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  • Are We Really Getting Morally Better?

    01/09/2024 5:24:34 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 9 Jan, 2024 | John M. Grondelski
    The more things supposedly change, the more they really stay the same. That’s especially true when we try to talk about moral progress. Barack Obama loved telling us that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Joe Biden always assures us that history is moving towards “progress,” which is why we’re lectured to be “on the right side of history” (which is usually the left side). None of this is new. It all comes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who claimed history is on auto-pilot towards greater moral progress, ever higher moral vistas—he said that right...
  • MUST-SEE INTERVIEW with Douglas Murray: Is the West Dead?

    01/08/2024 2:14:44 PM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 3 replies
    The Caroline Glick Show ^ | 12/11/23 | Douglas Murray
    Are the massive pro-Hamas rallies throughout the Western world a sign that the West is dead? What does Israel represent in the Western psyche? Why are all members of the Reg-Green alliance united in annihilationist hatred for Jews? To discuss these and other pressing existential issues that have arisen since the Oct. 7 slaughter, bestselling author Douglas Murray was Caroline's guest on the Caroline Glick Show today.
  • Hamas’s Useful Idiots in the U.S., Europe

    11/14/2023 1:31:01 AM PST · by spirited irish · 10 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 11/23 | Bassam Tawil
    The “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations that have taken place in the US and some European countries over the past few days are all about hating Israel and Jews, not about helping the Palestinians – especially those who have been living under the rule of the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip since 2007.People who are really pro-Palestinian would be demonstrating for them to have leaders that do not siphon off billions in international aid, or who shoot at themwhen they try to flee to safety, or who do not store weapons and ammunition in and near their homes and schools.
  • Video: BRUTAL TRUTH – Neil Oliver Outlines the Modern Blood and Death Created by Current Tyrants

    10/01/2023 1:39:11 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 11 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | I0/23 | Neil Oliver
    There’s no pretending or pulling punches in Neil Oliver’s monologue this week. In fact, the theme of blood and carnage weaves throughout the presentation as Oliver walks through some recent events in the UK, Canada, Ukraine and the United States.Dissident Oliver puts the cost of this western global political effort into a very human context, and asks ‘what do we care about‘, as we allow this to continue. The examples he cites are very real and very much related.
  • How the U.S. Fumbled Niger’s Coup and Gave Russia an Opening

    08/04/2023 5:52:52 PM PDT · by Brilliant · 30 replies
    Niger’s president hid behind a bulletproof door of his official residence and talked over a phone he assumed was monitored. To anxious French and American allies, he repeated assurances that the army would soon rescue him from an unfolding coup. Outside the ground floor safe room Mohamed Bazoum had recently renovated to protect himself from such an event, mutineers from his presidential guard fanned out across the presidency compound, furious about a proposal to replace their longstanding commander, according to Nigerien, U.S. and European officials. Hunkered over the phone beside his wife and son, Bazoum delicately encouraged advisers to send...
  • SITREP 8/1/23: The Hegemon Begins To Unravel

    08/02/2023 2:11:40 PM PDT · by delta7 · 16 replies
    Simplicious ^ | 8/1/23 | Simplcious
    Momentous things are setting into motion geopolitically all over the globe, most notably in Africa. A coup took down the president of Niger, a country of critical importance to France and the NATO bloc. The Atlanticists are extremely worried now:… France is the #1 country in the world for total percentage of nuclear use for energy generation, and #2 in total number of nuclear power plants. I’ve seen figures that Niger supplies upwards of 40% of France’s Uranium, though some have it in the 15-25% range, as well as 25% to the EU itself.… Naturally, Ukraine blames Russia:…. What Podolyak...
  • Burkina Faso, Mali warn against military intervention in Niger

    08/01/2023 4:09:25 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 43 replies
    Aljazeera ^ | 8/1/23 | Aljazeera
    The military governments of Burkina Faso and Mali have warned that any military intervention against last week’s coup leaders in Niger would be considered a “declaration of war” against their nations. Niger’s neighbours issued the warning in joint statements read out on their national broadcasters on Monday, days after West African leaders threatened to use force to reinstate Niger’s deposed President Mohamed Bazoum.
  • The radical Left is guilt-tripping the West into oblivion

    07/20/2023 6:41:49 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 21 replies
    Off Script/Telegraph ^ | 14/7/23 | Jordan Peterson
    Dr Jordan Peterson discusses how to win the culture war, with insights from Soviet and Nazi dissidents who stood up against tyranny and compares their struggles with clampdowns on free speech today. He sits down with The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton in a wide-ranging discussion from why Britain was a miracle for the world to if he is addicted to Twitter: On the culture wars: “The right lacks vision. They play a rearguard game. They don't have a compelling story to tell young people. And because they're conscientious, conservatives are conscientious, it's easy to hoist them on the petard of guilt....
  • Warning from France: Cold Civil War Will Intensify as Western Elite Cower

    07/13/2023 5:54:17 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 12 Jul, 2023 | Matthew Boose
    The recently concluded riots in France are a dark omen for Europe and the wider Western world. The Algerian teenager whose killing lit the fuse has been likened to George Floyd, and indeed, there are striking parallels. Both were criminals who died while refusing to cooperate with law enforcement, for starters. But that is not the story Western audiences are getting from their press. Instead, they are told he is a martyr, a victim of wicked Europe. His blood is on the hands of post-colonial France. No one has bothered to ask the native French how they feel about their...
  • The Greens’ Program: The Suicide of Europe and the West

    06/27/2023 1:42:12 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 5 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 6/20/23 | Drieu Godefridi
    The West must decline. Indeed, the West is evil. The proof is that it is “rich”. Therefore, the West must be punished, by throwing it into a collapse — a “degrowth” — while others not in the West will continue to grow, of course. Let us introduce a “universal basic income” immediately, tomorrow. One can imagine the eagerness of China, Russia, Japan, the U.S. and Cuba to introduce a common universal income — which is of course is probably only conceivable through the establishment of a “universal” world government: a mere formality.
  • To Save The West From Secular Attack And To Survive, Christianity Must Adapt With Courage, Cleverness And Freedom - As Jesus Himself Did

    04/18/2023 12:39:32 AM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 26 replies
    https://waysofbeinghristian.com/ ^ | 18th April, 2023 | Ozguy1945
    On this date, April 18, in 1521, before the Diet Of Worms, Martin Luther took a courageous stand for intellectual innovation and religious freedom. Christianity has been the constantly evolving and dominant moral foundation of The West for most of the past two thousand years. In 2023, the Christian faith and life is now under secular attack on many fronts. If it can stay true to the moral core of Jesus, it will survive. But, as in the days of Martin Luther, that will require a judicious mix of courage, creativity and freedom.
  • Two Great Christian Weapons Against Modern Secular Persecution Of Christians: Freedom Of Speech And Calling Out Barrabas

    03/29/2023 3:38:05 PM PDT · by Ozguy1945 · 4 replies
    https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 30th March 2023, Australian time | Ozguy1945
    Christianity is under merciless secular attack. I implore Christian leaders to tackle the enormous task of doing two difficult things even better: A. Living in The Word. i.e. communicating B. Calling out Barabbas (a.k.a. Brandon?)
  • The Sacred Rite Of Communion Is An Essential Foundation For The New Social Contract Which The Western World Needs

    01/23/2023 10:08:17 PM PST · by Ozguy1945 · 116 replies
    https://tujuhbelasan.com/ ^ | 24th January, 2023 | Ozguy1945
    Western societies are tearing themselves apart with enmity, injustice and conflict. That is not what Our Lord created us to be. We must return to the harmonious roots of our heritage. Where people can be human. God Bless The Freedom Where We Can Love Ourselves And Each Other
  • Illegal immigration a larger problem in the West: It's Not Just America That is Suffering

    12/18/2022 10:18:22 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/18/2022 | Maker S. Mark
    I read an AT piece about Italy's new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and she was talking about illegal immigration coming into Europe. After cheering her, I paused and had to think. I and others in the U.S. have been very focused on the illegal migrant surge through the Mexican border into the U.S. I have not given much thought to the possibility that this is a global issue. The AT blog post (below) seems to demonstrate there is also an illegal immigration problem in Europe that parallels the problem in the U.S. There is an element I ask you to...
  • Gallic Rebuke: France and the U.S. Rules-based Order

    12/02/2022 1:22:14 PM PST · by elpadre · 10 replies
    intpolicydigest.org ^ | Dcember 2, 2022 | Binoy Kampmark
    Gérard Araud was not mincing his words. As France’s former ambassador to Washington, he had seen enough. At a November 14 panel hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft titled “Is America Ready for a Multipolar Word?” Araud decried the “economic warfare” being waged by the United States against China, expressing the view that Europe was concerned by the evident “containment policy” being pursued. Araud is very much the establishment figure, having also served as French representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2014. But despite his pedigree, he was most keen to fire off a few salvos...
  • Don't Say It: An Interview with Amy Wax

    06/26/2022 9:49:01 AM PDT · by gunsmithkat · 15 replies
    The American Mind ^ | 04-25-22 | Alexander Riley
    Last December, Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, raised hackles on the Left when she appeared on Glenn Loury’s podcast to discuss the topic of American identity in an age of mass immigration from non-Western countries. Professor Wax’s comments prompted a round of denunciations and demands that she be suspended from her duties at the University of Pennsylvania. The following is a lightly-edited transcript of a conversation between Amy Wax and Alexander Riley from February of this year.
  • If Ukraine Survives, It Won’t Be Thanks To Biden’s Sanctions

    02/25/2022 10:09:08 AM PST · by Kaslin · 22 replies
    The Federalist ^ | February 25, 2022 | Chuck Devore
    The Russian offensive against Ukraine unleashed by Russian President Vladimir Putin is now two days old. There are two big things to consider as the conflict grinds on: strategy and morale.The first is the survival of Ukraine’s young president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy and his democratically-elected government are the focus of Putin’s war. The German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “The talent of the strategist is to identify the decisive point and to concentrate everything on it, removing forces from secondary fronts and ignoring lesser objectives.” Zelenskyy is that decisive point.For an opposing force, the contrary is often true. In...
  • No, Western Culture Is Not About “White Supremacy”

    06/06/2021 6:37:45 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 30 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 6, 2021 | Rob Jenkins
    Chief among the Big Lies currently being promulgated by the American Left is that Western culture is inherently racist, a manifestation of White Supremacy. This is not only nonsense but pernicious, dangerous nonsense. Before we go on, perhaps we should define “Western culture.” It is essentially the marriage of Judeo-Christian morality with classical (that is, Greek and Roman) intellectualism. It privileges reason over emotion and the individual over the state. Its central tenet is that, through their own efforts, a person can rise above their circumstances. Western culture is not now nor has it ever been perfect. But it has...
  • Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization

    05/28/2021 1:35:30 PM PDT · by Twotone · 20 replies
    Hillsdale College-Imprimus ^ | April/May 2021 | Mark Steyn
    I live about 20 minutes south of the Canadian border, which used to be called the longest undefended frontier in the world. People moved freely back and forth across it all day every day. But now it’s been closed for over a year. At one point my daughter asked me to drive her up there, because there was a 30-minute opportunity for people on one side to talk to their friends on the other. “Sad!” as President Trump would say. It was like Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during the Cold War, except that both sides are now like East Berlin....
  • The Need for a Nuremberg for Communism

    05/22/2021 3:44:26 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 22 May, 2021 | Renato Cristin
    Against all logic and against all historical rationality, that ideology has survived and, what is even more irrational, has in some respects even strengthened, augmenting its ranks throughout the Western world. SNIP After the collapse of the Soviet monster, that is of the great financier of communist movements all over the world, which were therefore deprived of considerable economic means, it seemed that communism in the West could die out or at least be reduced to small groups of nostalgics, as it had happened for National Socialism and for the few Nazis scattered around the world. In fact, the Soviet...