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Whittaker Chambers: Ghosts and Phantoms

December 11, 2011

by David Chambers WHITTAKER CHAMBERS died 50 years ago at the age of 60. Much in the world has changed since then. What might he think about world affairs today, were he still alive? Before commenting, he would catch up on history with books like Tony Judt‘s Postwar. Another would be Timothy Snyder‘s Bloodlands, which [...]

Homeless Jack’s Lexicon

June 5, 2011

by H. Millard “I KNOW YOU’RE trying to figure out more about this religion of mine, man,” said Homeless Jack, “so here’s a basic lexicon that may help you get it. I got this from Arman. “And, you probably want to know how many believers there are in addition to Arman. Well, all I know [...]

Survival of the Black Race in North America

May 9, 2011

There are lessons that readers of all races can learn from the words of this Black writer, who calls for self-determination for his people — which, ultimately, means their own society. by Lawrence Neal (pictured) THE MOST ESSENTIAL QUESTION confronting me is the psychological and physical survival of the Black man in America. I believe [...]

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Homeless Jack on Evolution…

January 11, 2012

by H. Millard “WE LIVE IN REALLY STUPID times, man,” said Homeless Jack. “Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, the same could be said for all times, but our stupid times are much worse. “We face extinction, man, and soft genocide is going on each and every day now as our stupid people — our [...]

America: Economic Disaster Looms

May 8, 2011

by Bob Chapman Publisher of The International Forecaster. AS THE ECONOMY STUMBLES the American standard of living recedes. Forty-four million people are using food stamps and in one year that figure will be 60 million. Washington and Wall Street say “what, me worry?” Of course not; they are the “masters of the universe.” We are [...]

Why ‘Network Marketing’ Can’t Work

May 8, 2011

What’s Wrong With Multi-Level Marketing? by Dean Vandruff “LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT AN INCREDIBLE ground-level business opportunity…” someone says, and you are invited to a house or to lunch for “a discussion.” Funny enough, you feel in your gut that there is some hidden agenda or deception. “Probably a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization,” you [...]

The Happiness Hypothesis

May 8, 2011

Of Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis, and Historical Narratives by A. Helian JONATHAN HAIDT IS ONE OF THE MOST coherent thinkers in the social sciences today. A Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, he specializes in the study of morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. He describes himself as an [...]

Life is Evolution

May 8, 2011

by Don Kaiser THE SOLE CHARACTERISTIC that ultimately distinguishes living from non-living matter is classical Darwinian evolution. Life is simply matter that evolves. A simple analysis of the definition of life leads to the conclusion that living matter is inanimate matter that evolves. Evolution is the sole feature that differentiates living matter from non-living matter. [...]

A New People Born Out of the Old

May 8, 2011

by H. Millard HOMELESS JACK SAID, “People in my faith know that we are the new Whites — a new people born out of the old — we are born anew after we have awakened to the truth. We are born anew by choice and we have brought ourselves anew into this world from the [...]

End ‘Drug War’ Corruption

February 9, 2011

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by Day Brown THE DRUG WAR is out of control, and it’s causing a huge problem for hundreds of totally innocent rural property owners. A new dwarf hydroponic marijuana strain has hybridized with a local Ozark line — and that local strain had already been shrinking in size. Outdoor marijuana growers have always returned to [...]

Americans, Save Yourselves: Destructive Economic Policies Continue

February 9, 2011

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The oligarchs are not interested in restoring America’s manufacturing base, therefore we must prepare for the worst. by Bob Chapman Publisher of The International Forecaster. THE ADMINISTRATION and those who control it, the House and Senate, want us to believe that debt can be paid out of revenues now and forever. As inflation and perhaps [...]

Beauty and Brains Do Go Together

February 6, 2011

HANDSOME MEN and women often appear to be blessed with lucky lives. Now research has shown they are cleverer than most people as well. Studies in Britain and America have found they have IQs 14 points above average. The findings dispel the myth of the dumb blondes or good-looking men not being very bright. It [...]

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  • Sensitivity International: Network for World Control

    February 6, 2011

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    by Ed Dieckmann, Jr. from The American Mercury, Winter, 1969 EARLY IN MAY of this year, a courageous mother, Mrs. Lois Godfrey of Garden Grove, California, succeeded in getting sensitivity training outlawed, at least temporarily, in the Garden Grove Unified School District. Mrs. Godfrey withdrew two of her children from a class in which the [...]

    The All Too Real Sexual Frailty of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    February 6, 2011

    And why we’re Lucky it didn’t get out at the time by H. Braintree AMERICANS LIKE their saints plastered, which is a problem because reality keeps intruding. Most people reading this probably have some inkling that MLK, like John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and a host of well-known political figures, was not exactly an [...]

    Death of the Southern God

    February 6, 2011

    by Mark Douglas Suddenly, they never mentioned the God of slavery again. The Great Hush. SHHHHH — We don’t talk about that God anymore. Can you kill a God? No.  But you can show it’s so fake that its own believers never mention Him again.  That’s what happened to the Southern “God of Slavery.” What [...]

    Homeless Jack Talks About the Righteous Path

    February 6, 2011

    by H. Millard “YOU WANT TO walk my path, man?” asked Homeless Jack. “Well, if so, then you have to understand that my path is narrow and it’s going to the stars. It may take many generations, but my DNA code is on the way through my children and my children’s children into the far [...]

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    America: Economic Disaster Looms

    May 8, 2011

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    by Bob Chapman Publisher of The International Forecaster. AS THE ECONOMY STUMBLES the American standard of living recedes. Forty-four million people are using food stamps and in one year that figure will be 60 million. Washington and Wall Street say “what, me worry?” Of course not; they are the “masters of the universe.” We are [...]

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    Italian Court Increases Sentences for 23 CIA Agents

    January 4, 2011

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    AN ITALIAN COURT UPPED the sentences for 23 CIA agents convicted in absentia of abducting an Egyptian imam in one of the biggest cases against the US “extraordinary rendition” programme. The 23 CIA agents, originally sentenced in November 2009 to five to eight years in prison, had their sentences increased to seven to nine years [...]

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    The Happiness Hypothesis

    May 8, 2011

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    Of Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis, and Historical Narratives by A. Helian JONATHAN HAIDT IS ONE OF THE MOST coherent thinkers in the social sciences today. A Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, he specializes in the study of morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. He describes himself as an [...]

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    Sensitivity International: Network for World Control

    February 6, 2011

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    by Ed Dieckmann, Jr. from The American Mercury, Winter, 1969 EARLY IN MAY of this year, a courageous mother, Mrs. Lois Godfrey of Garden Grove, California, succeeded in getting sensitivity training outlawed, at least temporarily, in the Garden Grove Unified School District. Mrs. Godfrey withdrew two of her children from a class in which the [...]

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    Whittaker Chambers: Ghosts and Phantoms

    December 11, 2011

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    by David Chambers WHITTAKER CHAMBERS died 50 years ago at the age of 60. Much in the world has changed since then. What might he think about world affairs today, were he still alive? Before commenting, he would catch up on history with books like Tony Judt‘s Postwar. Another would be Timothy Snyder‘s Bloodlands, which [...]

    Literature »

    Head of the Whole Business

    January 25, 2011

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    Red Conspirator: J. Peters and the American Communist Underground by Thomas Sakmyster; University of Illinois Press, March 2011 $50.00, 312 pages, including 6 black & white photographs reviewed by David Chambers FROM AUGUST 3, 1948, until today, America has had to wait to learn more about the head of Soviet espionage in Washington during the [...]

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    Head of the Whole Business

    January 25, 2011

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    Red Conspirator: J. Peters and the American Communist Underground by Thomas Sakmyster; University of Illinois Press, March 2011 $50.00, 312 pages, including 6 black & white photographs reviewed by David Chambers FROM AUGUST 3, 1948, until today, America has had to wait to learn more about the head of Soviet espionage in Washington during the [...]

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    Fed Trapped; Financial Tyranny Advancing

    January 25, 2011

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    by Bob Chapman Publisher of The International Forecaster. WHEN YOU STOP and think about it, the Fed’s main instrument of monetary policy, the manipulation of interest rates, has been lost to it. That is two years with the same rate. What has become very obvious is that an official rise in rates would create all [...]

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    The Zoo

    January 25, 2011

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    by H.L. Mencken (pictured) I OFTEN WONDER how much sound and nourishing food is fed to the animals in the zoological gardens of America every week, and try to figure out what the public gets in return for the cost thereof. The annual bill must surely run into millions; one is constantly hearing how much [...]

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    America, 2011: Liberty is Not Safe

    January 12, 2011

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    by Frank Miele (pictured) H.L. MENCKEN, a famous writer of the first half of the 20th century, is often credited with having said: “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” So far as I can tell, he never actually said that, which may just give more credit to the validity of [...]

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    American Revolutionary Patriots Invented IEDs

    January 11, 2011

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    by Philip Devlin DURING THE PAST DECADE of American involvement in the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device, often referred to as an IED, has become a common part of our recent vocabulary. IEDs have accounted for over 50 percent of the nearly 5,900 American deaths so far in those engagements. [...]

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    Government attacked First Amendment on all fronts in 2010

    January 11, 2011

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    by Jack Minor WHILE THERE have been Government assaults on the First Amendment throughout the history of America, 2010 featured bipartisan attacks on all major forms of media. Congress proposed legislation giving the President what many have said is a “kill switch” on the Internet enabling him to shut it down in the event of [...]

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    2011: Wall Street Dictatorship

    January 6, 2011

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    by Bob Chapman (pictured) Publisher of The International Forecaster. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE, Ben Bernanke, would have us believe that if it were not for QE1, unemployment would have been considerably higher. Since QE2 began in June, U6 has only improved by ¼%. Perhaps better numbers are on the way, but that has [...]

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    Israel’s Grand Design

    January 4, 2011

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    Israeli Leaders Crave Area from Egypt to Iraq by John Mitchell Henshaw From the Spring, 1968 issue of The American Mercury. John Henshaw wrote this article shortly after Israel’s conquests in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF TINY Israel from a midget to a giant is in the making. The grand design of Judaic-Zionist [...]

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    What is Poetry?

    January 4, 2011

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    Poetry is an art much neglected — or mangled — by the anti-Western ideologues that dominate what remains of our culture today. But it is an integral part of our civilization, and we are incomplete without it. by Martin Wright Sampson, Professor of English Literature, Cornell University I REMEMBER that as a small boy I [...]

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    H. L. Mencken at Full Throttle

    January 4, 2011

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    Honeyed and abrasive: the irrepressible journalism of the ‘Sage of Baltimore’ and American Mercury founder by Michael Dirda H.L. MENCKEN (1880–1956) is often smilingly referred to as the Sage of Baltimore (especially in Baltimore), but during the first third of the twentieth century he was the most outspoken, irrepressibly contrarian literary and political journalist in [...]