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April 2010
Testing the Limits of Free Speech: Ernst Zundel Speaks Out
Published by Editor on April 30, 2010
An interview with one of Europe’s most well-known political prisoners by Kourosh Ziabari, Foreign Policy Journal ERNST ZUNDEL is a German author and historian who has spent seven years of his life behind bars as a result of expressing his controversial viewpoints and opinions. He is a revisionist who has denied the Holocaust as described [...]
America: A Nation Gone Insane
Published by Editor on April 30, 2010
by Razvlekatsa Zabavlatsa THE LEADERSHIP of the United States and their British cohorts have been deceiving the public for more than 100 years. Now yoked to Zionism, they are a deadly combination — and they are also deadly to themselves. (pictured: General Stanley McChrystal) I don’t think the rest of the world really understands what’s [...]
Meet General Grant
Published by Editor on April 30, 2010
by H.L. Mencken A review of Meet General Grant by W. E. Woodward (Horace Liverwright, publishers); The American Mercury, 1928 THE DREADFUL title of this book is not the least of its felicities. If they had been saying such things in his day it seems unquestionable that Grant would have said, “Meet the wife.” He [...]
The Calamity of Appomattox
Published by Editor on April 29, 2010
by H.L. Mencken The American Mercury, September 1930 NO AMERICAN historian, so far as I know, has ever tried to work out the probable consequences if Grant instead of Lee had been on the hot spot at Appomattox. How long would the victorious Confederacy have endured? Could it have surmounted the difficulties inherent in the [...]
Native Americans Bear the Nuclear Burden
Published by Editor on April 28, 2010
by Andreas Knudsen Reprinted from Indigenous Affairs. Published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. NATIVE COMMUNITIES, primarily in the western US, have been chronically exposed to low doses of radiation for over forty years. This exposure derives from the many nuclear activities on indigenous lands such as uranium mining and milling, uranium conversion [...]
“Psychics” at the Pentagon?
Published by Malcolm P. Shiel on April 28, 2010
by M.P. Shiel ACCORDING to Wired magazine, the Pentagon just spent $4,000,000 to learn how to read our minds. (Er, I mean read “the enemy’s” minds! And we do seem to have a lot of enemies these days.) Leaving aside the question of just why anyone who could truly read minds would have any need [...]
The Imperial Unconscious
Published by Editor on April 28, 2010
Afghan Faces, Predators, Reapers, Terrorist Stars, Roman Conquerors, Imperial Graveyards, and Other Oddities of the Truncated American Century by Tom Engelhardt SOMETIMES, it’s the everyday things, the ones that fly below the radar, that matter. Here, according to Bloomberg News, is part of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s recent testimony on the Afghan War before [...]
Portraying George Washington in a Barack Obama World
Published by Ann Hendon on April 23, 2010
by Ann Hendon Dr. Jim Hodges has what he calls “a special calling that brings the ethical leadership principles of George Washington to life.” In his career as a public speaker, Dr. Hodges has shared the principles of what he calls “our Patriarch” — blending skilful acting with the moving words of a truly inspirational [...]
Zionist Fraud
Published by Editor on April 23, 2010
Famed historian and American Mercury contributor Harry Elmer Barnes wrote this article as a friend of the Jewish people, but an enemy of the fraud that caused — and may well cause — wars between peoples in which millions on all sides lost their lives. It originally appeared in the Fall 1968 issue of The [...]
Separatist Richard Barrett Killed in Mississippi
Published by Editor on April 23, 2010
by Philip St. Raymond WHITE SEPARATIST and attorney Richard Barrett (pictured) of rural Pearl, Mississippi was found murdered — stabbed, beaten, and burned over 35% of his body — yesterday in his Rankin County home. Authorities have arrested a 23-year-old black ex-convict, Vincent McGee, for the killing. McGee was one of Barrett’s neighbors, and had [...]
US News »
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 [...]
Europe »
Italian Court Increases Sentences for 23 CIA Agents
January 4, 2011
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 [...]
Social Sciences »
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 [...]
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Opinion, Vintage Mercury »
Genesis of the Southern Cracker
May 7, 2012
by W.J. Cash (pictured) FOR years it has been the fashion with historians to explain the white cracker of the South as simply the product of degenerate blood-strains from Europe — the progeny of the convict-servants and redemptioners of Old Virginia. But the theory defies logic and the known facts. Actually, the source of the [...]
Opinion, Vintage Mercury »
Genesis of the Southern Cracker
May 7, 2012
by W.J. Cash (pictured) FOR years it has been the fashion with historians to explain the white cracker of the South as simply the product of degenerate blood-strains from Europe — the progeny of the convict-servants and redemptioners of Old Virginia. But the theory defies logic and the known facts. Actually, the source of the [...]
Arts, Film, Literature »
Pauline Kael: One Against the Herd
May 6, 2012
Selected Writings of Pauline Kael; Library of America, 2011 Pauline Kael: Alone in the Dark; Brian Kellow, Viking Adult, 2011 by Ron Capshaw FOR CONSERVATIVES, PAULINE KAEL IS notorious for her much-quoted comment about her astonishment that Nixon won the 1972 election since “everyone I know voted for McGovern.” Despite this prime example of the liberal [...]
