Tag: obituaries

Denis Nikitin

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Editor’s Note:

I interviewed Denis Nikitin for Counter-Currents Radio in 2020. We tried to set up another interview after the Ukraine War began, but it proved impossible. (more…)

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Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, Chancellor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

James Watson, one of the great scientific minds of the past century, has died at the age of 97. In 1953, still in his mid-twenties, he and colleague Francis Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule. It was an essential precondition for just about all the advances made in genetics since that time. (more…)

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Translated by Ondrej Mann.

When I first contacted the Paris publishing house Robert Laffont about acquiring the rights to a new Czech translation of The Camp of the Saints, the author’s most famous novel, I never imagined that one day I would be sitting in the writer’s home. (more…)

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Ian Dury was an English singer who was the first to admit that he couldn’t sing. He could battle adversity, however, having been crippled by polio at the age of nine from infected water at a swimming-pool. Polio was a terrible and often fatal disease which had several outbreaks in Britain, and Dury contracted it in 1951. (more…)

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Joe Nickell

The recent death of Joe Nickell, the leading American skeptic of the paranormal, brought to mind a few questions about just what precise sort of things the committed investigator might have been skeptical about in life. Going around laughing at supposed backwoods rednecks saying “Hahaha, you believe in Bigfoot!” might have been OK, but skeptically questioning uncritical witness testimony about the existence and habits of certain other unlikely North American primates like Martin Luther King was quite another. (more…)

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While Prime Minister Chirac’s successful re-engineering of the electoral system in his own interest damaged the Front National (as it was intended to do), the FN had no intention of giving up or going away, fortified as it was by its strong contingent of European deputies. (more…)

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Following the swearing in of François Mitterand as President on 21st May 1981, he dissolved the National Assembly, calling new elections that took place in two rounds on 14th and 21st June 1981, leaving his Socialist Party with 266 of the 491 members of the new National Assembly–an absolute majority. (more…)

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Jimmy the Tooth has grinned his last goofy grin. He was planted in the ground the other day. After circling the drain in hospice care for nearly two years of extended overtime, the former President James Earl Carter is no longer. His spirit now resides in whatever crevasse of the afterlife that awaits Trilateral Commission members. He was fortunate enough to make it to the century mark, and the second half of his life is generally reckoned as his better years. Still, that’s not much to shout about, since by then he was a washed-up politician. Jummah’s most notable achievement since his failed Presidency was to win a Nobel Prize for the great accomplishment of not being George W. Bush, a distinction he shares with Al Gore and The Obomber. (more…)

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Immigration was already becoming a serious problem in the France of 1973, as conservative elements in the system recognised, but were ultimately unwilling to address. De Gaulle’s successor, President Georges Pompidou, a far better man and leader than his counterparts in British Conservatism or the GOP of his time, complained privately how every time that he wished to implement restrictions on immigration, his party’s major donors in French industry, notably the construction giant Bouygues, lobbied against any such restrictions. (more…)

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Yesterday, France and Europe lost a great son. The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen at the age of 96 marks the end of an era in politics. Fuller appreciations for his long and eventful life will come in time from biographers, friendly and hostile. What follows is a brief envoi for a man whom I had the privilege of meeting several times and grew to respect greatly, without necessarily agreeing with him on every point of detail (a subject to which I will return). (more…)

Phil Donahue. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

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When I read that Phil Donahue—who for over a quarter-century reigned as “The King of Daytime TV”—had died this past Sunday, I grinned and rubbed my hands at the prospect of issuing a robustly defamatory obituary. (more…)

Azzmador, RIP
Original art by A. Wyatt Mann

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Word broke on Telegram on Tuesday morning that Alt Right icon Robert Ray, aka Azzmador, passed away shortly after a disturbing post complaining about excruciating pain in his legs.

One could argue that Azzmador qualifies as a martyr to the White Nationalist cause because the only reason that he was unable to seek proper medical care was because he had been a fugitive of the law since August 2017, when he maced an antifa activist in self-defense at the Charlottesville tiki torch march. (more…)

Jan Assmann (Photo credit: Martin Kraft, MJK62894 Jan Assmann, CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Johann Christoph “Jan” Assmann, the world’s foremost Egyptologist and a profound religious thinker and cultural historian, died on Monday at the age of 85.

Assmann was born in Langelsheim in Lower Saxony and grew up in Lübeck and Heidelberg. After studying Egyptology, classical archeology, and Greek studies in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, and Göttingen, as well as doing fieldwork in Egypt, Assmann was appointed professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg in 1976, where he stayed until his retirement in 2003. Assmann then became Honorary Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Constance, where his wife Aleida Assmann taught English. Jan and Aleida raised five children and developed a theory of memory and cultural transmission. (more…)