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Institutional Correction

James Thompson • May 10, 2021

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One hypothesis about the Anglo-Saxon world is that Britain 1.0 has been superseded by Britain 2.0, such that the latter gets updated first, and the former always lags behind, under threat of being discontinued. As a consequence, the US fashions in race relations have late echoes in the UK. Here are two little stories about... Read More

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American Pravda: "The Truth" and "The Whole Truth" About the Origins of Covid-19

Ron Unz • May 10, 2021

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As every fan of the old Perry Mason show remembers, courtroom witnesses swear "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." There's a reason for that particular choice of words. A pattern of selective omissions in an otherwise entirely truthful presentation can easily mislead us as much as any outright lie.... Read More

Truth Is Gaining Ground on the Lies of World War II

Paul Craig Roberts • May 10, 2021

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Years ago concerned with Washington’s growing provocation of Russia, I made the remark in a column that Hitler, like Napoleon, destroyed himself by marching off into Russia. I suggested we not repeat the folly. Two readers corrected me. They informed me that Hitler had no choice. Hitler’s decision was not based on hubris or miscalculation.... Read More

Love of Raki, High Jumping Goats and Edith Durham

Linh Dinh • May 10, 2021

• 3,600 Words • 10 Comments • Reply

I’m in a tiny Tirana café built around a eucalyptus tree. John Belushi, the Madonna and someone’s deceased grandma charm its wooden walls. I sip a macchiato to start my day. At the bar, an old man in an old suit orders a raki. It’s not quite nine, yet he’s downing a shot of five-alarm... Read More

The CoVaxx-19 Scorecard: Bleeding, Blood-Clots and the Whole Nine Yards

Mike Whitney • May 10, 2021

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Why would anyone allow himself to be injected with a substance for which the long-term adverse effects are completely unknown? It's extremely dangerous. And, yet, millions of people around the world have already been inoculated with a hybrid concoction that was not approved by the FDA, did not meet the same rigorous standards for safety... Read More

Covid Authoritarians Abuse Children

Ron Paul • May 10, 2021

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Centers for Diseases Control (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has “recommended” that children wear masks while playing. Her offered reason is to ensure Covid is not spread by “heavy breathing” of children near each other while around a soccer ball. Dr. Walensky’s recommendation is one more example of Covid authoritarians' refusal to “listen to the... Read More

Utah Parole Board Is Freeing Hundreds of Violent Criminals Early and Doesn't Know Where They Are

Eric Striker • May 9, 2021

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The Republican Party's embrace of "criminal justice reform" has brought chaos and danger to a number of deep red states, including Utah, a new investigative report has found. Senator Mike Lee, who represents Utahns, is a leading GOP proponent of emptying America's prisons. A number of parole officers blew the whistle on the problems with... Read More

Prominent American "Anti-Racist" Jews Are Funding Racist Gangs Attacking Arabs In Israel

Eric Striker • May 8, 2021

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American Jews are bankrolling Zionist paramilitary groups that have been assaulting and terrorizing random Arabs on the streets of East Jerusalem. Two weeks ago, 100s of Israelis chanted "Death To Arabs" as they attacked non-Jewish men, women and children during a demonstration organized by Lehava. Lehava describes itself as a group militantly opposed to race-mixing... Read More

Barbarossa: Suvorov's Revisionism Goes Mainstream

A review of Sean McMeekin, Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II

Laurent Guyénot • May 8, 2021

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On Sunday morning June 22, 1941, driven by his hatred of “Judeo-Bolshevism” and his insatiable greed for Lebensraum, Hitler treacherously broke his pact of non-aggression with Stalin and launched the invasion of the Soviet Union. Caught off guard and badly commanded, the Red Army was overwhelmed. But thanks to the heroic resistance of the Russian... Read More

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Continued Black and Jew Attacks on Asians Show That Asians Are the Natural Allies of Whites

Andrew Anglin • May 8, 2021

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The anti-Asian hate attacks by the blacks are continuing all across the United States. Most of the news outlets are covering them up, even as they line the Twitter page of the NYPD Hate Crimes account. Here are a few recent tweets from them, with the newest being only a few hours old: The media... Read More

Is Jewish Leftism a ‘Reform Problem’?

Andrew Joyce • May 8, 2021

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Sparked by Tucker Carlson’s remarkable move towards the Jewish Question, the recent condemnation of the ADL issued by 1,500 rabbis associated with the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) has once more raised the question as to whether destructive activity perpetrated by Jewish activists in America is a matter of denomination rather than ethnicity. For several... Read More

Summary of Nasrallah's Speech, Quds Day, 2021

Taxi • May 8, 2021

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The permanent man of the hour, Mr. Hassan Nasrallah, opened his speech by saying that he has a throat infection that had come upon him this past Wednesday, and that he was not suffering from Covid, as some concerned supporters had inquired after seeing him cough much during his last Wednesday's speech. And this was... Read More

The People's Square Live Tonight at 9 PM ET: Interview with Translator of Giovanni Gentile's "Philosophy of Marx"

Eric Striker • May 8, 2021

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Tonight we will be discussing a new book slated for release on Imperium Press, the Philosophy of Marx by Italian Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile, with its translator Zoltanous. You can watch it live on Youtube. MP3 will be uploaded afterwards here.

Elon Musk, SNL, and the Purpose of Life

Gregory Hood • May 7, 2021

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Why do they hate Elon Musk? The head of Tesla and SpaceX should be a progressive hero. Leftists lecture us about “climate change” and why we need a Green New Deal. One group, Extinction Rebellion, warns of “mass extinction” unless there is revolution. The Guardian says some parents regret having children because of “climate change.”... Read More

We Were Repeatedly Told by the Presstitute Lie Machine That There Was NO Election Fraud

Paul Craig Roberts • May 7, 2021

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So why is Arizona’s Maricopa County refusing to comply with the court order and Arizona Senate subpoenas to provide the voting system logs for investigation? The clear answer is that Maricopa County is protecting the false news narrative of no electoral fraud. The utterly corrupt “defund-the-police-Democrats” are claiming that to turn over the evidence would... Read More

Burning a Police Station Led to Justice

Ted Rall • May 7, 2021

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As people of good will celebrate or merely breathe a sigh of relief in response to the conviction of Minneapolis former police officer Derek Chauvin for the videotaped murder of George Floyd, it is worth noting that this victory likely would never have occurred had it not been for a spectacular act of property destruction.... Read More

In the U.S. and U.K.—Don’t Vote for Institutional Conservatism!

John Derbyshire • May 7, 2021

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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See, also, by Steve Sailer: Tories Smash Labour In Blue Collar By-election I haven't lived in England for thirty years now, and have been a U.S. citizen for nearly twenty, so I don't have much interest in politics over there. I do browse some... Read More

The French of Quebec

Learning French with Alexandre Cormier-Denis

Guillaume Durocher • May 7, 2021

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The Québécois are a unique people, for the most part descending from a relatively small founder-population hailing from various parts of France, creating a besieged nation of 8 million French-speakers surviving for centuries in an Anglophone sea. I recently learned of a new menace to Québécois survival: the French. Indeed, the Québécois nationalist Alexandre Cormier-Denis... Read More

Where Did All Those 'Capitalist Pigs' Go?

Pat Buchanan • May 7, 2021

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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," is an insight the famed biographer James Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson. Clients of the late Bernie Madoff, however, might take issue. Over four decades, Madoff, acclaimed as the greatest fraudster of them all, ran a Ponzi scheme... Read More

29 Whites Dead: April 2021—Another Month In the Death of White America

Kenn Gividen • May 6, 2021

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Earlier: 33 Whites Die (And ONE White-On-Black Murder!): MARCH 2021—Another Month In The Death Of White America During April 2021, I learned of 23 interracial conflicts that resulted in the death of white people. All of the offenders appear to be black or a person of color. Perhaps the most appalling case, instantly memory-holed by... Read More

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Oh What a Lovely New War! False Flagging in the Middle East?

Philip Giraldi • May 6, 2021

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There has been virtually no American media coverage of last week’s arrival of a senior Israeli delegation in Washington to discuss Iran. The delegation included the head of the Israeli external intelligence service Mossad Yossi Cohen and Israel’s National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat. Their itinerary included briefings at the Pentagon and also with national security... Read More

The US Brainwashes the World

Paul Craig Roberts • May 6, 2021

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The American Establishment uses the presstitute lie machine to control the narrative for most of the world by broadcasting disinformation in 59 languages. Countries and their news services rely on “news” from the US to comprehend world events. Most of the world has little alternative to American news sources except for the BBC which is... Read More

Conservatives Won't Say It: the Problem Is ‘Systemic Anti-Whiteness,’ Not Marxism, Not ID Politics

Ilana Mercer • May 6, 2021

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Institutionalized, systemic anti-whiteness, yoked to white hot, hatred of whites: That is the creed that is fast becoming entrenched across state and civil society in the U.S. Chiseled down, these are also the building blocks of Critical Race Theory, a specious, subintelligent concoction, originated by subpar intellectuals. The Critical Race project now pervades private and... Read More

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An Empire in Love with Its Afghan Cemetery

Pepe Escobar • May 6, 2021

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One cannot but feel mildly amused at the theatrical spectacle of the US troop pullout from Afghanistan, its completion day now postponed for maximum PR impact to 9/11, 2021. Nearly two decades and a staggering US$2 trillion after this Forever War was launched by a now immensely indebted empire, the debacle can certainly be interpreted... Read More

It’s Going to Take Me a While to Come to Terms with Sean Hannity’s Interview with Bruce Jenner

Andrew Anglin • May 6, 2021

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As you are probably aware, the tranny Bruce Jenner is running for Governor of California as a Republican. As you may not be aware, Republicans appear to be actually embracing the idea of a “conservative tranny.” On Wednesday night, Fox News aired an interview Sean Hannity did with Bruce Jenner, wherein Hannity is sitting across... Read More

The War on Whites

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Edmund Connelly • May 4, 2021

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The War on Whites is moving to a higher level — fast. Signs are everywhere; they are undeniable. First and foremost, understand and accept that this is happening. For many, there will be no escape. If you are White and don’t yet grasp what is happening, quickly find out from someone who does. Lives will... Read More

The Feminization of Western Men

Paul Craig Roberts • May 4, 2021

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In a remarkable interview published on Russia Insider in March 2019, RT’s Anissa Naouai interviewed Danish journalist Iben Thranholm about the disappearance of Western manhood: Dear European Men: You Are Pathetic Pussies. This is a Danish woman’s conclusion. Thranholm says that Western men have been feminized and Western women defeminized. She says feminists have destroyed... Read More

Biden vs. Biden on 'Is America a Racist Country?'

Pat Buchanan • May 4, 2021

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"Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country." So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Biden's address to Congress. Asked the next day what he thought of Scott's statement, Biden said he agrees. "No, I don't think the American people are racist." Vice President Kamala Harris also... Read More

The Shape of Things to Come

Democrats prepare to eliminate opposition to woke culture

Philip Giraldi • May 4, 2021

• 1,700 Words • 357 Comments • Reply

So what was preordained has finally taken place. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has now been convicted of the murder of George Floyd. While many, possibly even most, Americans would agree that Chauvin exceeded what was necessary in his use of force, the prosecution never proved that he intended to either kill or severely... Read More

Additional EBooks and Private Text Messaging

Ron Unz • May 3, 2021

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I've been very pleased with the response to my eBooks, and the continuing number of daily downloads has considerably exceeded my total hard copy sales at Amazon over the last few years. Although the material has already been available on this website, eBooks may be conveniently read off-line, allow note-taking, and have various other advantages... Read More

Biden Regime Turning Bush-Era “War On Terror” Laws Against White America

Washington Watcher II • May 3, 2021

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Previously: Will Whites Support A Globalist American Empire That Picks Fights Abroad And Wars Against Them At Home? Everyone knew the Biden Regime would use the January 6 Mostly Peaceful Protest as an excuse to crack down on patriotic Americans and Trump supporters. But news reports through the past two weeks demonstrate just what Biden... Read More

Giant Killers Tackle Google

Israel Shamir • May 3, 2021

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The digital giants have taken over the world. Nobody has ever amassed this much power. Hitler would die of envy if shown the greatness of Google. Huxley and Orwell’s protagonists could only dream of what Bezos and Gates do. The latter overthrew the US President and installed one they prefer, and for good reason. The... Read More

DERB'S APRIL DIARY [8 ITEMS!] Lenin and Immigration, Multicultural WWI, Cancelling Tennyson, and Hate Mail, Etc.

John Derbyshire • May 3, 2021

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Daffodils! Suddenly they are everywhere. My back yard is full of them. One of my neighbors has a front yard in the same condition. Passing by as I walked my dog, I saw the lady of the house doing gardening work among the blooms. I greeted her with: "A host, of golden daffodils!" She called... Read More

Boris Johnson’s Lies Don’t Harm Him Because the Political System Is More Corrupt Than He Is

Jonathan Cook • May 3, 2021

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Britain’s corporate media are suddenly awash with stories wondering whether, or to what extent, the UK’s prime minister is dishonest. Predictably in the midst of this, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg is still doing her determined best to act as media bodyguard to Boris Johnson. In a lengthy article on the BBC’s website over the weekend,... Read More

New Report Sheds Light on Vaccine Doomsday Cult

Mike Whitney • May 3, 2021

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An explosive new study by researchers at the prestigious Salk Institute casts doubt on the current crop of gene-based vaccines that may pose a grave risk to public health. The article, which is titled "The novel coronavirus’ spike protein plays additional key role in illness", shows that SARS-CoV-2’s "distinctive 'spike' protein".."damages cells, confirming COVID-19 as... Read More

The Camp of the Saints Is Upon Us

Paul Craig Roberts • May 3, 2021

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The national disintegration of France is progressing precisely as Jean Raspail predicted in his novel. Those who see the disintegration and urge its halt are the ones punished exactly as in the novel. The situation in the United States is far more serious than in France. In the United States the authorities have brainwashed themselves... Read More

Sex Finally Explained!

Fred Figgered it Out, His Own Self

Fred Reed • May 3, 2021

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(This is an ancient column I just found, but represents a great service to humanity, so I republish it.) I'm trying to figure out sex, and why people get in an uproar about it, and run around waving their arms and hollering, and everybody's mad at everybody else. It's because men can't tell sex from... Read More

Will Special Interests Allow America’s ‘Longest War’ to Finally End?

Ron Paul • May 3, 2021

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Even if “won,” endless wars like our 20 year assault on Afghanistan would not benefit our actual national interest in the slightest. So why do these wars continue endlessly? Because they are so profitable to powerful and well-connected special interests. In fact, the worst news possible for the Beltway military contractor/think tank complex would be... Read More

Why Black GOP Senator Tim Scott’s Response to Biden Was So Worthless for the Historic American Nation

James Kirkpatrick • May 2, 2021

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Earlier: Sen. Tim Scott Shows It’s Time For GOP To Give Up On Great Black Hope Strategy So Joe Biden addressed America last week [Read the full transcript from President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, USA Today, April 28, 2021]. And the GOP Establishment/ Donor Class’s token black Senator Tim Scott... Read More

Imagining An End to Poverty and Economic Dependence

Michael Hudson • May 2, 2021

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Guests Michael Hudson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: April 21, 2021 (transcribed May 3, 2021): Jim Vrettos: So, Michael, Jonathan. Thank you so very, very much for being here. Jonathan, you're from... We're looking at you from North Carolina there and Michael is in Queens. You've both had tremendous influence in your respective fields. Spiritual economic activist... Read More

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Brave New Cancel Culture World

Pepe Escobar • May 2, 2021

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In 2020, we saw the enshrinement of techno-feudalism – one of the overarching themes of my latest book, Raging Twenties. In lightning speed, the techno-feudalism virus is metastasizing into an even more lethal, wilderness of mirrors variant, where cancel culture is enforced by Big Tech all across the spectrum, science is routinely debased as fake... Read More

Joel Kotkin’s NEO-FEUDALISM: Just "Bravery Signalling"?

Lance Welton • May 1, 2021

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Joel Kotkin is a funny fellow. His review of VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow’s 1995 immigration book Alien Nation was a vicious smear, even echoing the common paranoid complaint that Brimelow “repeatedly” referred to his blue-eyed blond baby boy (there was actually only one reference, in the unimpeachable context of the destructive effect of the interaction... Read More

Biden's Left Feint

Ted Rall • April 30, 2021

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If you don't dig deep, Joe Biden appears to be governing as the most liberal president since Lyndon Johnson. But conservatives needn't worry. Biden is no progressive in centrist's clothing. True, the president's legislative agenda — after the coronavirus relief bill, which was undeniably progressive — would expand the social safety net, increase direct aid... Read More

Senator Tim Scott—the Black Jeb Bush

John Derbyshire • April 30, 2021

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Earlier: Sen. Tim Scott Shows It’s Time For GOP To Give Up On Great Black Hope Strategy I've been expressing my boredom and disgust with the State of the Union speech (Yeah, yeah, I know: Joe Biden's Wednesday speech wasn't billed as an official State of the Union address, but I don't see how you... Read More

Review: Black Narcissus

Trevor Lynch • April 30, 2021

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Michael Powell (1905–1990) is one of the tragic geniuses of film: a genius because he is one of the most visually dazzling directors in the history of cinema, tragic because he too often he wasted his talents on inferior scripts, most of them provided by his longtime collaborator, Emeric Pressburger, a Hungarian-Jewish refugee to whom... Read More

The People's Square Live Tonight at 7 PM ET: Interview with Translator of Elias Simojoki's the Burning Bush

Eric Striker • April 30, 2021

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Striker and Borzoi talk to Jarno Alander about the translation of Burning Bush, now available from Antelope Hill, and the Finnish nationalist scene Burning Bush: National Justice: Cultured Grugs: (backup) Donations/Superchats: Email TPSDonations@protonmail.com if you want to use Bitcoin. I will send you a one-time use address. Include what you want read out in the... Read More

The U.S. Congress Turns on Itself

Censuring and Threats of Expulsion Proliferating

Philip Giraldi • April 29, 2021

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Recently there have been some appalling cases that underline how far the American Congress has separated itself from any tangible national interest. Mark Twain once wrote that “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Some developments over the past several weeks would... Read More

Mark Steyn, the Pied Piper of Zionism (“porky pie” is Cockney rhyming slang for “lie”)

Mark Steyn Lies As Naturally As He Breathes

A Master-Class in Mendacity on behalf of Zionism and the ADL

Tobias Langdon • April 29, 2021

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Mark Steyn is a highly intelligent man and an excellent, erudite writer. I admire (and envy) his ability to write so much so fast and so entertainingly. Unfortunately, Steyn is also a liar and fraud. And I can prove that very easily. Here goes. As Kevin MacDonald set out in two recent articles at the... Read More

Video: Systemic Racism or Systemic Stupidity?

Ilana Mercer • April 29, 2021

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Watch Ilana Mercer's discussion with David Vance on the role of “racism” in the George Floyd trial, based on the column, “Was The Cop’s Knee On George Floyd’s Neck ‘Racism’? No!”

Portland: Anarchist "Collective" Announces Plan to Escalate Violence In War with Mayor Ted Wheeler

Eric Striker • April 29, 2021

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Portland's liberal establishment has a message for Antifa: we don't need you anymore. Earlier this week, Mayor Ted Wheeler -- previously known for his tacit support for anarchist violence during the Trump-era -- made a decisively Trumpian threat to "unmask" and ruthlessly prosecute his city's anarchists. While rioting has died down in most of the... Read More

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Race and Crime in America

The unspoken statistical reality of urban crime over the last quarter century.

Ron Unz

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American Pravda: Understanding World War II

The Shaping Event of Our Modern World

Ron Unz

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American Pravda: Holocaust Denial

Analyzing the History of a Controversial Movement