Women, Work, and Freedom by Nicholas Farrell January 20, 2013 Taki’s Magazine Willingly or not, women play a starring role in the death of the West. Women in Europe and America have made one great big fat suicidal error as a result of modern feminism since the movement’s inception: They have confused work with freedom. This confusion has had catastrophic consequences for all of us because it has fatally infected the core activity of any healthy civilization: the … Read entire article »

Mali: Understandiing the Chessboard ◥ by Adam Garfinkle Foreign Policy Research Institute January 2013 (AV Apart from preventing uranium falling into the hands of islamists and a claim on the gold and pretended oil reserves in Mali, read here some American expert remarks about the Obama´s Government´s failure to understand the situation, a.o. due to lack of linguistic skills. Their experts don´t read French!!!) On January 15, I wrote in my blog a short essay on the situation in Mali. Little did … Read entire article »

Below is an excerpt from Nick Turse’s new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. It originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. Pham To looked great for 78 years old. (At least, that’s about how old he thought he was.) His hair was thin, gray, and receding at the temples, but his eyes were lively and his physique robust — all the more remarkable given what he had lived through. I listened intently, as … Read entire article »

Islam In India: William Dalrymple’s jihad negationism – Koenraad Elst Posted on January 5, 2013 by IS Taj Mahal In several articles and speeches since at least 2004 (“Trapped in the ruins” in The Guardian, 20 March 2004), and especially in the commotion provoked by Girish Karnad’s speech in Mumbai (autumn 2012), William Dalrymple has condemned Nobel prize winner V.S. Naipaul for writing that the Vijayanagar empire was a Hindu bastion besieged by Muslim states. The famous writer … Read entire article »

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North Vietnam, 1972: The Christmas bombing of Hanoi North Vietnamese rescue workers The biggest ever bombing campaign by US B-52 bombers took place over Christmas 40 years ago, when the US dropped 20,000 tonnes of explosives on North Vietnam. More than 1,000 Vietnamese died, but the assault may have helped bring about the peace deal signed a month later. Operation Linebacker II was President Richard Nixon’s attempt to hasten the end of the Vietnam War, as the growing … Read entire article »