Tag: Emmanuel Macron

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Another day, another article written in response to an act of desecration and vandalism perpetrated by those who seek to spoil whatever is left of that thing we once could call “Western Civilization.” Honestly, I was reluctant to write this. After having typed thousands of words on the exhausting farce that was the recent European Cup, perhaps I can be forgiven for not having the muster to write about yet another attack on our race, our culture, our traditions, and our senses. As I wrote in my essay on EURO 2024, life in the West today is like fighting on the parapets of a fortress as wave after wave of enemy soldiers relentlessly scales the walls. (more…)

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The following was translated by Greg Johnson from the original French with permission from Breizh-info. The interview was conducted by YV.

We asked Alain de Benoist for his views on the recent European elections in France, as well as the French legislative elections, Macron’s dissolution of the Assembly, the nation’s current political theater, and of course the “two weeks of hate” that we are currently experiencing under the impetus of the Left. (more…)

National Rally’s leader Jordan Bardella with Marine Le Pen on election night. (Image source: Marine Le Pen’s Facebook wall)

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The European Union Parliament elections have come and gone. While some results were being finalized just this morning, the dust has settled more or less and we can take stock of what occurred.

France

We’ll start with what is arguably the most momentous election result. In France, National Rally, of which Marine Le Pen is a member and which is now led by the handsome and charismatic Jordan Bardella, won 31% of the votes and gained 12 seats in the EU Parliament. (more…)

The CSU/CDU alliance, of which European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen is a prominent member, handily dominated the EU elections in Germany. (Image source: The European Parliament’s Flickr page.)

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As we use to say around here, after the famous book title: Im Westen nichts Neues. That’s “Nothing new to report from the West,” but you might know it as All Quiet on the Western Front. (Whoever thought that this was a fitting translation?)

It’s not that there’s nothing new to report, but it’s mainly unspectacular. Everything went exactly as expected with the European Union elections. The only big surprise was Macron’s decision to hold new national elections in France as a result of the voters’ obvious disapproval of the current government’s politics. You have to give it to the French: They don’t do anything by halves. (more…)

Toufik-de-Planoise during this summer’s riots in France, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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If a civil war breaks out, the French native population will be somewhat defenseless, even if they are (still) a majority. The country’s armed forces have been shrinking in size over the years, down to a little over 200,000 military personnel in total in 2023. Creating a territorial defense force like the one that has been set up in Poland recently would be a much better solution. (more…)

John Martin, The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1822)

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Events in the Middle East continue to escalate. As the great powers of the present day continue their mobilization of resources, men, and materiel, war on a global scale is on the horizon. While the world is transfixed by events in Palestine, fighting in Ukraine grinds on, and the specter of China’s ongoing confrontation with Taiwan remains simmering in the background. (more…)

Scenes of violence in Planoise à Besançon, June 2023.

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The following was originally published in Polish in July 2023 in the Do Rzeczy weekly magazine. This translation was published at the English-language Polish conservative site Sovereignty.pl.

Laurent Obertone wrote a novel about France’s descent into civil war in 2016 with the title Guerrilla. (more…)

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If there’s one fascinating thing about the progressives, it’s that they never really pause on the road to progress. And even when the discovery of their new advances leads us to believe that their model is not sustainable, so devoid of common sense does their madness seem that, paradoxically, this permanent progress tends to prove them right: Progress ostensibly knows no limits. (more…)

Emmanuel Macron shown attending an Elton John concert on the first night that extreme violence broke out across France recently.

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At the beginning of July we witnessed further rioting and looting across France. President Emmanuel Macron, with the nerve and arrogance only he is capable of, pretended to find this event surprising, despite the fact that everyone had been expecting it at least since 2005 and the last large-scale riots in the suburbs.

No sensible, informed person with common sense was surprised by this week of chaos. (more…)

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Here is the second half of Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) and Millennial Woes on last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio about the riots in France and answering listener questions. (more…)

Photo taken by Nahel Besançon in Planoise, France on June 29.

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The French Mistake

I’m only going to focus on one story this week because it seems compelling and significant enough to drown out everything else that happened. Since it bears the ominous potential to metastasize into something even more far-reaching, it may become the story of the year. Or decade. Or century. (more…)

Young boy collects rubbish in Gayaza to earn a living. Kitezi, Uganda.

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The uniqueness of whites can be partly explained by the their homelands’ climate. Europe is the second-cloudiest continent after Antarctica. Western hunter-gatherers colonized Europe as the ice sheets retreated. They evolved blue eyes, which are useful in cloudy weather because they are more sensitive to light and protect people from developing seasonal affective disorder. (more…)

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And did those feet . . .

Every now and then, scientists discover something previously unknown — some particle or planet or plant. Lately, I wonder whether anything has been discovered by these eggheads that isn’t racist. The list of what is racist grows daily, hourly: skiing, the opera, mathematics, memes with black people in them, an ordered pantry, owning dogs, punctuality, books, songs, coffee, milk (presumably coffee with milk is only drunk by the Klan or Combat-18), grammar. (more…)