Southern Civilization: Review of Michael O. Cushman’s “Our Southern Nation: Its Origin and Future”

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Michael O. Cushman
Our Southern Nation: Its Origin and Future
London: Mitre and Crown, 2015

Reviewed by Tom Sunic, Ph.D.

CushmanMany intellectual and political promoters of nation-state building end up on the “wrong side of history.” In fact, these are the code words used by mainstream historians when depicting those who failed in their political endeavors, lost the intellectual or political war, and earned themselves historical oblivion.

This is the main message resurfacing on the first page of Michael Cushman’s book. Being henceforth pushed into the realm of modern demonology, those on the “wrong side of history” and their hapless descendants are stripped of an objective historiographic narrative. Instead, they are forced to learn the language of the victor’s doubletalk: “reconstruction” or “reeducation.” Although Cushman does not venture into historical parallels with other European societies, one can draw a parallel between the post-Civil War South and post-World War II Europe. In his little book Sparte et les Sudistes (Sparta and the Southerners) (1969), French scholar Maurice Bardèche, himself a victim of the judicial “re-educational” process in the aftermath of World War II in France, traces the beginning of the end of Western civilization with the defeat of the South in 1865, which presaged the latter-day apocalyptic fallout in post-1945 Europe.

Cushman is clearly a serious scholar, as evidenced by the large number of footnotes and the impressive across-the-board bibliography containing citations of what are commonly described as “leftist” and “rightist” authors. Nowhere in his text are to be spotted grandstanding epithets on behalf of the Confederate Southerners or disparaging words against the Yankee Northerners. Mr. Cushman’s sober, erudite style will hopefully gain him an enthusiastic readership. Read more

Let Them Eat Cake: The Army of Fanatics at the Heart of Europe

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It’s what you call an ironic juxtaposition. On Saturday 14th November 2015, the front page of the London Times had both good and bad news for its readers. The good news was that a saintly Muslim woman in a hijab had written some cake-recipes. The bad news was that other Muslims in Paris had murdered “dozens of people” in coordinated terror attacks the day before.

Saint and Sinners: Nadiya Hussein and Islamic State

Saint and Sinners: Nadiya Hussein and Islamic State

When the charming Nadiya Hussein won the Great British Bake Off in September this year, Britain’s liberals were beside themselves with joy. Okay, Muslim rape-gangs are operating throughout the country, the security services are constantly battling Muslim terror-plots and corruption flourishes in every Muslim “community” — but look, a Muslim has won a baking competition. Take that, you haters, racists and xenophobes! Read more

The Jewish “Schindlers”

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With the season of good will around the corner, now is time when many people’s thoughts turn to helping others — and some shrewd operators have not been slow to realise that in the chaos of the forced “Syrian refugee” migration into the west, there are huge amounts of money to be made.

The crisis presents an almost irresistible combination of exploitable elements — pictures of suffering children,  government and law enforcement chaos and a gullible public who seem willing to believe anything.

But what is different is the appearance of a new breed of online Jewish entrepreneurs — the Jewish “Schindlers” who style themselves as selfless saviours of non-Jewish refugees, much as the original Oskar Schindler was said to have saved Jews.

One of the most colourful is a Florida-based philanthropist and ex-con called Yank Barry who has made his millions from manufacturing soya “meat substitute” and supplying the non-discerning diners in hospitals, care homes for the elderly, correctional facilities and the like.  (Barry’s birth name is Gerald Falovitch. Yank is short for Yankel, his Yiddish name.) Read more

Jewish thinking about Syrian refugees — again

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Apropos of Douglas Murray’s warning the the Jewish community, this if from the JTA: “For Jewish groups, Syrian refugees are a reminder — not a threat”

American Jewish organizations don’t see the Syrian refugees as a threat; they see them as a reminder.

With rare unanimity on an issue that has stirred partisan passion, a cross-section of the community has defended the Obama administration’s refugee policy in terms recalling the plight of Jews fleeing Nazi Europe who were refused entry into the United States.

“The Jewish community has an important perspective on this debate,” the Orthodox Union said in its statement. “Just a few decades ago, refugees from the terror and violence in Hitler’s Europe sought refuge in the United States and were turned away due to suspicions about their nationality.”

Echoed the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly: “We can sadly remember all too well the Jews who were turned away when they sought refuge in the United States on the eve of, and during, World War II.”

Eleven Jewish organizations joined another 70 groups in pleading with Congress to keep open the Obama administration’s program, which would allow in 10,000 refugees over the next year from among the 200,000 to 300,000 in Europe. Neither the Orthodox Union nor the Rabbinical Assembly signed the letter.

Among the signatories were mainstream bodies like the the Reform movement, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the National Council of Jewish Women, as well as HIAS, the lead Jewish body dealing with immigration issues, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the umbrella body for Jewish public policy groups.

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“A Europe of Nations”: Marine Le Pen’s Plan for the Old Continent

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Marine Le Pen addresses FN rally, May, 2014 | AFP

Like the mass-rape gangs of Rotherham, the recent slaughter of 130 people by Muslim terrorists in the streets of Paris has again given us a quick glimpse, the briefest foretaste, of our coming multicultural future as indigenous Europeans are reduced to a minority. Europe once birthed the most dynamic and luminous of all human civilizations. But as her demographics progressively come to resemble those of the Levant and the Congo, so she will be cursed with the lifestyles and violence characteristic of those regions. No one has a right to be surprised at this development.[1]

We then need more than ever to have concrete and constructive thinking on how to build a new Europe in which our nations will survive and thrive. In this article, I will present Front National leader Marine Le Pen’s European policy: First to abolish the European Union and then to establish new forms of European cooperation to better fight immigration and globalism. I will also critically discuss the issue of “European solidarity” in the framework of the FN’s official civic nationalism which, while robustly opposed to immigration and perhaps necessary electorally, is not unproblematic. Read more

Kärlek är allt vi behöver för att komma överens

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Refugees-Welcome

Swedish translation of Tim Murray’s “Love is all we need to get along“; originally posted at NYANSERAT.NU

Inbördeskrig gör nationer ”livfulla”. Etnisk homogenitet är tråkigt. Ja det finns blodbad, misär och desperation. Men närhelst det finns andrum mellan striderna, när det är paus i beskjutningen och bombningen, har medborgarna en rad spännande etniska rätter att välja mellan. Under lunchrasterna finns det enighet i mångfalden.

Etniska konflikter bryter enbart ut på grund av en anledning. Problemet är bristande kommunikation, att förstå att vi under ytan allihop bara är människor med samma ambitioner och behov. Vi måste se bortom det ytliga och inse att vi alla är bröder. Gud älskar varenda en av oss, avsett vilket språk vi talar eller vilken tro vi följer.

Vi måste anta samma attityd som den parisiska make som intervjuades på CNN.[1] Han uppgav att han vägrar att hata terroristerna som mördat hans fru. Att göra det skulle löna ont med ont. Istället kommer han att sträva efter att älska dem. Att omfamna dem. När du gör det, sade han, kommer murarna att rämna. Så om du älskar en våldsam psykopat, och vänder den andra kinden till, kommer han att ge upp sina onda sätt att vara på. Kärlek erövrar hat. Hopp övervinner fruktan. Våld föder våld. Riskera fred, inte krig. Freden börjar med mig. Lev sida vid sida…. Ursäkta om jag glömde någon annan spypåsekliché. Read more

Turkey in for a Stuffing?

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The recent Turkish action in shooting down a Russian bomber makes sense in terms of Turkey’s strategy in the region. As far as I can tell from news reports it was motivated by feelings of solidarity for the Turkmens, a fellow Turkish ethnicity that has had the misfortune to live on the Syrian side of the border, rather than in Turkey, where they obviously belong. It is noticeable that since  the Russians started to take a more active role in the Syrian conflict, they have mainly been concentrating on the non-ISIS sector, in particular those groups in the West of the country that are directly threatening President Assad’s Alawite homeland. This includes various Sunni groups, including Syria’s Turkmens, one of the few minorities in the country that is inclined to side against Assad.

So, both the fact that Russia has been bombing the Turkmens and the fact that Turkey has retaliated are understandable in their own ways.

The problem, however, is that Turkey can only afford such machismo and reckless swagger because it is playing the game with somebody else’s money. Whatever difficulties they get into at the geopolitical casino table, they fully expect to be bailed out by much bigger players. Read more