to include, but I just found this review (which pre-dates mine by years) from Handle (who I mostly remember as a commenter years ago rather […]
I GO I go slowlyIn a slow way,My means being lowly.I go unbidden,Yea even forbidden.I go to discover—I know not.But I go,For only can I knowBy going. —Jack Jones.
Daily Herald (28 March 1914) SIMPOLEONS! Listen! Don’t be a blister on the Bosom of Time, but look like Napoleons of Labour by wearing “Sericine” Silk Ties. Something new. Seklew’s Sample Shilling Set: 3 Ties, 1 Tie-maker, 1 silver-cased Collar-fastener. 1s the Lot. Agents wanted. Particulars 1d. – Seklew and Co., 11, Chester Street, C.-on-M., […]
A Poetic Beer Drinker Mr. “Pussyfoot” Johnson and his American antagonist, Mr. F. M. Wilkesbarr met for the first time on the same platform at Manchester, England, recently. Mr. Johnson stateted his case for prohibition in a voice which grew hoarser as he became more impressive over the iniquities of the “traffic.” It was from […]
thanks!!!
Today I spend with another Brittish friend of mine. 😉
Tanky Tanky -bows-
I know I’m going to get bitten in twenty different places tonight by ten different mosquitoes. So… HURRAY, FOR AMERICA!! -.-