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A New American Foreign Policy, Part One

Written by Michael Laurel, Posted in Uncategorized

Today America is the center of the world. It is the great and mighty beast around which all nations, strong and weak, orient themselves. Even its softest steps disturbs nations worldwide, and America does not enjoy taking soft steps. It prefers dashing ahead, pounding the ground with great strength and fortitude as if to issue a challenge: “If you want stability and a status quo, it will be my stability, my status quo. My terms, all mine!” That is America’s foreign policy since the Second World War in a nutshell. My way or the highway. And it has been an […]

Tuesday

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March 2015

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Ascending The Tower – Episode V – “A Cult Composed Of Many Cults”

Written by Nick B. Steves, Posted in Ascending the Tower

http://www.socialmatter.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ATT_Episode_V.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week, we’re joined by Henry Dampier for a discussion on American conservatism. Brought to you by Surviving Babel and Nick B. Steves, Ascending the Tower is a podcast distributed by Social Matter and represents the latest project of the Hestia Society. Please leave feedback in the comments, and if you’d like to get in touch with Surviving Babel, you can find him at: survivingbabel@gmail.com Related show links: ** N.B. Boston did not break the snowfall record until 3/15/15 Opening – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1124080/merd-in-france Closing – http://www.navy.mil/navydata/nav_legacy.asp?id=191 Henry Dampier’s Blog – http://www.henrydampier.com/ Conservakin – http://www.henrydampier.com/2015/02/what-makes-someone-conservakin/ American Flag […]

Tuesday

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March 2015

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The Left Killed the Working Class

Written by Henry Dampier, Posted in Uncategorized

The typical story that the left tells about the relative decline of the American working class is that it was the outcome of inevitable technological and historical processes. You can see many of the shells of old factories all around the “rust belt” yourself. Formerly great industrial cities like Detroit have become ruins with governance more typical of war-torn African countries than those you would expect in the West in the matter of few short decades. The claims about the ‘obsolescence’ of industrial work are entirely false. There’s still an enormous amount of mass industrial labor going on. It just […]

Monday

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March 2015

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Yuray Reviews Anissimov’s Guide for Neoreactionaries

Written by Mark Yuray, Posted in Uncategorized

If the first installment of Neoreaction: The Book was Bryce Laliberte’s What is Neoreaction? (Amazon link here), the second installment would undoubtedly be Michael Anissimov’s A Critique of Democracy: A Guide for Neoreactionaries (see here). Despite their differences, our two hot-headed young intellectual mavericks remain the only two people to have formally published any sort of complete works on neoreaction, short as they both are (the books that is — not our mavericks [though they may be as well, I have no idea]). Whereas Laliberte’s work is a dense read by all accounts, Anissimov’s is a rather light one; a guide […]

Thursday

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March 2015

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Weightlifting and the Threading of Needles

Written by John Glanton, Posted in Uncategorized

My father is getting on up there in years, early sixties to be exact, but he’s in enviable shape for his age. Just last September, for instance, I saw him paddle a kayak for a couple miles against the wind on a choppy lake without taking a breather, and it didn’t get the best of him. He hikes with his dog regularly. And he’s got that proverbial old man strength in his hands, which you can witness any time he picks up a tamp bar. To my knowledge, the last time he lifted weights or even had a dedicated workout […]

Wednesday

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March 2015

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North Korea is Russia’s Pacific Pivot

Written by Michael Laurel, Posted in Uncategorized

North Korea. The Russian Federation. Kim Jong-un. Vladimir Putin. Two nations, both anti-American now and historically. Both on the precipice between success and failure. Both with great futures and great potential loss. And their fate rests with one another. For North Korea is Russia’s Pacific Pivot and its way out of an Asian encirclement, and Russia is North Korea’s guarantee of future prosperity. This part of East Asia is characterized by three major powers and three lesser powers. The major ones are the Russian Federation, China, and the United States of America. Each of these nations has enough nuclear weaponry […]

Tuesday

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March 2015

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Peace Is Not Great

Written by Henry Dampier, Posted in Uncategorized

For over 100 years, much of the West’s intellectual culture has come to agree that war ought to be ended as a human institution. We have never really gotten around to achieving that, but the past two major wars and many major international institutions have had as an explicit aim the elimination of war between nation-states. Those states which refuse to abide by the new international system (the League of Nations between the two world wars and the United Nations after the second) tend to be referred to as ‘rogue states.’ The United States, being the widely-acknowledged leading global power, […]

Monday

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March 2015

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Comfort Kills

Written by Mark Yuray, Posted in Uncategorized

When I push the “On” button on my smartphone, the image that appears is one of a seaside Mediterranean cathedral. It is made of white stone. “It looks so pretty.” What the Americaness doesn’t notice is that behind the ghostly numbers telling the time, the cathedral is riddled with shrapnel. I know well enough, since I took the picture myself and poked the gashes and snarls of metal embedded in the doorway. Artillery shells exploded here within recent memory. Here, where German tourists now waddle around in flip-flops and souvenir t-shirts. Here, within fifty paces of the kind of beach described as […]

Saturday

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March 2015

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Ascending The Tower – Episode IV, Part 2 – “Nobody Intrinsically Trusts Economists”

Written by Nick B. Steves, Posted in Ascending the Tower

http://www.socialmatter.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ATT_Episode_IV_Pt_24.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week, we’re joined by Hurlock for part 2 of a discussion on bureaucracy. Brought to you by Surviving Babel and Nick B. Steves, Ascending the Tower is a podcast distributed by Social Matter and represents the latest project of the Hestia Society. Please leave feedback in the comments, and if you’d like to get in touch with Surviving Babel, you can find him at: survivingbabel@gmail.com Related show links: Opening – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1164342/jornadas2 Closing – https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/231561/the-winter-blues Whig Theory of Checks and Balances – http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm Andrew Jackson v. Supreme Court – http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/worcester-v-georgia-1832 Birth of judicial review – […]

Friday

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March 2015

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Russia Is Not Our Saviour

Written by Ash Milton, Posted in Uncategorized

In this article, I want to refute the idea that Russia’s positioning as the defender of traditional values makes it an ally of Western restoration. In particular, similarities between the philosophy of Dugin (4PT) and Western criticisms of progressive Universalism don’t change the fact that the former goes hand in hand with Russia’s geopolitical interests. This is not to say that we must attack Russia as a foe. Nor is it to say that Russian and Western interests are always and forever irreconcilable. But it is to say that Western interests are distinct from Russian ones, and when there is a choice […]

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A New American Foreign Policy, Part One

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Ascending The Tower – Episode V – “A Cult Composed Of Many Cults”

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The Left Killed the Working Class

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Yuray Reviews Anissimov’s Guide for Neoreactionaries

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Weightlifting and the Threading of Needles

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North Korea is Russia’s Pacific Pivot

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Peace Is Not Great

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Comfort Kills

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Ascending The Tower – Episode IV, Part 2 – “Nobody Intrinsically Trusts Economists”

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Russia Is Not Our Saviour

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