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 and enrichment, and testing of Continue Reading →
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 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Continue Reading →
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 American Mercury. (oil portrait by Continue Reading →
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 done yard work for him. Continue Reading →
by Chris Leithner THE VOLUMINOUS writings (nineteen books and thousands of essays, articles and reviews) of H. L. Mencken, one of America’s finest writers and perhaps its greatest journalist and chronicler of American English, are a virtually-forgotten treasure trove of sparkling wit and deep wisdom. Like knowledge of their own history and respect for their own Constitution, decades ago most Continue Reading →