Category: History and Historiography

Franco’s Legacy

Troy Southgate Oct 25, 2024 MUCH was made of the controversial exhumation of General Francisco Franco’s (1892-1975) remains from the Valle de los Caídos at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, in 2019, but this token attempt by the Spanish Government to distance itself from the historical excesses of […]

Dinner for Four

Troy Southgate Oct 16, 2024 HAVE you heard the one about the two left-wing Jews, the German philosopher and the Russian prince? It sounds like it would make a fascinating lunchtime confabulation down at the Old Dog and Duck, or perhaps even an intriguing dinner party, but it […]

Columbus? Nah, columbYOU!

TOTW – Columbus? Nah, columbYOU! By EmmaAintDead Of His-story’s biggest bastards, Columbus is surely up there with the worst. Ol’ Christopher was intimately documented through the opening chapters of Zinn’s “A People’s History” and has been taking the heat across schools, parks, local legislatures, forums, and social media […]

Pepe vs the Snake Cult

by Michael Kumpmann Arktos Journal Oct 14, 2024 Michael Kumpmann explores how esotericists interpret animal symbols to explain political processes, drawing parallels between ancient myths like the Japanese legend of Jiraiya and modern political conspiracies involving snake and frog symbolism. Dark times reign in Nippon. Increasingly, shoguns — […]

One Year On

“Just the facts, ma’am” Niccolo Soldo Oct 07, 2024 Share One year on: Israel still exists within its recognized borders and continues to occupy the West Bank, parts of Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and large parts of the Gaza Strip (while trying to clear Hezbollah out from Southern […]

Dear Abbey

This year marks the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of Reichenau Abbey, a Benedictine monastery on a lake island in the far south of Germany that for a few hundred years in the early Middle Ages was, as Beatrice Radden Keefe writes in the Review’s October 17 issue, […]

Martyrs and Mythmakers

Two Polish heroes and mythologisers caused me to reflect on the potential of national myths for creators today. Alexander Adams Oct 07, 2024 [Jacek Malczewski, Self-portrait in Armour, 1919, oil on cardboard, 87 x 64 cm, National Museum, Kielce] I. Prawda i Wolność. Ksiądz Jerzy Popiełuszko (Truth and […]

Music After Auschwitz

Sponsored by Library of America Peter E. Gordon Music and Memory After the Holocaust, classical composers explored music’s capacity to commemorate historical trauma without permitting horrific events to take on the allure of facile beauty. David S. Reynolds Grant vs. the Klan New books reconsider how Ulysses S. […]

History: Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England

US Investments in Nazi Germany. Rockefeller Financed Adolf Hitler’s Election Campaign By Yuri Rubtsov and Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, September 23, 2024 Global Research 14 May 2016 Note to readers: please click the share buttons above feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush Below an Introductory Article […]

Khrushchev: The Forgotten Slavic Identity

By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Nikita Khrushchev, born in the humble village of Kalinovka in Southern Russia, embodies a largely forgotten Slavic identity—a confluence of Russian and Ukrainian heritage that has long been overshadowed by more dominant historical narratives. His upbringing in the Donetsk Basin, an industrial heartland […]

Dawn Ray’d

By Cake Boy So this is a song that came out last year. It’s black metal, made by anarchist activists from the UK. It’s very new and what the anarchist scene communicates with the rest of the world. This is who we are, this what we are about. […]

The End of the Churchill Myth

Nathan Pinkoski September 17, 2024 Compact Magazine Share Share via X Share via Facebook Share via email Copy link Winston Churchill was one of the great men of the 20th century. As a statesman, his most significant achievement was preventing Hitler from winning World War II outright, which […]

Arguments Go Both Ways

Let us judge Churchill using the standards set by his own defenders. Ryan Turnipseed Sep 16, 2024 I understand that some time has passed, and that we are already five or six news cycles past what I want to talk about here. Nonetheless, Tucker Carlson’s interview with Darryl […]

Vietnam Flashbacks

The Vietnamese revolutionaries were fighting for their own country, for their own families. The Americans were not. They didn’t know what they were fighting for. They did what they were told to do, and as Schell shows almost poignantly, they pretended to one another, and they pretended to […]