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The Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism Part I
Do religion and nationalism compete with each other? Do they replace each other? Do they amplify each other and drive each other forward? Do they exist in symbiosis? Theorists of nationalism have struggled with this question. At one extreme of the spectrum is the early work of Elie Kedourie (1960), who argued that nationalism is a modern, […]
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The Clinton-Soros “House Hands”
Another recent article expressing election year hysteria among the credentialed class began with the assertion: While it is very easy, based on documents, to declare Mr. Trump to be a neo-fascist and/ or a criminal, historical events indicate that the Democratic Party failed over the last five decades to protect and support, and then expand […]
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Nationalism as the Religion of the Modern West
Orientation The emergence of a strange, secular god “I am the Lord Thy God, Thou Shalt not have strange gods before me” is not just a religious commandment. Every nation-state expects their citizens to give up or subordinate their regional loyalties, their class, their ethnicity and even their religion to this new god. If we […]
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No Good Outcomes for Israel’s True Believers
Israel and the U.S. Empire are playing roulette. They are betting big on red, the color of blood, the worship of power and the logical outcome of ideological Zionism. Zionism has always been, as pointed out by its critics from the beginning, an intellectual current that leads to racism, war and authoritarianism just like other […]
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Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves Part II
Summary of Part I In Part I of my article, we began by distinguishing the social self from two forms of identity that are often confused with it: temperament and personality. The focus of part one is to show how very social (or even socialist) was the work of social psychologist George Herbert Mead. We […]
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Our Dirty Little Secret Revealed
I grew up in a small Midwestern town that was part of an industrial oasis located in the midst of corn and soybean fields. The oasis existed because bituminous coal had been discovered under the flat lands well over a hundred years ago. The mines attracted thousands of workers from Eastern and Southern Europe, including […]
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Ukraine: Has PM Trudeau Succumbed to Nazi Ideology?
This report consists of three parts: 1. Canada’s House of Commons gives standing ovation to a man introduced as a Ukrainian “war hero”, later to discover that he served in the Nazi 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS. (Hindustan Times) 2. Trudeau Urged to Resign (Sky News) 3. Is Trudeau Supportive of Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Party […]
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Ukraine’s Bandera Itch
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has been justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “special military operation” with a few barbed purposes, among them cleaning the country’s stables of Nazis. As with so many instances of history, it was not entirely untrue, though particularly convenient for Moscow. At the core […]
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On the Use and Misuse of the Term “Jewish supremacist”
Should a person who defends and promotes a state that actively endorses Jewish supremacy be called a Jewish supremacist? In the recent Globe and Mail commentary “Canada must rethink its friendship with Israel” establishment commentator Thomas Juneau noted that the current hard-right Israeli government “includes Jewish supremacists”. In response Norman Levine tweeted, “the term ‘Jewish supremacists’ borders on antisemitism. I’m shocked the editors at Globe and Mail allowed an […]
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