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The social sciences do not have as many laws as the hard sciences, but they do exist. If I may be so bold, I would like to add one:
Ingroup behavior sets the maximum for outgroup behavior.
In other words: Groups simply don’t treat outsiders better than they treat their own. They may treat them worse or the same, but not better. (more…)
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Norman Solomon
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
New York: The New Press, 2023
See also: The American Regime, here & here
Norman Solomon is one of those rare, honest, old-time liberals who genuinely questions the narratives of the mainstream media and the foreign policy establishment. He was a delegate for Bernie Sanders in 2016. (more…)
Persian relief of soldiers similar to those lost in the 525 BC march from Thebes.
Persian relief of soldiers similar to those lost in the 525 BC march from Thebes.
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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
III. Deserts Take Few Prisoners
“. . . we saw the break-up of the enemy . . . [they escaped] into what they thought was empty land beyond. However, in the empty land was Auda[1]; and in that night of his last battle the old man killed and lulled, plundered and captured, till dawn showed him the end. (more…)
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Gregory Hood was host Greg Johnson’s guest on the last episode of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed destroying “their democracy” by running for office, voting, seceding, and building new communities — plus, of course, current events and your questions — and it is now available for download and online listening.
00:00:00 Destroying their democracy
00:04:00 Old man in Georgia yelling at clouds (more…)
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The four months that have passed since America’s debacle in Afghanistan have made it increasingly clear that this was a model that was successful from commanders and managers’ perspectives. It is therefore highly likely that it will be repeated on other battlefields. (more…)
A few of the mostly peaceful counter-demonstrators at Charlottesville.
A few of the mostly peaceful counter-demonstrators at Charlottesville.
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Charlottesville: The Blowback Continues
More than four years after that naked mole rat of a college professor named Dwayne Dixon pointed a rifle at James Fields in Charlottesville, Virginia, causing him to panic, drive away, and then plow through a crowd of Leftist agitators who were rioting without a permit and ignoring police orders to disperse, inadvertently causing an obese woman named Heather Heyer to have a heart attack, probably 99% of Americans are savagely unaware of many key points I outlined in this paragraph. (more…)
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Hundreds of thousands of Afghans are fleeing their country for the West. We’re set for another replay of the 2015 Syrian crisis. Yet, this time Europe doesn’t want the refugees. France’s centrist president Emmanuel Macron vowed to block the gates to the Afghan hordes, and Greece expanded and fortified its border wall ahead of the flood. (more…)
In the Department of Defense, sub-Saharans are over-promoted everywhere.
In the Department of Defense, sub-Saharans are over-promoted everywhere.
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Before you read this article, you need to drop everything and contact your elected official encouraging him or her to not allow any Afghan refugees into your country. While Afghans are white Indo-Europeans, their culture has some drawbacks. Those “translators” we are supposedly obligated to help were often involved in insider attacks, theft, and bacha bazi. (more…)
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Afghanistan: One Jew Left
As recently as 2005, there were two Jews left in Afghanistan. They both lived in the country’s last remaining synagogue, and they both actively hated one another. (more…)
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As the United States and its Western allies beat a hasty and shambolic retreat from Afghanistan, it is clear the wheels of history have turned again. (more…)
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Philip H. Gordon
Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2020
Philip H. Gordon is a Deputy National Security Advisor to the Dementia Regime’s Vice President. Previously, he’d served on the staff of President Obama. (more…)
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I’d like to say that the assassination of Qasem Soleimani isn’t the end of the world, but it’s too soon to say, because World Wars have started with similar provocations.
It is, however, safe to say that Donald Trump has made his dumbest foreign policy decision yet, for the same reason he made all of his other dumb foreign policy decisions: listening to the Israel First lobby (more…)
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Good Kill is an OK movie starring Ethan Hawke and directed by New Zealander Andrew Niccol, who also directed Hawke in Gattaca, the dumbest anti-eugenics movie ever made (beautiful but dumb). Hawke plays Major Thomas Egan, an Air Force pilot assigned to pilot drones in the “war on terror.” (Can we have the word “terrorism” back now that George W. Bush is no longer around to mangle it?)