 For technical reasons, partly related to a semi-inoperable computer, this one is a little shorter than my average. Pardon. Or you’re welcome. On June 24, 2024, Julian Assange was finally freed after twelve years of torture and confinement. His ordeal began when he and his Wikileaks media organization made public in 2010 various war crimes committed by the US Empire in Iraq in 2007, including against unarmed civilians. In 2012, he was forced into the Ecuadorian embassy in London. In 2019, he was removed to the dreary Belmarsh prison where he fought trumped-up US criminal charges. As of 2024, the US’s superseding indictment involves one of those insane government conspiracy theories, namely “conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information.” The case against Assange is and has been, in legal terms, pure bullshit. If he is afforded First Amendment press protection pursuant to the 1971 Pentagon Papers case (New York Times v. US Empire), then the US has no case. If, as alleged by the US, he enjoys no such protection because he is not a US citizen, then because he was never within the jurisdiction of the US, the US has no case. Of course, as law no longer matters in the rapidly collapsing US, these points are moot. And in Assange’s particular case, a plea deal to cut the losses of all parties is, while not exactly the right thing, an acceptable thing to put an end to this ridiculous charade. If one listens for a minute or three, one will invariably hear some US officer, agent, or apologist mumble something about “democracy,” “free and democratic,” “rules-base,” “rules-based democracy,” or some other nonsense. One will also note, in addition to the aforementioned legal impossibility, that Assange’s persecution spans the tenure of three US presidents representing both sides of the uniparty. It might be that all that talk about rules and democracy is a lie. As President Vladimir noted not too long ago, no one knows what those rules are or who empowered the rule-makers. As for democracy, there are different definitions of the concept. Here, I’ll just state H.L. Mencken’s: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Why so many otherwise good and decent people continue to fall for the sham is a great unknown. But fall for it they do. This might lead me into another discussion that I lack the time and computing power for this week. But democracy, like all trappings of the Enlightenment, is a hoax. In discussing something James Delingpole wrote about Nigel Farage, Vox Day recently opined, “Democracy, particularly in its limited representative form, is nothing more than a sham meant to prevent the volatile public from knowing who truly rules over them. The whole point of the political systems of the modern ‘democracies’ is not to express the will of the people, but rather, prevent it from being realized.” This is why three US politicians, from both sides of the uniparty, pursue a wicked legal strategy not in the interests of the American people nor of much concern to them. It is also why the American people are gearing up for another fake election involving two of those three puppet politicians, one of whom has demonstrated an inability to deal with the true rulers of the US, and the other an inability to do much more than follow orders from them. The real rulers keep getting their way and they keep doing the same evil things. Just a few days before Assange’s release, the US abetted more war crimes against unarmed civilians. In 2007, it was an Apache airstrike on a family van in Baghdad. Lately, beach-goers in Sevastopol have been hit with ATACMS cluster munitions. Assange’s case proves that what truth and justice resided within the US has departed. Most of the history of the US and its Clown World empire disprove the merits of democracy. Evil genocidal maniacs commit war crimes. It's not so much a matter of “the more things change…” but rather, a case of no one forcing changes until relatively recently. I wish Mr. Assange Godspeed, peace, and a restful recovery from his crucible. And instead of continuing to self-crucify, I wish the American people would watch how Russia deals with the crimes of the satanic rules-based democratic disorder. Maybe that last part is too much to ask for now. Deo vindice.
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 In the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, the reader learns a little about Thorongil, the traveling name of young Aragorn, the future King Elessar. Over some thirty years, Aragorn wandered through the lands of men in order to gauge their worthiness in the coming war against Sauron. Little is known about his journeys into distant lands where “the stars are strange;” however, in Gondor and Rohan, he found sufficient faith, fight, and spirit to resist and endure to warrant his camaraderie and allegiance. I suppose it is well he never visited the remains of the United States, where very few have faith, intelligence, identity, or even interest in surviving as anything more than thralls. To one degree or another, the US condition explains the greater West. Elsewhere, thankfully, things are very different. Elsewhere, people are moving on from the lecherous, ruinous ways of American hegemony. That hegemony was largely the product of two things: the perceived might of American and NATO military power, and the US dollar as world reserve currency. The former has been shown to be overstretched, poorly wielded, and materially deficient. The latter, revealed as a malicious illusion of neocolonial wizardry, is fading away in real time. A few days ago, strange rumors surfaced, from strange sources, that as of June 9, 2024, the US petrodollar would officially become a thing of the past. As far as I can tell, these rumors may not be exactly correct, though they point, like good rhetoric, towards the undeniable truth. The petrodollar was a terrible 1970s solution to the then-pending collapse of the dollar, de-linked from gold and wrecked via mass financialization of the American economy and monetary system. In a scheme perhaps unique in world history, the Saudis agreed to back the dollar with their oil reserves. This allowed the dollar to temporarily remain the most popular international trading currency. It allowed the US government to temporarily spend with abandon. And it allowed the private monied elite of the West to further enslave mankind and usuriously accumulate unto themselves unearned wealth. But the arrangement defied the laws of economic physics and was destined to eventually crash down. Rumors and exact dates aside, the crash is happening now. As Alexander Macris noted in the introduction of his 2023 book Running on Empty, “When the US established the petrodollar system, it signed a deal with the Devil. When it ends, there will be Hell to pay.” While this statement may shock the consciousness of the conscionable, it is not that surprising to those familiar with the religious psyche of America’s ruling elites. But it is an accurate statement. As the American people begin to wrestle with declining living standards, among many other growing problems, and as the American elite begin to uncomfortably deal with the looming demands of their master, the rest of the world, the multipolar world, begins to experience a boon of prosperity, independence, and genuine order. The American empire is still dangerous, as any large mortally wounded predator can be. In its dying rage, it is violently thrashing about seeking to steal, dominate, or destroy anything in reach. Lindsey Graham, wicked US SINator from South Carolina, and wanted terrorist number 3967 in Russia, lately let one cat out of the bag about the US seeking to loot trillions of dollars worth of minerals and elements from Project Ukraine (...and something, something democracy, and Putin’s aggression, etc.). I suppose the shame of the Upstate never read Saadi’s Pand Namah and the warning, “Beware! thou that art snared in the net of avarice...” (Or, supposing further, Romans 1:29.) Graham’s conniving blather represents a micro example of the kind of chaos Konstantin Malofeev warned about at a SPIEF 2024 panel discussion last week. Malofeev described the chaos as engineered, and to a degree, it certainly was, previously. The enemies of mankind had a plan. Or plans—too many of them to keep track of and make work, and now they are entangled and failing. Today, I think what is displayed is genuine mayhem completely out of control. Malofeev is completely correct, however, that the solution to the chaos is the sovereign, multipolar concept represented by the BRICS+ alliance. And he’s not just theoretically correct; the solution is playing out before our eyes. As for ending (petro)dollar dominance, last year, Olga Samofalova explored a variety of options available to Saudi Arabia to break free from America’s deal with the devil, namely dealing in national currencies, withdrawing investments in the US, and joining BRICS+. Right now, Riyadh is exercising the first and third options and is, along with other countries, monitoring and considering the second. One of those other countries, of course, is Russia, which, as Gleb Prostakov wrote in February 2023, is leading the charge to break what’s left of US dominance of the global energy market (and the US’s attendant indirect dominance of global affairs). One year later, the world is already a different place. The US dollar, while still powerful, is no longer the exclusive go-to currency for international settlements and trade. The US-led G7 has lost its primacy to BRICS+. Russia just pushed Japan aside to become the world’s fourth-largest economy as measured by PPP. Three of the top four world economies, China, India, and Russia, are BRICS+ members. There is a real struggle amidst all this change. As President Vladimir Putin said in his speech at the SPIEF plenary session, “We see a real race between countries to strengthen their sovereignty. And over three key levels—state, value-cultural and economic. At the same time, the countries that have recently been the leaders of global development are trying by all means, by hook or by crook, to preserve their elusive role of hegemony.” As others have said again and again, the current global conflict is truly a battle between the Believers in Almighty God and the minions of satan. On God’s side are Christians, Muslims, and their goodly allies. Theirs is the side of the multipolar, sovereign world. In time, victory will be theirs. And, as they watch the other side pay the devil his due, may they learn a lesson on how to never conduct business going forward. In this war, there is no Ring of Power. Still, the war must be won, and it will be. Let the wanton leaders of America and the West pay hell. All others, thank and praise Heaven. Deo vindice. This piece was published at Perrin Lovett on June 14, 2024.
 In the fading remains of the United States, there really are dark forces at work against the American people. A new study from Illinois uncovered mixed benefits and drawbacks associated with men becoming fathers. However, the popular US media spin was: “Having kids may shorten a man’s life, groundbreaking study reveals.” In other words, “Kids are messy, you can’t afford them, and they’ll just kill you anyway”. That might as well be America’s family planning mantra. Societies do not survive this way. Populations like America’s, that do not exceed two children per family, do not last. Elsewhere, more decent and intelligent people understand the importance of forming, promoting, and protecting families. Some countries are encouraging men to become fathers and women mothers. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin recently stated that families with three or more children should become the norm. He also reassured families that the Russian government would be there to assist them as they perpetuate the existence of Russia. “Families with children” is the mantra of Russia. Part of assisting families and their children is maintaining excellent education at all levels. As for elementary and lower schools in Russia, I am not as familiar with the processes as I’d like. The consensus of those I’ve asked or read is that the learning afforded is good and better than the equivalent in America. At the college and university level, I trust things are also better in Russia. That’s because I trust the people in charge, from President Putin right down the line. I also know there is a necessary movement to separate Russian education from Western standards, a part of the larger bifurcation and liberation associated with Russia’s multipolar quest. Another man I trust, Leonid Savin, wrote a heckuva good article on intellectual standards and the need for Russian sovereign refinement. He noted that 1990s Western interference “led both to the meaninglessness of deep meanings and their replacement with surrogate terms, which began to be used at the reflex level, and to a constant movement to Western theories and concepts, instead of developing our own.” This is exactly what happened to American schools over the past century and a half. Whatever lingered from the Soviet system, even if deficient in some areas, was better than and preferable to the foisted alternative. The movement to reflexive surrogacy would have quickly given way to the total abandonment of literacy, numeracy, and public morality. The fact this progression was stopped or is being stopped is a miracle in and of itself. Savin goes on to discuss the pro-Russian transformation of college social sciences by keeping cherished traditions alive though updated to reflect the complexities of the evolving world. Call it “whole process” social science education, something in scholastic keeping, on Russian terms, with Professor Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory. Savin mentions Dugin’s work as the leader of the new Political Training and Scientific Center at Moscow’s Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH). The Center’s purpose is “the development and implementation of a new approach (a new socio-humanitarian paradigm) to the domestic teaching of humanitarian and social disciplines, aimed at the formation of the worldview of students based on the Russian civilizational identity and traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.” In January, Dugin said at RSUH’s Transformation of Humanitarian Education seminar, “There has been a catastrophic degradation in Western historical science. .... This is evidenced by gender problems, postmodernism, and ultra-liberalism. We can study the West, but not as the ultimate universal truth. We need to focus on our own Russian development model.” Dugin’s program leadership earned the ire of the CIA Washington Post and some CIA pro-Western Telegram bots, so he must be off to a good start. (I suppose they were taken aback, like vampires offered Holy Water, by mention of spiritual and moral values.) I’m unsure when Dugin last visited an American university, but his first observation of catastrophe is an understatement. About the only courses of study in America that retain any semblance of excellence are those in mathematics and the hard science programs at certain elite engineering schools—and they are under heavy attack. However, he is correct that Western schools should be studied. They should be studied in two ways. First, they should be scanned for any useful remnants from the time when the West represented an actual Christian civilization. Second, they can be forensically studied like a cadaver in a postmortem examination in an attempt to find out what killed them. As part of its Western and non-Western integration, RSUH’s website asserts: “International cooperation is an important part of the internationalization strategy at RSUH. It is aimed at strengthening the university's competitive ability in Russia and abroad and its integration into the global education and research space.” This is, as stated, very important, yet the manner of execution might be even more important. My advice, should anyone want it, is to keep studying the cadavers while also selectively affiliating with the wider world. This could and probably will mean making adjustments to things like Russian participation in the Bologna Process and looking deeper into connections with BRICS+ countries and the Global South in general. Without my advice, they appear to be doing fine as-is, with RSUH being one of four Russian universities in a pilot program to monitor international cooperation. Russia’s societal heritage is the envy of much of the world because it has survived and built upon its ancient traditions. Those traditions, having yielded beauty, strength, and prosperity, obviously work. So does Russian innovation, in technology, economics, and other facets of (post)modern existence. Russians must continue to cling affectionately to the positive, purposefully abandon the negative, and embrace any helpful new processes or ideas in keeping with Russian customs regarding what is good, true, and beautiful. And, of course, it all starts with the Russian people themselves, with strong families and many wonderful children. Deo vindice.  This week, being a little pressed for time, I’m just listing out the Palestine-related books I’ve reviewed this year – with a few more. The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope by Rev. Munther Isaac Normalize or Resist?: Palestinian Christians Respond to Oppression by Rev. Isaac, et al. Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm by Jamie Stern-Weiner, et al. The Rape of Palestine: A Mandate Chronology (Vol. 1) by Blake Alcott The Rape of Palestine: A Mandate Chronology (Vol. 2) by Blake Alcott The Stone House by Yara Hawari I have not read or looked at this picture book, but it comes highly recommended: Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba by Teresa Aranguren, et al. It has been some time since I’ve read it, and, alarmingly, no longer have my copy, but a good man from Georgia wrote a great book in 2007 on the subject of peace: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Hon. Jimmy Carter The first book I read about Palestine, likely the first book any one of you read, was: The Holy Bible. Consult it as needed – and it is needed. Those nine books should keep one busy for a while. For my part, I’ve currently got a copy of collected E.A. Poe works (на русском). Also, Andrei Martyanov’s new book, America’s Final War, is out, as a PDF from Clarity. My next book review article, here and elsewhere, will most likely be a cursory look at five(!) works by Professor Alexander Dugin, along with at least one Dugin critique comparison book. That’s coming before too long. And we’ll also have some additional geopolitical fun and perhaps a few short stories. Fiction writing is kind of where my mind is at right now. Stay tuned. A rather short “column,” eh? And if your bow tie was ruffled, then good. Deo vindice. |
