Category: History and Historiography

Terrible Historic Things Which Did (Some) Good

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We often look at historic tragedies as setbacks to human evolution. But like a seasonal forest fire, we emerge from the ashes stronger than we were before. As they say, “Never let a crisis go to waste Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnD… Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKR… Warographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9h8… MegaProjects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wo… Into The Shadows: […]

The Collapse of Empires

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by Peter Zeihan on September 15, 2022 The success of Ukrainian forces against Russian troops over the last week is forcing a series of reevaluations of Russian capabilities–especially in the places most of us might not yet be thinking about. There’s been a lot of focus on whether […]

My Husband the War Criminal

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New York Review of Books Joyce Carol Oates Disaster Was Her Element Miranda Seymour’s I Used to Live Here Once is a richly detailed and warmly sympathetic look at Jean Rhys’s turbulent, disjointed life. David Motadel My Husband the War Criminal Nancy Dougherty’s The Hangman and His Wife portrays Reinhard Heydrich as […]

The Dark History of the Royals

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The Corbett Report by James Corbett corbettreport.com September 10, 2022 Queen Elizardbeast is dead, long live King Charles?! Yes, for those lucky souls who are so blissfully detached from the 24/7 newsfeeds that you haven’t heard yet, I bring you the news that the longest-reigning monarch in British […]

The Racism in Textbooks

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New York Review of Books Eric Foner The Complicity of the Textbooks In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past. Dan Chiasson Rococo Risks With Venice, her latest collection of poems, Ange Mlinko offers an […]

Angela Davis’s Legacy

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New York Review of Books Fifty years ago this past June, Angela Davis was acquitted of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy charges in a trial that catapulted her to worldwide fame. A young professor at UCLA who had recently been fired for being (unapologetically) a member of the Communist Party, […]

Jewish Anarchism

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By thecollective From The Institute for Anarchist Studies by Shane Burley August 23, 2022August 22, 2022 A Review of No Masters But God, by Hayyim Rothma, (Manchester University Press, 2021) If anarchists know Jewish history at all, it is likely the role of Jewish radicalism in the political battles […]

El Nino Speaks 57: The Real Abraham Lincoln

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Frank conversation about the real history surrounding Lincoln Jose Alberto Nino Listen to José Niño sound off on contemporary political affairs. Does America have an unhealthy obsession with Abraham Lincoln? Austro-libertarian author Thomas DiLorenzo dispels some of the largest myths surrounding Lincoln and demonstrates how Lincoln was one […]

The Secret History of Al-Qaeda

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Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Corbett Pirate Streams – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report 47 min ago Last year, Ryan Cristian of The Last American Vagabond appeared on #SolutionsWatch to introduce you to the concept of YouTube Pirate Streams. This year, Ryan is back […]

The Left and Right in Historical Context

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Murray Rothbard’s enormously important essay from 1965 pointed out the fallacies of the left/right model of the political spectrum. Read it here. Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism was essentially a restatement of the panarchist philosophy of Gustave Molinari and Paul Emile de Puydt, a position also embraced by the classical anarchist […]

Review- ‘Makhno: Ukrainian Freedom Fighter’

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From Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement Urcuchillay Authors:Philippe Thirault (Writer) Roberto Zaghi (Art) Nanette McGuiness (Translation) Date:Mar 22, 2022 Edition:Softcover TradeFormat:120 pages – Color 7.6 x 10.2 in ISBN:9781643379692 Ukraine has become a focus of attention lately due to the war there. For many this will be a temporary […]

Mao’s Mass Murder

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Tom Woods Show You can still find people to this day who try to claim Mao Tse-Tung was an agrarian reformer and that the deaths were caused by bad weather, but in this episode my guest Jason Jewell gives us the truth, while also spending some time on communism […]

The Black Book of Capitalism?

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I suppose if you added up the sum total of everyone killed during colonialism, the slave trade, imperialist wars waged by capitalist regimes, and preventable deaths due to deprivation imposed on subject states, you could arrive at a number not too far from this.

The Gutenberg Conspiracy

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The Corbett Report Watch this video on Archive / BitChute / Odysee or Download the mp4 TRANSCRIPT In the beginning, there was the word. The spoken word, that is. This word, the written word, didn’t come along for countless generations. And this word, the printed word, didn’t come along for thousands of years after that. In […]

Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies: Resistance to Centralization in the Coast Salish Region of the Pacific Northwest Coast

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By Bill Angelbeck and  Colin Grier Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses a broad array of interrelated principles for organizing societies without the centralization of authority. […]

Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?

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By Sumit Paul-Choudhury 1st August 2019 Throughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next? * This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2019” collection. Discover more of our picks. Before Mohammed, before Jesus, before Buddha, there was […]

Clothing: Man’s First Creation

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By Dan McKinley Insights on Tangible Arts, Social Psychology, and Mystic Materiality, Or How Cultural Evolution Determined Our Expressional Identity Anthropologists affirm that primitive apparel was adorned upon ancient man. Over 5,000 generations back hominids were wearing the skins of their hunted prey. Cro-Magnon not only created astrotheology […]