When Uncle Tom Crosses Uncle Shmuel

In America’s NGO space, some topics are so taboo that even renowned public intellectuals aren’t safe when they dare criticize sacred cows such as the state of Israel.

Just ask Black economist Glenn Loury.

A former Reagan-era conservative, Loury has held a distinguished career in the field of economics. After earning his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Loury began as an assistant professor at Northwestern, then joined the University of Michigan, becoming a full professor in 1980. In 1982, at age 33, he became Harvard’s first Black tenured economics professor.

Loury would later join Brown University in 2005, where he held the title of Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. Additionally, he is a Professor of International and Public Affairs at the same institution. In late 2020, Loury joined the Manhattan Institute as a senior fellow and got the conservative think tank to sponsor his podcast “The Glenn Show” for a few years.

Everything was going well for the economist until he crossed into politically dangerous terrain. During his May 9, 2025 interview with Tucker Carlson, Loury revealed that he was fired by the Manhattan Institute for criticizing Israel.

In 2024, Loury started to criticize Israel for the way it conducted its military campaign in Gaza. According to Loury, the Manhattan Institute first expressed concerns about his stance on Gaza after he published his interview with Israeli historian Omer Bartov, who has been critical of the Israeli hard right and the Netanyahu coalition government’s actions in Gaza.

Loury endorsed historian Omer Bartov’s analysis, which aligned with international human rights organizations’ warnings that Israel’s conduct might constitute a genocide. Further, Loury openly condemned Israel’s actions in the summer of 2024 in a post titled “I Was Fired by the Manhattan Institute. Here’s Why.”

Loury conceded that Hamas’ attack on Israel was indefensible but stressed that Jewish state’s response was disproportionate. He wrote:

…killing thousands of noncombatants, subjecting hundreds of thousands to injury and starvation, and destroying the homes of millions is too high a cost to pay for the goal of “eliminating” or “eradicating” Hamas, especially since it is not clear whether and how that goal is to be accomplished. It seems likely that the scope of the death and destruction in Gaza will inspire more people in Gaza, the West Bank, and abroad to take up arms against Israel than would have been the case had the response been less catastrophic.

Interestingly, Lowry praised Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2024 book The Message for its coverage of the plight of Palestinians living in the West Bank settlements, saying “there’s much to admire in it.”

It was his appearance on Carlson’s show where he finally broke the silence about his departure from the conservative think tank. In the show, Loury discussed the chilling effect that such actions have on open debate. The former Manhattan Institute fellow could no longer tolerate self-censoring and holding his opinions back on Gaza. Carlson summed up the incident: “For decades, conservative think tanks celebrated and supported black economist Glenn Loury. Then he expressed an unauthorized opinion on the Middle East and they dropped him in a second.”

Glenn Loury [00:00:00] And I said, what has been proceeding there in Gaza as a collective punishment that I don’t think is justified. And I got notified the next day the Manhattan Institute was discontinuing its relationship with me as a senior fellow.

Tucker [00:00:13] If you’d said that about the United States, would you have gotten the same reaction?

Glenn Loury [00:00:17] Ah, good ques-

Tucker [00:00:18] Do you think you’ve been bamboozled?

Glenn Loury [00:00:20] Are we really going to go to war with Iran and turn the world economy upside down? Is it really Jim Crow 2.0 if they want to ask for a driver’s license before you cast the ballot in Georgia?

In a follow-up post on Substack, Loury noted that the Manhattan Institute “disapproved of my opposition to the Gaza War, my criticisms of Israel’s prosecution of that war, and my praise of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s meditations on the West Bank settlements. “

Loury’s call for proportionality and Palestinian rights violated an unspoken rule in U.S. politics: unconditional support for Israel supersedes intellectual independence, even for Black thinkers, who are largely privileged by the United States’ anti-White system.

Being the token Black in Conservatism Inc. could not even shield Loury from professional harm at the hands of Manhattan Institute—an organization bankrolled by billionaire Jews such as Paul Singer and John Paulson.

Other Blacks have shared a similar fate as Loury when they dared touch the Hebraic third rail in the post-October 7 world. Progressive Black commentator Briahna Joy Gray learned firsthand about the risks of criticizing Israel’s industrialized child ritual murder project in Gaza.

In September 2022, Gray joined The Hill’s popular web program “Rising” as a co-host. The show was noted for its bipartisan format and focus on breaking political news and analysis. However, her tenure on “Rising” was brief.  On June 4, 2024, Yarden Gonen, the sister of Israeli hostage Romi Gonen, appeared on “Rising.” As a strong advocate of Palestine, Gray was skeptical of the narrative being put forward by Gonen and other defenders of the Jewish state. The interview was suffuse with tension.

At the end of their conversation, Gonen said she hoped that Gray would “believe” Israeli women. Gray rolled her eyes, interrupted Gonen, and ended the segment. This moment sparked backlash, with many perceiving Gray’s reaction as dismissive toward the families of Israeli hostages. Shortly thereafter, Gray was unceremoniously fired from “Rising.”

Addressing her termination, Gray stated: “The Hill has a clear pattern of suppressing speech — particularly when it’s critical of the state of Israel. This is why they fired @kthalps, & it was only a matter of time before they fired me.”

As I’ve written before, the once stout Jewish-Black alliance appears to be fraying. Jews’ historically reliable golems in the Black community are beginning to venture outside of the Zionist plantation, thereby compelling the Jewish community to find new proxy forces to carry out their bidding and even throw Whites a bone.

Blacks are getting a hard lesson that their political relevance is predicated on Jewish funding and organization. Once that funding and support dries up, they become just another non-White minority group fighting for political attention in the Empire of Mongrelia.

When one strips everything away, the real sovereign in American politics is not in Congress, but in a synagogue near you.

Lost Sheep American Christian Nationalism as a Problem in Geopolitical Theology

From: brittanica.com

My latest book was written from an Anglo-Identitarian perspective.  I try to demonstrate that a pan-British race patriotism can be rekindled by a reformed, neo-Angelcynn (Old English for “kin of the Angles”) church.  Such a reformation would provide a desperately needed theopolitical alternative to the hegemonic, universalist model of creedal Christianity. Nowadays, as we have just seen, even American Christian nationalism routinely invokes the deracinated, disembodied Lordship of global Jesus as its heavenly warrant.

Lost Sheep: American Christian Nationalism as a Problem in Geopolitical Theology[1]

Introduction

Christian nationalism has become a hot, and divisive, topic among evangelical Protestants in the USA.  Problems arise for American Christian nationalists and their enemies alike, because the movement subordinates all “nations” (typically defined in civic, as opposed to racial or ethnic, terms) to a divinely ordained mission to procure for themselves both earthly and heavenly goods “in Christ.”  “National” identity is, therefore, not a good in and of itself, grounded in blood and belonging.  Only through the grace bestowed upon it by God, as revealed in Scripture, can a nation be perfected.

The manifest destiny of all nations, in other words, will be realized in history as they embrace the universal truths of the Christian religion.   This doctrine was invoked recently in an article which appeared on two Christian websites, Iron Ink  and Tribal Theocrat.   The immediate point of the piece was to defend the “dissident Christian right” against the charge that Christian nationalism is little more than a “woke right” heresy. The case for the defence, as set out by the pseudonymous author (“jetbrane” or “Enos Powell,” take your pick), rests upon a description of the ontology, epistemology, anthropology, teleology, and axiology of the “dissident Christian right.”  This brief but wide-ranging survey leads the author (whose real name is Bret McAtee, pastor of a small church in Michigan) to the conclusion that every facet of the Christian nationalist “worldview,” is set in radical and permanent opposition to the “hard woke worldview.” The latter position, McAtee declares, “is always about the glory of man as determined by some Christless God hating elite.”

In sharp contrast, for Pastor McAtee, it is axiomatic that the Weltanschauung of the dissident Christian right “advocates the Crown Rights of the Rightful Rule” of the Lord Jesus Christ “over every area of life.”  He contends that the accusation that Christian nationalism is just another manifestation of the woke right fails “because the dissident right’s worldview includes an extra-mundane personal and authoritative God who “created all things in six days and all are very good.”  According to the pastor, the dissident Christian right necessarily bows “to God’s determination of reality.”  Its “ultimate value … is the glory of God and His Christ.”  Biblical Christianity, the pastor assures us, is anchored providentially in a universal “history directed towards the postmillennial end of God’s Kingdom being built up on planet earth” in fulfillment of God’s plan “to have the Kingdoms of this earth become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ.”

Attending a Christian Nationalist Conference

Now, whatever one makes of McAtee’s defence of the dissident Christian right, there is no denying that he reflects the dominant mindset among Anglo-American Christian nationalists.  I came face-to-face with that reality when I decided to attend the recent Right Response Ministries conference in Texas (devoted to “Defeating Trash World”).  I felt as if I had entered a theological bubble, hermetically sealed within the historical creeds and a biblical hermeneutic impervious to scholarly criticism.

In fact, in the months leading up to the conference, I found it impossible to receive permission (or even acknowledgement of my request) from Joel Webbon—the pastor organizing the event—to set up a table displaying my new book. I even had Amazon.com send him a copy of the book, entitled Christian Nationalism vs Global Jesus: Projects of Peoplehood from Biblical Israel to the Collapse of British Patriotism. Admittedly, such a title suggests strong dissent from the outworn axioms of creedal Christianity.   I had hoped, however, that a display table would spark some interest and provide an opportunity to defend the book in conversation with speakers and attendees at the conference.  When I finally arrived at the conference with a box of books (obtained at half price from Arktos), I asked the pastor’s administrative assistant, if I might be able to set up a small table to display them. After an hour or so, not having received a response, I asked her again whether permission might be forthcoming. She told me flatly that it would not be possible since that facility was available only for conference sponsors. This explanation later seemed a bit misleading since I noticed that at least two tables already laden with books and related material were occupied by podcasters who were unlikely to be “conference sponsors.”

Samizdat Stall. Right Response conference

Making the best of it, I decided to use the ticket my wife had purchased for the conference (which due to health concerns she didn’t use) to claim a chair for my own use as a sort of surreptitious Samizdat Stall to display my own books.  Serendipitously, one person who did notice the stall, with copies of my Christian Nationalism vs Global Jesus book in plain view thereupon, was Pastor Joel’s wife.  As we were talking, she pointed to my book, remarking that her husband had received a copy of it at his church a few weeks earlier.  Shortly afterwards, the Pastor himself happened by (rather conspicuously ignoring my samizdat book display) and asked my name. I introduced myself before (much to my satisfaction) his wife drew her husband’s attention to the book, reminding him that he had already received a copy of his own.  Pastor Webbon, however, made no use of the opportunity to acknowledge receipt of said book, much less discuss it, and hastily made his departure.

This rather abrupt brush-off came as no real surprise to me since (even during the period not so long ago when I was studying for a degree in theology) I have always found that orthodox Christian believers seem remarkably reluctant to engage in a dialogue with anyone they perceive as an unbeliever or heretic.  Such intellectual insularity is doubly unfortunate among self-declared “Christian nationalists” who aim to gain political power to re-establish Christianity in the public square.  Not a great strategy, in other words, for a movement that will need to make friends and influence people to achieve its political objectives.

In my own case, as I tried to make clear in my book, I look upon the position taken by Christian nationalists in the culture wars with a great deal of sympathy. Indeed, as a cultural Christian, I want to see all Anglo-Protestants throughout the length and breadth of the Anglosphere unite in a broad church to wage that struggle.  I strongly suspect that Pastor Webbon may have glanced through his copy of my book, only to dismiss it summarily as damnable heresy.  Judging by another Iron Ink article, Pastor McAtee, too, doubts that I am “a Christian in any traditional, orthodox, or historical sense.”  Pointedly, he adds that it “stands to reason” that Pastor Webbon “wouldn’t give him a book table to hawk his books. I wouldn’t either. Christians don’t promote non-Christianity at their conferences.”[2]

Christian Identities

Perhaps, if Christian identity turns solely upon fidelity to the creeds, I should be denied entry into the fold.  On the other hand, as the author of a book entitled Dissident Dispatches: An Alt-Right Guide to Christian Theology, am I not entitled to a presumptive claim to be a member of the dissident Christian right?  In any case, Ehud Would, of Faith & Heritage fame, appears to have recognized me as such in his thoughtful and generally favourable review of Dissident Dispatches back in 2017.  Surely, doctrinally rigid, creedal Christians are no more authentically Christian than cultural Christians who dissent from received orthodoxy.

Just as there is more than one way to skin a cat, there has always been more than one way to conceive and constitute a Christian nation.  The nation that was created by the Loyalists who fled to Canada was no less “Christian” than the revolutionary republic created by the American rebels who forcibly drove those loyal to the British Crown from their own homes and native land.

I was born a British subject before the creation of Australian or Canadian citizenship, at a time when Anglo-Saxons still counted as one of Canada’s two “founding races.”  As a consequence, my intellectual development has been greatly influenced by the strange demise of both British Canada and British Australia.

Accordingly, my latest book was written from an Anglo-Identitarian perspective.  I try to demonstrate that a pan-British race patriotism can be rekindled by a reformed, neo-Angelcynn (Old English for “kin of the Angles”) church.  Such a reformation would provide a desperately needed theopolitical alternative to the hegemonic, universalist model of creedal Christianity. Nowadays, as we have just seen, even American Christian nationalism routinely invokes the deracinated, disembodied Lordship of global Jesus as its heavenly warrant.

Following the crushing defeat of German ethnonationalism in 1945, the global Jesus of contemporary Anglo-Protestant theology achieved virtually uncontested hegemony.  Today, almost all mainstream Anglo-Protestants reject even the mildest manifestations of ethnic particularism as tantamount to racism.  Indeed, the advocacy of “Christian nationalism” is denounced regularly from the pulpits of mainline Anglo-Protestant churches in the United States.

Clearly, avowed Christian nationalists in the USA are now held hostage by global Jesus.  Christian nationalism piously declares itself bound to affirm that the telos of human history will be realized only when the primary allegiance of all nations is to King Jesus.  It remains to be seen, however, whether a distinctively white Anglo-Saxon Protestant ethnoreligious identity can be squared with the ahistorical, universalist reign of Lord Jesus.  Even Stephen Wolfe, the most prominent American Christian nationalist, downplays, when not outright denying, the intractably biocultural dimension of Anglo-Saxon identity.  He has suggested, for example, that even black men such as Booker T. Washington and Justice Clarence Thomas (who happens to be a devout Catholic) have been assimilated into the Anglo-Protestant ethnonation.

Christianity as Ethnoreligion?

By contrast, my thesis is that an exclusive ecclesiastical allegiance to a generic cosmic Christ reduces the distinctive character of every earthly ethnoreligious identity to mere adiaphora (i.e., things inessential in the eyes of the church).  The rebirth of Anglo-Protestantism requires a solid ethnoreligious foundation, as did the first-century Jesus movement.  The refusal of hidebound American evangelicals to recognize the unique ethnonational identity of the historical Jesus is the outdated legacy of historically Romanised ecclesiastical establishments, Protestant and Catholic alike. My argument, therefore, is that Anglo-Saxon Christianity should be re-Germanized by re-imagining the Angelcynn church of Alfred the Great to fit the needs of our own age.

Christian Nationalism vs Global Jesus presents persuasive evidence that the Hebrew Bible (most likely created between the fifth and second centuries BC) produced a poignant and powerful national narrative.  Conceived by Judean scribes as a pedagogic tool, that biblical narrative inspired the “project of peoplehood” presupposed by the Jesus movement of the first century AD.

Anglo-Protestants desperately need to recover earlier folkish variants of the Christian tradition.  I suggest that the focus of Anglo-Protestantism needs to be shifted away from its long-standing preoccupation with personal salvation in the world to come.  Anglos need a sense of rootedness in networks of ethnoreligious communities in which shared ancestry matters as much if not more than doctrinal purity.  Ethno-religious ties provide the institutional precondition and moral foundation for socially cohesive communities, be they local (the Amish, for example) or global (such as the Jews).  Anglo-Protestant churches, too, could become the ethnoreligious heart of breakaway parallel societies.  Such communities will be devoted not just to producing healthy, happy, and morally upright families; they will also generate British-descended counter-elites set in opposition to the irresponsible corporate plutocracy now misgoverning the Anglosphere.

It may be that Anglo-Protestants will someday receive as King a Christ of their own.  But, as preterist scholar Don K. Preston often remarks, he is unlikely to return as a 5’5” Jewish man whose name is Jesus.  That fact need not preclude the miraculous appearance of our own Patriot King, were he to become incarnate in Australia and the other British dominions.

Conclusion

In short, there is a pressing need for a sympathetic but penetrating critique of the hitherto unchallenged hegemony of global Jesus within the theopolitical imagination of the emergent Christian nationalist movement.  American Christian nationalism is a predominantly Anglo-Protestant movement. Like the first-century Jesus movement, it can and should embrace, explicitly, its distinctive ethnoreligious character outside and apart from both the state and creedal Christianity.

Neither Jesus nor Paul aimed to create a new religion.  They sought instead to save the “lost sheep of Israel.” Like everyone else in Greco-Roman antiquity, they took it for granted that ethnicity and religion were synonymous categories.  Paul, for example, became the “apostle to the pagans” because he believed that the descendants of the ten lost tribes who had been absorbed into the pagan world could have their “spiritual DNA” as Israelites reactivated “in Christ.”  Contemporary biblical scholarship often describes Jesus and Paul as historical figures working “within Judaism” or “within Israeliteism.” In other words, their efforts to spark “the resurrection of Israel” were part and parcel of the “project of peoplehood” pioneered by the Hebrew Bible.

Today’s Christian nationalists should recognize WASPs throughout the Anglo-Protestant diaspora as an “invisible race” much like the “lost sheep of Israel.”  Anglo-Americans (along with Anglo-Canadians, Anglo-Australians, and Anglo-Kiwis) are, in effect, the “lost sheep of Greater Britain.”  American Christian nationalists should seek salvation, together with their co-ethnics in the former British dominions, in a post-modern “project of peoplehood” seeking to bring the idea of their Patriot King down to earth.

Acting together, faithful Anglo-Protestants could spark the spiritual reformation of the entire Anglosphere. Such a religious movement could provide the solution to an existential problem in geopolitical theology.  Anglo-Protestants everywhere need to understand themselves as a tribal network facing extinction if the corporate state apparatus of the global American empire is left unchecked.  Anglo-American Christian nationalists, especially, should grasp the opportunity to embrace an ancestral British race patriotism, in solidarity with co-ethnics in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand still owing allegiance to the Crown.

A neo-Angelcynn movement grounded in orthopraxis rather than strait-laced orthodoxy will be able to attract nominally secular, cultural Christians alienated from contemporary churches.  While resistant to unconditional belief in the established Christian creeds and confessions, WASPs are typically more likely to be receptive to a “modernized” folk religion in which the church serves, first and foremost, as a teacher of morality.  Deracinated Anglo-Protestants have long been accustomed to treating moral behaviour merely as a stepping stone towards individual salvation.  A folkish practical theology would instead gather WASPs together in moral communities, resurrecting an ancestral project of peoplehood with its shared history and destiny.  In so doing, neo-Angelcynn churches could bring to fruition the objectives of men such as Sir John Robert Seeley who pioneered the Broad-Church movement  in the nineteenth century Church of England.

In our own time, the need for such a movement has never been more urgent. Young Anglo-Protestants, along with their agnostic contemporaries, are having their future stolen from them by a plutocratic corporatist regime destroying every institution that could provide access to stable, prosperous, middle-class family lives of purpose and meaning. In the medium- to long-term, their rising discontent could find a significant institutional outlet in an Anglo-Identitarian Christian movement.  Explicitly Anglo-Protestant churches, schools, colleges, even hospitals, could cultivate the British-descended elites necessary to challenge, not just “Big Eva,” the power centre of American evangelical Protestantism, but also—and more importantly—the unapologetically ethnocentric, “market-dominant minorities” now entrenched within every once-proudly Anglo-Saxon country. The revival of such a Greater British, Broad-Church movement will expose the weaknesses of a parochial, American-style Christian nationalism setting the mythology of global Jesus over loyalty to co-ethnics, both at home and throughout the Anglosphere.


[1] This is a revised and expanded version of an earlier essay which appeared at: https://counter-currents.com/2025/05/the-problem-with-christian-nationalism-american-style/

[2] https://ironink.org/2025/05/the-difference-between-andrew-frasers-ethnoreligious-vision-mcatees-ethno-christian-vision/

Most Irish believe “The Conspiracy” — official report!

The Irish Electoral Commission asked people if they agreed with the statement that a “small secret group” make all major decisions in world politics.

Only 47% disagree.

Scientists are not popular either: Only half disagree that “Groups of scientists manipulate, fabricate or suppress evidence in order to deceive the public.”

In the election we apparently voted 90% + for pro-immigration parties, but this poll shows 73% think “There should be very strict limits on the number of immigrants coming to live in Ireland.”

There is even massive support for the Great Replacement Theory.

Elected officials want more immigration to bring in obedient voters who will vote for them.” 19% agree, 18% are “not sure”.

The establishment is replacing white Irish people with non-white immigrants.” 19% agree, 16% are “not sure”.

Why did so many people say they weren’t sure about these hot potato topics? Think about it: There is some good looking, friendly stranger in front of you who assures you that your data will be kept private and he or she is asking your opinion on some very controversial topics. The whole immigration-missing refugee children thing is like a bag of cats. You get called a Nazi, a hater, etc. if you criticise Africans, Muslims or Jews in a rude way. If you criticise them in the politest possible way, they call you a dog-whistler. If you poke your nose into possible connections between Pakistani rape gangs and what happened to the 200 refugee children missing from Irish state care, you might end up burnt to death on a boat on the River Shannon, like brave Garda Deirdre Finn, RIP.

“I’m not sure” probably translates to: “Duh. Obviously, the politicians want to replace us ethnic Irish with the dregs of Africa, Asia and Israel. But you are working for the Electoral Commission. It’s run by a rogue called Art O’Leary. He has boasted of his role in bringing in the homosexual marriage malarkey. The last election was obviously rigged (see previous TOO article). The polling company you work for is called RedC (redcresearch.com), a highly suspicious name, if ever I heard one. If I tell you that I don’t want any more darkies in dear oul Dublin, there’s a chance my details will appear in Art O’Leary’s little book of enemies. Thanks, but no thanks.”

As they used to say along the Border: Whatever you say, say nothing!

Government Minister, Michael Healy Rae is taking a libel case against his election rival, independent Remigration enthusiast Michelle Keane (kingdomwater.ie). She has persistently alleged election fraud, naming a female Garda Sergeant, and spending four days in Limerick prison. Recently she accused Minister Healy Rae of sending thugs to harass her and her family. This accusation triggered the libel case.

We have won the argument on mass migration. We don’t want it. But, short of an Israeli-style burning of hundreds of refugee hotels, how do we get our rulers to implement Remigration? Even if the elections weren’t rigged, we have to wait five years for the next one. Perfectly legal targetted lobbying, boycotting and public mockery of individuals involved in the Great Replacement can, possibly, encourage these people to nervous breakdowns, perfectly legal suicide or even transformation into honest men.

In unrelated news, the Election Commission boasted that many invalid names are on the electoral register. It is public knowledge for decades that there are many invalid names on the register, but somehow the problem persists. Cui bono?

Is Art O’Leary looking for a new job and he is advertising how good he is at “achieving social change” and rigging elections?

He tells us that three-quarters of the Irish want strict limits on immigration. Half of them are prepared to tell the nice man from the polling company that they think the Jews run the world. One third are ready to say they think White Irish politicians are deliberately importing Africans to replace us.

But the elections he oversaw showed that at least 90% of voters decided to vote for political parties that enthusiastically advocate for the Great Replacement.

If there is a conspiracy, then Art O’Leary is one of the smug, gloating conspirators. Even Trump doesn’t scare him: he knows Trump loves Jews and as along as Art shows how much he loves the Jews too, Art thinks he is safe. (He isn’t safe, of course, no matter how loyal he is. There was many a loyal servant who was sacrificed by his master.)

Perhaps you, dear reader, could help take Art down a peg?

Email or telephone contact from abroad makes them nervous (Brian.dawson@electoralcommission.ie / 086 0749344). Brian is their paid spokesman, but if you ask him questions about election rigging, you will find it almost impossible to get him on the phone.

If you tell them you are from a Jewish group and you’re thinking about putting him on your group’s enemies list because of his anti-Semitic questions, that would get his attention. Or you could tell him you’re working on a comedy skit about rigging elections and you’re looking for good quality images of himself and his team so you can mock and insult them for the benefit of a worldwide audience, protected by your U.S. free speech rights. If a congressman or a state-level politician or even a small-town mayor in Appalachia could be persuaded to write a letter expressing concern about the Irish elections, that would really put the cat amongst the pigeons…

As the Welsh say: Dyfal donc torri carreg. Many hits cut the rock. The rock does not break the first time you hit it with the hammer. But keep hitting it and eventually, it will break. If Brian Dawson takes ten or a hundred calls about election rigging, it will be water off a ducks’ back. But if he takes thousands of calls, it will have an effect on his mental health.

The Imitation of electoral democracy in Europe

Democracy has ceased to exist in Europe. Now it’s just a cover for all rogue shenanigans of the Western establishment.

Year by year the actions of Europe, accustomed to cast itself as a birthplace of world democracy, are becoming more and more controversial. Any threat to either the entrenched establishment or its interests makes European elites ignore principles of law and go all out to eliminate it.

Thus, in 2024 in the first round of the presidential elections in Moldova pro-EU Maia Sandu gained just 42% of the votes, far less than “independent” surveys had predicted. Realizing the gravity of the situation as well as the consequences of opposition-leaning Alexandr Stoianoglo coming to power, 37 countries from Europe to North America opened polling stations in their territories by the beginning of the presidential runoff. The majority, secured by votes from abroad, let Sandu win the elections. Europe, convinced of its own victory, breathed a sigh of relief — the threat posed by Stoianoglo had been neutralized.

Presidential elections in Romania in 2024 became one more blatant example of utter disregard for all democratic principles. Anti-Western Calin Georgescu, undesirable by the European establishment, gained the day, winning the first round of the election. As the moment for meddling was lost, the results were simply annulled under the pretext of foreign interference and vote rigging without any compelling proofs. Moreover, Georgescu was arrested for attempted “incitement to actions against the constitutional order” that made his participation in new elections impossible.

Such a rigorous control over the internal situation in Romania is conditioned by its crucial role for the European Union because of its importance for the war in Ukraine. Taking into account the course for militarization set by Europe in March, 2025, losing such an important logistics center for supplying arms to Kyiv would make lots of troubles for Brussels. That is why the presidential election rerun resulted in extreme vigilance of the EU. Brussels couldn’t let another candidate, reluctant to strictly adhere to the policy of the bloc, come to power.

That is why, reacting proactively and preparing the ground for annulling election results in case of a victory by George Simion, another politician unacceptable to the establishment, Romania’s Foreign Ministry claimed that some traces of foreign interference had been found. Later it turned out that an attempt to influence the election results appeared to be the real case. However, this meddling was in favor of pro-Western Nicusor Dan rather than “far-right” Simion.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov stated that a Western European country asked him to silence conservative voices in Romania by restricting or banning users ahead of the May 18 presidential elections. Stressing his flat refusal, Durov pointed out that it was impossible to defend democracy by destroying it. His stance found support among the American establishment including Elon Musk and Richard Grenell, Trump’s presidential envoy for special missions.

On May 18, 2025, pro-EU centrist Nicusor Dan won the presidential runoff with 53,6% of the vote. These results shocked the world community as on May 4, 2025, in the first round only 21% voted for his candidacy. It’s really hard to believe that pro-Ukrainian Dan, loyal to the EU, gained such a robust support among Romanians without any rogue shenanigans for such a short period of time.

From now on, democracy is out of the question. Utter totalitarianism and the desire to keep control of everyone and everything that could harm the interests of the political elites are driving forces of the European establishment. The fight against undesirables always was and always will be, but lately they are accomplishing their goals by any means necessary. Democracy be damned. They don’t even try to conceal it. The voice of the people has been almost obliterated by the sham of imitating democratic electoral procedures. It’s high time for Europeans to make their choice, whether to reconcile to these circumstances or put up a struggle for their voice and freedom.

Jonathan Schiff is a conservative, engineer, his interests also include geopolitics and political analysis. He can be reached at jonathan.schiff@proton.me

Reversing the Decline in White Fertility

An Address to the Fourth Finnish Awakening Conference in Hyvinkää, May 24, 2025 by F. Roger Devlin

The theme of this conference was announced as “immigration and the white fertility crisis.” The two subjects are obviously related. Certain resources are not elastic, such as territory. The more of a nation’s territory is occupied by immigrants, the less is left for the native population. Immigrants put pressure on other limited resources as well—jobs, housing, schools and hospitals, government spending—competing against the native population, and thereby making it more difficult for the natives to raise large families. Moreover, most immigrants to the West come from poorer countries, so they experience access to our labor markets and welfare state programs as an economic bonanza. They can afford more children here than they would have had back home. Across the West, migrant fertility is therefore higher than native levels. This means that even if all immigration were suddenly to stop today, the replacement of our own people by outsiders would continue for years to come through differential fertility. Patriotic Europeans must not, therefore, limit their demands to reducing immigration. Only a determined program of repatriation can safeguard the legitimate interests of our descendants.

All this being admitted, however, there are many European countries with below-replacement fertility levels which cannot primarily be explained by immigration, and I believe Finland is such a country. Finnish women, I understand, now bear an average of 1.4 or fewer children over the course of their lifetimes. Large-scale immigration is still far too recent here to account for such a dreadful figure. So in my remarks today I am going to focus on harmful fertility-reducing trends internal to the West, which does not mean that I consider immigration unimportant.

Modern Homo sapiens arrived in Europe from Africa around forty thousand years ago. At the most fundamental level, what defines us, the European peoples, and distinguishes us from the rest of humanity, is the result of evolutionary pressures which have operated upon us in the unique environment of Europe during these past forty thousand years. Intelligence, careful planning for the future, and an ability to defer gratification and be sparing in our use of limited resources are just a few of the traits we owe to having made our homes in a land of prolonged cold winters. I do not think a Finnish audience should require a long argument in support of this point.

But today I want to emphasize one particular difference between Europe and Africa. When our remote ancestors migrated to the colder climate of Europe, women’s dependence on male provisioning greatly increased.

In West Africa to this day, women produce most of the food, for men as well as for themselves. This is because African farming requires only simple tools such as hoes that women can operate just as well as men. But those African women would not have been able to nourish themselves as easily in pre-industrial Europe. Traditional European agriculture requires plowing, which makes far greater demands on upper body strength. In other words, in Europe, farming is men’s work. For this reason, all over pre-industrial Europe, men provided the food while women took care of the home. This economic pattern worked to strengthen pair-bonding in Europe. It made us more monogamous than our remoter African ancestors. To this day, West Africa is polygamous: the most polygamous society in the world, in fact. This is because women who produce their own food do not need to seek out a reliable, committed provider. So they simply mate as they please, including with already-married men. Needless to say, intensive polygamy results in plenty of bachelors with a lot of time on their hands. Criminal gangs proliferate. It is not a pretty picture.

In Europe, on the other hand, the dedicated provisioning of wife and children has long been an essential part of male identity: a good man is to a great extent one who provides loyally and well for his family. And our women have become adapted to this state of affairs through evolutionary pressures. Forty thousand years in Europe is equivalent to about thirteen hundred human generations. Over these generations, women with a preference for willing and capable providers have had more surviving offspring and passed this preference on to their daughters. Provisioning ability is, therefore, a key component of sexual attractiveness in men, and a man without resources or at least a clear ability to acquire them is barely even perceived by women as a man. We men do not like this, of course. We think our women should love us “for richer or for poorer,” as English marriage vows phrase it. But we cannot simply wish away thousands of years of evolutionary selection. Women are going to go right on being attracted to providers for the same reason men are attracted to youth and beauty. Women have no choice in the matter, and so men who wish to marry and raise families have no choice but to become providers.

What feminism and the ideal of “equality betwen the sexes” has done to European society has been to make women more economically self-sufficient, as the women farmers of Africa are. For women with no wish to marry or have children this has been beneficial. But there are not many such women. Most European-descended women want a secure home with a reliable husband and some children. For these women, feminism and jobs outside the home have been a disaster. It has also been a disaster for European birth rates. And here is another circumstance rarely noted: plenty of young men would sincerely like to be able to provide for a wife and family, but economic changes brought about by feminist thinking has made this much more difficult for them. Let me explain.

Before the industrial revolution most Europeans subsisted on agriculture, living and working in the same place, on the family farm. Industrial capitalism raised our standard of living, but meant that for the first time in history, people had to “go to work,” i.e., they had to labor for money in one place while they carried on their family lives in another. This raised a new issue: who, exactly, should leave home to work and earn money? From the very beginnings of industrial capitalism there have been competing answers to this question. In the view of many employers, the owners of capital, it has long seemed obvious that anyone and everyone with a desire to work and earn a salary should do so: men, women, and even children. The more people who work, after all, the richer the country will become—not to mention the capitalists themselves! In accord with this way of thinking, early industrialism was marked not only by widespread female employment outside the home, but even by child labor.

Yet not everyone agreed with the capitalists. Others believed not everything of value can be bought on the market. Specifically, family bonds and the proper rearing of children are precious goods that can only deteriorate if everyone is out competing for wages on the labor market. On this competing view, fathers should go to work to support their families, while mothers and children should remain at home protected from market competition. With fewer people working outside the home, the price of labor rises, compelling the capitalist to pay fathers the same wage he would have paid the entire family under a system where everyone worked. The capitalists get rich somewhat more slowly, but people still had homes, and society did not simply turn into a giant factory and marketplace. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth, this view largely won out. Child labor was done away with, and legal limitations were placed on women’s ability to work for money outside the home.

This was known as the family wage system, and it prevailed through the mid-twentieth century in much of the West. It is consistent with the male provisioning model Europeans have inherited from our preindustrial past. But it is not perfectly consistent with laissez-faire capitalism. It involves restricting the free play of market forces, not only by outlawing child labor but by openly and unapologetically practicing what is now known as “sex discrimination.” Under the family wage system, women were not permitted to compete against men on equal terms in many kinds of jobs, especially the most highly-paying. These were reserved for men because men were presumed to have families to support (as most of them did). Even many lower-paying jobs were open to women only as long as they remained unmarried, for a married woman’s duties were presumed to lie elsewhere.

The family wage system was far from perfect. As feminists are happy to remind us, it limited women’s choices. More importantly, in my view, it could not be tailored to the size of individual families. The same job and income that permitted one man to raise one or two children might have to stretch for another man with eight or ten. In the United States, three children came to be treated as the “normal” number for calculating a family wage, and while this has not historically been considered a large family, it at least represents a birth rate above replacement. Of course, under this system a few bachelors may get to enjoy a family wage without supporting a family at all. According to my observations, however, this is not as big a problem as one might anticipate, because the richer a bachelor gets, the harder it is for him to remain a bachelor, as he will be much desired as a husband. Women simply will not tolerate it.

For all of its imperfections, the family wage system prevailed for several generations in the United States and much of Europe, and there are still a few elderly people who can remember it. During this time, employment listings in newspapers were divided into two sections: men’s jobs and women’s jobs. There were more men’s jobs, and they usually paid better. Women did sometimes complain about this, but they also seemed to like and appreciate men more than they do today. As I said, women are preprogrammed by our evolutionary history to perceive and evaluate men as providers, so they are going to like and appreciate us more when we provide for them. Yet for us to do this, arrangements must be made to allow it. The family wage system of open workplace discrimination against women was precisely an arrangement designed to support the traditional male provider role.

And the really amazing thing is that most men find satisfaction in providing for a wife and children as long as they receive a bit of love and appreciation in return. It makes them feel needed because, under such a traditional arrangement, they are needed. Women are largely helpless in the latter stages of pregnancy and while nursing. The more children they bear, the longer their period of helplessness. So if a society wants high fertility, it must accept that there are going to be a lot of helpless women, and it must allow their husbands to care and provide for them. A man has always been able to avoid a lot of trouble and anxiety by remaining a bachelor, so well-ordered societies both make it possible for men to support families and reward those who do so with status and respect.

Since about the 1970s, however, Western society has come under the almost irresistible influence of feminism with its ideal of “equal pay for equal work.” It is important to recognize that this principle is neither new nor an invention of modern feminism. It is essentially identical to the ideal of the early capitalist bosses who wanted to see not merely our wives but even our children putting in long days at the factory. Business interests are always happy to swallow up the maximum possible amount of human labor from all sources at the lowest possible price because this increases their own profits.

Governments are also happy to have more incomes to tax. If the family wage system prevailed for such a long time, this was only at the insistence of organized labor. Neither economic theory, nor industrial power, nor political power showed any interest in protecting the family from economic competition. Also, please note that the power of organized labor was associated with the political left, not the nationalist or conservative right. In other words, the old, pre-multicultural left was not wrong about everything.

Under a feminist system that forbids “sex discrimination,” men and women are pitted against one other in competition for jobs and money rather than cooperating and complementing one another. This drives down wages for everyone and makes a stay-at-home wife an expensive luxury only the wealthiest men can afford. Virtually the only working people who benefit from this system are women with no wish to marry, such as lesbian feminists. They can earn their own money and be entirely independent of men. But I do not believe our economic and social institutions should be arranged primarily to benefit lesbians.

And the system of “equal pay for equal work” is a return not merely to the early days of industrialism, but to the West African system of female food production. In West Africa, “strong, independent” women support themselves economically and are competed for by males who often have to pay a price, bridewealth, for the often-polygynous marriage. The resulting society might be suitable for them, but not for Europeans. It is a poor match for our evolutionary history.

Feminism has been a failure even for those few women who actually attain high status and high-incomes in the workplace, since even they typically cherish a desire to marry and have children. Rationally, since they earn so much themselves, they should have less need to look to men as providers. And that is just what feminists used to promise us: once women entered the workforce, men would be relieved of part of the pressure to provide for their families, while women would come to value us more on the basis of our personal qualities and less as mere economic resources. These promises went unfulfilled because the sex instinct is innate and not rational. The evidence is very clear that the more a woman earns the greater the stress she places on finding a husband who earns even more than she does, and the harder it becomes to find such a man.

So in summary: the feminist system of allowing men and women to compete against one another for wages makes it harder for men to live up to women’s expectations in two distinct ways: first, it lowers men’s actual earnings by increasing the supply of labor, and second, it raises the level of earnings that working women expect from us. Hence an astonishing paradox of contemporary Western life: we are living in the most prosperous society in human history, and our women are furious at our perceived inadequacies as providers.

Yet it was never working men who asked for this system! As I have already mentioned, it was capitalists and feminists who wanted antidiscrimination laws and “equal pay for equal work.” Men were generally happy with the family wage system as long as their women rewarded them with a little love and appreciation. Millions of men in the West today would think they had died and gone to heaven if they could have what their grandfathers took for granted: a job that allowed them to marry and support a family. We do not have any right to demand of young men something we have made impossible for so many of them. Yet virtually no one today is advocating for a restoration of the family wage system. Most younger people do not know it ever existed. We must teach the young that it is perfectly right and proper to discriminate between the sexes for the simple reason that the sexes are different and want different things. It is time to declare feminism a failed experiment and move on from it.

Moreover, women have never done equal work and are not doing it now. Feminism has largely resulted in women performing make-work jobs that allow corporations to fill legal quotas but contribute little to the economy while also keeping the women from bearing and raising children. In America most companies now maintain unnecessary “human resources” departments where female paper-pushers can be kept busy. The best that can be said of such departments is that they may not always actively harm the companies which create them.

But the women who fill such superfluous corporate positions can contribute much more to society by returning to their natural and proper work of bearing and nurturing the rising generation. This will not only bring Western fertility rates back up to replacement level, but leave women themselves far happier. People are most content when living in accordance with the nature their evolutionary history has given them. Many young women today do not value motherhood because they literally do not know what they are missing. That is why so many are preoccupied with unrestricted abortion and ever more of the “equality” that is making them miserable when what they ought to be demanding is better wages for their husbands.

No treatment of the modern Western fertility crisis would be complete without some discussion of divorce, more specifically, of unilateral divorce on demand with mother custody. Here I should emphasize that I am not familiar with Finnish child custody law, so you may have to tailor my points to your specific national situation. But the broad trends are common across the West.

Many people today are unaware of the traditional view within European Christendom that legal custody of children belonged properly to the father, not the mother. This used to be an essential aspect of marriage, differentiating it from mere fornication or cohabitation. Women have always been free to leave their husbands, but under traditional arrangements they could not take the children with them, nor could they demand continued economic support from husbands they had abandoned, nor could they contract any new legally or religiously recognized marriage. The consequences of family abandonment were usually disastrous for a woman, so unless they were married to some sadistic monster, most wives and mothers stayed and made the best of things. But they could leave if they insisted: even in the strictest and most traditional Christian societies, marriage was never meant to be a form of imprisonment.

This began to change only in 1839 when the British Parliament devised a new legal principle known as the “tender years doctrine.” It held that in cases of marital separation, mothers should retain custody of children up to the age of seven years with the father required to continue financial support. Thirty-four years later, the tender years doctrine was extended to include all children up to the age of sixteen. The prestige of the British Empire ensured that the new thinking spread. Women acquired the right to leave their husbands and take the children with them, while husbands were still required to provide financial support for children they might not even be able to see, much less act as good fathers to.

Then, beginning in the United States in the 1940s, a new legal reform was proposed under which divorce could be granted without grounds upon petition by either spouse. In other words, reformers sought to make the marriage contract unenforceable. It ought to be obvious that this amounts to the legal abolition of marriage itself. A marriage either party can abandon at any time for any reason or for none at all is no different from cohabitation. Significantly, this reform was first proposed by an organization called The National Association of Women Lawyers. It was women, not men, who wanted to make it easier to dissolve their marriages. They would never have advocated such a change if the switch from father to mother custody had not already become almost universally accepted.

Unilateral divorce without grounds became law in the United States during the 1960s-70s. Since then, nearly half of American marriages have ended in divorce, with women making the decision in almost all cases involving children. Over the years, child support payments for divorced husbands have been made increasingly onerous, and men unable to pay can be jailed. Women can now gain all sorts of legal advantages over their former husbands simply by making wild accusations of beating and abuse, so that is exactly what many of them do.

Of course, word of this eventually gets out. This brings us up to the present and the recent emergence of a new social trend no one seems to have predicted: young men are deciding not to get married. Unforeseen as this development was, nearly all commentators are in agreement on the reasons for it: the current generation of young men is immature, irresponsible, cowardly, and simply refuses to grow up. I wish I had more time to share with you some of the abuse now being hurled at young American men for, in effect, simply trying to stay out of jail or avoid being left homeless by vindictive ex-wives. These young men are stubborn, and some refuse even to socialize with young women. Not only older people but even young women themselves are starting to become simply furious with them. Anger is not especially attractive, so the angrier the women get, the less inclined the men are to change their minds. I am genuinely curious to see how this situation is going to play out in the coming years. As they say on the internet: grab some popcorn!

So to conclude: if you want men to father a sufficient number of children, you should let them keep those children at home with them and avoid treating husbands and fathers like disposable filth to be plundered by divorce courts and adulterous ex-wives. Along with ending competition from immigrants and restoring the family income by legalizing “sex discrimination in the workplace” once again, that is my best recommendation for bringing Western fertility back to replacement level.

The Heresiarchs

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Everybody, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come
Haruki Murakami, ‘1Q84’

‘Don’t Look Now’[1]: Psycho-Historical Antecedents

For Western Europe, this current unhappy year 2025, not only marks the 80th anniversary of its Anglo-Saxon occupation, but also the 50th anniversary of the release of Pasolini’s 120 Days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma). Undoubtedly, ‘Salò’ constitutes the most shocking cinematographic evidence of the cultural ‘reorientation’ of Eurasia’s Atlantic Rim, after the final victory of the Anglo-Saxon ‘Crusade against Europe’ ended its independence in that even unhappier ‘Zero Year’, 1945.[2] Although the film’s utterly depraved pornographic content and its deliberately antinomian director decisively preclude their inclusion in the canons of Western high art (the post-1945 sum total of which is remarkably meagre in any case), they still hold great diagnostic value for those few historians still inclined to study the current putrefaction stage of the ‘Decline of the West’. Even the outer circumstances of the film’s release, which took place some weeks after the death of its director, are heavy with appropriate symbolism: in a remarkable example of ‘life imitating art’, the gruesome details of Pasolini’s murder are seamlessly aligned with the psycho-dramatic program proposed in his final script, radically inverting and, of course, purposefully perverting what is commonly accepted as the West’s greatest literary creation: Dante’s Divine Comedy.[3] With the benefit of two generations of hindsight, its content may now be profitably projected on the course of recent Western psycho-history:

(1) Il girone delle manie ‘the circle of manias’ of 1970-1995, for which the prerequisite cultural tabula rasa of Stunde Null and economic consumer paradise of les trente glorieuses had been created by, respectively, the Greatest and Silent Generations (cohorts born 1890-1915 and 1915-1940). This ‘circle’ is realized by the Boomer Generation (cohort born 1940-1965), whose rise was heralded by the LARP-revolutions of ‘1968’, making Western Europe’s civilizational regression irreversible by the mid-1980s. Elsewhere, the author has suggested that, after the Boomers’ ‘march through the institutions’, the ‘ABBA’ years 1978-1980 mark the actual civilizational ‘point of no return’,[4] but the neoliberal scorched earth policies of the Reagan-Thatcher-Lubbers regime took some time to take full effect. The loss of techno-idealistic drive and basic geopolitical realism in Western civilization as a whole are most dramatically illustrated by two collapses on the Western frontiers: the Challenger disaster of 1986, effectively replacing the ‘Space Age’ exploration with ‘Star Wars’ megalomania, and the assassination of Rabin in 1995, effectively ending the decolonization era outside the West and marking the start of an all-out Anglo-Zionist crusade for global hegemony.

(2) Il girone della merda ‘the circle of excrement’ of 1995-2020, during which the now-maniacal Boomers, having descended into collective narcissism and unbridled consumerism and having abandoned the religious and ethical precepts of the Western Tradition, rule without checks and balances.[5] Beyond a shadow of a doubt, they have proven Kierkegaard’s words: remove the anguished conscience, and you may as well close the churches and turn them into dance halls. Rejecting Western Tradition, the Boomers have adopted a structurally inverted Weltanschauung, hence radically antinomian and overtly nihilistic, with all classical hallmarks of a (self-)destructive cult: behavioral and personality changes, loss of personal identity, cessation of scholastic activities, estrangement from family, disinterest in society and pronounced mental control and enslavement by cult leaders.[6] This internal ‘cultic’ condition has its counterpart in an aggressively proselytizing external ‘mission’ (exporting ‘values’ such as ‘liberal democracy’, ‘DEI’, ‘LGBTQ rights’, the ‘free market’, the ‘Rules Based Order’), resorting to forced conversion wherever necessary (ranging from soft-power ‘colour revolutions’ in the post-Soviet space to the ‘humanitarian interventions’ in the former Yugoslavia and the ‘Arab Spring’ bloodbath in the Middle East).

Under the Boomer regime, the West’s Weltanschauung, which may defined as cultural nihilism applied internally and satano-globalism applied externally, is also characterized by distinctly millenarian overtones: slogans such as Bush’s ‘New World Order’ and Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ point to the ‘doomsday cult’ aspect of regime now ruling the ‘Collective West’. With the Boomers safely ensconced in privileged safety ‘bubbles’ (‘uniparty cartels’, ‘tenured positions’, ‘trust funds’, ‘gated communities’), the soul-crushing internal manifestations of this cultic regime, including neo-Victorian labour and housing conditions (‘deregulation’, ‘privatization), wholesale ethnic replacement (‘asylum seekers’, ‘labour migrants’) and the perversion of law and order (‘affirmative action’, ‘hate speech legislation’), are primarily borne by the Boomers’ children and grandchildren (Generation X, cohort 1965-1990, and the Millennials, cohort 1990-2015). The even more horrifying external manifestations, including IMF/World Bank-imposed debt slavery across the Global South (‘privatization’, ‘austerity’), mass human trafficking into the West (‘smuggler’ networks, ‘NGO’ facilities) and systematic violence to subdue anti-hegemonic resistance anywhere (engineered ‘extremist terrorism’, tailored ‘forever wars’), are primarily borne by the masses of the ‘s**thole countries’ of the Global South, whose psychological dehumanization precedes their necropolitical decimation. During this quarter of a century, which more or less equals the ‘Unipolar Moment’ in international politics, the internal and external victims of the Boomer elite’s New World Order found themselves caught drowning in this deliberately created ‘circle of excrement’.

(3) Il girone del sangue ‘the circle of blood’, starting in 2020, represents the final ‘Age of Consequences’ in Western psycho-history: with the ‘Covid Scamdemic’ and the follow-up ‘Vaccinocaust’, obviously aimed at tearing down the pillars of Western socio-economic life and culling the Western population, the once Boomer-based and West-centred New World Order project has crossed a historical threshold. Elsewhere, the author has pointed out that the ‘Ten Months That Shook the World’, between the ‘Covid’ lockdown of March 2020, through the ‘BLM’ summer and the ‘Biden’ coup autumn of the same year, and the ‘January 6th’ episode of 2021, effectively mark the final Fall of the West.[7] From that point onwards, the West is effectively defunct as a historically distinct Kulturkreis, leaving its remnant peoples and remnant institutions ‘captured’ (in older words: ‘possessed’) by unmitigated satano-globalism, creating a state of ‘zombification’ in which the name ‘Western’ is reduced to a highly deceptive place-holder term bereft of the cultural and civilization content and continuity that it once covered.[8] With the fading out of its carrier cohort, the Boomer Generation, the satano-globalist New World Order project itself is now undergoing a radical transformation, characterized by demographic metastasis as well as eschatological acceleration. Demographically, its predominantly White, late-stage paternalist and ‘culturally Christian’ demographic carrier is now replaced by a new rabidly anti-White, fiercely (f)emocratic and militantly anti-religious successor generation of hand-picked, ‘Manchurian Candidate’-type Young Global Leaders and a host of DEI minions, preferably proudly incompetent, unabashedly narcissistic and openly hostile to the interests of the ‘mass formation’-shaped slave populations that they are to rule.

Thus, ‘Europe’ is now ruled by the ‘power women’ likes of Finland’s ‘rainbow family’/‘topless office’ Sanna Marin, Estonia’s ‘war at any price’/‘hate Russia but not rubles’ Kaja Kallas and Germany’s ‘trying everything’/‘phizergate’ Ursula von der Leyen. Ideologically, the Boomers’ New World Order project is now rapidly shifting towards its only logically consistent end-state, which combines a techno-totalitarian surveillance state (abolition of civil rights) with a bio-leninist caste system (inversion of meritocracy) and a transhumanist agenda (bio-technical control) and which, given its pursuit of the ‘immanentization of the eschaton’, is perhaps best described by the term ‘satano-globalism’. Its necessary corollary in the domain of domestic and international Realpolitik is the normalization of what Achille Mbembe has aptly termed ‘necropolitics’, i.e. the state-sponsored condemnation to various (physical, psychological, cultural) forms of death and existential liminality of specific, greater or smaller, target populations in the pursuit of biopolitical aims. The most logically consistent application of necropolitics equals the ultimate application of transhumanism, i.e., the (technological) supersession of the whole of humanity, which in turn equals the aim of satanism, completing the ‘circle of blood’.

The sacred scriptures of the world’s great religions record several instances of whole nations caught up in vicious cycles of psycho-historical decay. Thus, on the boundary of recorded history, there is the dismal record of the days of Noah, when few heeded the gathering clouds. But there is no need to look back further than the more recent record of the days of Lot, when the first Sodom and Gomorrah went up in smoke:

Then the Awful Cry overtook them at the sunrise
And We utterly confounded them, and We rained upon them stones of heated clay
Lo! therein verily are portents for those who read the signs
– Quran 15:73-5

Sycorax’ Hour[9]: Necropolitical Preliminaries

Moving into the final phase of the three-circle trajectory, Western Europe now finds itself shorn of its existential essence, effectively bereft of the civilization, the culture and the identity that once defined it as the heartland of the West: it has now entered a post-Western existential state. During the first circle ‘mania’ phase, which corresponds to the Boomers’ 1970-1995 heyday, Western Europe abandoned its culture, inverting its Nomos archetype by adopting anti-ethics and anti-aesthetics. Moving through the second circle ‘excrement’ phase, which corresponds to the Boomers’ 1995-2020 decadence, Western Europe abandoned its civilization, inverting its Evangelion archetype through the coercive and violent pursuit of globalist-nihilist hegemony (geopolitical ‘Unipolarity’). Now entering the third circle ‘blood’ phase, starting with the Annus Horribilis of 2020 (the Covid-BLM-Biden operations resulting in the Fall of the West), Western Europe faces the inversion of its Techne archetype, as evidenced by the redirection of its φαρμακεία from life-saving medicine to transhumanist sorcery and by its redirection of its οἰκονομία from ploughshares to swords. The direct physical violence attendant on the inversion of the Techne archetype, rapidly expanding internally (‘gender surgery’, ‘vaccine damage’) as well as externally (‘Ukraine’, ‘Gaza’) and increasingly depersonalized through new technologies (‘drone warfare’, ‘AI targeting’), is compounded by novel forms of non-physical violence, particular to a new age of ‘hybrid’ and ‘multi-dimensional’ war and to a new reality of a ‘technologically framed’ world in which most of humanity is already (partially) absorbed in a matrix of multiple ‘alternative realities’ (‘virtual workspaces’, ‘digital communities’, ‘online dating’), such as ‘deplatforming’, ‘geofencing’ and ‘algorithmic censorship’. Rapid advances in information technology, nano-technology and bio technology, allowing for an unparallelled degree of real-time surveillance, subconscious manipulation and custom-made intervention in the lives of entire nations by nebulous forces entirely beyond the control of obsolete institutional ‘checks and balances’, are even now giving rise to a techno-totalitarianism of unprecedented scope and depth — the preparation of this ‘System of the Beast’, complete with a Palantir panopticon and a CBDC dungeon, is now approaching its final stage. At a whim, these techno-totalitarian forces can impose pandemics, create wars or disrupt supply-lines, unleashing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse of plague, war, hunger and hell on a global scale, by simply choosing some convenient ‘narrative’, ‘locking down’ the economy, imposing ‘mass formation’ conditions, ‘deplatforming’ critical voices and, where necessary, moving dissenters ‘off the grid’. The Covid-BLM-Biden-vaccine narratives of 2020-21 were a successful test of how easily the population of the (ex-)West can be manipulated into self-destructive behaviour by these means and the Ukraine-Gaza narratives of 2022-23 showed how they can also be used to ‘weaponize’ whole nations against any designated external enemy, be it the greatest military power in the world (Russia) or a defenceless refugee population on a strip of desert land (Gaza). As a result, millions have already died without as much as a dent in the infernal mechanisms perpetuating the ‘circle of blood’.

As things stand now, it looks like the West’s psycho-historical trajectory will have to run its full course, with the lazy passivity and shameful apathy of the (ex-)Western masses gradually giving way to enthusiastic support and undisguised sadism, much like the exhaustion of the Roman Republic gave way to the cruelty of the Roman Empire. This psycho-historical devolution, by which the (ex-)West is now descending into a state of neo-atavism, is guided and exploited by those advocating it and profiting from it, but, once set in motion, it also has an autonomous, self-reinforcing dynamic: the systematic projection of collectively held complexes onto convenient scapegoat populations is a basic psychological mechanism that finds its ‘natural’ (viz. non-anagogically corrected) outlet in bloody sacrifice and ritual sadism (damnatio ad bestias, malleus maleficarum). Thus, it is not surprising that the neo-Christian, tradition-respecting, martially minded and nationally cohesive Russian people are maligned and assaulted by the nihilistic, anti-traditional, decadent and identity-less masses of the West. Similarly, it is not surprising that religiously open, ethnically open, history-immersed and spiritually minded Palestinians are despised and massacred by the religiously closed, ethnically closed, history-falsifying and materially oriented Zionist colonists who came to the Holy Land on an ‘inverted crusade’ mission from the West.

The start of the second Trump presidency, in January 2025, likely marks the point at which the last restraints on the rising blood lust of the West are removed in the international arena: the last remnants of the ‘rules based order’ (OSCE, ICC) and the ‘international institutions’ (WHO, UNWRA), already long obsolete, irretrievably biased and deeply corrupted in any case, are being relegated to the dustbin of history and the last pretences at professional diplomacy and balanced journalism are being discarded as superfluous relicts of an irrelevant past. Within the West, these are not, however, being replaced by the known — and safely predictable — modalities of earlier ages, such as hard-headed realism and brazen self-interest. At the inter-state level, neither imperial Realpolitik nor mercantilist calculus have staged a comeback in Western international politics: instead, chaos reigns supreme. A tipping point has been reached: after decades of deliberate miseducation, constant media propaganda, systemic corruption and anti-meritocratic programming, the inner decay of Western societies, thus far hidden by generational delay and institutional prestige, is finally starting to show on the outside, cracking the thus-far shallow but smooth outer façade in the international arena. Shamelessly, Tinder-quality ‘power women’, ‘openly gay’ golden boys, ‘affirmative action’ non-Westerners and ‘double-citizenship’ Zionists now claim to ‘represent’ ex-Western nations — without any thought for the most basic interests, or even survival, of the states that they claim to ‘lead’.

The leaders of the Eurasianist East and the Global South would make a grave mistake in assuming that these Western ‘leaders’ are seeking the peace, prosperity and well-being of the Western nations and states, or even that they are pursuing rational goals and calculated profits. On the contrary, pursuing sub-rational ‘emotions’ and pursuing non-calculable ‘experiences’, both exclusively related to narrowly narcissistic egos and exclusively derived from specific psychopathologies, these malignantly diseased predators, much like the vampires and zombies of literary and cinematographic fiction, should be assessed according to the mortal danger they pose to their prey, the latter category comprising all still authentically human individuals within the (ex-)West as well as all still authentically human societies across the rest of the world. These vampiric and zombified creatures may incidentally serve certain specific political agendas and certain specific economic interests, most transparently those of the ‘big banking’, ‘big business’, ‘big pharma’ and ‘big tech’ sectors which unleashed them on the world in pursuit of certain short-term projects, but they can and do run amuck, much like the monster created by Dr. Frankenstein. The world’s Witching Hour has begun.

Tis now the very witching time of night
When churchyards yawne and hell it selfe breakes out contagion to this world
– Shakespeare, Hamlet

‘15 Minutes’[10]: Demonological Perspectives

Unfortunately, the vampiric and zombified nature of the Western ‘leadership’ does reflects, to varying degrees across various areas of the West (less so in the still-Catholic and Orthodox part of the EU than in its ex-Protestant part and the overseas Anglosphere), the ‘katagogic’ metamorphosis that a significant part of the populace has undergone since the 1960s. These ‘lost soul’ masses, suffering staggering rates of obesity, body dysphoria, drug addiction, mental disease and ‘vaccine’ damage, provide a limited but dependable electoral base for the West’s vampiric and zombified ‘leadership’: thus, the intensely psychopathic[11] and increasingly grotesque characters currently representing the ‘Collective West’ do externally reflect the true inner state of the West. To the extent that other, less affected sections of the Western electorate still vaguely recognize the diseased nature of their society, however, they tend to vote for ‘controlled opposition’ figures that are only marginally less diseased than the fully vampiric and zombified ‘mainstream’ candidates and that have been carefully screened for their ability ‘compromise’ when the time is right.

Thus, all across the West, a whole host of ‘populist’ and ‘civic-nationalist’ false prophets are biding their time in the opposition benches, waiting in the wings of institutional power and standing by to take their turn at ‘leadership’. The moment their turn has come, however, they fall in line with the ‘establishment’, nudged by ample rewards and co-opted by the ‘powers that be’: their essential role is to serve as ‘lightning rods’ for societal discontent and to ‘put on a good show’. Since the early 2000s and all across the West, this mechanism has proven its efficiency, time and again, with ‘populists’ coming to power and nothing ever changing. Obscene income disparities, chronic housing shortages, generational income insecurity, wholesale ethnic replacement, intermittent terror waves, rampant grooming gangs, imploding family structures, collapsing education systems, woke-weaponized judiciaries, maliciously micromanaging bureaucracy, ubiquitous social media pornification, staggering addiction rates, unchecked transgender cultism — all these things are only getting worse. Over time, the accumulating weight of injustice, decadence and ugliness is creating a wave of suffering, disgust and despair that not many can bear. As the social, legal and political order dissolves under the combined aegis of kleptocracy (the banksters’ elite), pornocracy (the women’s rights’ elite), ochlocracy (the consumer mob) and idiocracy (the whore-nalysts of the media class and the mid-wits of the academic class) and as the number of ‘lost souls’ increases, daily life itself becomes surreally perverted until finally a tipping point is reached: the point beyond which reality itself breaks down, giving way to collective madness.

Forglobalists, leftists and run of the mill psychopaths, free will means the ability to choose not to believe in archetypes, or morality or even objective truth. They choose nihilism, but this is only part of the problem. The defiance of truth goes beyond some misguided attempt to be free from societal judgment. Instead, [these] people define freedom without responsibility as the ultimate state of being. In other words, they view the capacity to inflict suffering and destruction without regard as an evolutionary advantage. They think their lack of humanity makes them superhuman. It’s no mistake that leftists and woke activists are obsessed with power dynamics; their new religion ensures that they cannot see the world any other way. For woke ideologues everything revolves around which groups hold power and how they can take that power for themselves. Thus, questions of right and wrong never enter into the equation. Power is the end that justifies all means. They see moral order as an artificial construct that oppresses them, because they want to do evil without consequence. Moral relativism at its core requires the victimization of others as a form of rebellion against order.

Of course, the injustice of this mentality is hard to dismiss but leftists have a way around that. There’s no shortage of woke activists who have displayed a contempt for the law and for morals when they’re being judged, but they will joyfully embrace morals and the law when they think these things can be used against their enemies. Hypocritically, leftists like the idea of rules, but only for other people. Rules are a shield to prevent retribution from the people they victimize. That’s the only purpose rules serve for the woke. To summarize, leftists are total relativists. The rules do not apply to them. The law does not apply to them. Morality does not apply to them. Conscience is non-existent for them or it exists but they have trained their minds to ignore it. Biological reality does not apply to them. They think they are special and that boundaries should only exist for the people they don’t like. This is pure evil. There’s no other rational way to look at it.[12]

Thus, within the West, the second Trump presidency, following the ‘Biden Era’ socio-economic and legal-moral bankruptcy of its system of governance and reflecting the post-‘9/11’, post-‘Covid’, post-‘QAnon’ implosion of its public trust, may be said to mark a perceptual tipping point: this is point at which the boundary between reality and fiction breaks down and at which the audience and the actors merge. The line dividing the carefully choreographed LARPs of the Washington spin-doctors and the Hollywood mind-benders from real-life psychopathy and kinetic violence has been crossed. Ironically but appropriately, this emerging ‘alternative reality’ is ushered in by former reality show and talk radio host Donald Trump, now appointed Entertainer-in-Chief. At the sounding of this second ‘trump’, in the twinkling of an eye, all is changed: nightmarish forces, including demonic entities and ghoulish dispositions long ago cast out into the outer dark by Christian morality, are now pouring back into waking reality through the crumbling ‘walls of the world’. Taking possession of the ‘lost souls’ of the West, they will inflict their ‘15 minutes’ of triumph on an unsuspecting humanity: ab occidente tenebrae.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here
– Shakespeare, The Tempest

Operation Pandemonium: Kakistocratic Mechanisms

Outside the West, it is now widely recognized that the deliberate promotion of degeneracy and the targeted application of terror have been key strategies in imposing globalist-nihilist hegemony over the Eurasian East and the Global South ever since the end of World War II. The twin strategies of ‘hearts and minds’ and ‘shock and awe’ to demoralize and destroy non-compliant populations and enemy states may be nothing new as imperialist tools, but the globalist-nihilist versions of both are characterized by two significant innovations: the scientific mass-application of social engineering and the ‘inverse engineering’ of societal structures and state institutions to achieve an antinomian end-state. Inside the West, these same twin strategies have also been applied, but with greater sophistication and in different dosages: whereas the wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of civilian enemies was required outside the West (e.g. the Phoenix Program in Indochina and Operation Condor in Latin America), the surgical removal of the occasional high-profile (semi-)dissident sufficed in Europe and North America (e.g., Malcolm X in America in 1965, Veronica Guerin in Ireland in 1996, Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands in 2002, Udo Ulfkotte in Germany in 2017). The submission to globalist-nihilist-dominion of indigenous Western populations, posing a potential but permanent political threat to the hostile elite within its geographic home-base territory, was primarily achieved through subterfuge – at least till the point that these populations were sufficiently reduced in relative demographic weight vis-à-vis the Third World colonists that they ultimately were to be replaced with (a process formally begun with the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965). Thus, side by side with the policies of anti-natalism (‘women’s rights’, ‘sexual liberation’, ‘birth control’) and mass-immigration (‘guest labour’, ‘asylum seekers’, ‘family unification’), an unprecedented program of miseducation, disinformation and gaslighting was gradually put in place, based on psycho-social deprogramming, socio-economic conditioning and culture distortion. The result is a multi-layered system of institutionalized deception, reaching from collective longue durée culture (foundational mythology, archetypal identity, deep history) to individual day-to-day experience (news cycle, bureaucratic status, financial security).

Arguably, the important mechanism underpinning this full spectrum deception is the manipulation of language because truth has to be spoken to power and the most efficient way to repress the truth is by controlling speech itself: if a man cannot say what he means, he will never mean what he says. The long-term effect of systematic Orwell-type linguistic manipulation, exploiting basic cognitive mechanisms such as psychological bias, confirmation bias, reflexive thinking and apophenia and enhanced by sophisticated marketing strategies such as demographic targeting and subliminal messaging, is to reduce the meaning of words to highly exploitable placeholder variables, resulting in highly manipulable collective states of cognitive dissonance and paranoia.

The deliberate weaponization of various forms of modern art is an important element in this process of language manipulation: art shapes language and perception by creating association shortcuts and artfully crafted propaganda can perform a very efficient ‘thought crime stop’ function. Properly ‘marketed’ and artfully crafted, propaganda can induce collective states of irrationality and infantilization, creating a buffer of ‘protective stupidity’ between the rulers and the ruled, eliminating the individual reasoning and maturity on which collective rationality and civic responsibility depend. Deliberately blurred, the boundary between reality and fiction can thus be ‘artistically’ adjusted in either direction: prime examples of how such adjustments on the sliding scale from ‘historical fact’ to ‘conspiracy theory’ are taking place over time are the many Hollywood-Pentagon co-production ‘files’, ‘disclosures’ and ‘investigations’ covering the ‘controversial’ subjects of JFK, UFOs and 9/11 — all incomplete in terms of information given to the public. But such boundary adjustments do not only take place retroactively, as in ‘rewriting the past’, but also proactively, as in ‘shaping the future’, through a clever combination of artistic precognition and cultic protocol: prime examples of this ‘predictive programming’ are Hollywood-Pentagon co-produced movies such as ‘Contagion’ (2011, ‘pandemic preparedness’), ‘Transcendence’ (2014, ‘transhumanism preparedness’), ‘Finch’ (2021, ‘climate change preparedness’), ‘Leave the World Behind’ (2023, ‘hybrid war preparedness’), ‘Civil War’ (2024, ‘Trump preparedness’) and ‘Zero Day’ (2025, ‘deep state take-over preparedness’). These retroactive and proactive manipulations of language and art, in which virtual and alternative realities are created, must be understood as essential elements of the information warfare, now broadening to cognitive warfare by which the Western hostile elite is seeking to maintain and enhance its power: cognitive warfare degrades the capacity to know, produce or thwart knowledge.[13] As the Western hostile elite shifting into ‘flight forward’ mode both at home and abroad, its use of tricks, pranks and fakes to achieve ‘full spectrum dominance’ is becoming increasingly obvious: the ‘news’ and ‘analyses’ put out by the Western legacy media are now so transparently biased and absurd that the West’s cognitive bubble can now be properly described as an ‘Empire of Lies’. This output is also starting to show remarkable similarity, in reality-bending technique if not anagogic intent, to the propaganda output of the Third Reich, including straight-forward Nazi-era parodies such presenting NATO as fighting the barbaric hordes on a new Eastern Front for Lebensraum (read: raw material and real estate collateral for Black Rock and Vanguard) and European civilization (read: the sacrosanct rights to have gay discos and transgender surgeries), and the EU as promoting media Gleichschaltung for the protection of values. [A] wave of repression [is] sweeping the major Western states.It is a structural movement in government of the worst kind. It can only be compared to the wave of fascism that swept much of Europe in the 1930s.The now-threadbare mantle of public intellectual in the West has passed to lightweight figures like Jordan Peterson and populist Islamophobes like Douglas Murray.[14]

The effect of full spectrum deception is to induce a state of highly manipulable ‘fluidity’ at all levels of human existence, a ‘we will never know the truth’ state at the collective and at the individual level, befitting the ‘Age of Aquarius’ spirit permeating the Western public sphere at the time when the techniques underpinning it were perfected in various ‘MKUltra’-type experimentation programs. This state of fluidity, in which all collective forms of identity (religion, ethnicity, caste, lineage, gender) were first ‘critiqued’ and then ‘deconstructed’ in all experiential domains, gradually caused the atomization of the collective and the alienation of the individual. As the traditional concepts of the church, the nation and the family as collective reference points were demolished and as the natural hierarchies of age, gender and ability were denied, community gave way to ‘society’, culture was replaced by ‘entertainment’, vocation was exchanged for ‘career’, artisanship shifted to ‘production’, aesthetic values were superseded by ‘consumer choices’, knowledge was reduced to ‘opinion’ and private morality abdicated to ‘public opinion’. As this process reached its logical conclusion, a collective state of malignant narcissism came to reflect the individual state of counterfeit identity adopted by the rootless masses of the ‘collective West’, as reflected in the ‘modernized’ public institutions catering to their new need. Thus, ‘modernized’ churches turned anti-transcendental, reflecting the exclusively here-and-now ‘life style choices’ of their ‘liberated’ members (hence their feminist and woke-oriented personnel, their vernacular and sentimentalized services and their politicized and activist messaging), ‘modernized’ academia turned anti-meritocratic, reflecting their new ‘equal opportunity’ clientele (calculating tinder girls preparing for post-age 30 sinecures, ambitious metrosexual soy-boys pursuing laptop-career bubble lives, and resentful BIPOCs bent on ethnic vengeance), and ‘modernized’ state institutions turned anti-justice, reflecting the narrow interests of the West’s bankster elite, which seeks to nullify all political and legal checks and balances on its power to exploit the masses domestically and the non-West internationally. The latter inversion of state power, which meant that state institutions abandoned the Katechon principle (protection of the weak and encouragement of virtue), effectively resulted in politicide and kakistocracy, shielding the predatory and parasitic globalist hostile elite from political repercussions and legal accountability.

By 2020, after four decades of West-led liberal neo-imperialism (the post-WWII bipolar era) and three decades of West-based globalist hegemony (the post-Cold War unipolar moment), the twin strategies to achieve globalist-nihilist hegemony, i.e., the full spectrum promotion of counterfeit values and ideas and the necropolitical application of war and terror, had resulted in the de facto end of effective resistance inside the West as well as the de facto submission of most states outside the West. Domestically, real dissident voices had been silenced and replaced by controlled opposition LARPs. Internationally, sovereign state power outside the West-led ‘rules-based order’ had been significantly reduced: a few minor anomalies (Serbia, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela) aside, only the military molochs the Eurasia (Russia, China, Iran, North Korea) and some of their direct neighbours (Belarus, the -stans, Vietnam, Laos) retained any trace of true sovereignty. At this point, however, the West’s ruling elite fell victim to the great bane of all would-be rulers of the world: hubris. About its the decision to ‘go for broke’, the why question may, up to a point, be argued: perhaps the ruling elite’s ‘flight forward’ was triggered by a ‘Nature Bats Last’-style calculus of looming ecological collapse, or by a ‘Georgia Guidestones’-style calculus at global population billions reaching the magic number 8, or by the approaching biological expiry date of the boomer core of the hostile elite, or simply by the need to conquer the immense resources of Eurasia to provide additional collateral for the banksters to be able to continue the global financial Ponzi Scheme — it does not matter.

The how question, however, is beyond dispute: in March 2020, the globalist elite decided to impose fully fledged techno-feudalism within the West (the ‘Covid’ psyop, enabling socio-economic lockdown and massive wealth transfers to the top, the ‘Biden’ coup, ending residual free speech and residual legal recourse, the ‘vaccine’ roll-out, culling the masses and paving the way to transhumanism) and, in April 2022, it decided to take down Russia, the most powerful remaining sovereign state remaining outside the West, through a combination of military pressure (Project Ukraine), political subversion (terror campaign and black propaganda), economic starvation (sanctions and blockade). Once again, both of these agendas were pursued by the twin strategies of counterfeit concepts and necropolitical violence. The domestic agenda combined an artificial narrative (‘Covid’), a counterfeit crisis (‘lockdown’) and a convenient scapegoat (‘unvaccinated’) with unabridged democide, viz., the Vaccinocaust.

Similarly, the international agenda combined an invented nationality (removing the sub-category ‘Ukrainian’ from the overall category ‘Russian’), an artificial state (claiming rule over the Bolshevik SSR territory for the Majdan regime) and a fictitious narrative (projecting imperialist design and aggressive intent to the Moscow government) with prolonged, large-scale military conflict, viz., the Ukraine War. In the Western masses, both agendas induced a permanent state of ‘mass formation’, achieving a level of collective psychosis and hallucination unprecedented in recorded history but entirely compatible with their preceding decades of scientifically engineered conditioning. In such a society, characterized by institutionalized cognitive dissonance, where sexual perversion substitutes biological gender, administrative citizenship overrides birth nationality and individual grievances prevail over the common good, literally anything is possible — including the unopposed rule of undisguised evil. After the completion of Operation Mockingbird, which achieved the cultic ‘deprogramming’ of the Western masses, and Operation Mindf**k, which achieved their cultic ‘immunity’ to reason, the globalist-nihilist ruling elite is now free to unleash its final offensive to conquer the world: Operation Pandemonium.

Exploiting the NBICs (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Sciences), the globalist West’s ability to wage cognitive war has been exponentially enhanced, approaching the point at which a shift from artificial intelligence to artificial identity and from trans-humanism to anti-humanism can and will be made. As the cognitive-domain global arms race heats up, the Eurasian East will be forced to speed up its counter-measure response time as well as reinvent its innovation cycle – this is the era of dromocracy.[15] Operation Pandemonium is about to commence.

Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the Lord my soul to take
Hush, little baby
Don’t say a word
Never mind that noise you heard
It’s just the beasts under your bed
In your closet, in your head
Exit light, enter night
Take my hand
We’re off to never-never land
– ‘Enter Sandman’, Metallica

The Cainite Strain: Antinomian Continuities

The previous paragraphs sketched the psycho-historical, necropolitical, demonological and kakistocractic trajectories of the Crisis of the Modern West, which is now obviously closing in on its dénouement. At this point, an attempt should be made to address the question as to its probable outcome. After all, even if the West itself is assumed to be irrevocably lost, the Rest still will have to face considerable (geopolitical, macro-economic) fall-out and would have to deal with significant (material, human) debris. As Western civilization approaches its ‘event horizon’, to be either utterly destroyed or fundamentally transformed, its overall historical arc is becoming increasingly clear and an educated guess as to its final destiny becomes feasible. Preliminary to providing ‘guestimate’, this paragraph serves to more precisely sketch out the historical arc to be followed.

If the Christian Tradition that has essentially shaped Western civilization is taken as its ‘factory settings’ reference point and if the Crisis of the Modern West is analysed according to the ‘thesis-antithesis’ dialectic method, then many of the structural inversions characterizing that crisis appear as entirely logical — even predictable. The overall historical trajectory becomes clear: as its original Christian world vision and its Christian mission statement are structurally inverted, the West comes to adopt a diametrically opposed world vision and mission statement. Thus, the West does not merely become post-Christian or non-Christian: it becomes anti-Christian, espousing values and aims that are antithetical to those of the Christian Tradition. The Church’s negative anthropology (‘original sin’) is replaced by a positive anthropology (‘human rights’), its prescription for individual world-overcoming (time-independent transcendence) is replaced by a push towards collective world-absorption (history-bound materialism) and its anagogic socio-cultural structures (disciplined hierarchies promoting good works) are replaced by anti-meritocratic anarcho-tyranny (hedonist atavism inhibiting good works). Essentially, the Christianity-shaped archetypal idea(l) of the Nomos, once guiding the West in the abstract (religious conscience) and the concrete (worldly law), is replaced by its logical counterpart: antinomianism.

Throughout its history, Christianity has always faced antinomian challenges, either embedded within ‘non-own’ (old, external) religious forms or within ‘home-grown’ (new, internal) heresies, but the greatest of these challenges came with the eighteenth-century rise of the ‘Enlightenment’ in the West. Although the founders, thinkers and adherents of the ‘Enlightenment’, which caused and includes all of nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical-materialism (liberalism, anarchism, socialism, communism), claim that they stand aside from religion, their ideas and movements all necessarily take the form of heresies of Christianity: they originate in, are shaped by and relate to an entirely Christian society. This is implicitly and sufficiently shown in their stand for ‘secularity’ (i.e., an antithetical position vis-à-vis religion), ‘science’ (i.e., an antithetical position vis-à-vis revelation) and ‘humanism’ (i.e., an antithetical position prioritizing creation over the Creator). But the discursive power of the ‘Enlightenment’ heresies is precisely located in their (apparent) lack of engagement with Christian doctrine — or any other religious doctrine. Neither the older ‘Gnostic’ heresies besetting early Christianity (e.g., the Nicolaitans, Borborites and Carpocratians) nor the newer ‘doctrinal’ heresies plaguing institutional Christianity (e.g. the Pelasgians, Almaricians and Dulcinians) ever came close to the success of these ‘Enlightenment’ heresies. From a Traditionalist perspective, the success of these ‘Enlightenment’ heresies can be explained by their radical rejection of the most basic foundations of all religious life, which are the quest for transcendence, the experience of the numinous, and the knowledge of the Sacred: this rejection befits the current state of the human world, now entering the Kali Yuga, which is the final phase of the Great Cycle of the Ages. The current physical, intellectual and spiritual state of humanity is so much degraded that now, for the average person, even the simplest requirements of traditional religion are too great a burden, numinous experiences are beyond the range of perception and transcendence is impossible, if not inconceivable.

This is not to say that the many heresies besetting Christianity, past and present, small and great, do not also possess a time- and place-independent common dominator, which can be deduced from their effect, which is antinomianism, i.e., their incompatibility with the wellbeing and continuance of humanity. Because, in the final analysis, antinomian practice, taken to its logical conclusion, does not merely serve ritual ‘deprogramming’ (as in child abuse grooming), ceremonial ‘counter-initiation’ (as in masonic degree transition) and cultic ‘dehumanization’ (as in adenochrome harvesting), but also the realization of a larger, long-term aim: human extinction. The promotion of anti-natalism, trans-sexualism and trans-humanism, which are among the final practical outcomes of ‘Enlightenment’ heresies irrespective of their initial theoretical precepts, is a recurrent feature in all antinomian movements. As an adjunct to trans-humanism, there may also be noticed the promotion of sub-humanism, through the idolization of theriomorphy, in which humans abandon the human state and are transformed, voluntarily or involuntarily, into chimaeras, such as vampires, werewolves and zombies. In 2021, the mere propagandistic promotion of this sub-humanization agenda was augmented by the imposition of coercive laws, prompting large sections of the Western masses to accept mRNA injections and submit to altering their genetic codes. Another, more obvious sign that physical alterations to the human form, preliminary to the eventual elimination of humanity as a whole, are gaining ‘mainstream’ acceptance throughout the West is the exponential rise in the visibility of body-altering tattoos, piercings, plastic surgery and transgender operations.

Consistently, antinomianist movements set out to ‘free’ women from the ‘curses’ of marriage, childbearing and motherhood, and the method of ‘freeing’ them is to flatter them by ‘equality’ (i.e., ignoring female weaknesses), to talk them into ‘emancipation’ (i.e. eliminating male protectors) and to make them aspire to the status of ‘hierodule’ (i.e., separating the sexual and procreative functions). It should be noted that, within such movements, women tend to have very prominent leadership roles: leaving aside the mythological record of female archons, such as Adam and Eve’s forgotten daughter Norea, who tried to set fire to Noah’s ark, there were as many female heresiarchs in pre-modern times (Marcellina, Helena, Philomena, Flora, etc.) as there are in modern times (Fatemeh Baraghani, Helena Blavatsky, Simone de Beauvoir, Germaine Greer, etc.). From this perspective, it is no surprise that, in the increasingly antinomian West, a strikingly high number of women have recently come to occupy the (at least formally) highest positions of political leadership. There is no need to repeat the short list of female political ‘luminaries’ given in the first paragraph: this femocratic role call is part of emo-history rather than psycho-history. In short: modern Western matriarchy in its counter-cultural and neo-atavistic manifestations, including exogamic ‘open borders’ in politics, home impulse-driven ‘conspicuous consumerism’ in the economy, all-pervasive pornocracy in the social media, all-levelling idiocracy in education, ‘virtue-signalling’ taboos in the public square and ‘open relations’ in the private sphere, are predictable side-effects of the victory of antinomian heresy in the West. Thus, the ‘Enlightenment’ has plunged the West into a new Dark Age.

For convenience, the antinomian common denominator of the host of heresies faced by Christianity over the centuries may be referred to as the Cainite Strain, after those — supposedly fictitious — followers of humanity’s first assassin. Such reference has the advantage of allowing the sacred scripture of the Abrahamic religions to shed light upon the obscure origins and the hidden continuities of antinomian heresy. Over the 19th and 20th centuries, the gradual spread of ‘Enlightenment’ heresy across the Christian world, disguised as socialism, communism and liberalism, triggered substantive investigations into canonical and apocryphal scripture to discover the nature of the Mark of Cain and the identity of the Serpent Seed. Undoubtedly, some of these investigations led to over-simplified conclusions and race-determinist distractions (including the ‘update’ from the Calvinist predestination doctrine to the contemporary ‘reptile class’s’ conspiracy theory), but, as a collective endeavour, they had the advantage of raising public awareness that the ancient curse of antinomian heresy had returned to the Christian world and its ultimate origins had to be properly understood before it could be effectively combatted. In this matter, the mythopoeic nature and psychosocial functionality of the specific origin myths and cultic customs adhered to by various antinomian heretical groups should not be allowed to distract from the very real effectiveness of the resulting ‘constructed identities’ in gaining political and economic powers for these groups. Because, hidden in the shades of the secularist and scientific ‘Enlightenment’ heresies of socialism, communism and liberalism, very real political and economic power was being accumulated by a loose conglomerate of cultic groups adhering to non-secular and non-scientific myths and customs, from eighteenth-century Free Masonry and nineeenth-century-century Anglo-Saxon Israelism to twentieth-century Zionism and twentieth-first-century nihilist globalism.[16] Important common features shared between these various iterations of this cultic conglomerate are the recurring themes of unchallenged global hegemony to be ruled by a Chosen People, the re-establishment of an Ancient Covenant, the building of a New World Order and the rebuilding of a Temple. The increasingly open messaging of this of this ethnic-cultic conglomerate, which has recently begun exiting its self-spun shade and is about to take centre-stage in world affairs, now allows for a realistic estimate of its progress along its collective Nigra Peregrinatio — and its final destination:

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves
That ye are the children of them which killed the prophets
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
– Matthew 23:31-3

Nigra Peregrinatio: Holocaustological Horizons

The Crisis of the Modern West proper may be said to have started at roughly the same time in the geopolitical as well as the numino-political realm: the U.S.-U.S.S.R. military occupation of the European heartland was completed in May 1945 and the discovery of the ancient heretical texts at Nag Hammadi took place in December 1945. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the fatal weakening of its worldly and spiritual Katechon forces meant that Europe no longer had any defence against the spread of antinomian heresy: gradually, its political, economic and social system became distorted, until a point of no return was reached in all domains of life. At the same time, another, ‘cultic’ war was waged on Europe aimed at the inversion of its religious identity and values, by the rewriting and overwriting of the history and doctrine of its identity-shaping Christian Tradition. Synchronized with the discovery of the Nag Hammadi and Qumran heretical texts (1945, 1947), the New Israel identity of old Christian Europe was eliminated through the establishment of the Zionist ‘State of Israel’ and the Holocaust Claims Conference (1948, 1951). Thus, ex-Christian Europe, which had once sent out mighty crusader armies to conquer the Holy Land and colonize the Near East, found itself militarily and psychologically conquered by the same cabal of the largely Anglosphere-based Cainite heresiarchs that ran the Zionist colony in Palestine.

Claiming to represent the ancient ‘Israelites’, either by ‘Jewish’ birth descent or by ‘Judeo-Christian’ ideological allegiance (both categories representing historical frauds according to authoritative historians), these Cainite heresiarchs then proceeded to claim a ‘blank cheque’ from history based on a holocaustological narrative custom-designed to fit the collective Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome of the European peoples after World War II. Soon enough, the European peoples found themselves in the role of willing ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ accomplices to all crimes perpetrated by their heresiarchical hostile elite. These include not only the crimes committed overseas against the peoples of the Middle East (Naqba, Arab Spring, Gazacaust)[17] and the Global South (‘austerity program’ neo-colonialism, ‘shock-therapy’ disaster capitalism, ‘humanitarian intervention’ war), but also those committed at home against the peoples of the West themselves (ethnic replacement through mass immigration, family breakdown through social engineering, debt slavery through neo-liberal usury). Within the West, the now decades-old holocaustological narrative, perpetuated by educational dogma, media censorship and lawfare blackmail, has resulted in a mass cult of ‘judeolatry’ impervious to historical fact, rational argument and legal procedure. Its cultic symbols pervade the entire West, from ubiquitous Stolpersteine and Noahide rainbow flags in the street to endlessly repeating holocaust-themed films and talk shows in the mass media.

The very first Stolperstein, set on 16 December 1992 in front of Cologne City Hall, with Heinrich Himmler‘s order for the initiation of deportations

Here it should be explicitly and emphatically stated that, from a Traditionalist perspective, the self-identification of the heresiarchs ruling the West with any authentic Tradition or any authentic religious or ethnic identity, as it attempts vis-à-vis ‘Judaism’ and the ‘Jews’, represents nothing but a shallow counterfeit — an abomination short and simple.[18] The fact that the consistent attempt by the heresiarchs ruling the West to associate themselves (either directly or indirectly) with the Mosaic religion (i.e., Judaism, a remnant form of earlier Abrahamic religions) and the Jewish ethnicity (i.e., the Israelites, a polygenic population formerly defined by Mosaic religious practice but now lacking any such delineation) is a transparent fraud, as shown by the fact that they do not adhere to any religious Tradition and do not practice any citizenship allegiance except to that of the ‘State of Israel’, i.e., their own self-invented and entirely artificial Zionist colony in Palestine. Judaism, a religious Tradition only still authentically adhered to by small remnant groups such as Neturei Karta, is so entirely hostile to any collective project of worldly dominion and any personal indulgence of antinomian freedom as to be entirely incompatible with the heresiarchs’ globalist-nihilist project. To the contrary, it may very well be argued that within authentic Judaism, just as in any other authentic religious Tradition, lies the key to the redemption of the Mark of Cain assumed by the heresiarchs. Specific to Judaism is the concept of the ba’al tshuva, or ‘master of the return’, referring to the personal redemption of sin by the acknowledgement of guilt (‘atonement of shortcoming’), and its pre-emption by conscientious orthopraxy (‘walking in righteousness’). Without a doubt, Judaism is the most Nomos-detailing of all of the Abrahamic religions: as such, it is diametrically opposed to the antinomianism practiced and propagated by the heresiarchs now ruling the West. In that sense, Judaism invites those heresiarchs claiming ‘Jewish’ heritage to repentance — now and here, before it is too late.

It is usually said that Judaism is the standpoint of the law. However, this could also be expressed by saying that Judaism lies in anxiety. But here the nothing of anxiety signifies something other than fate. It is in this sphere that the phraseto be anxious-nothing’ appears most paradoxical, for guilt is indeed something. Nevertheless, it is true that as long as guilt is the object of anxiety, it is nothing. The ambiguity lies in the relation, for as soon as guilt is posited, anxiety is gone, and repentance is there. The relation, as always with the relation of anxiety, is sympathetic and antipathetic. This in turn seems paradoxical, yet such is not the case, because while anxiety fears, it maintains a subtle communication with its object, cannot look away from it, indeed will not, for if the individual wills it, repentance is there.

That someone or other will find this statement difficult is something I cannot help. He who has the required firmness to be, if I dare say so, a divine prosecutor, not in relation to others but in relation to himself, will not find it difficult. Furthermore, life offers sufficient phenomena in which the individual in anxiety gazes almost desirously at guilt and yet fears it. Guilt has for the eye of the spirit the fascinating power of the serpent’s glance. The truth in the view of attaining perfection through sin lies at this point. It has its truth in the moment of decision when the immediate spirit posits itself as spirit by spirit. Contrariwise, it is blasphemy to hold that this view is to be realized in concreto. It is precisely by the anxiety of guilt that Judaism is further advanced than Greek culture, and the sympathetic factor in its anxiety-relation to guilt may be recognized by the fact that it would not at any price forego this relation in order to acquire the more rash expressions of Greek culture: fate, fortune, misfortune. Kierkegaard

As outlined in the first paragraph, the West crossed the psycho-historical threshold of the ‘circle of blood’ in 2020. Their ‘culture distortion’ program having run its course, the antinomian heresiarchs have now effectively made the Western masses complicit in their crimes, including those crimes perpetrated against themselves. The sado-masochistic shift from victim to perpetrator has been completed and the Western masses now identify with their rulers, to the extent that antinomian heresy has become the norm and even open genocide has become accepted practice whenever deemed necessary to uphold the cultic narrative, as in Gaza. As befitting antinomian heresy, that cultic narrative, however, is as flexible in content and form as the heresiarchical elite itself: both the narrative and the elite can and do shape-shift with amazing alacrity, ditching used-up stories and people and absorbing new stories and people to suit the final aim of the movement. The recent ‘radicalization’ of the narrative and leadership throughout the West proves the point: the media shift to the justification of ethnic cleansing and open genocide in the Holy Land and the policy shift to ‘Israel First’ governance in the United States and Germany indicate the rapid Zionization and Israelization[19] of the West.[20] The absence of any substantial resistance to these developments proves that the West, as a whole, has fallen into unapologetic evil, encouraging the ruling heresiarchs to hasten their ‘inverse crusade’ against those still resisting their Griff nach der Weltmacht across the Eurasian East and the Global South. They may very well overreach as they resort to this Flucht nach Vorn, but those opposing it, whether still resisting their rule inside West or fighting it in the Eurasian East and Global South, should never forget that, ultimately, they are merely representatives of a much older and much more dangerous, viz. non-human enemy. They should also remember that the program the West-based heresiarchs are ultimately working for is not at all concerned with human power – or any human purpose. Rather, this program is essential inhuman and anti-human: it is to immanentize the eschaton and realize the rule of the antichrist. In that sense, the heresiarchs should not only be fought by worldly means: they should also be fought by spiritual means. First, they should be called upon to repent and turn away from their pilgrimage to Chorazin. Finally, those still refusing should be exorcised, by all possible means, and cast into the Outer Darkness.

Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum

Coda: Occidentalist Epilogue

Because the author hails from the fallen West and because his fate is linked to its fate, it is appropriate that this epilogue should serve the edification of his fellow Westerners. The question, however, arises as to what is still worth saying.

The handful of colleagues and comrades who, over the last years, tried but failed to prevent and remedy the Fall of the West do not need words of solace and support — they ‘know the score’ and have, accordingly, either made themselves scarce or resigned themselves to the approaching final judgement. The rest of the Dissident Right, now effectively defunct but until recently the only movement conceivably capable of altering the political trajectory of the West, has either betrayed or abandoned the cause. Most of its ‘White Nationalists’, now amply subsidized by NATOstan agencies, have aligned themselves with the most psychopathic Russophobe elements of the Kiev regime. Most of its ‘Civnat Conservatives’, now comfortably co-opted by the new ‘right-wing’ governments of the West, have resorted to the richer pickings of militant Zionism and populist islamophobia.[21] Most of its ‘intellectual leaders’, already compromised by their failure to stand up and be counted on the Great Reset issues of ‘Covid’, ‘vaccines’, ‘Ukraine’ and ‘Gaza’, have been deceived and discredited by the trompe-l’œil of the Trump Moment.

On the Western masses, now hopelessly mired in irredeemable decadence and wilful ignorance, no more words should be wasted. Unworthy of their ancestors, they flounder.

Entartet Geschlecht, unwert der Ahnen! Wohin, Mutter, vergabst du die Macht über Meer und Sturm zu gebieten? O zahme Kunst der Zauberin, die nur Balsamtränke noch braut! Erwache mir wieder, kühne Gewalt, herauf aus dem Busen wo du dich bargst! Hört meinen Willen, zagende Winde! Heran zu Kampf und Wettergetös! Zu tobender Stürme, wütendem Wirbel, treibt aus dem Schlaf dies träumende Meer! Weckt aus dem Grund seine grollende Gier! Zeigt ihm die Beute die ich ihm biete! Zerschlag es dies trotzige Schiff, des zerschellten Trümmer verschlings! Und was auf ihm lebt, den wehenden Atem, den lass ich euch Winden zum Lohn!

‘Degenerate race, unworthy of your ancestors! How, o mother, did you dispose of the power of ruling sea and tempest? O feeble art of the sorceress, now only cooking up curative potions! Raise up in me once again, bold power, rise up from my breast where you have lain concealed! Give ear to my will, half-hearted winds! Off to battle and storm! Into the raging tempest and furious vortex, raise from her slumber this somnolent sea! Awaken from her depth her malevolent greed! Show her the prize that I have to offer! Let her smash this insolent ship, let her gorge on her shattered wreckage! And whatever has life on her, that faint breath. I leave as reward for you winds!’ – Wagner, Tristan und Isolde


Notes

[1] Title of an occult-themed thriller film (Nicholas Roeg, 1973), artistically depicting the effects of clairvoyance and precognition – appropriate to the Biblical record of the fate of Lot’s wife Ado, who was turned into a pillar of salt when she turned during her family’s flight from Sodom.

[2] Skewed reference to the wartime memoir Crusade in Europe by Dwight Eisenhower,  former Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, published in 1948.

[3] For the author’s short-hand ‘top five’ of European high literature, cf. Alexander Wolfheze, Globus Horribilis, Twelve Futuro-Fundamentalist Essays (Arktos: London, 2024) 572-81.

[4] Cf. Wolfheze, Globus Horribilis, 21-7.

[5] The author’s aetiology of the Crisis of the Modern West, cf. Alexander Wolfheze, Alba Rosa. Ten Traditionalist Essays about the Crisis in the Modern West (Arktos: London, 2019).

[6] Florence Kaslow and Marvin Sussman, Cults and the Family (Haworth, 1982).

[7] For the author’s full analysis of the Annus Horribilis events of 2020, cf. Wolfheze, Globus Horribilis, 35-118.

[8] For the author’s sphere impressions of the direct aftermath of the Fall of the West, cf. Wolfheze, Globus Horribilis, 119-45.

[9] Reference to the sea witch Sycorax, the ‘Scythian Raven’, mentioned in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest as the mother of the mooncalf creature Caliban, both inhabitants of some unspecified ‘cannibal isle’ in the Atlantic – appropriate to the black arts-practicing Neo-Atlanticist heresiarchs ruling the West.

[10] Title of a thriller film (John Herzfeld, 2001), artistically depicting the effects of ‘applied antinomianism’ in the context of a collectively narcissist society, set in NYC, the West’s ‘heart of darkness’. The title itself refers to Andy Warhol’s quotation ‘in the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes’, accurately capturing the narcissist megalomania characteristic of the West’s ‘Century of the Self’.

[11] Bert Oliver, ‘When “Psychopathic” is No Exaggeration’, Brownstone.org 22 January 2024.

[12] Brandon Smith, ‘The NWO Religion: How the Woke Postmodern “Faith” Glorifies Evil’, Alt-Market.us 17 April 2025.

[13] François du Cluzel, ‘Cognitive Warfare’, Innovationhub-actorg 2020, p. 5.

[14] Craig Murray, ‘This Hell’, The Unz Review 9 April 2025.

[15] Aleksandr Dugin, ‘Dromocracy. Speed as Power’, Geopolitika.ru 18 October 2022.

[16] For the author’s cultural-historical analysis of the occult origins of Western Modernity, cf. Alexander Wolfheze, The Sunset of Tradition and the Origin of the Great War (Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2018) 88-126.

[17] For the author’s eschatological analysis of the Gazacaust, cf. Wolfheze, Globus Horribilis, 554-70.

[18] For the author’s take on the ‘Jewish Question’, cf. Alexander Wolfheze, Rupes Nigra. An Archaeo-Futurist Countdown in Twelve Essays (Arktos: London, 2021) 247-78.

[19] Humaira Ahad, ‘Dark Abyss: How Israeli Settler Society Became a Sanctuary for Rapist, Pedophiles’, Presstv.ir 14 April 2025.

[20] For the author’s assessment of these phenomena, cf. podcast ‘Alexander Wolfheze on the Amsterdam Psy-Op’, Truth Jihad / Kevin Barrett, Unz.com 19 November 2024.

[21] For the author’s take on the ‘Islam Question’, cf. Wolfheze, Rupes Nigra, 373-88 and 431-44.

The Supreme Court Denies Balogh Certiorari Petition

By Glen Allen, Esq.

As I mentioned in my February 20, 2025 article on the Free Expression Foundation website, in February 2025 Fred Kelly and I filed a certiorari petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Warren Balogh in the Balogh v. City of Charlottesville, et al. case.  Warren and Gregory Conte, as you will recall, had filed a pro se complaint in the federal court for the Western District of Virginia seeking redress for injuries the City of Charlottesville and its police department inflicted on them during the Unite the Right rally in August 2017.   Fred, Warren, and I filed the petition because we believed – and still believe – not only that the defendants’ conduct had been unconstitutionally partisan but that the case raised critically important issues regarding the proper role of the police to protect unpopular speech.  We knew the odds the Supreme Court would grant the petition were against us (the Court grants only about 1% of petitions) but we believed our odds were better than most petitions because of the important issues our case presented.  Above all, seeking Supreme Court review was the right and honorable step to take.

On April 7,  2025, the Supreme Court denied our petition.  The Court’s decision, although not surprising, is regrettable. The Court missed an opportunity to advance the cause of First Amendment protection for unpopular speech and to admonish the City of Charlottesville for taking sides against Warren and the other pro-monument protestors. The Court’s denial of our petition, however, has not altered FEF’s determination to uphold First Amendment principles even in the face of daunting challenges .

Warren Balogh wrote an eloquent substack article (Warren’s Substack, April 27, 2025) about his case.  He has given me permission to quote from it, and I do so below:

Mainstream media reporting on my lawsuit has mischaracterized it as me charging that the police failed to protect us from counter-demonstrators on August the 12th. This is not true. Everyone who attended the UTR rally knows we could have, and did, protect ourselves from violent anti-White extremists. In spite of the fact that the ranks of the counter-demonstrators included professional agitators, violent career criminals, armed thugs and activists with detailed plans to commit criminal mayhem and violence against UTR attendees, the fact is that even with police “standing down” to let them attack us, the vast majority of our people made it into the permitted rally area unharmed.

If police hadn’t intervened, we would’ve been able to hear the speakers and carry out our demonstration during the time permitted, and we likely all would’ve been able to leave the park in an orderly fashion and make it back to our vehicles without anyone getting killed or seriously injured. The problem with Charlottesville, and the reason for my lawsuit, was not principally that police failed to protect our side from the other side, but that police attacked our side and drove us into the other side. They dispersed our rally while failing to disperse the Antifa and BLM counter-demonstrators. In fact, the only place the dispersal order was enforced was inside the tiny confines of the park where we held the permit. Leftist counter-demonstrators were given the run of the streets by city authorities!

As I pointed out to [District Court] Judge Moon in one hearing, if the dispersal order had been enforced as “content and viewpoint neutral” (which is a very serious constitutional legal requirement), then why were hundreds of Antifa still marching around the streets in triumph nearly two hours later, when a frightened young man named James Fields—after plugging in GPS directions to take him back home to his mother in Ohio—accidentally turned down a street and found his vehicle under attack by an armed mob?

Moon’s dismissal of our suit, which was later upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court and reaffirmed by SCOTUS’s declining to review my petition, was based on some very specious interpretation and legal reasoning: that police and officials could not be held liable for acts while carrying out their duties (which doesn’t apply in constitutional matters), that we didn’t include enough particulars about certain defendants (more evidence would’ve come out in discovery, or became known after the complaint was filed). Normally, at the dismissal phase, plaintiffs are to be assumed to have the facts on their side, and this is doubly true in a case of such constitutional import and public interest.

Incredibly, Moon’s court even asserted that peaceful, permitted rally-goers have no right to police protection from violent counter-demonstrators. In my appeal to the Fourth Circuit, one federal judge even asked defendants’ attorneys to clarify their argument that I would’ve had no right to expect police protection even if there was no violence from our side, and all the violence came from the other side. And yes, defendants’ attorneys affirmed it, that was their argument!

During my hearing with Judge Moon, I asked that if their position was that peaceful, non-violent, legal permit-holding demonstrators have no right to police protection from violent thugs who come to shut them down, then how are we supposed to exercise our First Amendment right to free speech and freedom of assembly? Neither Judge Moon, nor defendants’ attorneys, nor the three judges of the Fourth Circuit court, nor the SCOTUS were able to answer that question.

All I wanted is a blueprint on how we can exercise our rights.

If the burden is on us to defend ourselves, then so be it, but let the courts affirm we have the right to defend ourselves. This right was explicitly denied to us by the aftermath of UTR, however. As with James Fields, or the half-dozen or so men who went to prison for defending themselves in the anarchic clashes after the police broke up our rally, we are told we have no right to police protection—but also that we have no right to protect ourselves.

That this makes certain types of protest de facto illegal in the United States should be obvious to everyone. . . .

I am very proud to have waged this legal battle for as long as I could. I’m proud that all my filings and the permanent legal record will stand for all time as documents setting out a factual account of what happened. I’m proud that my children and hopefully my grandchildren and great-grandchildren will one day be able to see how I took the right side in the most important fight of our lives. I’m proud that I was able to wage this battle with a minimum of resources and that I was able to tie up countless enemy attorneys and many, many times the resources I spent in making these corrupt, rotten people defend themselves and their actions. I’m proud my name will be forever associated with this fight.

We should always fight for our rights. As I’ve often said, we need to either force this democracy to work, or make them shut democracy down so hard, it will be obvious to all that it’s an illegitimate sham. . . .

I want to thank Glen Allen and Fred Kelly of the Free Expression Foundation. The original complaint was filed pro se, but I never could’ve appealed it to the Fourth Circuit or petitioned the Supreme Court without their help. They are some of the last honest attorneys in America, and some of the only ones who have any courage. I also want to thank Greg Conte, my original co-plaintiff, and Augustus Invictus, who helped prepare the original draft of the complaint . . . .

I want to thank all those who donated and privately chipped in with legal costs. I never wanted this lawsuit to take away funds from those who were waging their own very critical defensive battles against the Sines v. Kessler suits, or trying to stay out of prison, but thanks to the volunteer work of many men we were able to keep going for a tiny fraction of what a suit like this would normally cost. In this country founded “by lawyers, for lawyers,” the process is often the punishment, the rich and powerful have a decisive advantage and openly brag about using so-called lawfare against their political enemies. But this lawsuit shows how a committed and honest group of men can crowdsource a legal battle that is truly David vs Goliath in proportions.

Lastly I would like to thank every last man and woman who attended the Unite the Right rally on August 11-12th, 2017. This lawsuit was a symbolic fight for all the young men who sacrificed more at Charlottesville than I did: all those who spent years in prison, who had their careers or reputations destroyed, who ended their own lives, who still have the threat of imprisonment hanging over their heads. For all their sakes, it was worth it.