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Antifa Protesting Outside Home of Tucker Carlson

Ideas on Maintaining Relationships with the Less Committed in a Dark Age

Kevin MacDonald • December 31, 2019

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Many of us are forced to deal with personal issues because of our political-cultural beliefs. A typical situation might be a wife or girlfriend—the great majority of activists on the dissident right are male—who is terrified of it becoming known that she is associated with someone who is shunned and socially ostracized. But of course,... Read More

Cloudflare Claims Our Journalism Is Terrorism. We're Not Backing Down

Eric Striker • December 31, 2019

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My team was recently forwarded an abuse complaint from Cloudflare from the pseudonymous "EJ Smith," paired with a threat to shut down DDoS protection for National Justice. In the form, this journalist, Eric Striker, is slandered with the outrageous claim that I am a "domestic terrorist." This is filed as a copyright protestation, without any... Read More

Will War Derail Trump's Reelection?

Pat Buchanan • December 31, 2019

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"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future," Yogi Berra reminded us. But on "The McLaughlin Group," the TV talk show on which this writer has appeared for four decades, predictions are as mandated as was taking Latin in Jesuit high schools in the 1950s. Looking to 2020, this writer predicted that Donald Trump's... Read More

The Year of War Against Anti-Semitism

Everyone is doing it

Philip Giraldi • December 31, 2019

• 1,700 Words • 313 Comments • Reply

One might think that 2019 was the year war was declared against anti-Semitism judging from the pronouncements of politicians in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin. To be sure, Israel and its diaspora friends have continued to play the “anti-Semitism” card whenever their behavior is challenged but the international passion to extirpate the “new anti-Semitism” to... Read More

Binary People in an Analogue World. What Is an “Authoritarian Environment”? China Versus the West

Larry Romanoff • December 31, 2019

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One day in Rome, I asked the policeman, “Is it okay if I park my car here, partially blocking the emergency entrance to the hospital? I just want to go across the street for a coffee for a few minutes.” And he said, “Sure, but leave the keys in it in case I have to... Read More

Police in Hong Kong Brutalized by Rioters, While Attacked by the Western Press

Andre Vltchek • December 31, 2019

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It is much more than what you are allowed to see. The Hong Kong police force are heroically fighting both the rioters and a complex and extremely dangerous international network which is aiming at destabilizing the People’s Republic of China. I never saw such cynicism before; such a vulgar media set up as in Hong... Read More

Third Year at Unz

James Thompson • December 30, 2019

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This has been my best ever year, with 448,525 pageviews, an average of almost 9000 pageviews per post. These posts provoked 1.25 million words of comments, another all-time record, not bad for a mere 50 posts. The range of comment was very broad, the positions adopted often diametrically opposed, and quality of the best commentators... Read More

Antisemitism Has Been Used to Smear the Left, While the Right Targets Jews

Jonathan Cook • December 30, 2019

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The year ended with two terrible setbacks for those seeking justice for the Palestinian people. One was the defeat in the British election of Jeremy Corbyn – a European leader with a unique record of solidarity with Palestinians. He had suffered four years of constant media abuse, recasting his activism as evidence of antisemitism. The... Read More

The External Costs of Human Activity Are Killing the Planet

Paul Craig Roberts • December 30, 2019

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Humans are exterminating themselves by exterminating other life forms. As a person committed to free thought, I sometimes catch myself wondering if what is really needed is a form of Borg Star Trek mind control to stop us from destroying the planet for the sake of profits for the few. External costs are neglected by... Read More

Christian Exoo Aka "AntiFash Gordon" Accused of Blackmail, Saying the N-Word and Creepy Behavior Towards Underage Girls

Eric Striker • December 30, 2019

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38-year-old St Lawrence University librarian Christian Exoo, better known by his twitter handle "Antifash Gordon," has been accused by a former roommate of being a sociopathic blackmailer who loves to use the 'N-word.' Exoo was identified last May when BlueHost released the registration info of a data mining operation he ran with the intent of... Read More

Should Racists Get Health Care?

Ron Paul • December 30, 2019

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Political correctness recently took a dangerous turn in the United Kingdom when the North Bristol National Health Service Trust announced that hospital patients who use offensive, racist, or sexist language will cease receiving medical care as soon as it is safe to end their treatment. The condition that treatment will not be withdrawn until doing... Read More

Poway Shooting Victim's New Lawsuit Accuses Synagogue of Using Federal Security Grants Fraudulently

Eric Striker • December 29, 2019

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Almog Peretz, a worshipper who was hit in the leg with shrapnel during the Poway shooting, is suing his synagogue for misusing a six-figure federal grant intended for security. The complaint was filed on December 6th in the Los Angeles Superior Court and was obtained (PDF) by National Justice through a public record request. It... Read More

More Holocaust Reparations for 2020: the Gift That Keeps on Giving

Philip Giraldi • December 29, 2019

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Now that 2019 has ended, it is more than seventy-four years since the end of the Second World War. America’s “Greatest Generation” that actually fought the war and endured it on the home front, is dying off and the remembrance of the conflict is increasingly experienced second hand, if at all. The war has been... Read More

Will 2020 See the Emergence of a Nationalist Left?

Andrew Joyce • December 29, 2019

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Although Nietzsche seems to be the philosopher of choice for many on the Dissident Right, I’ve always had a soft spot for Arthur Schopenhauer. His cantankerous philosophical pessimism has always struck a chord with my own temperament, and for many years I’ve found his quasi-Buddhist and highly compassionate conceptualisation of suffering to be strangely comforting.... Read More

The Criminalisation of Protest in America

Larry Romanoff • December 29, 2019

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The US today freely interferes in the governments of so many other nations, fueling unrest and financing violence, seeking to impose on these countries a peculiarly American form of “open government” which it can control, but has always severely restricted any such activity either suspected or real, on its own soil. We have already read... Read More

Downton Abbey

Trevor Lynch • December 29, 2019

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Julian Fellowes’ Downton Abbey is an extremely popular British period drama, set in the years 1912 to 1926, which ran six seasons (the Brits call them series) on television and is now a feature film set in 1927. I very much enjoyed the first two seasons of Downton Abbey. Like many Downton Abbey fans, I... Read More

The Crumbling of America

Larry Romanoff • December 28, 2019

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In June of 2013 an Interstate bridge on a main commercial corridor between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Canada, collapsed and fell into the river below after being hit by a truck. This was not a high-speed collision; the truck simply bumped one of the main support pillars at low speed, but the weakened and dilapidated... Read More

Nationalism Is Transforming the Politics of the British Isles

Patrick Cockburn • December 28, 2019

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Nationalism in different shapes and forms is powerfully transforming the politics of the British Isles, a development that gathered pace over the last five years and culminated in the general election this month. National identities and the relationship between England, Scotland and Ireland are changing more radically than at any time over the last century.... Read More

Jewish Brilliance: Synthetic Like Zirconia

Eric Striker • December 28, 2019

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The New York Times recently published an opinion piece by its gun-grabbing, open borders in-house "conservative" columnist Bret Stephens asserting that Ashkenazi Jews are an elite race by nature of their superior hereditary, culture and soul. For sure, there are Jews of exceptional intellect and ability, but this is true for most races. Stephen's dictation... Read More

How Controlled Explanations Are Achieved

Paul Craig Roberts • December 28, 2019

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In 2014 Progressive Press published a book by a French author, Laurent Guyenot, titled JFK-9/11: 50 Years of Deep State. The book contains much interesting reporting that shows that the official explanations we are given about even major events, such as the assassination of a President and 9/11, are transparently false. Yet, these transparently false... Read More

Privatization Is Resurrecting Feudalism

Paul Craig Roberts • December 27, 2019

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America is a country of scandals. The latest scandal is the Jewish multi-billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s use of prison labor call centers to spread the message of his presidential campaign. It seems to me that Bloomberg’s attack on the American Constitution is the scandal, not his use of prison labor. Bloomberg wants to repeal the Second... Read More

The Articles of Impeachment Should Have Been These Instead

Ted Rall • December 27, 2019

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Donald Trump deserved to be impeached. He deserves to be convicted in the Senate. Every president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors that could justify impeachment. But not on these charges. Not for threatening to withhold $400 million in aid that we shouldn't have been sending to Ukraine in the first place, not as long... Read More

The Intelligent Person’s Guide to Race & Racial Differences

F. Roger Devlin • December 27, 2019

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Race has been discussed to the point of weariness, yet most discussion consists of little more than wishful thinking, contradiction, and outright malice: “All the races are equal, but whites oppress everyone else. Then again, race doesn’t really exist, which is why we must strive for greater racial diversity.” It is understandable that many people... Read More

Is 'Little Rocket Man' Winning?

Pat Buchanan • December 27, 2019

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As of Dec. 26, Kim Jong Un's "Christmas gift" to President Donald Trump had not arrived. Most foreign policy analysts predict it will be a missile test more impressive than any Pyongyang has yet carried off. What is Kim's game? What does Kim want? He cannot want war with the United States, as this could... Read More

Peak Buffet for Ungrateful Insensates

Linh Dinh • December 27, 2019

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It’s always good to get up at dawn to walk around, for you’ll see a less guarded, composed and worn out version of humanity. They’ll still have the rest of the day to blunder, lapse, commit a crime or jump off a bridge. Passing a Nha Trang park, I spot middle aged broads dancing the... Read More

Can We Save Conservatism from Itself?

Gregory Hood • December 27, 2019

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This article is adapted from remarks delivered to a gathering of young nationalists. Recently, National Review’s Rich Lowry put out what he called “A Defining Statement of Modern Conservatism,” complete with a giant picture of Ronald Reagan. The idea that Ronald Reagan should be what’s inspiring today’s generation of conservatism is so out of touch... Read More

How Impeachment Is Escalating the New US-Russian Cold War

Stephen F. Cohen • December 27, 2019

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These Prominent Left-Wing Journalists Were Accused of Sexual Harassment, Why Are They Still Working?

Eric Striker • December 26, 2019

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It's been more than two years since Moira Donegan's "Shitty Media Men" list began circulating, effectively bringing the MeToo movement to the world of media. The Google spreadsheet was part of a whisper network of women making claims of rape, assault and sexual harassment at the hands of male colleagues in various newsrooms, particularly "woke"... Read More

Is There a Future for Russian Aircraft Carriers?

The Saker • December 26, 2019

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Is there a future for Russian aircraft carriers? Those following the news from Russia have probably heard that Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov (official name: Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov), was put into dry dock for major repairs and retrofits. Things did not go well. First, the dry dock... Read More

Brimelow Remembers Tanton: “A Citizen Who Took Up Arms for His Country”

Peter Brimelow • December 26, 2019

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VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: My memoir of Dr. John Tanton, who died July 16, has just appeared in the latest, Fall 2019, issue of his quarterly magazine The Social Contract, which is dedicated to his legacy. We’re posting it here with VDARE.com’s trademark hyperlinks. Sadly, in this issue The Social Contract Editors also announce... Read More

A Brief Introduction to Tibet

Larry Romanoff • December 26, 2019

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Westerners appear to have a willful blindness about Tibet, with strong opinions often held by those who haven’t been there and whose knowledge appears gleaned from misguided propaganda in the popular press. The Western media have imposed on our imaginations an image of a fabled theocracy where a reincarnated god rules over a peaceful people... Read More

Elevating Excellent Commenters

Ron Unz • December 24, 2019

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Earlier this month I noted that the volume of comments on our website had become enormous, frequently exceeding 4 million words per month, a figure probably considerably larger than that of websites whose traffic completely dwarfs our own. What began as a simple webzine has now evolved into something closer to a wide-ranging discussion forum.... Read More

Is It “anti-Semitic” to Say There Is War on Christmas?

Kevin MacDonald • December 24, 2019

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Dan Rosenberg, writing in the Canadian Jewish News, claims that it’s “anti-Semitic” to say that there’s a war on Christmas. He also says that “terms such as ‘New York lawyers (and bankers),’ and ‘Hollywood culture’ refer to Jews. When people speak of the ‘secularists’ and ‘internationalists’ who are behind conspiracies like the War on Christmas,... Read More

Nancy Pelosi’s Scripted Impeachment Failure

Or, …Leading the Dems from Blue…to Yellow!

Brett Redmayne-Titley • December 24, 2019

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For the voter, the Democratic Party no longer has any interest in performing its function as an opposition party. The charade of purported constitutional jurisprudence seen in the US House impeachment hearings should forever confirm this. This degradation of political will far too nicely coincides with the long term duality of current and long term... Read More

An End to the World as We Know It?

Congress and the White House compete in year-end stupidity sweepstakes

Philip Giraldi • December 24, 2019

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At the end of the nineteenth century, Lord Palmerston stated what he thought was obvious, that “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests.” Palmerston was saying that national interests should drive the relationships with foreigners. A nation will have amicable relations most of the time... Read More

Today France, Tomorrow the USA?

Pat Buchanan • December 24, 2019

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As that rail and subway strike continued to paralyze travel in Paris and across France into the third week, President Emmanuel Macron made a Christmas appeal to his dissatisfied countrymen: "Strike action is justifiable and protected by the constitution, but I think there are moments in a nation's life when it is good to observe... Read More

Mishima’s Guide to the Samurai Ethos

Guillaume Durocher • December 24, 2019

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For as long as I have known about him, I have been fascinated by the Japanese writer and artist Yukio Mishima. I think the first time I heard of him was when my favorite history professor, an older fellow specializing in East Asia, spoke in exhilarating terms of Mishima, all the while naughtily adding :... Read More

Beached in Nha Trang

Linh Dinh • December 24, 2019

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Last month, I frowned on those who are drawn to the vagabond, rootless lifestyle, who think it is ideal to move from hotel room to hotel room. Guess what? I’ve joined them. Life is goofy that way. After my mother-in-law threatened to stab me more than ten times, I left Saigon and stayed in Vung... Read More

Bipartisan "Farm Workforce Modernization Act" Will Amnesty Millions and Bring Back Indentured Servitude

Eric Striker • December 24, 2019

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Every year for the past decade, the $100 million dollar agribusiness lobby has gotten an amnesty bill on the Congressional agenda. In a nation governed by reason, they would use this money to attract American workers with higher pay and benefits or develop new technology to do the farm work. Instead, they would rather cheat... Read More

Christmas Column 2019

Paul Craig Roberts • December 24, 2019

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Thank you for your support in 2019. Although you have kept me working yet another year, I find it encouraging that there are some Americans who can think independently and who want to know. As Margaret Mead said, it only takes a few determined people to change the world. Perhaps some of you will be... Read More

Dr. Guy Bechor on American Jewry and Its Destiny

Gilad Atzmon • December 23, 2019

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According to Israeli academic Guy Bechor the fate of American Jewry is sealed. In this three years old video Dr. Bechor points at a Jewish progressive ‘conspiracy’ against America, its values and ideals. Bechor reckons that it is just a question of time before American Jews flee to Israel. He also insists that the so-called... Read More

How Congress and the Federal Reserve Stole Christmas

Ron Paul • December 23, 2019

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The bickering over impeachment did not stop the president and Congress from coming together last week to avert a government shutdown by passing a 1.4 trillion dollar spending package. The bipartisan agreement has something for everyone — a 22 billion dollars increase to bring total spending on militarism to 738 billion dollars, and a 27... Read More

In the U.K. -- Do Subjects Deserve Their Rulers?

Andre Vltchek • December 23, 2019

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I constantly receive such letters; letters which repeat, again and again, year after year, basically the same thing: “If only we would have an opportunity to vote out our damn system!” Such letters, emails and messages keep coming to me from the United States, but also from the United Kingdom. Particularly, after certain events, like... Read More

From Corbyn to Stalin to Rothschild

Israel Shamir • December 23, 2019

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(1) England Jewish logic is astounding! The Jews fought Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour tooth and claw. Their newspapers claimed he is a new Hitler. Their Chief Rabbi issued a fatwa against Corbyn. Israel's Foreign Minister said he hopes Corbyn will lose British election. And Labour had been soundly trashed in the British elections. Jews could congratulate... Read More

Richard Jewell, the Movie

Gregory Hood • December 23, 2019

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Many white advocates loved Joker, identifying with the title character. Yet it’s not the year’s most important film. That film is Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell. Despite one major flaw, it’s a near-masterpiece. It’s also a warning. See it immediately. The plot is straightforward, though Mr. Eastwood unfortunately invents a fictional character and a subplot for... Read More

Carols

James Thompson • December 22, 2019

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To the Church of the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, as is my wont, to celebrate the habits of my tribe, as parishioners have done since 1211. They must have done so before that, but not in this building. The service of Nine Carols was just after dark, with the rain lashing down in the bleak... Read More

Trump’s Letter to Pelosi

Paul Craig Roberts • December 22, 2019

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The Saker has posted President Trump’s letter to Nancy Pelosi with his commentary . I agree with Saker that Trump’s impression of the good condition of the US economy is largely a mirage produced by official statistics that have long been unreliable. The bad data fed to Trump is not his fault. I also agree... Read More

How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria

Max Parry • December 22, 2019

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The October decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria did not only precipitate the Turkish offensive, codenamed ‘Operation Peace Spring’, into Kurdish-held territory which followed. It also sparked an outcry of hysteria from much of the so-called “left” that has been deeply divided during the 8-year long conflict over... Read More

OK, Some Wall Is Being Built

John Derbyshire • December 22, 2019

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Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively at VDARE.com Recently, I posted here on some news about the wall being built along our southern border. Yes, said a link I posted, the wall truly is being built, although very slowly: "Miles Built: 93. Miles to be built: 509+." As I said, that's awful slow,... Read More

A Criminal State Under Investigation

Gilad Atzmon • December 22, 2019

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Reports from Israeli press outlets this weekend show that the Jewish State fears the ICC’s (International Criminal Court) decision to move forward with an investigation into whether Israel committed war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Such a probe may expose current and former government officials and military personnel to prosecution on the global stage. The... Read More

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American Pravda: John McCain, Jeffrey Epstein, and Pizzagate

Our Reigning Political Puppets, Dancing to Invisible Strings

Ron Unz

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John McCain: When "Tokyo Rose" Ran for President

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Ron Unz

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Our American Pravda

The major media overlooked Communist spies and Madoff’s fraud. What are they missing today?