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The Nightmare at the Edge of Civilization - A Review of "Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa" by Keith B. Richburg
I typically don’t write book reviews, but a friend recommended this book last year, and it has remained one of my more haunting reads. Which, maybe strangely, I did just after I gave birth to my second child. I'm not sure what it says about me that this was my preferred reading while nursing a week-old baby, especially given my newfound aversion to morbid things, but I somehow could not put it down.
A Tribute to Saint Alexei, Patron Saint of Liberal Democracy
Vladimir Putler has gone and done it now!Most of you haven’t heard the news yet, but Russia’s most popular political figure, Alexei Navalny, was murdered this past weekend by the brutal dictator temporarily residing in the Kremlin. Well-placed sources say that this hit was ordered by the weak (and little) man known as “Vladimir Putin” because Navalny’s crack team of anti-corruption activists had found child porn on his laptop, and were about to publish this bombshell in media across the globe.
The Spanish Civil War in Retrospect: Why Did Spaniards Rebel Against Their Government?
Author’s Note:I was recently asked to write about the Spanish Civil War and why people turned against the Republican regime and sided with Francisco Franco and other military figures who attempted to launch a coup d'état to overthrow the government in July of 1936. This essay will attempt to answer this question by painting a broad portrait of the events that lead up to that bloody conflict.
Saturday Commentary and Review #149
Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. Request: Please hit the like button at the top of the page. The more likes these entries get, the more attractive it is to new readers. This place continues to grow, and I would like to maintain the momentum.
The Gospel According to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Author’s Note: I am a baptized and confirmed Catholic in good standing (but not in a state of grace). Some of you are not fond of Catholicism, Christianity, or even religion in general. If you choose to read this essay, try and keep an open mind. I assure you that it is not very preachy whatsoever. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed bethy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,on earth, as it is in heaven.
Saturday Commentary and Review #140
Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. I was planning on posting the SCR yesterday morning, but I, like everyone else in Europe, woke up the news that Hamas had launched a massive and audacious raid into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
Deluge
A little over a month ago, my parents and I were heading up from Split on the coast to the capital of Zagreb to attend my cousin Marija’s wedding. As usual, I decided to veer off of the highway at some point during the journey north, in order to take some country roads so that we could enjoy the pleasant scenery. We passed through the tiny region of Kordun at some time around 2pm that day.
The [LOCATION REDACTED] Interviews - John Schindler: Schindler's Hit List
John Schindler is a best-selling author and an ex-NSA Intelligence Analyst and Counterintelligence Officer who specialized in counterespionage and counterterrorism, with operational experience in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. For almost a decade now, I have been reading his books and following him on social media, where I have acquired a great admiration for his knowledge of not just espionage, but history as well.
Saturday Commentary and Review #139
Every weekend (almost) I share five articles/essays/reports with you. I select these over the course of the week because they are either insightful, informative, interesting, important, or a combination of the above. We are still coming to grips with what happened in the USA in 2020: a global pandemic that saw a significant decline in the rights of the individual from the top-down, combined with an elite-backed summer of riots that sacked dozens of cities, used to destabilize a presidency.
Chapter 10: The Soviet Republic and Concluding Remarks (Not Paywalled)
“Kicking the can down the road” has long been a feature of politics, liberal democracies in particular. The Brits pride themselves (in their typical, self-deprecating manner) on “muddling through”. The American political system is built on compromise, whereby both sides are able to save face without resolving key questions, as they are left to a later date (think national debt, budget deficits, and so on).
Saturday Commentary and Review #125
ShareWhen the Clinton regime decided that they wanted to put an end to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, they already knew that they could not rely on a divided Europe to do so. The American media, working hand-in-glove with the Clinton Administration, settled on the narrative that the Bosnian Muslims (now known as “Bosniaks”) were the ‘victims’ in this war, and that the Bosnian Serbs, backed Slobodan Milosevic, were the aggressors.
Saturday Commentary and Review #124
ShareOne of the most important themes of the West these days is the political civil conflict between centre and periphery. Think about how much wealth, power, and cultural influence is held in places like London, Paris, New York City/Washington DC/Los Angeles, etc., and compare it to the rest of their respective countries. Each of these capitals of finance, culture, and politics dominate their countries so absolutely as to render the rest an effective terra incognita to outside observers.
Saturday Commentary and Review #119
Share“Yes, yes, Niccolo….we all know that the first casualty in war is the truth……you don’t need to remind us”, is what you’re thinking, and you’re right to do so. Everyone is waiting for the much-anticipated upcoming Ukrainian offensive. At the same time, everyone is left guessing where it will be launched, and what its overall targets will be. It’s important to confuse the enemy, and a big part of confusing them is achieved by distributing disinformation.
Saturday Commentary and Review #118
ShareEvery once in a while, I try to think about how the first farmers in human history must have felt, when they mastered the rudiments of agriculture, freeing themselves from the precarious existence of hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Were they prone to idealist and utopian visions thanks to this massive technological breakthrough? What of the first metal smelters? Did they convince themselves that they changed the world (or at least the conditions of their tribe) for the better?
Serbia's Bulldozer Revolution (2000)
ShareNote:this is a very expansive topic, one that I could write a book about blindfolded. As I am not writing a book but an article, there will be quite a bit that I will be forced to gloss over for the sake of brevity (‘brevity’ here is relative, as this is a very, very long essay due to its many complexities). Forgive me for this and use the comments section to nitpick, where I will more than happily respond to you.
The Israel Essay
ShareMy village is located where the mountain slope makes its final drop to the flat plain below it, before it rises up across the valley on another mountain. About one and half kilometres behind my house up the mountain and to west is a minefield that is now almost completely mine-free, thanks to the efforts of the brave technicians who have been working there every summer since the end of the war in 1995. Every once in a while, a mine will explode because an animal will step on it.
Hubris Invites Nemesis
ShareAccording to the Ancient Greeks,Nemesis was “…..the goddess of righteous indignation and the punisher of hubristic boasts.”Pausanias, the ancient Greek geographer, had this to say about Nemesis:Harvard Professor of Classics Gregory Nagy defines the conceptin the following way: “nemesis indicates the process whereby everyone gets what he or she deserves”. Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”.
International Criminal Court at The Hague Issues Arrest Warrant for Vladimir Putin
ShareIt wasn’t very difficult to predict that this would end up happening:In fact it was rather easy. Neither Russia nor Ukraine are signatories to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague in The Netherlands. Nor is the USA either. In fact, the USA has a law on the books that says that the President is authorized to send US forces to invade The Netherlands if any American is ever put on trial there for war crimes in order to rescue them. This is one hell of an escalation in this conflict.
Regime Change and Colour Revolutions Part 2: Security Vacuum and Streamlining Democracy
ShareOn the 23rd of November, 2003 at 8pm local Tbilisi time, history was made: Eduard Shevardnadze, the former Soviet Foreign Minister and then current President of the Republic of Georgia agreed to step down from office, handing the reins over to the Parliamentary Speaker for an interim period until fresh elections could be held.
Chapter 5 - Consent Is Not Enough
As a heterosexual male, I take the liberty of thinking that I can speak for all other heterosexual males in that we think about sex in a completely different way at age 28 then we did at age 16, and just as differently at 44 years of age vs. when we were still in our 20s. With age and experience comes wisdom (at least it should), but with that same distance comes loss of memory as to what we felt like when we were much, much younger.
Chapter 4 - Loveless Sex Is Not Empowering
ShareWith half of the book completed, you cannot escape the conclusion that this is indeed a book written by a woman for women. Louise continues to hammer home the point that the biggest winners of the Sexual Revolution are a small subset of highly “sociosexual” men who have a vast array of choices for female sexual partners. The main thesis of the book is that women are losers in this revolution, and she also rightfully concedes that most men are as well.
Saturday Commentary and Review #111
ShareLeftist German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck is a favourite of this Substack for his realistic, no-holds barred criticism of today’s prevailing western liberal mores and politics, and above all else, its predatory, nation-killing capitalism (he has attacked open borders quite a bit!).
Saturday Commentary and Review #108
Share“I am not responsible for geography”, explained Joseph Stalin in 1939 to a shocked Vyacheslav Molotov and other Politburo chiefs as to why Finland must be invaded. I first learned of this bit of history from Simon Sebag Montefiore’s “The Court of the Red Tsar”, an engrossing book that delivers example after example of Stalin’s propensity for wicked black humour. It has stayed with me ever since and immediately comes to mind whenever a global conflict pops up.
On The Bright Side.....
ShareI often get criticized for coming across as too pessimistic (the young kids call it ‘blackpilling’), too negative, and lacking in ideas on how to make things better. This is a very fair criticism, but I will still try to mitigate it by explaining myself as follows:It took me a very long time to realize that when I write, I am writing for myself, to myself, to help me understand the world around me. This might come across as selfish, but it is not intended to be so.
The Triumph of The Center
Like it or not, the midterms show just how stable the U.S. political system continues to be. Film and television have trained our brains to expect narrative arcs in everything we experience, from rising action to a climax and ending in a denouement. Real life is not like this at all, but many of us cannot help but interpret at least some of our own lives in this fashion. We apply this trajectory to our high school lives, our first romantic relationships, even our careers.
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