Category: History and Historiography

Henry Kissinger

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An Excellent JFK Conference

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2023 A democratic government that respects no limits on its own power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect. – James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy [2006] HORNBERGER’S BLOG November 27, 2023 An Excellent JFK Conference Two weeks […]

The Day The Irish Snapped

Scattered thoughts on multiculturalism, the Dublin riots, and the man who would be king John Carter Nov 24, 2023 Cú Chulainn and His Car, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, 1911 The transnational ruling class has decided that humans are to be treated as a fungible resource, to be moved around […]

JFK: From Mongoose to Gladio

Appears in this episode The Corbett Report The Corbett Report explore the world of politics, history, science and economics from a radically alternative perspective. From geopolitical conspiracies to monetary manipulation, repressed history and social engineering, The Corbett Report goes where other podcasts fear to tread.show more Transcript TRANSCRIPT […]

The Vichy Legacy

Sponsored by David Zwirner Books “And when did the Pétain case end?” asks Geoffrey Wheatcroft in our December 7 issue. Marshal Philippe Pétain, who in 1940 signed the armistice with Germany and led the Vichy government until the liberation of France in 1944, was tried for treason for […]

A Fantastic New JFK Documentary

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2023 Labor to keep alive in your heart that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. – George Washington HORNBERGER’S BLOG November 15, 2023 A Fantastic New JFK Documentary A fantastic new documentary on the JFK assassination has just appeared on Paramount Plus. It is […]

Slavery in the Roman Empire

A lecture given in absentia to the 2023 meeting of the Property and Freedom Society in Bodrum. The subject is Slavery in the Roman World. It covers these issues: Introduction: Sean Gabb, face to camera – 00:00:00 Classical Liberalism, the Natural Law and Slavery – 00:06:38 The Growth […]

The Gender of Style, the Style of Gender

Sponsored by Paul Holberton Publishing Namwali Serpell ‘Such Womanly Touches’ Is there such a thing as a female style? Stacy Schiff ‘Hallucinatory Spitballs’ Arthur Miller wrote that The Crucible should not pass as a true story. Why has the play become ubiquitous in American high schools? What have we done […]

Before the Quickening

Sponsored by Reaktion Books In the Review’s Sixtieth Anniversary Issue, Susan Faludi asks, “How can we learn to see accurately a woman who was not so much forgotten as buried in calumny?” In 1839 Ann Lohman, a midwife and former pharmacist’s assistant, began advertising her services, under the name […]

What Was the Jessica Lynch Story?

Oct 23 • 27M What Was the Jessica Lynch Story? – Questions For Corbett Appears in this episode The Corbett Report The Corbett Report explore the world of politics, history, science and economics from a radically alternative perspective. From geopolitical conspiracies to monetary manipulation, repressed history and social […]

The Reactionary Modernism of Fascism

by Hugen and Zoltanous Oct 19, 2023 The interconnectedness of Fascism and the avant-garde bore significant influence on their perception and interpretation of modernity. Specifically examining the political dimension, we delve into how political modernism emerged alongside the process of modernization. These ideologies aimed to empower individuals to […]

The Mufti and the Holocaust

John Rosenthal on Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten by Klaus Gensicke Friday, March 28, 2008 The Mufti and the Holocaust By: John Rosenthal Klaus Gensicke. Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. 247 pages. €49.90 Germany stands for an uncompromising struggle against the Jews. […]

The Secret History

Most Read As 2024 Looms, Democrats’ Campaign Tech Crumbles Under Private Equity Squeeze Akela LacyA Democratic campaign tech monopoly cut more than 200 people, the second round of deep layoffs this year. READ MORE →   How Neil Sheehan Really Got the Pentagon Papers James RisenExclusive interviews with […]

“Both Hitler and Jim Crow”

Sponsored by University of California Press Gary Younge ‘We Return Fighting’ The ambivalence many Black soldiers felt toward the United States during World War II was matched only by the ambivalence the United States demonstrated toward the principles on which the war was fought. Michael Hofmann Punning for Germany […]

Never Forget, Never Again

“Historians may toil in the archives seeking something like truth,” writes Susan Neiman, in our October 19 issue, “but public memory is a political project whose relationship to fact is more precarious.” In a far-ranging interrogation of how collective identity has been constructed in Germany since World War II, Neiman examines how […]

Ukrainian SS Memorials UK

On 22 September 2023, former Ukrainian SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka received two standing ovations from MPs. In a follow up to my original video ‘Ukrainian SS in Britain’ made 3 months ago, here we discover that the 14th SS ‘Galizien’ is also honoured in modern Britain. Dr. Mark […]