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… By the 1960s, the systematic selection for competence came into direct conflict with the political imperatives of the civil rights movement. During the period from 1961 to 1972, a series of Supreme Court rulings, executive orders, and laws — most critically, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — put meritocracy and the new political imperative of protected-group diversity on a collision course … The result has been clear: any time meritocracy and diversity come into direct conflict, diversity must take priority. The resulting norms have steadily eroded institutional competency, causing America’s complex systems to fail with increasing regularity … The prognosis is harsh but clear: either selection for competence will return or America will experience devolution to more primitive forms of civilization and loss of geopolitical power.

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots of 2020 were the largest and most successful shakedown in American history. These “mostly peaceful protests” — which burned more than 200 American cities and wreaked more than $2 billion in damages — achieved more than anyone could have predicted: changes in laws, private sector policies, and perhaps most importantly, a historic transfer of wealth to racial and leftwing causes. As a result, American corporations gave or pledged more than $83 billion to either BLM or BLM-related causes … DEI and BLM share one mission: to punish white America, through different means … Both aim to redistribute honor, privileges, and money to black Americans. Both are extorting special privileges and money by using white guilt.

Black Lives Matter bled cash and suffered blistering investment losses in 2022, according to a copy of its tax return obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation ran an $8.5 million deficit and saw the value of its investment accounts plummet by nearly $10 million in the most recent tax year, financial disclosures show … These troubles didn’t stop BLM from doling out seven-figure contracts to friends and family of its former executive director Patrisse Cullors … The financial losses come after a year of missteps and setbacks for the embattled charity. BLM raised just $9.3 million in its 2022 fiscal year, down 88 percent from its haul the year prior … The group has blown through two-thirds of the $90 million it raised in the wake of George Floyd’s death in the summer of 2020.

Finland’s incoming coalition government said on Friday it had agreed to cut refugee quotas, raise the bar for work-based immigration, and make it more difficult for foreigners to obtain citizenship, key priorities for the nationalist Finns Party. “In recent years Finland has been the only Nordic country with a more lenient immigration policy. This changes now,” Finns Party leader Rikka Purra told a news conference, calling the new policy a paradigm change … The government, which will be led by Petteri Orpo, head of the conservative National Coalition, also plans to improve public finances by cutting spending, reducing taxes, and helping create an estimated 100,000 new jobs over the next four years.

Finnish politician Vilhelm Junnila apologized Thursday for remarks indicating sympathy toward Adolf Hitler, which drew further attention to the economic affairs minister’s far-right connections. The incident occurred during an event hosted by a local branch of Junnila’s far-right Finns party in Raisio in March. There, Junnila remarked that the local party chairman’s election number was 88, the same number that Junnila himself had in 2019 elections. The number 88 is widely recognized among neo-Nazis as a symbol for the “Heil Hitler,” due to H being the eighth letter in the alphabet, making 88 signify “HH.” “First of all, congratulations on an excellent election number. I know it’s a winning card,” Junnila said. “Of course, this 88 refers to the two letters H, which are not discussed further,” he said, drawing laughter.

The United States, says Weber, has changed from a republic focused on its own prosperity and well-being to a globally intrusive military power. This worldwide military presence reflects an entrenched American view that the US is a social-political model for all nations, and therefore has a right, based on perceived moral superiority, to intervene everywhere. He traces the evolution of this outlook from the fateful Spanish-American War of 1898, and the false pretexts and promises used since then to justify wars. Going to war to fight “evil” or “terrorism,” says Weber, is a recipe for endless strife and conflict. Video based on interview with Weber by Daniel Davis, host of the “Beyond 50” radio show. Runtime: 9:48 mins.

New data from the American Bar Association has shown that the gap in bar pass rates between white and minority law graduates has widened for the second year. The data showed that 83% of white test takers passed their bar exam on their first attempt, compared to 57% of Black examinees – a difference of 26 percentage points. This gap increased from 24 percentage points in 2021. The disparity also held for Hispanic and Asian test takers, with 69% and 75% first-time pass rates, respectively. The gap with white examinees grew from 13 percentage points to 14 for Hispanic test takers, and six percentage points to 8 for Asian test takers.

Nazi artist Josef Thorak created the two “Striding Horses” for Adolf Hitler’s New Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Now the sculptures will be shown again for the first time in the Spandau Citadel. One of the horses has been on display there for some time, and the second one is now being unveiled and examined by restorers. On the Day of the Open Monument on Sept. 10, 2023, it will be permanently presented again for the first time, according to the museum, along with other problematic works of art … Commissioned by Hitler at the height of his power, the colossal twin “Striding Horses” had stood in the garden of Hitler’s seat of government from 1939 to 1943. They were part of the thousands of bronze works crafted for the Nazi regime …

The Anti-Defamation League is asking American corporations, government agencies, and non-profits to pledge to fight antisemitism in their workplaces, and intends to audit and report on their progress in 2024. Speaking at a CNBC Workforce Executive Council dinner on June 8, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said it’s time for corporations to tackle the growing problem of antisemitism in the workplace and put measures in place to track progress. The ADL initiative includes addressing antisemitism in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, supporting employee resource groups or affinity groups for Jewish employees, guaranteeing religious accommodations for workers, and urging companies to use their public platforms to speak out against antisemitism.

Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war between the US and the USSR … Fortunately, we had a president in the White House at the time who understood the dangers of nuclear brinkmanship … It is all too clear that we do not have a John F. Kennedy in the White House today … As we move into the US presidential election cycle one thing is clear: we desperately need a peace president to do for us what JFK did for the US during the Cuba crisis.

“Don’t call it a counter-offensive,” say the Ukrainians. “This is our offensive, it’s our chance to finally drive out the Russian army from our land.” All right, but what will it take to actually succeed? First off, let’s not get distracted by the recent hard-fought but tiny territorial gains Ukraine has been making as it retakes obscure, half-abandoned villages in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions … In the big strategic picture, this is a sideshow … Amidst all the claim and counter-claim of a propaganda war, it may yet be weeks or even months before we get a clearer picture of who is likely to ultimately prevail in this war.

… It was actually the Soviet Union, not the United States and Great Britain, that ultimately tipped the scales against Nazi Germany, as the European theater of the Second World War was largely fought on the Eastern Front. But any casual consumer of Hollywood products like “Saving Private Ryan” or “Band of Brothers,” or any World War II themed program on the History Channel might be led to believe that the United States far and away saved the day … The narrative of America as World War II’s sole superhero is very much part of Americans’ perception of themselves and their history. That narrative also seems to feed the notion of American exceptionalism — that the U.S. can, in part, liberate the world from tyranny by force if necessary …

The Second World War is often called “the good war.” … That description comes from the war’s popular portrayal as a necessary Manichean struggle between the good Allied powers and the evil Axis powers … It is understandable that many would see the Second World War as a morally clear-cut conflict between good and evil. This view has persisted for almost 70 years, particularly in the United States — reinforced by countless motion pictures, documentaries, and books … Since 1945, American political leaders have frequently invoked the mythology of the good war to justify their bellicose, reckless, and arrogant foreign policy. Those expressing misgivings or skepticism toward Washington’s wars have often been accused of “appeasement” or forgetting the “lessons of Munich.”

… Today, San Francisco’s once bustling Union Square and downtown area is a shadow of its former self: rows of empty stores, sparse crowds even on peak weekend shopping days and nearby hotels – including a huge Hilton – unable to cover their mortgage payments … On the other side of Market Street is the soon-to-be sold Westfield San Francisco Center – its doorways reeking of urine and every store staffed by hulking security guards … Nordstrom Rack is closing down altogether in September – along with its sister Nordstrom and scores of other stores such as T-Mobile and Payless Shoes … Even the candy is under lock and key in Walgreens in San Francisco. A DailyMail.com reporter witnessed four thefts in 15 minutes at the store.

The Westfield San Francisco Centre, previously a downtown San Francisco shopping mecca that once housed over 70 top-tier retail brands, is pulling the plug and turning the keys back over to its lenders after defaulting on its $558 million loan … Rampant street crime and aggressive shoplifting are driving shoppers away and threatening the safety of retail employees. For example, Target remains open, but its products are under lock and key, which doesn’t bode well for its future … Yearly visits to downtown San Francisco dropped from 7.5 million in 2019 to 2.2 million in 2022 and visitors from 118k to 62k … The threat of crime is causing shoppers, workers and prospective retail tenants to steer clear of downtown, and it’s growing not just in San Francisco but across the country.

In this spirited address at a conference in Estonia, Mark Weber lays out reasons for hope in a better future for America and Europe, in spite of the very disheartening trends of our times. He also responds to questions from the audience, and later speaks on different topics in an interview with the conference organizer. At this recent gathering on the future of the West, Weber joined other seasoned speakers from a range of European countries, as well as the US, who candidly and realistically examined the trajectory of recent years, while looking ahead with hope to the year 2050. Runtime: 58 mins.

Mass shootings in communities across the U.S. have killed at least 12 people since Friday and injured more than 100 … Shootings with multiple people killed or wounded happened in suburban Chicago, Washington state, central Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Idaho, Southern California and Baltimore, among other places … So far this year, more than 800 children and teenagers have been killed by guns, which includes homicides and suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Looking at CDC data, a report this month by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found 2021 set a record for the most deaths ever: 48,830 gun-related deaths. Of those, 20,958 were homicides, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A bronze sword more than 3,000 years old, which is so well-preserved that it “almost still shines”, has been unearthed in southern Germany, officials say. The Bavarian state office for the preservation of historical monuments (BLfD) said the sword, which is believed to date back to the end of the 14th century BC — the middle of the Bronze Age — was found during excavations last week in Nördlingen, between Nuremberg and Stuttgart. The sword has an octagonal hilt and comes from a grave in which three people – a man, a woman and a boy – were buried in quick succession with bronze objects, the BLfD said this week.

A plurality of people in European Union nations believe that China is a “necessary partner” to their countries, as opposed to a “rival” or “adversary,” according to a new report on the continent’s foreign policy attitudes released Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations. The poll, which included over 16,000 respondents from 11 member states, also shows that a solid majority of those polled would prefer that their respective countries remain neutral in a potential conflict between the United States and China concerning Taiwan. While most Europeans view the United States as an “ally” or “partner,” they also overwhelmingly believe that Europe should boost its own security and defense capacity and cannot always rely on Washington to guarantee its security, according to the survey.

Until the Jan. 6 insurrection, Mike Pence made sure to stay on the same page as Donald Trump — except, sometimes, when it came to the Jews. Both men delighted the pro-Israel establishment — Trump by fulfilling a long wishlist of Israel’s right-wing government, Pence by proving himself as a stalwart Christian Zionist through years in elected office … First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as an Indiana Republican in 2000, Pence made clear from the outset that defending Israel was among his priorities … In Congress, Pence took the lead in advancing pro-Israel legislation … He co-founded the House’s antisemitism task force … As Indiana governor in 2016, Pence enacted the first state law banning state business with firms that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel, known as BDS.

… I eventually concluded that the true history of World War II was not only quite different from what most of us had always believed, but was largely inverted. Our mainstream history books had been telling the story upside-down and backwards … By the late 1930s Hitler had resurrected Germany, which had become newly prosperous under his rule … He was widely recognized as one of the most successful and popular leaders in the world, and he hoped to finally settle the Polish border dispute, offering concessions far more generous than any of his democratically-elected Weimar predecessors had ever considered.

… The notion that the second world war was finer and nobler than the first is highly dubious in itself, since it sanitises so much, from the slaughter of civilians by Allied bombing to the gang rape of millions of women by our Russian allies at the moment of victory … The glorification of the second world war has had practical and baleful consequences. It has led us to an easier acceptance of “liberal interventionism”, founded on the assumption that we in the west are alone virtuous and qualified to distinguish political right from wrong – and the conviction that our self-evidently virtuous ends must justify whatever means we employ …

… How accurate is this hallowed portrayal of America’s role in World War II? As we shall see, it does not hold up under close examination … The three Allied leaders accomplished what they accused the Axis leaders of Germany, Italy and Japan of conspiring to achieve: world domination … Presidential deception to justify war did not start with George W. Bush. Americans who express admiration for the US role in World War II, and for Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential leadership, have little moral right to complain when presidents follow his example and lead the country into war by breaking the law, subverting the Constitution, and lying to the people.

Backers of the legal challenge to Harvard University’s affirmative action program currently pending in the US supreme court have based their case in part on evidence drawn from the flawed analysis of a Holocaust denier who publishes virulent antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and neo-Nazi screeds … The complaint, as well as four supporting briefs presented to the justices by aligned groups also calling for an end to affirmative action, draws heavily from a 2012 article by Ron Unz, a Californian multimillionaire and former Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a controversial track record. That 2012 piece has been criticized for being riddled with errors and for espousing views verging on antisemitism.

The National Genealogical Society (NGS), one of the country’s most prominent organizations for documenting family ancestry, has issued a formal apology and a report on “racist and discriminatory actions and decisions the society made” over the past century … The news from the NGS comes only a few months after the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) issued a similar report documenting its early leaders’ involvement in the American eugenics movement … In its research, the NGS made troubling discoveries about one of its founders. A Georgia physician named Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch, who served as president of the group from 1909 to 1912, wrote openly about his eugenicist beliefs.

Jewish organisations have applauded a planned nationwide [Australia] ban on Nazi symbols, following a rise in their use amongst far-right groups. New federal laws will see people displaying Nazi insignia face up to a year in jail. Selling Nazi memorabilia will also be an offence, and sales banned in retail and online stores … Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dvir Abramovich said the laws followed years of campaigning, and were needed more than ever after recent neo-Nazi demonstrations outside Victoria’s parliament. “The cancer of white supremacism is spreading like wildfire throughout this country …,” he said … The legislation, which will ban the Nazi Hakenkreuz [swastika] and Schutzstaffel [SS] symbols, is slated to be introduced to parliament on Wednesday.

As seen in many other Western countries, such as France and Britain, the first name Mohammed has continuously gained popularity in Germany, including in the past year. In cities like Berlin, the Muslim name was the most popular for boys in 2022, while in 2021, it ranked third … Data coming out of Germany shows the country is facing rapid demographic transformation, with the rise of Islamic names only one factor in the trend. For example, in most major cities, the majority of children have a migration background, including Hamburg. Overall, 38 percent of all children in the German school system have a migrant background, which has overwhelmed schools and led to a noted decline in reading and math results across the board. Increasing diversity within schools is also leading to conflict between students, increased violence, and teachers facing burnout.

The city of Vienna will tilt the statue of an antisemitic former mayor 3.5 degrees to the right in order to shift the viewer’s “perspective on it,” a move that some Jewish leaders are calling an inadequate way to deal with a dark chapter of the city’s history … Karl Lueger served as mayor of Vienna for 13 years until his death in 1910. He was known for antisemitic rhetoric that is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna as a young man. Hitler wrote in “Mein Kampf” that he had “undisguised admiration” for Lueger. The statue, situated in a square called Dr. Karl Lueger Platz in the city’s center, has been hit with vandalism for years by protesters who call for its total dismantling. In 2020,, the city put up fencing to deter protesters from spray-painting it.

A group of Swiss citizens is demanding that an iconic city square has its name switched from that of a rabid antisemite to a woman who risked her life saving Jews. Opened in 2005, Raiffeisenplatz in St Gallen was named after the 19th-century Raiffeisen co-operative movement in Germany. The square is renowned for its unusual red carpet of rubber granulate, which gives pedestrians a slight bouncy feeling when strolling across it to get to the Raiffeisen bank or the St Gallen Synagogue. Raiffeisenplatz may be bright and cheery but Raiffeisen Bank, the second largest in the country, has a dark side, as it descends from the movement founded by firebrand Jew hater Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen.

The political and financial class breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The bill suspends the debt ceiling for two years, thus avoiding the establishment’s nightmare of a government default on its debt … Of course, it makes no attempt to actually cut spending, much less eradicate any illegitimate and unconstitutional government agencies, cabinet departments, or programs. Even though “defense” is the third largest item in the budget (behind social security, Medicare, and interest in the national debt), our annual military budget alone is more than the combined budgets of the next ten biggest spending countries. The Fiscal Responsibility Act doesn’t take a penny away from the military budget …

… Although almost every U.S. president in the past half-century has run a record budget deficit at one time or another, the largest budget deficits in U.S. history were run by former President Donald Trump and his two immediate predecessors … While the United States has run a budget deficit nearly every year since 1961, the deficits began to balloon during the 1970s and 1980s. President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, vowing to limit the size of government. Still, during his eight years in the White House, the nation’s deficit roughly doubled and topped $200 billion several times … Another thing to know is that “discretionary” spending accounts for only about one-third of the typical U.S. budget. The majority is “mandatory” spending that is dictated by law. The most significant sources of mandatory spending are Medicare and Social Security.

Tucker Carlson is many things but stupid is not one of them. So when he describes Ukraine’s Jewish president (‘a man called Zelensky’) as ‘sweaty and rat-like’, ‘a persecutor of Christians’ and ‘our shifty, dead-eyed Ukrainian friend’, I suspect he knows exactly what he’s doing. Carlson made the remarks in a monologue on his new show, Tucker on Twitter. Elon Musk’s social media platform signed up the populist broadcaster after his ousting at Fox News. The first episode of Tucker on Twitter has been viewed 111 million times … It is likely that Carlson dropped these tropes into his monologue because he knew it would scandalise his progressive and liberal critics. Volodymyr Zelensky doesn’t look like a rat but comparing Jews to rats has a long, ugly pedigree.

… Musk’s history of amplifying antisemites and antisemitic rhetoric on Twitter, along with his control of the social media platform itself, make him the loudest, and most powerful antisemite in American history … Elon Musk’s behavior is part of a larger pattern that puts all Jews in America in urgent danger. Musk is engaging in essentially a scaled-up, far more widespread version of rhetoric that has directly led to violence against minorities … Musk frequently cloaks his antisemitic rhetoric in the language of conspiracy theories … This makes Musk the most dangerous antisemite in America, and possibly the most dangerous antisemite in American history. No other person has ever had this much power over media and to spread a message.

… In early June of 1967, at the onset of the Six Day War, the Pentagon sent the USS Liberty from Spain into international waters off the coast of Gaza to monitor the progress of Israel’s attack on the Arab states … The Israeli attack boats strafed the rafts with machine gun fire … Finally, 16 hours after the attack two US destroyers reached the Liberty. By that time, 34 US sailors were dead and 174 injured, many seriously … A particularly damning report compiled by a CIA informant suggests that Israeli Defense minister Moshe Dayan personally ordered the attack and wanted it to proceed until the Liberty was sunk and all on board killed … The bigger question is why the US government would participate so enthusiastically in the cover-up of a war crime against its own sailors.

The USS Liberty was a floating CIA intelligence gathering platform monitoring all transmissions from all sources involved in the 1967 Six Day War. Israeli progress was followed as well as the Arab coalition of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Hosted by Colin Heaton. A “Forgotten History” production. Runtime: 18:26 mins.

Broadway made a statement about antisemitism Sunday evening, as two high-profile shows on the subject of this season — the play “Leopoldstadt” and the musical revival “Parade” — pulled in multiple major Tony awards. Some of the shows’ honorees, in turn, made statements of their own linking hatred of Jews with other forms of hatred, including homophobia and anti-transgender sentiment at a time when trans inclusion is under attack in many places. “Leopoldstadt,” Tom Stoppard’s epic semi-autobiographical play about three generations of a Viennese Jewish family before and after the Holocaust, won four of the six Tonys for which it was nominated, including best play.

… How did America come to war against Germany, the heart of Europe? Could not Roosevelt have acted as a great peacemaker by mediating the Danzig conflict in 1939, instead of instigating the Poles against Germany? … The American President could very possibly have saved the peace in 1939. Instead, he fed the American people inventions about a hypothetical German plot to take over the United States and the whole world. Of course, a Germany which was incapable of crossing the English Channel to conquer Britain had not the slightest ability (or intention) of conquering America from across the Atlantic Ocean.

Australia’s government plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide due to an increase in far-right activity, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said Thursday. While most Australian states already ban such Nazi symbols, the federal law would go further by also banning the trade in such material, Dreyfus said … “There’s no place in Australia for spreading of hatred and violence.” … The law would include a penalty for people displaying Nazi symbols of up to a year in prison … Dreyfus, who is Jewish, said the number of neo-Nazis was small, but the main domestic spy agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, had raised concerns about their activity in the past three years.

The State Department press briefing on Monday [June 5] showed the new mood in Washington: reporters repeatedly raised Israel policy as problematic. Roger Waters’s advocacy for Palestine shook the briefing room, as a reporter questioned why a Biden aide, Deborah Lipstadt, has echoed the smear that Waters’s performance of “The Wall” is an example of Jew hatred, and failed to see that it is actually a denunciation of fascism akin to Charlie Chaplin’s parody of Hitler as “the great dictator.” The reporter Sam Husseini accused the Biden administration of deploying the antisemitism charge as “a way of denouncing people who stand up for Palestinian rights.”

Claims that former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters deployed antisemitic imagery at recent concerts in Berlin are baseless. The charges are being elevated by media figures and politicians who detest his advocacy for Palestinian liberation. / … The central claims against Waters, however, are a mixture of distortions and outright falsehoods … Claims that Waters insulted Anne Frank are simply a malicious lie. Waters featured the name of Anne Frank in a montage of individuals murdered by state actors, in many cases due to racial prejudice … That false claims are being made about Waters is not the only disturbing aspect of this episode. What is especially troubling is how quickly these claims made it into mainstream media with little fact-checking. Now even politicians and law enforcement are taking them up.

Jewish groups and even the US government are accusing Roger Waters of the dread sin of anti-semitism. What’s the truth? In this bold video presentation, the musician says that his critics are promoting a “Big Lie” about him. He’s being vilified, he emphasizes, because he bluntly criticizes the oppressive policies of Israel, and the complicity of Germans and others in those policies. Germans are complicit, he says, because they are “blinded” by the memory of the Holocaust, and because their sense of guilt is so great that they do not tolerate any criticism of Israel. The efforts to “cancel” and “destroy” him, Waters says, are happening now because the Israeli government sees him as a threat to that country’s “settler, colonialist, racist, apartheid regime.” Runtime: 20:20 mins.

The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, saying his recent performances in Germany were antisemitic, an assessment shared by many in Israel and the pro-Israel community. The State Department said Tuesday that Waters has “a long track record of using antisemitic tropes” and a concert he gave late last month in Germany “contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized the Holocaust.” The comments came in a written response to a question posed at Monday’s State Department press briefing about whether the administration agreed with criticism of Rogers from the U.S. special envoy to combat antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt. “Special Envoy Lipstadt’s quote-tweet speaks for itself,” the department said.

… Many in the West are simply unaware of how fast the geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting: The original plate bifurcation (the failed financial war declared on Russia), already has led to a building wave. Anger is growing. People now no longer feel alone in rejecting western hegemony – they “no longer care”. In just the week that preceded the G7 summit, the Arab League literally ‘went multi-polar’; It quit its former pro-US automaticity. The embrace of President Assad and the Syrian government was both the logical consequence to the secondary tectonic-plate shift set in motion by China with its Saudi-Iranian diplomacy … For the West, it is ontologically impossible to tolerate their reality being disassembled …

Cambridge University (England) is teaching students that Anglo-Saxons did not exist as a distinct ethnic group as part of efforts to undermine “myths of nationalism”. Britain’s early medieval history is taught by the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, but the terms within its own title are being addressed as part of efforts to make teaching more “anti-racist”. Its teaching aims to “dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism” by explaining that the Anglo-Saxons were not a distinct ethnic group, according to information from the department … The increased focus on anti-racism comes amid a broader debate over the continued use of terms like “Anglo-Saxon”, with some in academia alleging that the ethnonym is used to support “racist” ideas of a native English identity.

For the past 25 years, the idea of the Congo has been closely linked in the Western imagination to the 1998 book King Leopold’s Ghost by the American journalist Adam Hochschild. The book is widely assigned in high schools and colleges, and it regularly tops best-seller lists in colonial, African, and Western history … It is a vast hoax, full of distortions and errors both numerous and grave, a few of which I will detail in this short essay. Some people might view “King Hochschild’s Hoax,” as we might call it, as an empowering fable for modern Africans at the expense of the white man. But its debilitating effects on Africa, and on the Congo in particular, make the opposite more nearly the case. It is a callous and negligent chicotte (hippo whip) lash on the backs of all black Africans, narcissistic guilt porn for white liberals at the expense of the African.

To the outside world, Hitler was as a single man, devoted only to Nazi Germany. But, as this insightful history documentary reveals, in private he needed the companionship of women, most notably his niece Geli Raubal and his mistress Eva Braun. Both their lives would end in suicide. Eva Braun’s home movies provide a valuable and rarely seen insight into Hitler’s inner circle and true nature.

… Adolf Hitler was a formidable political organizer who took over a miniscule Bavarian debating club and turned it into the largest political party in Germany … When he became Chancellor, Hitler proved a formidable statesman, transforming Germany with a virtually bloodless revolution and recovering German lands and pride through a series of deft foreign policy triumphs until the British and French started a World War to stop him … Stolfi points out again and again that Hitler refused to behave like a politician. Hitler never compromised on basic principles … Hitler was motivated, first and foremost, by love of his people, beyond which were wider but less pressing concerns with the larger Aryan race, European civilization, and the welfare of the world as a whole … This book is even more remarkable because it is the work of a mainstream military historian.

This fascinating memoir by Hitler’s close friend during his formative teenage years provides a unique first-hand look at the character, temperament and values of a major historical figure. August Kubizek’s candid memoir is the most important source of information about the future German leader’s personality and family life during his young adulthood … A shared passion for music was the foundation of their friendship, which deepened over the next four years. The author credits Hitler for encouraging him to pursue his musical career … The two later moved to Vienna, the metropolis of the great Austro-Hungarian Empire, where they shared a cramped room. Making use of the piano that took up much of their small quarters, they tried to write an opera together.

When the smoke finally clears, President Biden’s Ukraine debacle will go down – along with Afghanistan and Iraq – as one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in US history. Hundreds of thousands have been killed on both sides in the service of the US neocons’ long-standing desire to “regime change” Russia. And let’s not forget that $100 billion authorized by Congress to finance the neocons’ “Project Ukraine.” … With President Biden clearly flailing – and with the surprisingly strong primary challenge of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – we should look for lawmakers to begin abandoning “Project Ukraine” in droves. That movement, led by principled conservatives and progressives, will sink forever the neocon “Project Ukraine” and thus save us from global nuclear annihilation. Hopefully after this disaster, Americans will turn against neocons one and for all.

… The G7 summit stands in stark contrast to efforts of leaders from around the world who are trying to end the conflict. In the past, the leaders of Turkey, Israel and Italy have stepped up to try to mediate. Their efforts were bearing fruit back in April 2022, but were blocked by the West, particularly the U.S. and U.K., which did not want Ukraine to make an independent peace agreement with Russia … Now that the war has dragged on for over a year with no end in sight, other leaders have stepped forward to try to push both sides to the negotiating table … The U.S. rejection or dismissal of peace initiatives … also illustrates the disconnect between rising public sentiment against the war and the determination of U.S. policymakers to prolong it, including most Democrats and Republicans.

Gang rapes have hit another record high in Germany in 2022, reaching a pace of more than two a day in the country, according to data released by the government after a request for information from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The data shows that the total number of gang rapes hit 789, higher than last year when the number hit 677 … In 2017, there were 380 gang rapes recorded, more than 50 percent fewer than recorded in 2022. The data shows that exactly 50 percent of all gang rapes are committed by foreigners. However, as Remix News previously reported, individuals with a migration background, or even those with dual citizenship, who number nearly 4 million, are simply listed as “German.” As a result, it is unclear what percentage of these rapes were committed by ethnic Germans.

… Jews learn at a very tender age that they are God’s chosen people. Unconsciously, this knowledge remains anchored in their “soul” throughout their life, even though many of them become total atheists … We are special. The language reflects this. There are Jews and there are the others … That is where we are now. A domineering regional power and a global crybaby, ruling a colonized population deprived of all rights while being convinced that dark forces are out to exterminate us at any moment, considering ourselves a very special people and an eternal victim. All this quite sincerely. And all this together. When somebody dares to suggest that anti-Semitism in the West is dying, and that anti-Islam is on the rise instead, the Jewish reaction is furious. We need anti-Semitism for our mental equilibrium. Nobody is going to steal it from us.

A survey by the Anti-Defamation League found that significant portions of people in 10 European countries believe a range of antisemitic stereotypes, including more than one in three people in Poland and Hungary. The ADL measures antisemitic attitudes across a range of countries by asking respondents if they believe a set of 11 stereotypes about Jews, ranging from “Jews have too much power in the business world” to “Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars.” This survey, taken from November to January, polled more than 6,500 people across ten countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia … In Hungary, 37% reached that threshold, while the figure was 35% in Poland. In Ukraine, 29% of respondents met that threshold, and in Russia and Spain, the figure was 26%.

The world’s largest grassroots Holocaust memorial project has laid its 100,000th personalized plaque, as the US ambassador to Germany honored her family members who fled the Nazis with an emotional ceremony. When sculptor Gunter Demnig started the Stolpersteine, or “stumbling blocks,” initiative three decades ago, he had little idea it would spread to more than 20 countries in Europe and crystalize many of the fraught contemporary questions around historical remembrance. Each block, or Stolperstein, the size of a cobblestone, bears a stark engraving with the name of a victim, birthdate, date of deportation or escape and, if known, date and place of death. The shiny brass of the plaques, embedded in the pavement in front of the victim’s last home, catches the light, encouraging passers-by to stop and read the small inscriptions.

In the two most recent episodes of the “Weekly Roundup” podcast series, Mark Weber shares observations from a recent two-week visit to Estonia, Netherlands, Belgium and Austria. In episode # 35 he reports on a conference in Estonia at which he and others spoke on the future of Europe and the West. And in episode # 36 he talks about the ongoing “third-worldization” of Europe. The process by which major US cities have been radically transformed over the past half-century is now rapidly “Americanizing” London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels. Since the end of World War II, Weber also notes, Europeans have been subjected to intensive “reeducation” and propaganda meant to encourage them to accept the erasure of their cultural, religious, racial and ethnic heritage and identity.

A graduate speaking at the City University of New York’s law school commencement called for a “revolution” to take on the legal system’s “white supremacy’’ and ripped the “fascist” NYPD [New York City police], [US] military and Israel. Future lawyer Fatima Mousa Mohammed, a Queens native who was selected by the graduating 2023 class to speak during the May 12 ceremony … “Like many of you, I chose CUNY School of Law for its articulated mission, ‘Law in the Service of Human Needs,’ one of very few legal institutions created to recognize that the law is a manifestation of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation and around the world,” she said.

Leaked emails have revealed that [British] Royal Air Force (RAF) recruiters were directed to stop selecting “useless white male pilots” for training courses. The email exchange, dated January 19, 2021, involves a squadron leader in the recruitment force and other staff members, discussing the process of selecting RAF candidates. The squadron leader noted that recent candidate selections had been “predominantly white male heavy,” and subsequently advised the recruiting staff to shift their focus towards minority and female candidates … An RAF insider told The Telegraph that this “email starkly highlights an ingrained culture instigated by the senior leadership to pursue unrealistic diversity statistics that were evidently unattainable.”

The Biden administration has released the country’s first national strategy for combating antisemitism, a landmark plan aimed at addressing a growing problem. The strategy outlines over 100 steps that federal agencies have committed to completing within a year, and more than 100 specific calls to action aimed at Congress, civil society, state and local governments, academic institutions, businesses and religious communities. The White House says it was informed by input from more than 1,000 stakeholders from all areas of society … President Biden called the plan the “most ambitious and comprehensive U.S. government-led effort to fight antisemitism in American history” at a virtual launch event on Thursday.

As promised, the White House hosted a virtual event followed by the issuance of a fact sheet and detailed strategic report last Thursday that described in some detail a sweeping plan that will be implemented to confront what it describes as surging antisemitism … In other words, because Israel is the self-designated Jewish state criticism of it will be ipso facto regarded as a hate crime … “Tackling Antisemitism Online” … calls for “algorithms” to be employed on social media sites to block any and all antisemitic content … So, in effect, the US government’s national security agencies would be answering to and propagandizing for “Jewish community organizations” … It is a consequence of the immense Jewish power over the United States government …

Left-wing extremism is linked to toxic, psychopathic tendencies and narcissism, according to a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Current Psychology. “Based on existing research, we expected individuals with higher levels of left-wing authoritarianism to also report higher levels of narcissism,” the authors wrote … “According to this principle, individuals with dark personalities — such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits — are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality,” they told PsyPost.

In the year 2000, the U.S. government debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 2022, the debt was $24 trillion, equal to 95% of GDP. The U.S. debt is soaring, hence America’s current debt crisis. Yet both Republicans and Democrats are missing the solution: stopping America’s wars of choice and slashing military outlays … To surmount the debt crisis, America needs to stop feeding the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC), the most powerful lobby in Washington. .… America’s annual military spending is now around $900 billion, roughly 40% of the world’s total, and greater than the next 10 countries combined. U.S. military spending in 2022 was triple that of China … Military spending is not the only budget challenge. Aging and rising healthcare costs add to the fiscal woes.

The Republicans have capitulated on the US debt ceiling. This averts the risk of abrupt fiscal tightening in a slowing economy that has yet to digest the most aggressive monetary squeeze in over 40 years. The putative accord between the White House and Congress does not even try to address the larger threat to America’s economic model and hegemonic status. The Congressional Budget Office says the US is on course for fiscal deficits of seven percent of GDP as far as the eye can see. Sacred entitlements remain untouchable. Middle-class welfare – i.e. consumption – will continue to eat up an ever-greater share of the budget. It is this that is leading to slow fiscal ruin … It is a sobering thought that the US is racking up as much debt-to-GDP accumulation over 20 years as it did over two world wars and the Great Depression combined.

US President Joe Biden unveiled a multifaceted and broad strategy to combat antisemitism in the United States that reaches from basketball courts to farming communities, from college campuses to police departments. “We must say clearly and forcefully that antisemitism and all forms of hate and violence have no place in America,” Biden said in a prerecorded video. “Silence is complicity.” The 60-page document and its list of more than 100 recommendations stretches across the government, requiring reforms in virtually every sector of the executive branch within a year. It was formulated after consultations with over a thousand experts, and covers a range of tactics, from increased security funding to a range of educational efforts.

The Biden administration on Thursday launched what it is billing as the “first-ever US national strategy” to counter anti-Semitism. The initiative, spearheaded by Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, received a warm welcome from Israel lobbyists who helped shape it, and who will play a key role in implementing it. That’s not surprising since what it amounts to is a high-level attempt by President Joe Biden to further ostracize and censor support for Palestinian rights and criticism of Israel’s increasingly fanatical regime of ethno-religious supremacy, occupation and apartheid, all underpinned by the brutal settler-colonization of Palestinian land.

British rocker Roger Waters defended himself Friday after German police launched an investigation into the Pink Floyd co-founder over the Nazi-style costume he wore to a concert in Berlin last week. “We are investigating on suspicion of incitement to public hatred because the clothing worn on stage could be used to glorify or justify Nazi rule, thereby disturbing the public peace,” said Berlin police spokesman Martin Halweg … The 79-year-old defended his costume choice and said that it was a clear statement “in opposition to fascism, injustice, bigotry in all its forms.” … Other German cities including Munich, Frankfurt and Cologne tried to cancel Waters’ concerts after Jewish groups accused him of anti-Semitism for his support of Palestine.

The Memorial Day weekend in Chicago was the deadliest in eight years. By early Tuesday morning, at least 11 people had been killed and another 48 wounded since early Friday evening. The death toll was the highest since 2015, when 12 people were killed … The Gresham police district on the South Side recorded the most shooting victims, at least seven, followed by the Harrison District on the West Side, where at least six people were shot … More than 25 others were wounded in nonfatal shootings across the city from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Tuesday. Last year, 51 people were reported shot in the city over Memorial Day weekend, topping the number of people shot the last five years.

Twitter users on Saturday were quick to point out that a quote shared by CEO Elon Musk had been misattributed to Voltaire – when it had in fact originated with a neo-Nazi. The billionaire tweeted a joke featuring a meme that showed a large hand crushing struggling figures with the accompanying words: “’To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.’ – Voltaire” … “Enlightenment-era writer Voltaire did not say this,” AP reported. “The quote, which was paraphrased, comes from a 1993 radio broadcast by Kevin Alfred Strom, who has been identified as a neo-Nazi by organizations that monitor hate groups.” The AP continued: “The original quote from Strom, a self-proclaimed American white nationalist and Holocaust denier, has been used previously online and paraphrased in a variety of ways …”

A quarter of all Germany’s fourth-grade students fail to meet minimum standards in reading comprehension, according to the International Primary School Reading Survey (IGLU), which is equivalent to the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS). German students are performing so poorly that it is beginning to raise alarms from policymakers and academic experts, who point out that the country’s elementary school students are performing far worse than 20 years ago. These same experts indicate that Germany’s economic and social future prospects may be bleak due to the country’s increasingly poor education results. One of the major factors is Germany’s transformational immigration regime, which has seen the share of ethnic German students fall precipitously.

The house in Austria that Adolf Hitler was born in is to be used for human rights training for police officers in the latest twist to a long-running row over what to do with it. The government bought the building in Braunau am Inn near the German border under a compulsory purchase order in 2016 after a lengthy dispute. The genocidal dictator was born in a rented room on the top floor in 1889 … During Nazi rule, the house was transformed into a shrine to Hitler – who only lived in the house for a few months – as the town drew in a wave of tourists … For decades the Austrian government rented the house from its former owner, Gerlinde Pommer, in an attempt to stop far-right tourism.