Masha Gessen and Her Questionable Views
“I have spent a good third of my professional life working to convince the readers—and often editors—of both Russian and American publications that Vladimir Putin is a threat to the world as we know it.” Thus spake Russian-born journalist and author Masha Gessen, a current heroine of the more intellectual part of the PC hive....
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During the latter decades of the Cold War with Soviet Russia, the charge of being “unpatriotic” or “anti-American” caused American liberals (excluding those who had to rely on the votes of regular Americans to hold political office) to burst into spasms of ridicule and howls of “Red-baiting,” “war-mongering,” “witch-hunting,” and “fascism.” Sophisticated folks, liberals implied,...
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The mainstream media’s narrative that the Russian government interfered with the United States election, and that this interference invalidated, or at least tainted, Trump’s election has culminated in President Obama taking a series of measures against Russia, which consist of: imposing sanctions on the GRU and the FSB (the two major Russian intelligence organizations), four...
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The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel, by Alison Weir
Alison Weir’s relatively short book covers the history of Zionism in the United States from the last decades of the 19th century until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. (She is working on a second volume that will carry this history to the present.) Its brevity does not mean, however, that it...
Read MoreIronic, to say the least
Despite the fact that they are forever scrutinizing Donald Trump, the mainstream media seem to have largely missed the fact that he advocates policies more supportive of Israel than those of any American president. They missed the fact, too, that if Trump became president, he would enjoy closer connections with American Jews than any of...
Read MoreIn 2013 it became apparent that the American people had grown averse to America's involvement in wars, and that received empirical confirmation in a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in November 2013, which revealed that 51 percent of Americans believed that their country's military involvement was excessive.[1] Once again the bugaboo of isolationism...
Read MoreThe Founders of the United States believed that it was essential for citizens to be well-informed in order to have a workable self-government. Being schooled in the classics, in which the socio-political views of Plato and Aristotle held sway, they believed that the popular governments of the ancient world had foundered because of the common...
Read MoreRussia’s wasteful Olympics vs. necessary U.S. Government spending
Orwellian "doublethink" — the holding of two mutually contradictory beliefs — has once again surfaced in the mainstream media in their view of Russian government spending on the Sochi Olympics compared with their polar-opposite view of the usual American government spending. The American media's picture of the Sochi Olympics is largely negative. True, the media...
Read MoreThose of a skeptical mind who want evidence for the culpability of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the August 21 poison gas attack may find the first part of a recent Washington Times article very revealing. The story is "Kerry tells U.N. to focus on ridding Syria of chemical weapons, not on sarin attack," by...
Read MoreHow to foam at the mouth while keeping your job
One would have thought that the initial animosity to the French on account of their opposition to the U.S. war on Iraq would have died out by now. But in fact it has increased among the war partisans: they have begun blaming the French for the postwar problems that the United States faces in Iraq....
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The Recent Confirmation of Soviet Espionage in America
In an apparent effort to illustrate political simple-mindedness, Carroll Quigley derisively wrote in his noted (at least by the John Birch Society) Tragedy and Hope, that the “same groups who were howling about Soviet espionage in 1948-1955 were also claiming that President Roosevelt expected and wanted Pearl Harbor.”[1] In a previous contribution to The Occidental...
Read MoreThe Establishment defense of Franklin Roosevelt's policies leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor typically deals with key arguments of revisionists by ignoring them. That was certainly the case with the History Channel's recent documentary "Tora, Tora, Tora," and it seems to be reflected in the cinematic special-effects blockbuster "Pearl Harbor." The legend pushed...
Read MoreTIME's "Person of the Century" is a perfect choice
Albert Einstein has been named Time Magazine's "Person of the Century." I cannot evaluate Einstein's scientific work on the Theory of Relativity, but certainly he has always been placed head and shoulders above any other 20th-century scientist. His name has become synonymous with super-genius. However, Einstein has always had a favorable press because his leftist...
Read MoreDear Potentates: With all the recent talk about American intervention in East Timor, which is about as far as one can get from the United States, you may be wondering about the safety of your own oppressive regime. Is any oppressive regime safe and secure from the long arm of the United States? In fact,...
Read MoreOf Myth and Reality
For over three decades Joseph R. McCarthy has been a central figure in liberal demonology. His name has become part of common parlance to mean the practice of making baseless accusations and engaging in the character assassination of innocent victims. According to the liberal McCarthy myth, his alleged witch hunts for Communists ruined the lives...
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