 Google Friends, I have one heckuva book review coming! It’s about a titanic two-volume history work of critical international importance. Learn more about this must-read material and its learned author soon. In the meanwhile, today, I was going to style this column, “The Self-Immolation Of America.” For reasons. Some of them were recently handled well by Greg Cook at Crisis. Please read that. It was also driven by a reply to a rare comment I left last fall on the Москва и москвичи YouTube channel. For my explanation of how globalist clowns ruined Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and America, I got 850+ “likes” and 52 replies. Most were of the <<Спасибо, брат!>> variety. But one came in lately that kind of stung: <<Эх вы американцы...ПОЗОР вам и вашему правительству!!!!!!!!!!!>> Or, “Oh, you Americans… SHAME on you and your government!!!!!!!!!!!” You know it’s bad when there are more than three exclamation points. There’s really no good come-back for that. I don’t feel personal shame as I’ve spent decades fighting the decline. As for my people, I feel a degree of pity. What Aaron Bushnell and Maxwell Azzarello did literally, the bulk of Americans have done, or allowed figuratively. A mess, writ large. For the government, and what lurks behind it, the feeling is nothing but white-hot hatred. But I understand the general disdain from many in the outside world. Then somewhere along the way, a couple of ideas converged around Isfahan, Iran, the city that was the inspiration for Duke Ellington’s classic 1967 piece of the same name. A few days ago, Mossad agents inside Iran launched what might be the most feeble retaliatory strike in history, a couple of toy drones deployed against an S-300 battery outside Isfahan. There was no damage, Iran laughed it off, and even Ben “Genocide G” Gvir called it “lame”. (Ouch.) Pepe Escobar, whom I admire immensely, posted a theory about a thwarted EMP attack. While I’m open to the possibility, I just don’t, as of yet, and with the information provided, see it as plausible. I have numerous technical, mathematical, and altitude concerns. However, if it did happen as reported, then it’s the most important story virtually no one is talking about. There’s more, of course, but what does it matter at the moment? Independently, I’d just read something at IRNA about Isfahan and its Yara Bookhouse. The store’s owner, Mohammad Reza Vaez Shahrestani, is concerned about the undercutting of small bookstores by bigger outlets and societal trends. Luckily, he appears to have a solution. I also looked into him, and he’s very interesting, a PhD philosopher and educator. Kindly entertain the mind with his summary of Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad’s  Google Does your ‘Murican town have such a bookstore? Does it have any bookstores? (Mine does not!) Amerika, the GAE, is a bright, shining bastion of freedom and democracy. Usury tempered with sodomy, etc. In the GAE, dope n’ wine moms take their little sons to libraries and yankee military bases to be victimized and molested by sodomite freaks in gaudy dresses and whore makeup. You know, the way it should be in our continent-spanning Sodom and Gomorrah? USA! USA! U-ess-eh… But, in unholy, unenlightened, and backward Iran, mothers take their sons to Yara for philosophy classes.  (Mo’ Google.) She (and I bet she’s pretty) only rated the food a "2" but that's neither here nor there. Dr. Shahrestani runs this fine program, one that might be worth reading about and maybe even replicating where possible.  (Not Googly.) As for Iran in general, the MSM, airhead pundits, and so many political rodents tell us horrific tall tales about Iran. Squeaker of the House, Mikey Johnson (R-hell), says Iran is part of the new “Axis of Evil” along with Russia and China. I remind one and all that, statistically insignificant outlier exceptions aside, there are only two kinds of Republicans. Their two primary archetypes frequently overlap, say, when projecting about an axis of evil. That faux axis appears the opposite of evil, as noted recently by Russia’s Mufti Anar Ramazanov, in an interview with IRNA: “Russian Muslims and Christians are now fighting together against the forces of Satan…” The people fighting for the other side keep telling us lies, such as that Iran is a religiously intolerant country. That, I suppose, is why Yara is virtually surrounded by Churches. Yara’s the little dot on Dr. Shariati St., bottom-right, on the following map.  (Googullz.) Iran is a majority Shia Islamic society, but all those Churches have been there for centuries providing spiritual homes for a variety of Christians. Isfahan also has several Synagogues for the city’s Jewish community, some parts of which have been present in Persia for twenty-five centuries. I may be mistaken, but one would think if Iran was so intolerant, then these communities might have packed up and left some time ago. One would also wonder why religious minorities have a number of dedicated seats in Tehran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly (aka, Parliament). One might also call into question the honesty of people like Mikey Johnson (R-hell), but let’s keep moving. The "Metro Station" shown on the map, not far from the dot, must be, as our clown masters would have us believe, some kind of third-world dump, probably a dump where the trains are pulled by camels. In fact, they’d probably insist Iran has no trains, subways, electricity, or any reason for existing outside of making trouble for ‘Murica and the Zionists. But, to make sure, let’s take a look inside, and— Hark! What’s this?!  (Googz.) For reference, Isfahan is Iran’s third largest city. The GAE’s equivalent is Chicago. Giving our clowns their due, it appears these Persian losers can't even employ bums to attack people and urinate on the platform as they do in the Windy City. Take that, Iran! That’s enough for now. I think we've been lied to yet again. We can be ashamed, angry, or sad, but the ruinous, dyscivilizational, and dehumanizing process our pet liars keep us living in won’t end until we end it. Start by turning off the lie machines. Maybe throw a book at the liars. Let’s start to get their existential evil out of our lifeworld. Deo vindice. This piece was published at Perrin Lovett on April 26, 2024.
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 This postcard features of a photo of an historic district in Starkville, MS. Late last week, Iran changed the paradigm in the Middle East when it retaliated against the Zionist Entity occupying Palestine for an earlier Zionist strike against an Iranian consulate in Syria and many other previous provocations. Using hundreds of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, launched in sequences to ensure they all arrived at roughly the same time, Iran accomplished several things. It tested and overwhelmed Zionist air defense capabilities. It demonstrated it can conduct powerful, precise operations at a great distance. It evidently tested new hypersonic glide vehicle technology, something similar to Russia’s Avangard weapon, if slower, smaller, and far less lethal. Iran partially eliminated assets of the IGF (Israeli Genocide Force) used during the Syrian attack. Those damaged targets include the IGF air bases at Ramon and Nevatim, and allegedly, an intelligence and radar site near Golan, and the IGF air intelligence headquarters in Tel Aviv. Tehran’s retaliation looked very much like the kind of precision exclamation point response they delivered to the GAE in early 2020. Now as then, the Empire, the Zionists, and their media puppets spin the same lies and Hasbara: 99% of Iran’s missiles were intercepted, there was no damage, and there were no casualties. Iran notified all relevant parties so as to minimize civilian harm during their demonstration. A seven-year-old Bedouin girl was either killed or injured when she was struck by debris from a downed projectile. A tragedy, though she might be the only Bedouin the zionists and luciferian clowns have ever feigned concern for. As at the GAE’s al-Assad AB in 2020, moderate to substantial damage was inflicted on the IGF’s bases. And there was no stopping it despite ample, supposedly effective air defenses. 99% of the drones probably were shot down, and that is why they were deployed—as decoys. But it appears that two-thirds of the ballistic missiles hit their targets. Here’s a video of one such successful strike. It may be the first video evidence of a hypersonic warhead maneuvering to evade an air defense missile. If that was what happened, then Iran has joined Russia in a very rare and elite club. The Zionists have vowed to retaliate, though where, when, and, most importantly, how remains to be seen. Iran has acknowledged this possibility, is by all accounts prepared for it, and has promised to repay if necessary. In short, Tehran sent a message to the Zionist occupiers that their days of running roughshod over the region are over. A similar message was conveyed to the Yankee Empire. The Global American Empire is at its end, being too stretched, too weak, and too opposed to continue dominating the entire world. I just read The Other Side Of The Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative Of Lament And Hope by Rev. Munther Isaac of Bethlehem (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2020). He’s the Lutheran Pastor Tucker Carlson recently interviewed and who has been speaking out against IGF violence and Western Christian indifference during the late Gazacaust. On page 64, he writes about empires:
Isaac’s is a book I highly recommend, and those words of his should sound rather familiar to Americans. On their watch and in their name, the GAE has committed atrocity after atrocity for decades. In the process, as it caused incalculable damage worldwide, it burned itself out and reduced Americans to mere numbers, increasingly impoverished and despondent numbers. It is now beginning to collapse, a process that will be followed by the eventual dissolution of the United States as it is currently organized. It will likely be a very messy happening, most painful for Americans, though it is a blessing for the world at large. As-is, in its death throes, the foreign elite controlling the GAE are frantically stirring as much trouble as they can, particularly in two major fronts of the existing global conflict, while planning a third major provocation and participating in many others of lesser character. None of this is of any benefit to the American people.
I decided to map out how far away a few of these pointless conflicts are from Oby’s in Starkville, Mississippi. One can simply adjust the distances to where one lives. Neither the Zionists nor the GAE can successfully wage war against Iran. The Zionists are already losing to the much less powerful foes of Hamas and Hezbollah. The GAE has for the past eight decades shown it cannot win, or really even fight a war against anyone. Tehran is 7,000 miles from Starkville. Jerusalem is 6,600 miles away, and Gaza is a hair less. And the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern entrance of the Red Sea is 8,000 miles out. The Empire’s Ukrainian project is shaping up to be its worst defeat ever. For the rulers of the West, it was critical and its loss to Russia will have permanent consequences. Americans, who probably still couldn’t find Ukraine on a map, should know that Kharkiv, a city destined to fall and rejoin Mother Russia, is 5,800 away from all those hot po’ boys and cold beers. As if running two losing offensives isn’t offensive enough, the lords of Washington, DC (Devil’s Coven) fantasize about a third loser against China. China, along with Russia and other BRICS+ countries, is already beating the brakes off the GAE economically and geopolitically. One supposes the neoclowns won’t be happy until Beijing adds a military component to the equation similar to Russia’s. Much of this silently has to do with keeping Japan and South Korea in the GAE’s orbit. But it's popularly sold as a conflict over Taiwan. Taipei is almost 8,000 miles from Starkville. At the moment, those measurements cover the major theaters. But there are many, many more: Serbia, Niger, Sudan, North Korea, Venezuela, etc. Add those future or unfolding disasters to the past list that includes Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and more. None of these misadventures helped or served Americans in any way. The lie was and is always the same—it’s all about America’s national interests. The lie comes in because there is no national interest, in the conflicts, or in general. There are no national values. No valid national government. No solvent national economy. As Paul Graham said, there isn’t even a national nation. There is one more major front. It’s the only one that truly matters to Americans. It’s America itself. Americans should see at least two distinct though related existential threats to themselves and their muddled polyglot association. Washington dismisses both threats, and in their place, and on strict behalf of the elites, substitutes the American people themselves. The first threat, which may be the largest of its kind in history, is the ongoing foreign invasion of the former United States. At random, I selected the Nuevo Laredo border crossing along America’s non-existent border. That point in Texas is only 750 miles from Starkville. Unlike the foregoing places of comparison, the border is much closer. There are no oceans or impenetrable natural barriers separating it from Mississippi or any other state. In fact, potholes and faulty bridges aside, they’re all linked by superhighways, railways, and air routes. By sheer coincidence, Washington, Devil’s Coven is also only 750 miles away. New York City is approximately 950 miles from Starkville. I list those cities because they represent, more than any other places, the seats of the second extreme threat facing Americans, the capitals of the clown’s empire. Once the international operations collapse and cease, the elites will only have Americans left to bully, dehumanize, rob, and murder. They hate and have hated Americans more than any other adversary. They’re really going to want to vent their frustrations on their last viable targets. How far away from Starkville is the true danger? It’s way too close for comfort. At some point, maybe after another rigged election and financial depression, Mississippians, Southerners, and other Americans will finally realize who their genuine enemy is and has been. None of the overseas conflicts concerned Americans, but Americans have nonetheless allowed themselves to become involved in them. In many ways, Americans are guilty of some of the shameful barbarities in those conflicts. That price will be paid and is already being felt at home. A silver lining is that the resistance in all those foreign lands may serve as both general inspiration and technical demonstration for Americans. Once they wake up. And once they do, the real prize is that their true enemies’ threat and power are largely illusory. The demons Americans suffer from turn out to be small, weak, rather stupid, and relatively few in number. For optimistic reference, the surface of the Sun is 93 million miles from Starkville. I suggest that would make an ideal, if implausible place to exile the elite enemy. I cannot calculate the distance from Starkville to hell. But that’s where the clowns are eventually going. None of their victims need to accompany them. Oby’s is zero miles from Oby’s. Once victory is achieved, it is the ideal place for a celebration. Deo vindice.  Dugina, Daria, For A Radical Life: Meditations By Daria Platonova Dugina, Tucson: PRAV, 2024. Last fall, I had the privilege of reviewing Eschatological Optimism by the late Daria Dugina (1992-2022), a book I learned of thanks to a very good friend. Earlier this year, I was reminded by another great and lovely friend that a second posthumous Dugina book was forthcoming in English from PRAV. One simply cannot have enough literarily in-tune friends in this life. Nor can one get enough of Russia’s brilliant and ever-rising star of intellect and steely determination.
It’s a shorter work, only 70 pages. Yet each and every sentence in it, every word lifts the spirit, touches the heart, and engages the mind. It is a compact gem, expertly translated, compiled, and edited by Jafe Arnold and John Stachelski. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in life, death, philosophy, and the eternal battle between Divine good and lowly evil. I also suggest the book would make a fine gift for, say, a college student or a young adult. Or for anyone. In Arnold’s excellent Foreword, I learned of yet another Dugina book, now only available in Russian, Топи и выси моего сердца (Depths and Heights of My Heart), ACT, 2023. I recommend that one even without having read it—a feat I mean to accomplish once I achieve perhaps A2/B1 Russian proficiency. As for For A Radical Life, it is a radical and informative mental excursion presented in short, referenced paragraph form. The collected material draws from sources in Eschatological Optimism with which the reader may already be familiar, along with assorted media quotes and personal diary entries. As for the latter, the reader certainly has not previously considered the meanings of those elements. One such entry from 2019, on page 46, appears as the back cover quote: “Wherever there is death, there is truth.” These words, or any similar sentiment, from this particular author, while deeply meaningful, necessarily leave the reader pained and sorrowed. Arnold pointedly gets to the exact truth behind one horrible death in a sea of carnage: “Her life was cut short by a car bombing carried out as part of Ukrainian special operations initiated, armed, trained, and funded by the CIA.” For A Radical Life, at 4. He notes the wicked powers of the postmodern West have, by their murder, “opened a Pandora’s box.” We will briefly look inside it, ere the end of this review. Dugina self-identifies as a warrior, an intellectual, steel, a proclaimer of “No!”, and the “Minister of Defense.” The reader will learn the context of these labels upon a full perusal. I was very happy to see this new book repeat a declaration I’ve praised before and what may be my favorite quote by anyone this century: “In the conditions of the modern world, any stubborn and desperate resistance to this world, any uncompromising struggle against liberalism, globalism, and Satanism, is heroism.” Id, at 22. Dugina was and is a hero, physically (and only physically) struck down by the liberalism, globalism, and satanism of the West. However, something else she wrote may poetically place their heinous deeds in proper perspective. In her diary, on September 2, 2021, she wrote, “I once said that I’m becoming and will become Antigone. Prophecy and recognition are coming to be. I am becoming Antigone.” Id, at 51 (emphasis mine). And in a way, she may have well become like that precise character of Sophocles. Antigone’s death in her eponymous tragic play is brought about by her reluctant if unrelenting uncle Creon, King of Thebes, a harsh punishment for her defiance of his order not to mourn or tend her deceased brother, Polynices. Though Creon does eventually relent and abate his judgment, it is already too late. The heroine is dead. Her death prompts the death of Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s fiancé. Haemon’s death begets the death of his mother, Queen Eurydice. By tormenting Antigone to her death, the king inadvertently brings down his own ruling house. Creon is a somewhat inconsistent character in general, within and without Antigone, and his placement into my analogy is maybe an equal contrariety. Being a tragic figure himself, he is far more sympathetic than the rulers of the postmodern West. However, if we transpose Dugina’s diary entry upon the play, then, as she becomes Antigone, the West becomes and represents Creon. Extending the imagined interchange, it is conceivable that, in conjunction with so many other crimes, the West may have sealed its fate by murdering Daria Dugina. When NATO and the USA are catastrophically defeated in Ukraine and elsewhere, their losses may be traceable, at least symbolically, back to her car bomb murder. The final lines of Antigone belong to the choregos herald*: “Wise conduct hath command of happiness before all else, and piety to Heaven must be preserved. High boastings of the proud bring sorrow to the height to punish pride. A lesson men shall learn when they are old.” Creon was a victim of allegiance to his own “rules-based” order. Nearly driven mad with remorse, nonetheless, he did learn his sad lesson. Yet his understanding came at the exorbitant cost of his posterity, his lineage destroyed with unyielding irony. Unlike Creon, the rulers of the faux West are evil rather than tragic. We may hold little hope that they learn anything from the consequences of their misdeeds and their inevitable defeat. But they will be defeated. Any one of you may participate in the pending triumph over this current iteration of the devil’s transient empire of lies and death. One simple way is to join with the wit, charm, wisdom, sorrow, joy, and iron defiance of Daria Dugina. Read her Meditations and live your own radical life. *The symbolism keeps flowing. On February 26, 2024, in Moscow, Princess Vittoria Alliata di Villafranca noted of Daria Dugina: “It was only when, confronting the Empire of Chaos, Daria raised her name Platonova like a flag to affirm that being a woman today means choosing between two opposite archetypes, that finally the enemy noticed her.” Again, may their attention to her detail destroy them! Of course, the raised name of “Platonova,” of the “new Plato,” is essentially self-explanatory with even a little understanding of the philosophy of Daria Dugina. In the foregoing context concerning Antigone, it is most interesting to also know that the old Plato was upon a time himself counted among the Athenian choregoi. There comes a time when too many coincidences begin to look like prescient ordination. Regardless of the allegorical, raise your flag, sound your chorus, and be a radical! Deo vindice!  Here is a very short list of some of the news, thought, and analysis sites I read on a regular basis. I stopped with twenty-one of them, representing about a quarter of those I frequent. The reader may be familiar with some of them and others less so. If one fails to find one’s pet source on the list, then at least one already knows about that source. There are no Western mainstream corporate sources included. With America destroyed, there is little reason to put much practical emphasis on American political, economic, or social analysis. I trust the reader is familiar with the Drudge Report, the New York Times, the Daily Mail, RT, Der Spiegel, and similar popular sites which at times may or may not be accurate or useful. I also suggest that the reader is likely comfortable with, and more knowledgeable than me about, local news sources of all kinds where the reader lives. Several of the following are written in languages other than English. A few contain built-in multilingual versions; the same source sometimes runs different news features for different demographics. As such, and as I doubt anyone is fluent in all the languages, I highly recommend the auto-translation feature in better browsers or the translation services available from Yandex or Google. My experience is that using these services is at least “good enough”. I roughly grouped the following by subject or geographic area. More than a few of these forums also host video shows which may be of interest. Have fun with it. News and CommentaryVox Populi. If I only had one place to check for daily commentary, it would be Vox’s blog. Reminiscence of the Future. Andrei Martyanov understands military affairs, geopolitics, economics, and more. Strategic Culture. Multipolar-leaning international analysis and news. The Duran. Anti-clown world insight from two of the best guys out there. Sonar21. Larry Johnson is honest, affable, and knows clandestine affairs like no one else. Scott Ritter. Ritter does give Johnson a run for his money. Geopolitika. Professor Dugin and Leonid Savin weekly contribute to the site they run so well, providing a forum for voices that need to be heard. Moon of Alabama. Just take a look. Give the setup a moment. The Saker (Latin America). Andrei Raevsky ran one of the best geostrategic sites on the web. This blog keeps the spirit going. The Unz Review. Information overload. Books, stats, and articles from everywhere. General Financial/EconomicZero Hedge. The Western economies are collapsing. As such, there’s little need for “financial” advice. Yet, here’s what’s left. Michael Hudson. One of the two best economists in the world and one of the few who understands economics. RussiaTASS. Short, official statements. |
