War
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Three End Times Reads
Richard Overy at The Telegraph obfuscates about the “growing division between the democratic West and the arc of authoritarian states across Eurasia has entered a dangerous new chapter” — Why it’s too late to stop World War 3. “The American-NATO rush toward nuclear war with Russia” is the real threat, Scott Ritter at Scott Ritter… Continue reading
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Benedict Sheehan’s Ukrainian War Requiem Sung by Axios Men’s Ensemble, Pro Coro Canada and Soloists from Ukraine and North America, Directed by Michael Zaugg
May God have mercy on those responsible for the war dead, exposed by Jim W. Dean at VT Foreign Policy more that two years ago — NATO strategy is revealed – to fight to the last Ukrainian to blunt future Russian defense ability. Continue reading
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Putin = Peace
Make that substitution in this headline by liberast (либераст) warmonger Natasha Lindstaedt at The Conversation and it begins to make sense — European populists back Putin as they roll out their anti-Ukraine positions. She celebrates that “[c]oncerns about German far-right parties being too close to Putin prompted a European Parliament resolution in April stating that… Continue reading
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Israeli and American Bloodlust
“The Israeli army striking crowded streets and slaughtering scores of Palestinians is nothing new, just some more bloodlust we in the West demand when small-timers refuse to play ball,” Taki Theodoracopulos at Taki’s Magazine writes — The Good Guys Can’t Win. An exceprt: The numbers alone are shocking. Four Israelis rescued, one dead Israeli officer,… Continue reading
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United Nations Finds Jewish State “Responsible for War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Violations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law”
Al Jazeera English and Inter Press Service report — Israeli authorities responsible for war crimes in Gaza, UN inquiry finds and UN Probe Finds Israel Guilty of ‘Extermination,’ Torture, and Other War Crimes in Gaza. From the latter report comes this cri de cœur: “How can the killing of more than 800 people in a… Continue reading
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A Warning from Serbia
“Serbia’s President Aleksander Vucic… thinks Europe will be at war with Russia in ‘not more than three or four months,’ if that long,” Paul Craig Roberts at Lew Rockwell reports — “The Train Has Left the Station and No One Can Stop It”. Further states His Excellency: “Nobody is speaking about peace. Peace is almost… Continue reading
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The Rothschilds
The answer to the question posed by Israel Shamir at The Unz Review in this article— Why Do Brits Hate Russians? His conclusion: Ron Unz proved that these financiers were prominent in bringing the US into the First and the Second World War. I think they are powerful enough to bring us all into the… Continue reading
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Chief Rabbi of the “Most Moral Army in the World”
He taught it morally permissible, in his own words, to “satisfy the evil inclination by lying with attractive Gentile women against their will, out of consideration for the difficulties faced by the soldiers and for overall success,” Israeli ynetnews reported in 2016 — IDF’s chief rabbi-to-be permits raping women in wartime — and Righteous among… Continue reading
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That “Far Right” Surge in Europe
David P. Goldman at The American Conservative explains — Europe Votes Against the Ukraine War. Continue reading
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Ceasefire Deception
“Antony Blinken is going around talking about a peace proposal and claiming that it’s Israel’s proposal, and Hamas is refusing to agree, while Israel is saying they don’t agree with it at all, and Hamas is saying they are open to it,” Andrew Anglin at The Unz Review reports — Blinken Going Around Saying Bibi… Continue reading
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Most Moral Army in the World?
Al Jazeera English casts doubts on that claim — War on Gaza: Footage shows summary executions of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers . Continue reading
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D-Day and Today
“If my grandfather thought for one moment that fighting in World War II meant creating a world where the president of the United States would accuse those Americans who voted for his opponents of being ‘fascists,’ where such things as ‘gay marriage’ and ‘pride month’ exist, where pro-life activists are sent to prison for praying… Continue reading
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Catholics Against Israel
USA Today reports “Catholics standing out as the major Christian group least likely to support Israel and pro-Israel policies” — Survey: Christians favor Israel over Palestinians in Israel-Hamas war, but Catholic-Jewish relations hazy. “This was despite Jews’ favorable view of Catholics compared to other Christian denominations,” with “44% of respondents said they viewed Catholics positively,… Continue reading
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Why Washington Supports Gaza Genocide
“The Hegemon is calculating for a World War to halt multipolarity,” “support[ing] Israel’s Gaza genocide as a necessary evil to win hard in West Asia, figuring who’s going to care once the war goes global,” Pepe Escobar at The Unz Review suggests — Supporting Genocide to Halt Multipolarity. Continue reading
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The War on Lebanon
Mike Whitney and Andrew Anglin at The Unz Review respectively report — Israel Prepares to Open a Second Front in the North and Bibi Says Jews Ready for “Very Strong Action” Against Lebanon. Continue reading
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Seven-Hundred Seventy-Five Years Ago Today
“The sunset over the Apotheosis of St. Louis statue of King Louis IX of France in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri” graces this Raymond Ibrahim at LifeSite article reminding us of “a dramatic victory over the Islamic jihad at the start of the Seventh Crusade” — Today in history: King St. Louis XI scores major… Continue reading
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Eighty Years Ago Today
The above images of “Fr. John McGovern saying Mass for troops in Normandy” and “Pope Pius XII meeting with members of the Canadian Royal 22nd Regiment in an audience after the liberation of Rome” from John Burger and Camille Dalmas at Aleteia receptively — Catholic chaplains of the Normandy invasion (Photo Gallery) and June 6,… Continue reading
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Edwin Starr Performs “War”
“War, what is it good for?” quote David Vine and Theresa Arriola at Antiwar.com, asking and answering, “Absolutely nothing” — The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All. “But in the case of this country, war, it turns out, has been good for plenty of high-class Americans, especially our weapons makers.” Continue reading
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Is Israel Losing Neo-Conservative Neo-Catholics?
Neocon Catholic Stand posts an article by “Jewish by birth” Dr. Edouard Belaga offering a “public cry about the moral and religious treachery of Israel against God’s very well-known particular disposition towards Israel” — Is Israel Exploiting the Mercy of the Almighty? In the comments, the good doctor argues that “it’s a great mistake of… Continue reading
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Speaking Truth to Samantha Power
The Independent reports — ‘She’s not telling the truth about war crimes’: US official resigns over Gaza war and hits out at boss Samantha Power. Continue reading
Mary Immaculate, Patroness of the United States
“[T]he Virgin still remained and remains the most intensely and the most widely and the most personally felt, of all characters, divine or human or imaginary, that ever existed among men… In no well-regulated community, under a proper system of police, could the Virgin feel at home, and the same thing may be said of most other saints as well as sinners.” — Henry Adams, self-described “conservative Christian anarchist,” a grandson and great-grandson of presidents, “with Heaven knew how many Puritans and Patriots behind him.”
Weltanschauung
“The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.” — G.K. Chesterton
“To see in Catholicism one religion among others, one system among others, even if it be added that it is the only true religion, the only system that works, is to mistake its very nature, or at least to stop at the threshold. Catholicism is religion itself.” — Henri-Marie Cardinal de Lubac, in Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
Like Nicolás Gómez Dávila, whom Martin Mosebach said understood “the Catholic Church, which he did not regard as simply one of several Christian confessions, but as the great collecting tank of all religions, as the heiress of all paganism, as the still living original religion.”
“The Gospel revelation alone has permitted us to succeed in reaching a coherent interpretation of myth and ritual and of human culture in its entirety…. The resurrection of Christ crowns and finishes both the subversion and the unmasking of mythology, of archaic ritual, of everything that insures the foundation and perpetuation of human cultures. The Gospels reveal everything that human beings need to understand their moral responsibility with regard to the whole spectrum of violence in human history and to all the false religions.” — René Girard in I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Politics
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)—or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people” — J.R.R. Tolkien
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“In pre-imperial America, conservatives objected to war and empire out of jealous regard for personal liberties, a balanced budget, the free enterprise system, and federalism. These concerns came together under the umbrella of the badly misunderstood America First Committee, the largest popular antiwar organization in U.S. history. The AFC was formed in 1940 to keep the United States out of a second European war that many Americans feared would be a repeat of the first. Numbering eight hundred thousand members who ranged from populist to patrician, from Main Street Republican to prairie socialist, America First embodied and acted upon George Washington’s Farewell Address counsel to pursue a foreign policy of neutrality.” ─ Bill Kauffman in Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
“Libertarian isolationism draws its adherents from both the left and the right. According to the libertarian isolationist interpretation of history, the U.S. changed from a decentralized republic into a militarized, authoritarian empire in the late 19th century, when the Spanish-American War made the U.S. a colonial power and trusts and cartels took over the economy. Every president since McKinley, they believe, has been a tool of a self-aggrandizing crony capitalist oligarchy, which exaggerated the threats of Imperial and Nazi Germany and Japan and the Soviet Union and communist China and now of Islamist terrorism in order to regiment American society and divert resources to the bloated ‘military-industrial complex.’ If the libertarian isolationists had their way, the U.S. would abandon foreign alliances, dismantle most of its military, and return to a 19th-century pattern of decentralized government and an economy based on small businesses and small farms.” ─ Michael Lind in The five worldviews that define American politics
Economics
“We need a combination of supreme moral sensitivity and economic knowledge. Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values.” ─ Wilhelm Röpke
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