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As everyone knows, “It’s no secret that Florida has a large antisemitism problem,” that Jews are “one of the country’s most vulnerable minorities,” and that “[a]ntisemitism is spreading like cancer nationwide and needs to be stopped.” If you don’t agree with all of these statements, there’s a word for people such as you. (more…)
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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later.
To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life and accomplishments, see the following works on this site: (more…)
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Pox Populi and American Krogan (Substack, Telegram) were host Nick Jeelvy‘s guests on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed the Italian election results, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
The jury is still out as to whether Giorgia Meloni, who may become Italy’s new Prime Minister after Sunday’s elections, is the new Mussolini.
The jury is still out as to whether Giorgia Meloni, who may become Italy’s new Prime Minister after Sunday’s elections, is the new Mussolini.
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Look out — here comes Hitler in a bra.
On Sunday, Italian voters are expected to propel a “far-Right” coalition led by a saucy and fetching 45-year-old woman into power.
Almost exactly one hundred years since Benito Mussolini took charge of Italy’s government, headlines for both UPI and the Guardian warn, in the exact same words, that Giorgia Meloni could “become Italy’s first far-Right leader since Mussolini.” (more…)
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Man can work musically with his zeitgeist, analyzing it and then either accepting it as one’s own or radically rejecting it. Here I would like to deal with the latter in a certain limited territory where this phenomenon has occurred to a quite large extent: the Right-wing music scene in Italy. (more…)
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If you search the name “Ramokone Linah” on Google Images, you’ll see several pictures of hippopotami but zero snapshots of the black South African woman named Ramokone Linah, who was shot by a white Afrikaner because he mistook her for a hippopotamus. (more…)
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Last weekend’s Ask Me Anything on Counter-Currents Radio with Greg Johnson is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
00:01:24 What are your thoughts on Italy banning Russian ships from their ports?
00:01:50 What are your thoughts on animal testing? (more…)
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Robert N. Taylor was born in 1945 and grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As a member of both the psychedelic underground as well as the anti-Communist paramilitary organization The Minutemen, Taylor participated directly in the violent social upheavals of the 1960s. In 1969 he started the music group Changes with his cousin, Nicholas Tesluk. After its revival in 1996, the group would go on to become a seminal part of the American apocalyptic folk genre. (more…)
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I would like to introduce the Italian neofolk band Ianva (translated as Genoa) and their album La Mano di Gloria. Ianva started playing around 2003, bringing together different musical styles such as classical music, weird-sounding gothic, progressive rock, Black Metal, and music from the 1920s and ’30s. (more…)
The 1923 Fiat Mefistofele, a revolutionary car design for its day which inspired the imaginations of motorists and designers worldwide.
The 1923 Fiat Mefistofele, a revolutionary car design for its day which inspired the imaginations of motorists and designers worldwide.
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“We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath . . . a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.” — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (more…)
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The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
the score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
a sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game. (more…)
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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later.
To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life and accomplishments, see the following works on this site: (more…)
