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Interview with Fenek Solère

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Out Now: The Partisan by Fenek Solère

 

The Partisan
by Fenek Solere
(London: Iron Sky Publishing, 2014)

246 pages
ISBN 978-1-909606-06-7 (paperback only)

 

The Fifth Republic

 

Son of a mudered activist during the Algerian War, the ambitious French Minister of Justice, Said Ben Hassi, dreams of a Pan-Eurabian Caliphate.

But his is not the post-colonial revanchism of a haunted man; it is the logical end product of decades of corrupt politics and misguided utopianism.

The old European establishment, weak and morally bankrupt, is impotent. The ancient French, victims of their own selfishness and nihilism, are fading, demoralised, and increasingly disenfranchised.

The Resistance

Yet, the spirit of Charlemagne and Charles Martel is not quite dead: a young resistance movement has emerged, determined to overthrow the Eurabian conquerors.

It's come to this . . .

It's kill or be killed.

La Pétroleuse

Their most terrifying weapon is Sabine D'Orlac, La Pétroleuse, who leads a violent paramilitary cell. Utterly ruthless, she will stop at nothing.

But neither will the enemy.

At stake is the future of Europe.

You can order The Partisan from Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Interview with Fenek Solère

Alex Kurtagic

Ex: http://www.wermodandwermod.com

Almost every time I receive a communication from you, it has originated in an exotic location, and it seems you are more often in some far-flung place on the planet than Britain. Are you an adventurer, or do you have a very interesting job?

I am both an adventurer and an entrepreneur. Like an ever-increasing number of people attracted to our movement I have thrived in the modern world, in direct contradiction to the media portrayal of dissidents like ourselves as lonely bitter bachelors, sitting in their basements with no friends and no sexual outlet.

Over the course of my adult life I have lived and worked in London, France, St Petersburg, Kiev, San Francisco, Central Asia, and the Middle-East. I am not someone who can be castigated and mocked for being unsophisticated or parochial. My home is filled with art, books, and the numerous artifacts I have collected from all over the world.

Both in private and professional terms I have lived cheek by jowl with many other cultures and ethnicities and observed them up close and personal.  Life experience informs my writing. My fiction is grounded in an in-depth study of history, culture and political theory. 

The Partisan could be read as the act of a natural contrarian. Were you a willful and troublesome child who did Z when told to do A?

I was born into an aspirant working class family in a small provincial town. My father was an electrician and my mother was a cook. A typical boy, I recall playing in the woods, running in the shadow of the craggy castles that littered the landscape, living more like one of those characters from an Arthur Ransom story than a game-boy addict. Pretending to be a cowboy, never an Indian, building tree houses in the style of Robinson Crusoe, crafting bows and arrows like Robin Hood to defend our fortified encampments.

My bookshelves were crammed with Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and the Norse mythologies. There was no family pressure to ‘achieve’. Rather, an atmosphere of calm reassurance. The warm glow of security reflected in the open fire as I sat marching Napoleonic armies across the hearth-rug. I was relatively good at sport, representing my school and region at football, rugby, basketball, and cross- country.  By the time I met my first girlfriend I was already well-past reading Ayn Rand’s Anthem. I remember catching sight of her at a school disco. She was a spike haired punk in clinging pink trousers, cutting a resplendent profile in the backwash of strobe lighting, as she threw a right arm salute. Her small fist punching the air when the opening chords of the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen, broke out across the hall.

sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen-1977-17.jpgWithin weeks I became an activist. I recall my initiation started one balmy summer evening when a group of us torched a Trotskyite Militant newspaper stand in the centre of town. Not long after I was involved in an amateur style re-enactment of the climactic scene from The Dead Poets Society. A clear-skinned, fair-haired boy was made to stand up in front of the history class to defend his essay justifying Apartheid. He was asserting the South African Government had been right to imprison Mandela for terrorism and maintain ‘separation’ of the races. The teacher, a bespectacled 68’er, was going ballistic, screaming from behind an accusatory finger, threatening to have my friend removed from her class. ‘You can’t say that!’ she insisted, ‘What sort of person are you?


Then, when he had finished, he looked in my direction and I knew it was my turn to stand and repeat the process. When I came to a close I had the honour to defer to the next boy, who had also been called to answer for transgressing the politically correct curricula. This open act of defiance was rapidly followed by a nationalist poster campaign on school noticeboards, which coming so quickly on the heels of the pro- Afrikaaner debacle and my own and my girlfriend’s names appearing in bold graffiti under a very large symbol closely associated with a controversial German political party of the middle nineteenth century, resulted in my expulsion.

The Partisan is set in France. Why France?

I chose France for its symbolism. When I began writing The Partisan in 2009 I saw a magnificent country threatened by the machinations of a malignant cosmopolitan interloper who had hijacked the race riots breaking out in 2005 in almost every French conurbation for personal political advantage. Then, that same devious individual, insisting on the benefits of miscegenation between the French and the alien hordes swamping the very boulevards where they had set fire to cars and attacked the native people. It seemed to encapsulate the whole political and demographic catastrophe I wanted to warn against in my debut novel.  It was a country on the front-line. But also one with a very rich history of patriotic movements like the Front National and Right-wing intellectuals like Maurice Bardèche and the Nouvelle  Droite’s Alain de Benoist and Guillaume Faye. In more recent times the emergence of fledgling organizations like Generation Identitaire , who my fictional protagonists predicted two or three years prior to their brilliant ‘Declaration of War’ video and the Poitiers Mosque protest, gives me a real sense that the battle lines are being drawn and that the next twelve months will prove me right; that yes indeed, the land of Rousseau and Rabelais will be the first battle ground of the European resurgence. 

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How does The Partisan differ from the various American novels treating the same topic?

The characters in The Partisan are much more three dimensional than those I have met and admired in other so-called Rightist fiction. It is not purely ‘vengeful’ entertainment. The text is more literary and is replete with reference points to other writers and political thinkers. This is quite deliberate. I want my fiction to excite, inspire, and motivate its audience to investigate the very deep intellectual roots of what is referred to as the New Right. I want The Partisan to be an access point for our youth into that culture and to become familiar with the ideas of its main proponents.        

Almost everyone would agree that there is little to admire in many earlier incarnations of Rightist literature: it is too often badly written and its message is utterly superficial, in that it wallows in an angry revenge fantasy. Would you not agree that the biological worldview, such as the one that informs many of these novels, is necessarily an amoral worldview (which often becomes immoral), since nature is concerned only with what works in a practical sense, and doesn’t assign value to abstract principles the way humans do? Since Westerners assign such importance to such principles—indeed, Western political philosophy has always been underpinned by some system of ethics—how can anyone expect readers to feel comfortable defending the heroes in such fiction, even if they find the revolutionary fantasy privately satisfying?

It is true that such literature can sometimes lapse into simplistic comic book fantasy. Such deficiencies are to some extent why I wrote The Partisan.  One of my key objectives was to fuse the action-orientated type novel with a more poetic but pessimistic futurology like that envisaged by Jean Raspail in The Camp of the Saints.  The point being that certain types of material appeal to certain dispensations at different given points. Some of our movement’s earlier fiction may rightfully be described as amoral, but much that passes today for great classic literature was considered so in the past. Look at the homosexuality of Gide and the modernist works of Joyce. That is not to place all those writers sympathetic to our cause  in this category of artists, clearly, only a very few like Ernst Jünger, Knut Hamsun, and Ezra Pound would qualify, but to indicate that the amoral/immoral argument shifts according to the fashion of the day. The biological imperative underpinning some of these texts does remain relevant, though we have many other facets to our ever-maturing world-view. Without Western people there will be no Western sense of principles or ethics, so in that regard I have a degree of sympathy for those ground-breaking writers, in that their heroes and heroines had at least a modicum of understanding that unless those values were defended they would cease to exist and all our fine ideals would disappear—mea culpa.
      
Where does your interest in the European New Right originate?

I read Michael O’Meara’s New Culture, New Right and discovered the French Nouvelle École (New School). From that point it was a natural progression to study Oswald Spengler, Julius Evola, Pino Rauti, founder of the Ordine Nuovo, Guido Giannettini and the ideology of the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei in Italy; the writings of Carl Schmitt and the Conservative Revolutionaries of the Weimar period; Imperium by the American renegade Francis Parker Yockey; works by the Belgian Jean Thiriart; alongside contemporary thinkers and commentators like Robert Steuckers, Gilbert Sincyr, Tomislav Sunic, Franco Freda of Disintegration of the System fame, Alexander Dugin, Kevin McDonald, Greg Johnson, Jonathan Bowden, Troy Southgate, and Michael Walker, editor of The Scorpion. 

What is wrong with letting people from anywhere settle in Europe, if they are hard-working, law-abiding, tax-paying and contribute to the economy?

American-Cities-And-States-Are-Flat-Broke.jpgNothing, if that is indeed the case. I have met many Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Central Europeans who fulfill such criteria. Of course a small percentage do not but most integrate perfectly well and live successfully among us. Compare that to the facts and figures behind migration from Roma communities, African or predominantly Muslim countries. Welfare dependency, anti-social behavior, criminality, isolationism and the colonization of whole communities seems to characterize the experience. Religious insularity, high prison rates, mosques filled with semi-literate imans  and would-be boy-Jihadis educated free in our schools, sexism, genital mutilation, witch-craft, TB, Typhus, Ebola, drug and people trafficking, child-sex grooming, and riots complete the picture. Ask the people of Malmö, the women of Oslo, those poor souls living in close proximity to the urban sensitive zones around Paris or certain parts of the north of England like Bradford and Rotherham what part of the ‘enrichment’ process they have enjoyed. Talk to the thousands of violated white girls who have benefited from the fast food, cheap narcotics, and Rap music industry these people generate in their slums and taxi about our green and pleasant land. 

What I witness every day are economic migrants, in transit under the false flag of asylum, seeking a better life at our expense.  It is like a plague of locusts landing on a field. Leeching all the goodness from our soil. Infesting our villages, cities and towns. This is not some kind of small minded  ‘fear of the other’ it is an objective analysis based on rational judgment. People like myself do not fear ‘the other’ we invest time and find out about the ‘other’ with a natural and friendly curiosity. I have lived for three years in Muslim countries and found good and bad much the same as I would in Europe or America. But what I find amongst the ‘invasion force’ pressing in upon Europe appalls me. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the nationalist activists who have stood tall despite state sponsored persecution and shouted until they were hoarse that the ‘emperor’ of multiculturalism has no clothes.

So is it just a question of the practical effects of multiculturalism? Is there no principle behind it except a root-and-branch or technocratic approach to problem-solving? Does this not make the liberal approach superior, then, since it is driven by an ethical system, however imperfectly executed? Not superior in a technical sense, but certainly in a moral sense.

There is indeed a very deep sense of principle embedded within my earlier response. People and communities who have over generations worked and sacrificed for their own well-being in later life and indeed their kith & kin in the present should expect that having made those long-term commitments under moral and indeed contractual commitments to and with their governments that those obligations are honoured. People originating from societies who have failed or are unable to take that long-term view have no prior right upon such investments. And I challenge any authority or political party arguing otherwise to stand openly upon a platform declaring such an intent to pillage that hard earned inheritance and let the people who have genuinely and fulsomely entered into such an arrangement decide the matter.   

Surely, diversity increases creativity, since you have more perspectives and approaches to any problem, and immigration from everywhere boosts economic growth. Are you against creativity and for a stagnant economy?

Despite the diversity you see in Hollywood films and on television, the world’s laboratories, board rooms and libraries are not filled with West Indians designing new software systems for intergalactic flight, Somalians building robots to work in arid conditions or ecologically aware Uzbeks setting up green companies to reduce carbon emissions.  This is a myth, perpetuated by the few whose individual and cosmopolitan group interests it suits, flooding productive economies with low IQ ‘hands’ to drive down wages  and increase short-term share-holder profits at the expense of the long term interests of their host community.  The media is used to manipulate and shape our moral and social expectations.  Identity is eroded by the notion of ‘global citizenship’. Water-cooler philosophy is dispensed by Kid-President you-tube videos. Economic and moral stagnation leading to inter-ethnic tension distracts us from the enemy’s goals, so openly declared by Barbara Lerner-Spectre Founding Director of the Paideia Institute in Sweden: I think there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural and I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation which must take place. Europe is not going to be a monolithic society that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented for our leading role but without that leading role and without that transformation Europe will not survive’.

This sounds like a conspiracy theory. Is not your answer a bit of an overstatement? Certainly, Jews in the diaspora on the whole have favoured social, political, and intellectual movements tending to make the societies in which they live safer for them. No surprise here, given their history. Yet, to the degree that they have supported or even led such movements, these have merely demanded a more thorough and complete application of principles already enshrined and, indeed, central to liberal political philosophy. And liberal political philosophy is wholly North-Western European and ‘Aryan’ in origin: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Immanuel Kant—all these are gentiles, mostly from Britain to boot.

images.mobilism.org.pngYour point is well made and I take it in the spirit it is intended, however, please indulge me for one moment. The term ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ is often used to belittle and decry non-standard theoreticians. I accept there are a lot of cranks out there and people who have the potential to cause arm to others. Clearly, that is not my intent. Indeed, the very opposite is true. I am a historian and a political theorist. My opinions are not based on phantasms, a need to gain attention or dye my hair green and stand in a turquoise track suit next to David Icke. I have quoted above (and indeed elsewhere in relation to Nicholas Sarkozy, former President of France) one of hundreds of examples where some people of that particular diaspora have acted, in my opinion, against the interests of the European majority among whom they live. At this very moment I am simultaneously reading Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000BC - 1492 AD [Sic. It loos as if HarperCollins doesn't know that AD goes in front of the year. —Ed.]The former, a chilling account of the systematic way the founders of the early Jewish state went about their ethnic cleansing and murder of thousands upon thousands of Arabs in the late 1940’s, (activities some may argue analogous with recent events); the latter a shameless and sycophantic account of Jewish history that exonerates the Chosen from any sense of personal or group responsibility for the numerous expulsions they have suffered throughout the centuries. The media-savvy Schama, reveals himself to be less historian and more a propagandist as he explains why it is that everyone else is always to blame and his own tribe are always right, or indeed innocent, and the victims of mindless persecution. I would recommend everybody to read both texts. I found it advantageous to have also read the Talmud, Torah, and indeed the Koran, so I have a socio-economic, historical, and religious context for my opinions. I came to the work of Kevin McDonald late but recognize the behavior patterns he ascribes to his study group and I personally would prefer that the more over-zealous Zionists desisted from their activities so that your average Mr and Mrs Finkelstein could live in peace within the wider community. Unfortunately, that wider community now includes people with anti-semitic attitudes. This is regrettable but is a direct consequence of the strategy so eloquently explained by Spectre-Lerner above.

The fact that you can list the names of such great Anglo-Saxon, French, and German thinkers is a testimony to the progressive and open-hearted culture from which they originate. That the good intentions of such well-meaning people could be so perverted is in fact a measure of what Yockey describes as the culture distortion so prevalent today both in Europe and America. I have studied the American Constitution, The Framers who devised it, their backgrounds, ethnicity and intentions. Likewise, the real motivations of President Lincoln before, during, and after the American Civil War and I can assure you the abbreviated versions of history our schools and universities teach us and the voters are fed through the distorting lens of Orwellian ‘Truth Speak’ is a subject fit for serious review. I myself studied the whole historiography surrounding ‘Reconstruction’ after the American Civil War and it is most instructive on how aspects of history can and are used during different epochs to influence public opinion. From the books we read to the films we watch. Trust me, there is a pattern and it is no coincidence. From Spencer Tracy’s The Northwest Passage encouraging American entryism into the Second World War, to John Wayne’s Green Berets, trying to sustain moral during the Vietnam War, and 300, instilling anti-Islamic sentiment during the Iraq and Afghan wars. A whole book could be written on the movies bolstering anti-German sentiments and the falsehoods therein contained, but I will leave it there, my counter-point, I believe, equally well made.            

Immigration is needed because white folk no longer want to do certain jobs, whereas the newcomers are keen to contribute and willing to work hard. If we were to send them all back—which is impossible, of course—the economy and the NHS would collapse.

These shibboleths need to be exposed for the nonsense they are.  In the course of my career I have collaborated with thousands of sole-traders, SME’s, and multinational corporations.  In my opinion there would be no collapse, rather, a rejuvenation of the economy, greatly boosted I suspect by the end of massive social security payments, that could be re-directed from these imported voting blocs and unproductive elements to invest in new start-ups and training programmes for people who need to update their skill-set in line with current economic trends. I would recommend the re-nationalization of utility companies in the UK, likewise the rail and postal service, at the price set by the ‘fixers’ when they were sold off. I would also withdraw all benefits from those who had entered the country illegally and their families and dependents. Similarly, non-ethnic British who had committed serious crimes prior to their immediate deportation back to their country of origin, accompanied of course by their dependents, but not the assets that had been accumulated by fraudulent means or due to the generosity of the British taxpayer. It may sound draconian to some but it makes good business sense. I would also argue to levy taxes on the money migrant workers send back to their families, thereby reducing the outflow of capital from its source of origin and open negotiations with countries in receipt of Foreign Aid or benefits to assist us in the task of humane repatriation of their nationals or peoples of compatible ethnic origin or similar religious persuasion.  New targets need to be set for emigration, based on a wide range of criteria, but certainly with a view to returning the ethnic balance of countries like Britain to pre-1997 levels. And that would be the start not the end-point of the discussion.

total_map_overview.gifWith regard to the NHS, I have managed contracts with a wide range of people connected to this vast and worthy enterprise. Indeed, I have been involved with medical training for nurses, GPs, and surgeons. An immediate family member is a practicing junior doctor. The simple fact is that we are diverting resources to train people of non-British origin to these highly paid jobs, reinforcing cultural stereo-types among some of the high achieving Asians who think the profession is ‘theirs’ (the names Khan and Patel are currently the most common names for a medical doctor in the UK) whilst failing to act when they underperform or commit acts of negligence or perversion because we fear being branded ‘racist’. Additionally, we are providing health tourists with a first class service and denuding developing countries of their most highly skilled health professionals, which seems morally indefensible to me, especially if we are to be judged by the liberal and ethical standards we are supposed to be upholding. So, in short, I think we can materially benefit from a mass outflow of the post-’97 immigrants, up-skill the workforce with a view to advancing our technological infrastructure and preserve and improve fundamental services like the British NHS with a planned programme of awareness raising and aspiration building so that increasing numbers of whites want to move into these fields, as was the case in previous generations.

Polls recording the attitudes of indigenous Europeans towards non-European immigrants consistently show that this view is popular. But how do you justify it morally? That’s the first thing. The second is, What about the many families of non-European origin that, nevertheless, have been here for several generations and are all citizens, born and bred in Europe? Are we to start rounding them up and shipping them out? And, if so, what would determine an ‘ethnically compatible’ country? Many are of mixed origin too, which would further complicate the issue, not just practically, but morally as well.

Yes, indeed, it is a popular view and one that should have had a major impact on the results of several electoral cycles. In the UK alone, there have been orators like Enoch Powell predicting the current circumstance for decades. Many other far sighted people have followed him, in their own ways, in their own countries across the ‘developed world’. Why it has failed to mature into a vote winning electoral vehicle in the majority of those countries is a question worth asking? Where was the plebiscite agreeing to immigration in the first place? Why isn’t one held now across the EU or in its constituent states? These very facts undermine the claim we live in representative democracies. The current wave of concern in this area may bring Marine Le Pen to power in France  but I have no doubt every judicial or technical reason will be found to make that difficult. We have an unresponsive state apparatus that is ‘owned’ and with every year the new imported peoples who they pander to in order to maintain their short-term positions grow in number. These newcomers have originated from somewhere outside Europe and that is where they should return. Where is a choice for them to make but they should not remain. On the subject of people of mixed race, we have a conundrum. I believe everyone should be free to choose their life-partner without the interference of law and statute. Love is a valuable commodity and should be appreciated in all the various forms it assumes. But look carefully at the spousal abuse rates, the single parent families, the divorce rates between people of different ethnicities. The evidence is overwhelming, if uncomfortable reading for the self-loathers like FEMEN who daub their bare breasts with statements like: ‘Immigrants fuck better’. Perhaps a picture of O.J. Simpson would be more appropriate?

What do you think drives FEMEN to engage in this type of activism?

My initial response to FEMEN was positive. I thought they were protesting against the sexual exploitation of Eastern European women. My sympathies were obvious. The long and well documented white-slaving indulged in by predominantly Turkish, Albanian, and Jewish gangsters, gathers pace year on year. It is simply incredible that such appalling human trafficking exists and that no direct intervention like sanctions on the countries that operate brothel gulag systems are enforced. I note a real double standard here when you think of the recent high profile campaign by Michelle Obama to ‘Bring back our girls’. However, I soon became disconcerted when FEMEN Founders like Sasha Shevchenko began pontificating on their Sextremist ideology. I found it to be a poisonous cocktail of anti-white male bigotry, a clichéd Leftist love of ‘the other’, and a vulgar circus for self-indulgent, self-loathing women invading churches, urinating in the street, and protesting against so-called fascists who would deport the perpetrators of organized crimes victimizing their gender, limit the freedom of communities practicing female genital mutilation, and stamp out the grooming and abuse of young girls. I might be wrong, but I don’t recall seeing FEMEN actively challenging Muslim paedophiles in the UK or across Europe. Have they made a statement about Rotherham?

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The antics of Pussy Riot demean the very important work of genuine female activists such as those of the first wave of feminism like Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frances Willard. Women whose genuine motivations were highjacked by radical feminists like the Red Stockings Brigade of the 1960’s, themselves a mere projection of the Black Civil Rights Movement stirring up trouble across the gender divide. Look at the work of Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Carol Hanisch, Ellen Levine, and Anne Koedt.  The very titles of their books—The Female Eunuch, Forbidden Discourse: The Silencing of Feminist Criticism of Gender, and The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm—betray their narcissistic belligerence, over-bearing sense of entitlement, political lesbianism, and economic and syncretic Marxist agenda. And it did not end there. Bell Hooks in her book Killing Rage went so far as to justify her feelings about longing to murder an anonymous white male, no doubt because he represented the ‘oppressive patriarchy’ all these types despise. Dworkin, Wolf, Paglia, and Steinhem all follow in the same path as de Beauvoir whose Second Sex features on all ‘politically correct’ liberal arts college reading lists. I would highly recommend an antidote to such corrosive prejudice. Try the work and thoughts of Erin Pizzey, an early campaigner against domestic violence, who incidentally has subsequently been forced to spend long periods in hiding after bomb threats from radical feminist extremists; Karen Straughan of Girl Writes What and Dr Tara Palmatier who are working hard to re-balance the debate. There is also an extensive literature refuting the theories of the celebrated women’s champions listed above: Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism ? and The War against Boys; Suzanne Venker’s The Flipside of Feminism: what Conservative Women think—and men can’t say; and Ronnee Schreiber’s Righting Feminism: Conservative women and American Politics.

According to certain controversial literature on human biodiversity, South East Asians are the most intelligent population on Earth and blacks the most athletic. If we accept this as true, then, surely, it makes sense to accept immigration from anywhere, since we’ll benefit from Asian brains and West African muscle. We’d then be unbeatable both in the astrophysics laboratory and the Olympic stadium.

Let us for a minute accept such stereotyping. Should we not also insist that those self-same people accept their proven statistical predilection for corruption, rape, and violence? Would South East Asians not be able to construct free and stable societies, dominate academia, and the patent lists of inventions? Why are our West African brothers not able to master the rudiments of more complex sports like gymnastics that require the synchronization of mind and body? I have studied alongside South East Asians and their tendency is to regurgitate what they learn uncritically. I have myself beaten black athlete’s on the school running track. Take a look at the Olympic medal tables and you will see white people outperform all other races proportionally, when you consider that we represent less than 16% of the world’s population.

Surely, with better immigration criteria and controls we can keep out the criminals and attract the best talent from all over the world. And, surely, there is a role even for rote memorisation and brute force in our societies. These things are needed, and it’s down to employers to find the right individuals for the right jobs. Let’s assume for a moment that this is just a technical issue that can be cracked with excessive costs and within a reasonable timeframe. Would you still oppose immigration? And, if so, why?

I would oppose immigration instinctively not just on the scale currently being undertaken, but because I think Europe, America, and the Slavic countries neither require it or substantially benefit from it. The criminal aspect is merely a ‘touchstone’ issue. Out of control diversity is a millstone not an asset. Especially when the benefits of diversity are all pretty much one-way. We in the West are uniquely blessed, unlike other peoples with most of the requisite capabilities to meet the majority of our societal needs. There is no obligation to feed the world until our own needy and poor are brought up to a proper level of subsistence. There is an old adage that charity begins at home. Let us start there. I do not however believe in isolationism, which is counter-productive and prevents a genuine and worthwhile exchange between cultures on an equal and beneficial footing. That is not what we have now.

The Western world can point to a history of brute force and rote memorisation. I do not hold such skills in high regard unless the former is absolutely necessary and the latter is applicable and beneficial to those who have no other course of betterment. I have liaised with large numbers of Chambers of Commerce in the UK and France and employers have plenty of opportunities to create viable and profitable businesses. What is becoming increasingly apparent is the drive towards excessive profit and greed. Such materialism above and beyond physical and spiritual satiation is I believe a serious sign of moral decay. The numbers of culturally bereft nouveau-riche people swilling second-rate champagne in kidney-shaped jacuzzis sickens me. And believe me, I have met many of that sort from Dublin to Tomsk.

Isn’t nationalism just hate and fear? Most decent people think it is very narrow-minded and backward world-view. We are no longer in the 19th century, after all; this is the 21st century and we live in a globalized world. You, in fact benefit from this every day.

I see the New Right as an alternative modernist movement, building on the homogenous organic roots of traditionalism, rejecting the liberal and socialist platitudes of a utopian future populated by a coffee-coloured people. I participate, contribute and benefit from the technical effects of modernity. Indeed, it is people like myself that drive those technical knowledge based economies. But I utterly reject the racial and cultural side-effects as an unnecessary impediment. I long for a political framework which abolishes multiculturalism and privileging the ‘ethnic’ over the ‘indigenous’ not because the European needs ‘protection’ and cannot compete but because current governmental statutes deliberately discriminates in favour of ‘ethnics’ over the whites and the fact that these global parasites are a drain on our core business, the advancement of our nations and the European continent.  A national community functions best when, as Italian, Sergio Salvi, in his book Patria e Matria  (Fatherland and Motherland) wrote : ‘It can be tentatively defined as a human group living in a definitive territory, which differs from other groups in a number of characteristics. These can be linguistic, cultural, historical and socio-economic. It is such shared characteristics that makes the members of a group aware of their particular identity. Even when the differences are not so tangible, they still give rise to the group’s desire to organize autonomously in the fields of administration (i.e., the State), politics and culture’. For me positive not ‘petty’ nationalism is the instinctive outcome of love for family, community and place. It is a healthy and over-riding human emotion.  It is limitless and according to the Nietzschean theory of eternal return, its time will inevitably come again.  

But nationalism is an idea associated with the nation-state, a fairly recent creation, which is becoming increasingly irrelevant, is it not? And its adoption necessitated the suppression of regional identities to begin with. At the time of the French Revolution, for example, only 1 in 8 people living in France spoke fairly good French; only half spoke any; and even in Oïl language zones, it was usually only used in cities. The ‘national identity’, the ‘national religion’, the ‘national curriculum’—all of these are concepts associated with the nation-state. The tendency in world history has been to go from lower levels of organisation to higher. Surely, you do not envision a return to the polis, or to the city-state (à la Geneva, as in Rousseau’s time), do you? What about the argument that hugely expensive undertakings, such as a space programme, would be far more difficult with a 1000 small regions with small economies, with 1000 currencies and 1000 languages, as opposed to with a large block like the EU, using one currency and adopting a lingua franca?

It is true that the nationalism of the last two hundred years is generally associated with the nation-state and if you are force-fed Ernest Gellner and  Eric Hobsbawn like I was at university you are getting that diaspora interpretation once again. Even a more conservative view like that of Elie Kedourie comes from the same gene pool. Historians of this type are pre-determined to view such communitarian societies as essentially reactionary in character.  Thinkers from the Anglo-conservative sphere like Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, Maurice Cowling, Michael Oakeshott, T.S. Eliot, Roger Scruton, and Phillip Blond are given scant attention. Likewise, John Calhoun, the Southern Agrarian School, Russell Kirk, Paul Gottfried, and even Gregory Wolfe in America. De Benoist and Faye, whom I referenced earlier were largely ignored and remained only partially translated into English until Arktos Media redressed this unforgivable oversight in recent years.  Consideration of the German Conservative Revolutionaries is basically forbidden unless it is to criticize them. People like Fichte, Herder, Schopenhauer, Stefan George, Ludwig Klages, Gottfried Benn, Ernst Niekisch, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Othmar Spann, Edgar Julius Jung, and the great Martin Heidegger, despite the latitude of their thought must be viewed through the politically correct lens. Even Carl Jung suffers in this regard, but then again, he did split from Freud and so according to their narrative can never be forgiven.

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The significance and relevance of regionalism is in fact an issue I hint at in the text of The Partisan, where I try to balance the importance I attach to Breton, Provencal and other regional cultures to the unified fight-back against a common-enemy. I do envisage a Europe of a thousand flags under a federal entity. But you will appreciate my vision of such a European confederation would be unrecognizable from today’s EU. It would not be without dissension and dispute but it would be a debate between similar peoples of a generally shared milieu, informed and framed by some of the disprivileged thinkers I listed above. A discussion of this type is far more likely to advance in a positive direction than disputes between peoples of completely different cultures, races or susceptibilities.

In The Partisan, you seem to see the problems afflicting our societies cannot be solved through the mainstream political process. Yet, people—not only in France and in Britain, but in all the Western democracies—are given a chance to vote every four or five years , so the political establishment and the policies pursued by democratic governments simply reflect the will of the people. From this it seems obvious that your view is that of a disgruntled minority.

My first Masters degree is in Government & Politics. I fully understand the various forms of local, regional, national, and international governance structures that bind our hands. I have studied all aspects of representation, party funding and the ideologies and platforms of the supposedly competing mainstream parties. The charade of the democratic process and the pantomime of elections do not fool me or I think increasing numbers of other people. Our governments are bought and paid for by people running multi-national corporations and ‘banksters’ who do not have our best interests at heart. We may still be a disgruntled minority but a committed vanguard can lead a revolution. Did you see the street scenes on Maidan? I was there. All over Europe the Right is on the rise: in France, Austria, the Baltic States, Italy, Poland, and Hungary. Look at Casa Pound fighting the Reds on the streets of Rome, Blocco Studentesco and of course Golden Dawn in Greece. I was touched by the dignified way The Immortals conducted themselves during a torch lit parade through a small German town. Our creed is a vital and living force, not a passive celebration of former glories, or for that matter a family that lives in a lifeless, sterile museum.  I have a certain respect for the sentiments expressed in the dedication to the preface of Derek Holland’s The Political Soldier II, Thoughts on Sacrifice & Struggle: ‘To the prayers of the Saints and the Blood of the Martyrs who redeemed the European Motherland in the Past. May we, the last loyal Sons of Tradition and Order, be worthy of their Example as the Final Conflict approaches.

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This narrative, about a race-based revolution, would strike many as wishful thinking by a fringe minority. Most would find it impossible to justify morally, because it is ultimately selfish. The Randian view of selfishness as a virtue has had the most fertile soil grow on in a context of Classical liberalism favouring individual liberty and therefore laissez-faire capitalism, and yet, it remains a marginal view; it cannot stand the moral attacks from the egalitarians, who can present themselves as virtuous because egalitarianism is selfless, at least as they understand it, which is what counts in this realm. Moreover, the events in Ukraine are of an entirely different order, since fits the liberal narrative, which can temporarily justify Ukrainian nationalism as a struggle for freedom—freedom from another, larger, richer, more powerful nation; a well-defined opponent. There is no well-defined opponent in Europe, even within the narrative you reproduce—no one likes the bankers and politicians, but responsibility for even the worst trends is diffuse. Even Tony Blair, a proven liar and war criminal, is making a killing economically. GQ even named him philanthropist of the year, eliciting only the most supine and feeblest of complaints!

This is the exact opposite of wishful thinking. Who would want to deal with a civil war on their own soil ? Yugoslavia was a test-case. I am not advocating violence but warning against it. The Partisan is not wish fulfillment, rather a shrill cry of concern about what will occur unless positive steps are taken now. Merkel and Cameron bemoaning the failure of multiculturalism will not stave off internecine violence. Randian idealism remains a cult because it does not link the supposed virtue of selfishness with the natural philanthropism that people have felt and acted upon historically because they are inclined to support people of like character and type. It is true the banksters are an easy target but you are looking through a post 2007 perspective. Distributists like Chesterton and Belloc were saying this over 70 years ago. And they were right!

In relation to Ukraine. I first starting wearing Stepan Bandera t-shirts  and drinking vodka with Ukrainian nationalist veterans in the cellars of Lviv 7 years ago. I am fully aware of how that genuine uprising was manipulated. I was holding a birthday party 200 meters from the spot where the secret police were shooting protestors in Kiev last March. I have two further manuscripts dealing directly with Russia and Ukraine completed and ready for publication.

I personally refused to meet Tony Blair despite being part of a British trade delegation  set to greet the former Prime Minister to a certain Muslim country two years ago. GQ embarrasses itself and insults our intelligence with their phony polls and propaganda. Everyone knows what Blair and his type represent and advocate. Will he produce GQ’s analysis as part of his defense when he is finally brought before a court? I don’t know about you, but I would anticipate a cacophony of contemptuous laughter.

You seem to reject egalitarianism. But isn’t equality a good thing? And if you don’t, are you not saying that certain people are inferior and should be deprived of rights that everyone—and certainly the United Nations—regard as universal? How can you possibly defend that? Is it your view that women are inferior to men, that blacks are inferior to whites, and that you’d rather institutionalise privilege for some, and oppression for others, based on the qualities they are born with and therefore cannot do anything about?

Egalitarianism is a façade used by the liberals and socialists to push their proposition nation agenda. In pursuit of the Holy Grail of Equality they are more than willing to sacrifice any sense of human differentation, erasing the realities of race, gender intelligence and cultural competencies. It is not a matter of supremacy and inferiority, it is a matter of reality. I do not believe in a universal ‘lowest common denominator’. People and cultures are different and we should celebrate that very real diversity not hold it to a single standard. Cultures are at different points of development and are on different trajectories. I agree with Spengler when he said, ‘Each culture has its own new possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen decay and never return. There is not one sculpture, one painting, one mathematics, one physics, but many, each in its deepest essence different from the others . . . ’  Does that sound like someone who wishes to impose his will on others or a person hell-bent on depriving other cultures of their right to sovereignty or self- determination? I think not. Look around the world, the caste system you allude to in your question and the slave/worker relationships it implies are far more prevalent and embedded in non-white cultures. I am reminded of an axiom quoted in the short lived Rising journal: ‘A Nationalism that seeks to subdue or extirpate another culture is, in fact, not a Nationalism but an Imperialism, which threatens not only its intended victim but also its own well-being, for its distorted view of itself, and of its relations with others, can only invite disaster’.

I would not have selected a woman to be the central character in my novel if I was even remotely sexist or believed the female gender was in any way inferior. Sabine, the heroine of the book, is the very personification of a modern, intelligent, powerful woman who makes her own decisions and lives with the consequences.  It is my view that we need to be far more strategic in appealing to women in order to grow our movement. They offer us the chance of a real multi-skilling asset which would greatly enhance our operations and further refine our perspective, ideals and objectives.

The issue is also not about colour but character and capability. History informs us that large numbers of diverse people find it difficult to live in close proximity without conflict. In general, the under-achievement of many non-whites living in a white community leads to demoralization, dependency and frustration. These result in violent outpourings like: in the USA—Watts 65, Newark 67, Rodney King/LA  92, Cincinnati 2001, Ferguson 2014; in the UK—Bristol 1980, Toxteth 1981, Brixton 1981, Bradford, Burnley and Oldham 2001, London 2011; in France—Clichy-Sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, Dijon, Belfort 2005; in Italy—Rosarno in Calabria 2010; in Spain - Roquetas in Almeria 2008; in Sweden—Stockholm 2013.

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I see no benefit in perpetuating such catastrophes when it is clear that peaceful co-existence and co-location is simply not possible. A race realist like myself would recommend a natural separation based on mutually agreed terms.

This argument has been made for decades, with a great deal of hard science to support it. And yet, that hasn’t made any difference. It is still rejected wholesale. We go back to the ethics of this idea: egalitarians may argue that even if equality does not exist, it is nevertheless a noble ideal, and that alone makes it worth pursuing, even if the ideal could never be achieved entirely. In short, the facts don’t really matter, because this is an ethical question, not an empirical one.

If the Convergence of Catastrophes Faye anticipates in his book is correct, and the money, food and power begins to run out, I predict it will not be noble ideals and ethics that characterize our behavior. When the tipping point is reached the fracturing of society will move rapidly on ethnic, religious and tribal lines. Like you yourself argued in one of your celebrated speaking engagements, The Collapse may not be instant, it may have already began and its ramifications may go unnoticed at first. I think it was Ezra Pound who claimed it is the artist’s antenna that first picks up the vibrations of such events. The Partisan is in some ways a literal confirmation of what my more sensitive predecessors already knew awaited us. It is the realization of the dark nightmare to come.

In that speech you refer to I also said that a collapse could well take so long that by the time it is recognised as such the consequences would have long ceased to be relevant, because those affected or warning about them would have already disappeared or were no longer powerful. I also mentioned that there is no guarantee that any collapse would have the desired outcome. The scenario you describe assumes that in a social breakdown scenario, everybody falls into line along ethnic or tribal lines. That seems likely with the non-European demographic in our part of the world, but simple everyday observation suggests Europeans, and particularly North-Western Europeans, will remain as divided as they are now, fractured along moral or morally justified ideological lines. Even the Far Right is notoriously fractuous, not only due to conflicting personalities, but also due to disagreements over ideology. The same has always been the case with the Far Left. Kevin MacDonald has pointed out that Western Europeans are low in ethnocentricity and tend to form moral communities. If that is true, then ancestry is an insufficient condition. So the question must be asked—if egalitarianism is the irritant and the stumbling block, should identitarians not be focusing on a moral critique of egalitarianism?

I would contend the collapse started around 1913 and is now well advanced. The collapse takes many forms and proceeds at a different pace along many separate fault lines. It can be identified and estimated by different social, economic, demograhic, and political indices. We recognize it at the point it affects us as individuals, or as citizens of a particular nation. Those who govern the western world are managing the decline rather than arresting it. Some I suspect are complicit in it, or are directly benefiting from the decline in some way, transferring assets and investments at favourable rates to BRIC countries, much like maggots feeding off dying flesh. There is simply no way of guaranteeing that the moral poison of egalitarianism will not have so retarded the European population that they are inhibited from protecting their own or acting in a way to promote their group’s interest. I suspect however, that when non-Europeans band together, set up exclusive organizational structures, possibly based on religious lines, commit outrageous crimes and begin ethnic-cleansing, the mantra of ‘One World, One People’ will ring very hollow. There is nothing like watching your mother, sister and daughter being raped, or your father, brother and son being eviscerated by machete wielding savages to focus the mind. A moral critique of egalitarianism is long overdue. But we should pull the mask off this expression egalitarianism and call it what it is today, the Frankfurt School strategy to undermine all aspects of the Western Superstructure.

So what if people with non-European ancestry eventually become majorities in Europe? Aren’t they just people, no better or worse than anyone else? Are we to judge them by the colour of their skin, rather than the contents of their character?

The character and nature of the future population of Europe most certainly does matter. Demographics is destiny and the central question of our age, is whether or not the civilized and educated nations of the world will continue to allow themselves to be overwhelmed by those incapable of self-improvement, other than by squatting in close proximity to the techno-industrial or welfare systems of more developed cultures with their begging bowls in hand, or will they close their borders. The behavior, values, and capabilities of a large percentage of the people of non-European ancestry who are coming to Europe at this time, like many of the Latinos fording the Rio Grande, do not stack up meritoriously under any serious degree of scrutiny. They stand condemned by any scientific or moral measurement by which you would chose to evaluate them.  They threaten a new dark age, taking us back centuries. Forget customs and folkways for one moment, just look at the graphs on intelligence. IQ averages in the countries benefiting from immigration are plummeting. In what way can this be described as evolution? It represents the dilution of excellence and the low level ground war already underway throughout North America and Europe is a sure sign that things will get worse rather than better. Is Leicester or Birmingham to be the next Detroit?

Like Spengler I believe that the human species is divided into a variety of widely differing and contradictory cultures. My interpretation of nationalism carries with it the insistence of reciprocal respect. It is in essence Identitarian. What we strive for is national self- determination; sufficient living space for the preservation and development of our race, heritage and culture; a socio-economic and legal system that reflects the values of its creators; the nurturing of our art; and the continuance of our life-force into future millennia. I will not stoop to plea for this on the grounds of the Charter of Human Rights or because it can be argued that what is being done to the white indigenous populations of European nations is a form of genocide by stealth. Though you can make plausible arguments for both those scenarios. I do not ask permission to live or to survive in my own homeland. A territory that people of my lineage have inhabited for 10,000 years. I demand it and will join others in reaching for the rope to hang the traitors who opened the floodgates to the sewers of the third world and lock and load the guns when words prove insufficient to defend our homes.          

What was your aim with The Partisan?

seachanges.jpgContinuing my earlier point about fiction providing a gateway to theory, I want to contribute to a vibrant cadre of New Right novelists. My desire is to re-enchant the present generation with the ideals that made Europe great in the past. We are all descendants of a great cultural and intellectual inheritance and we have to make that case time and time again. Standing on the shoulders of giants like Ernst Jünger, Ezra Pound, and Louis Ferdinand Céline, I believe there now exists the potential to develop a genre that both entertains and informs. Several recent works like your own Mister, Tito’s Perdue’s  oeuvre, and Derek Turner’s Sea Changes provides the basis for a new school of storytellers, poets and singer-song-writers.     

They say that those who forget the past are bound to repeat it. You have an advanced degree in history from an American university—in fact, with a major component in Black Studies. Could it be not be argued, therefore, that you of all people, should know better than to write novels like The Partisan?

On the contrary. My original Masters in Politics included a dissertation which was a critique of the Soviet system. The Black Studies component of my MA in History featured such luminaries as: Nat Turner, Frederick Douglas, W.E. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale, George Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and Black Panthers like Stokely Carmichael and Huey P. Newton and their ilk.
I probably know more about Communism and so-called Black Civil Rights activists than those on the left. It is an advantage to know your opponents better than they know themselves. My studies helped me identify the linkages like that between the Zionist Kivie Kaplan, who was Martin Luther King’s ‘handler’ and the communist Party of America. It was a formula that was repeated in the former Weather Underground leaders Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers involvement with the Obama Presidential candidacy. Similarly, the association between Joe Slovo and his slow-witted tool Mandela in the dismemberment of South Africa.  
These simple key quotes define the reasons why I wrote The Partisan:

‘During the last Open Convention the debate was, was it or was it not the duty of any good revolutionary to kill all new born white babies. At the time it seemed like a relevant framing of an issue. The logic being that through no fault of their own these white kids are going to grow up to be a part of an oppressive racial establishment internationally, so really your duty is to kill new born white babies. And I remember one guy tentatively and apologetically suggesting that this was in contradiction to the humanitarian aims of the movement and he was booed down’ - Doug McAdam (Weather Underground)

Kill all white men, white women and their babies’ - New Black Panther Party activist Malik Zulu Shabbaz (picture hereunder), infamous for accusations of attempting to intimidate voters at a Philadelphia polling booth in 2008.

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Do you plan on getting another degree?

To quote Solzhehnitsyn : ‘without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashions of the day . . .’   

One single anecdote illustrates this perfectly.  Having graduated on a bright summer day under a warm Californian sun, I returned to a slate grey London, intending to commence a PhD on the historiography of the so-called European New Right. I was interviewed by an American Professor with a Jewish surname. He was wearing a tweed jacket and smiling suspiciously over an oversize bowtie. As I tried to explain my hypothesis, the would-be don twirled his pen, looking distractedly out the window.

‘Why are you interested in these people?’ he asked contemptuously, ‘they have no intellectual capital. Have you thought of an evaluation of the impact of his theological upbringing on Martin Luther King’s later Civil Rights activities?’ The door closed. So I pushed on another. Sitting down in front of my laptop, sometimes overlooking a village green in Kent, where my every key stroke echoed to the rhythm of leather on wood; and at other times walking around the Zenkov Cathedral in Almaty, staring up through the cloud formations gathering around the rim of the Zailiysky Alatau mountains, I began typing the opening lines of The Partisan. That is my PhD thesis and it is written from the heart, free of the shackles of political correctness.

I notice that, though The Partisan draws from the anti-liberal ideas of the European New Right, it also has references to the French Revolution, which represented a triumph of liberal political theory. You even have the revolutionaries sing certain verses from La Marseillaise. Is this not a somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation of history?

It is the paradox we live with. French identity and pride is inextricably linked with a familiar anthem like La Marseillaise. If fiction is to be grounded and credible it must reflect reality. I would argue that we should accept that the vast numbers required to make a movement will fix on certain icons, flags and songs as they come together. It is to be expected and it is expedient. It is the passion and emotive qualities of unifying symbolism that is important. The deconstruction of deeper ideological underpinnings can be dealt with once we have won back the streets.

The Partisan makes a clear case against the Islamisation of France, and, presumably by extension, of Europe. What is wrong is Islam having a presence in Europe? There are Muslims in Bosnia who are fully European and don’t behave at all like Abu Hamza and fellow Jihadists from Asia and North Africa or the Pakistani paedophile rings in the United Kingdom. Indeed, even the SS had a division of Bosnian Muslims.

A presence is one thing. An overwhelming presence is quite another. Whilst minarets  overshadow rooftops from Barcelona to Geneva and Frankfurt to Bolton, Christian churches are being firebombed across the Muslim world and the followers of Jesus are given an option, convert or die. How long before the phony war of protest by Muslims in Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels turns into a full scale insurgency by ISIS trained zealots? There is much to admire in all faiths, cultures and identities. But we must acknowledge, they flourish best when they are rooted in their home soil and watered by the winds from their own mountain tops. Over the last half century the seeds of destruction have been scattered across our fields. It is time to take the scythe to the weeds strangling our crop. 

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What about David Cameron’s proposal of ‘muscular Britishness’?

There is so much one could say on this matter but I will try to keep my reply concise and free from vitriol. My recollection is that this expression was first used in a Daily Mail article on the Trojan Horse scandal, where Tory party policies relating to the freeing up of school governing bodies and head-teachers from so-called local authority  bureaucracy and allowing more school independence had resulted in a myriad of predominantly Muslim schools imposing a sharia curricula, removing white governors and treating indigenous students, already a numerical minority as second class pupils. Well, I cannot say I am surprised, it reinforces what I alluded to earlier in relation to the mindset of certain burgeoning non-British communities. I contend such autonomy will be abused by these people time and time again. They simply cannot be constrained by the normal European or British notions of fair play, decency and appropriate behavior. These apologists for paedophilia and honour killings are animated by the dream of  a jihadist take-over not assimilation. The fact that Cameron, along with his collaborators in the Liberal-democrats have actually overseen a growth in immigration, despite all their public statements and manifesto pledges to the contrary, calls into question both the British Prime Minister’s integrity and capability.

His fetid description of Britishness as being all about democracy, equality, and tolerance reveals a complete disengagement with the martial qualities that built an Empire from Scotland to the Falklands and Novia Scotia to Singapore. Listening to a rendition of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, would suffice in correcting such confusion. These modernist ideals also fly in the face of historic reality like the Chartist March on Monmouth, where men were shot and killed for demanding political representation; the fact that for centuries only male property owners had the right to vote and a suffragette had to throw herself under the King’s horse to raise awareness that women wanted the same opportunity; and that the everyday experience of anyone expressing concern over the behavior of non-whites is immediately shouted down with the cat-call of that much over-used word ‘racist!’ The latter apparently being a case of blatant ‘intolerance’ regardless of the merit of their argument. Double standards abound. No tolerance for the intolerant. No platform for fascists ! Government ministers signing up as members of Unite Against Fascism. So it seems, equality and tolerance are in reality in short supply in David’s Little Britain.

As for democracy, equality and tolerance are as British as the Union Flag, football and fish and chips ? Well let us deconstruct David’s assertions in true Marxist dialectical terms, shall we? It strikes me that the very existence of the Union flag is called into question by the Scottish referendum. Something Mr Cameron agreed to but did not feel he could extend to the discussion on immigration? With regards to football, it was clear from the lethargic display by the English team at the last World Cup, that the game ‘the British’ invented has now developed well beyond their current competency levels. Football is most certainly not coming home to paraphrase the line from the Three Lions Song. And the clichéd reference to fish and chips, so typical of Oxbridge champagne swilling Tories trying to appear ‘down with the boys’,  can be dismissed by the simple observation that the  most popular meal in the UK is now curry.

Like John Major before him speaking of the English matron pedaling through the morning mist or Mrs Thatcher hinting about the people’s concern about being ‘swamped’ by immigrants in the 79 election, Cameron has no intention of enacting muscular Britishness, whatever that means? Look who funds the party he leads. Peel back the names to reveal his own family origins and those of his advisors. Indeed, those of his predecessors.  Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Keith Joseph, Malcolm Rifkind, Alex Carlisle, Michael Howard, Edwina Currie, John Bercow and Keith Joseph. Check the following list of Conservative, Liberal Democrat, and Labour MP’s, Ministers and Peers of the realm (the following is only indicative, not comprehensive) : Sam Gyimah, Kwasi Kwarteng, Reham Chisti, Baroness Warsi, Priti Patel, Alok Sharma, Nadhim Zahami, Kishwer Falkner, Sandip Verma, Mohamed Sheikh, Nat Wei, Maurice Saatchi, Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, Lord Taylor of Warwick, Patricia Scotland, Navnit Dhozlakia, Herman Ouseley, Floella Benjamin, Meral Hussein-Ece, Zahida Manzour, Rumji Vergee, Doreen Lawrence, Paul Boateng, Lord Darzi, Bill Morris, Baron Bhattacharrya, Baron Chan, Amir  Bhatia, Baron Adebowale, Baron Parekh, Baron Patel, Baroness Pashar, Nazir Ahmed, Baroness Uddin, Baron Ali, Keith Vaz, Valerie Vaz, Chuka Umunna, Yasmin Qureshi, Ed Milliband, and George Galloway.  Now ask yourself are such people likely to enact muscular Britishness?

And before we settle back and think this is an isolated situation, please take a look at the political ‘movers and shakers’ in the United States and closer to home, in Europe itself. It is not hard to find the same egregious behaviour perpetrated in the same quarters by the same self-interested parties.   

Why did you choose a female protagonist?

I wanted to create a positive role model for those young women sympathetic to our shared traditions and thinking about becoming active in the movement.  The Left have to some extent mythologized in book and film form the likes of Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin. To my mind these were two emotionally bereft, politically shallow and nihilistic women. Sabine was created in direct opposition to these latter day martyrs of the German Autumn. I can foresee a time when some of our best exponents will be women. I long to stand beside them in the shadow of fluttering Spartan pennants on the field of Poitiers.    
    
Is there hope for Europe beyond liberalism?

There most certainly is. First, we must acknowledge the significance of integral traditionalism to the life and continuity of the homogenous community. Then we need the energy and vital radicalism of revolutionary conservatism to simultaneously conserve and transform those parts of our culture that are (a) worthy of preservation and (b) in vital need of evolution or eradication.     

Isn’t liberalism simply for individual liberty, freedom of expression, freedom of opportunity, and equality before the law? Are we do away with all those, and go back five hundred years—or, worse still, end up with an authoritarian police state?

The police state is already here and the prison walls are the laws imposed upon us by the equality gurus to uphold the liberal establishment. There is no real individual liberty. It is being systematically replaced by stifling conformism in both the private and public arenas. Freedom of opportunity and equality before the law increasingly only applies to non-whites. A two-tier justice system is enforced by the adoption of politically correct moral codes. Social ostracization and exclusion from the work force is practiced against dissenters. Orwell’s vision of a ruthless regime insisting on political orthodoxy is with us. We are all locked in room 101 with Winston Smith and the rats are coming. 

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samedi, 07 mars 2015

Babel and the Capitalist Babelization

Babel and the Capitalist Babelization

Tom Sunic

Review of Babel Inc.: Multiculturalism, Globalisation, and the New World Order
by Dr. Kerry Bolton

Black House Publishing Ltd, 2013

babel_cover300-500x500.jpgThe tower of Babel is rightly used as a metaphor for contemporary rootless and mongrelized masses stashed together in the towering inferno of end times. As an allegory, however, the process of “babelization” signifies a distorted reality and an inhumane political process in which standard forms of cognition and speech are subject to entirely new denominations, requiring a completely different method of conceptualization. Attempting, therefore, to draw some parallels between George Orwell’s 1984 and Bolton’s Babel Inc., cannot be valid; Orwell’s vision of the static future has become outdated.  Bolton’s Babel Inc. offers, instead, a dynamic description of the process of capitalist entropy in which Babel Inc. and its ruling class continue to grind human beings, including themselves, to dust.

Which are these ruling classes in this Babel Inc.? This is where the author masterfully steps in and rejects the wide-spread right-wing babble about the Babel Inc. being allegedly run by a conspiratorial and homogenous group of wicked people, or some extra-terrestrial golems allegedly bent on ruling the White world. Rather, the Babel Inc., or simply put,  the System, resembles a nameless, albeit grotesque polity that can in no way be reduced to just one single free-lance Orwellian big brother or some big postmenopausal feminist mama. The Babel Inc., as Bolton sees it, is a logical postmodern transposition of the myth of economism and egalitarianism, two doctrines whose genealogy can be traced from well before the period of Enlightenment in Europe.

Twin Brothers: Communism and Capitalism 

This does not mean at all that Bolton avoids elucidating the mindset and the self-perception of the main movers and shakers in the Babel Inc. In fact, Bolton’s scholarly credibility can best be spotted through the wealth of bibliographic references which indicate the intellectual depth of this effort. Bolton uses a three- pronged approach: theoretical, historical and descriptive. Such a threefold approach to this heavy subject is a prime necessity if the book is to retain a lasting educational value. Thus we learn in the first half of his book that capitalism, being a prime factor in the construction of the modern Babel Inc. and in the deconstruction of the nation-state, has always been a “modern and revolutionary” force. Its inherent dynamics aims at destroying traditional communities, regardless of their spot on the planet Earth. In fact, the much decried and alleged foe of capitalism (or rather its mirror- image), communism, fell apart in the East, in the late 20th century, because its paleo-communistic goals of egalitarianism and economism had already been better achieved in the capitalist West. Both communism and capitalism share a common ideological thread, namely a common belief in progress and common hatred of all racial, ethnic and territorial identities. The Banker and the Merchant, just like their mirror-image the Commissar, detect in any historical rootedness, in any national or racial consciousness a major hindrance on the way to the glorious future under the banner of “free market, democracy and human rights”.

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bolton.pngOn the daily political front, however, or better yet within the historical context of the development of the Babel Inc., Bolton does not spare the names of organizations and individuals promoting the borderless and globalist Babel Inc. project; knowledge of these forces can help the uninitiated reader dispel the myth of a “freedom- loving West” and its main transmission belt the United States of America. In fact, as Werner Sombart, the German sociologist of the early 20th century noted, “Holy Economy” (“heilige Wirtschaftlichkeit”) is a far more powerful revolutionary process than any anarchistic get together or a communist rabble-rousing pamphlet.

The author starts with his home turf with an examination of the early Australian working class, which under the banner of the Labor Party, as early as the 19th century, was bit by bit defrauded by the bankers and speculators who were all too eager to open Australia to Asian migrants and thus drive down the wages of white local workers.  The loudest advocates, and later on the beneficiaries of the process of the so-called decolonisation in Asia and Africa, were not just Marxist professors in Western academe, or Soviet Cold War apparatchiks, but primarily international big businessmen, “as old empires had become too restive to capitalism.” The author well illustrates this point by looking at the tragic fate of South Africa and Rhodesia, once upon a time White-ruled countries which used to be the bread basket of Africa, only to turn into violence-torn African basket cases with no future in sight. The iconic figure of the ANC, the Black activist Nelson Mandela, still hailed by starry-eyed globalists as the canonized Black Saint, once upon a time was determined to kick capitalism out of South Africa, only to declare in 1996, that is to say, after South Africa had already turned into an ungovernable entity, that “privatisation is the fundamental policy of the African Nation Congress and will remain so.”

The American government, The Trilateral Commission, along with many self-proclaimed humanitarian NGOs, such as the famed George Soros’ Open Society Institute, behind their mask of lacrimal multiculturalism and behind their culinary diplomacy, have been the main motors in turning Asia and Africa into a giant pool of cheap labor and permanent political unrest. This is the true goal of Babel Incorporated.  Hence the first conclusion one can draw after completing reading the first half of the book, and just before one starts railing and ranting against colored immigrants flooding now Europe and the USA: Massive non-White immigration, and now its reverse side, i.e. the colonisation of Europe and the USA, is just a logical outcome of political designs framed long time ago by rootless plutocrats and their leftist acolytes.

Bolton does not forget to look at the importance of “culture wars” and notes how global plutocrats use those wars in an attempt to subvert recalcitrant governments all over the word. Contrary to false presumptions, still strongly held by many right-wing intellectuals, the “uncultured” USA plutocrats have been very slick in fostering the multicultural “American dream” by resorting beforehand to the creation of a myriad of “independent” cultural outlets and think tanks in the target countries. One could enumerate a dozen post-communist countries in Eastern Europe which, in the mid- 90’s and early 2000’s, were all subjected to the Babel Inc.-inspired “velvet” and “rainbow” revolutions, as well as the so- called “Arab spring revolutions.” In an attempt to destroy a sense of national and racial pride and in an effort to impose a hybrid mishmash of new consumer species — i.e., homo consumens — the Babel Inc. decision makers do not need to send F14s to the Serbian skies or over the Iraqi desert, but instead resort first to Hollywood imagery and hip-hop political acrobatics in order to enchant the youth of the target country. The costs are negligible; the benefits are great.

The author rightly sees that before Whites start bewailing the destructive consequences of forced multiculturalism and its inevitable corollary of non-White immigration flooding their countries, they must critically re-examine the now redundant notion of their own nation-state. It is fundamentally wrong to blame all our ills on the SPLC, or the ADL, or the LICRA, or the Trilateral Commission, or some real or hypothetical Jew, or some hostile, plutocratic, culture-destroying Babel Inc. elites only.  We White Europeans and Americans must accept our full share of the blame. We must first and foremost reject the religion of progress and its underlying principle of permanent economic growth, before considering setting up our own ethnic enclaves. Whether these ethnic enclaves are in the Northwest of the U.S., or in Orania in South Africa, or somewhere in Europe, they must keep capitalism on a short leash aimed at preserving the racial/ethnic integrity of these enclaves, as occurred under the White Australia policy and the 1924 immigration restriction law in the U.S. Given the still strong and age-old squabbles among and amidst European peoples, this nearly impossible task can only be bestowed upon dispassionate White individuals capable of transcending their own narrow tribal interests — and their own egos.

Dr. Tom Sunic (www.tomsunic.com) is a writer and a board member of the American Freedom Party.

jeudi, 05 mars 2015

The Real American Exceptionalism

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The Real American Exceptionalism

Though the U.S. was once key in establishing what we now casually call "the international community," recent decades have seen the once noble idea of American leadership fall victim to the noxious paradigm of "American exceptionalism" — complete with drone attacks on civilian populations, endless and borderless wars, and human rights abuses that are a direct affront to some of the global institutions the U.S. once fought to create. (Photo: AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

"The sovereign is he who decides on the exception,” said conservative thinker Carl Schmitt in 1922, meaning that a nation’s leader can defy the law to serve the greater good. Though Schmitt’s service as Nazi Germany’s chief jurist and his unwavering support for Hitler from the night of the long knives to Kristallnacht and beyond damaged his reputation for decades, today his ideas have achieved unimagined influence. They have, in fact, shaped the neo-conservative view of presidential power that has become broadly bipartisan since 9/11. Indeed, Schmitt has influenced American politics directly through his intellectual protégé Leo Strauss who, as an émigré professor at the University of Chicago, trained Bush administration architects of the Iraq war Paul Wolfowitz and Abram Shulsky.

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Just as Schmitt’s sovereign preferred to rule in a state of endless exception without a constitution for his Reich, so Washington is now well into the second decade of an endless War on Terror that seems the sum of its exceptions to international law: endless incarceration, extrajudicial killing, pervasive surveillance, drone strikes in defiance of national boundaries, torture on demand, and immunity for all of the above on the grounds of state secrecy. Yet these many American exceptions are just surface manifestations of the ever-expanding clandestine dimension of the American state. Created at the cost of more than a trillion dollars since 9/11, the purpose of this vast apparatus is to control a covert domain that is fast becoming the main arena for geopolitical contestation in the twenty-first century.

This should be (but seldom is considered) a jarring, disconcerting path for a country that, more than any other, nurtured the idea of, and wrote the rules for, an international community of nations governed by the rule of law. At the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, the U.S. delegate, Andrew Dickson White, the founder of Cornell University, pushed for the creation of a Permanent Court of Arbitration and persuaded Andrew Carnegie to build the monumental Peace Palace at The Hague as its home. At the Second Hague Conference in 1907, Secretary of State Elihu Root urged that future international conflicts be resolved by a court of professional jurists, an idea realized when the Permanent Court of International Justice was established in 1920.

After World War II, the U.S. used its triumph to help create the United Nations, push for the adoption of its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and ratify the Geneva Conventions for humanitarian treatment in war. If you throw in other American-backed initiatives like the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank, you pretty much have the entire infrastructure of what we now casually call “the international community.”

Breaking the Rules

Not only did the U.S. play a crucial role in writing the new rules for that community, but it almost immediately began breaking them. After all, despite the rise of the other superpower, the Soviet Union, Washington was by then the world sovereign and so could decide which should be the exceptions to its own rules, particularly to the foundational principle for all this global governance: sovereignty. As it struggled to dominate the hundred new nations that started appearing right after the war, each one invested with an inviolable sovereignty, Washington needed a new means of projecting power beyond conventional diplomacy or military force. As a result, CIA covert operations became its way of intervening within a new world order where you couldn’t or at least shouldn’t intervene openly.

All of the exceptions that really matter spring from America’s decision to join what former spy John Le Carré called that “squalid procession of vain fools, traitors... sadists, and drunkards,” and embrace espionage in a big way after World War II. Until the creation of the CIA in 1947, the United States had been an innocent abroad in the world of intelligence. When General John J. Pershing led two million American troops to Europe during World War I, the U.S. had the only army on either side of the battle lines without an intelligence service. Even though Washington built a substantial security apparatus during that war, it was quickly scaled back by Republican conservatives during the 1920s. For decades, the impulse to cut or constrain such secret agencies remained robustly bipartisan, as when President Harry Truman abolished the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), right after World War II or when President Jimmy Carter fired 800 CIA covert operatives after the Vietnam War.

Yet by fits and starts, the covert domain inside the U.S. government has grown stealthily from the early twentieth century to this moment. It began with the formation of the FBI in 1908 and Military Intelligence in 1917. The Central Intelligence Agency followed after World War II along with most of the alphabet agencies that make up the present U.S. Intelligence Community, including the National Security Agency (NSA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and last but hardly least, in 2004, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Make no mistake: there is a clear correlation between state secrecy and the rule of law -- as one grows, the other surely shrinks.

World Sovereign

America’s irrevocable entry into this covert netherworld came when President Truman deployed his new CIA to contain Soviet subversion in Europe. This was a continent then thick with spies of every stripe: failed fascists, aspirant communists, and everything in between. Introduced to spycraft by its British “cousins,” the CIA soon mastered it in part by establishing sub rosa ties to networks of ex-Nazi spies, Italian fascist operatives, and dozens of continental secret services.

As the world’s new sovereign, Washington used the CIA to enforce its chosen exceptions to the international rule of law, particularly to the core principle of sovereignty. During his two terms, President Dwight Eisenhower authorized 104 covert operations on four continents, focused largely on controlling the many new nations then emerging from centuries of colonialism. Eisenhower’s exceptions included blatant transgressions of national sovereignty such as turning northern Burma into an unwilling springboard for abortive invasions of China, arming regional revolts to partition Indonesia, and overthrowing elected governments in Guatemala and Iran. By the time Eisenhower left office in 1961, covert ops had acquired such a powerful mystique in Washington that President John F. Kennedy would authorize 163 of them in the three years that preceded his assassination.

As a senior CIA official posted to the Near East in the early 1950s put it, the Agency then saw every Muslim leader who was not pro-American as “a target legally authorized by statute for CIA political action.” Applied on a global scale and not just to Muslims, this policy helped produce a distinct “reverse wave” in the global trend towards democracy from 1958 to 1975, as coups -- most of them U.S.-sanctioned -- allowed military men to seize power in more than three-dozen nations, representing a quarter of the world’s sovereign states.

The White House’s “exceptions” also produced a deeply contradictory U.S. attitude toward torture from the early years of the Cold War onward. Publicly, Washington’s opposition to torture was manifest in its advocacy of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the Geneva Conventions in 1949. Simultaneously and secretly, however, the CIA began developing ingenious new torture techniques in contravention of those same international conventions. After a decade of mind-control research, the CIA actually codified its new method of psychological torture in a secret instructional handbook, the "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation" manual, which it then disseminated within the U.S. Intelligence Community and to allied security services worldwide.

Much of the torture that became synonymous with the era of authoritarian rule in Asia and Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s seems to have originated in U.S. training programs that provided sophisticated techniques, up-to-date equipment, and moral legitimacy for the practice. From 1962 to 1974, the CIA worked through the Office of Public Safety (OPS), a division of the U.S. Agency for International Development that sent American police advisers to developing nations. Established by President Kennedy in 1962, in just six years OPS grew into a global anti-communist operation with over 400 U.S. police advisers.  By 1971, it had trained more than a million policemen in 47 nations, including 85,000 in South Vietnam and 100,000 in Brazil.

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Concealed within this larger OPS effort, CIA interrogation training became synonymous with serious human rights abuses, particularly in Iran, the Philippines, South Vietnam, Brazil, and Uruguay. Amnesty International documented widespread torture, usually by local police, in 24 of the 49 nations that had hosted OPS police-training teams. In tracking torturers across the globe, Amnesty seemed to be following the trail of CIA training programs. Significantly, torture began to recede when America again turned resolutely against the practice at the end of the Cold War.

The War on Terror 

Although the CIA’s authority for assassination, covert intervention, surveillance, and torture was curtailed at the close of the Cold War, the terror attacks of September 2001 sparked an unprecedented expansion in the scale of the intelligence community and a corresponding resurgence in executive exceptions.  The War on Terror’s voracious appetite for information produced, in its first decade, what the Washington Post branded a veritable "fourth branch" of the U.S. federal government with 854,000 vetted security officials, 263 security organizations, over 3,000 private and public intelligence agencies, and 33 new security complexes -- all pumping out a total of 50,000 classified intelligence reports annually by 2010.

By that time, one of the newest members of the Intelligence Community, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, already had 16,000 employees, a $5 billion budget, and a massive nearly $2 billion headquarters at FortBelvoir, Maryland -- all aimed at coordinating the flood of surveillance data pouring in from drones, U-2 spy planes, Google Earth, and orbiting satellites.

According to documents whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked to the Washington Post, the U.S. spent $500 billion on its intelligence agencies in the dozen years after the 9/11 attacks, including annual appropriations in 2012 of $11 billion for the National Security Agency (NSA) and $15 billion for the CIA. If we add the $790 billion expended on the Department of Homeland Security to that $500 billion for overseas intelligence, then Washington had spent nearly $1.3 trillion to build a secret state-within-the-state of absolutely unprecedented size and power.

As this secret state swelled, the world’s sovereign decided that some extraordinary exceptions to civil liberties at home and sovereignty abroad were in order. The most glaring came with the CIA’s now-notorious renewed use of torture on suspected terrorists and its setting up of its own global network of private prisons, or “black sites,” beyond the reach of any court or legal authority. Along with piracy and slavery, the abolition of torture had long been a signature issue when it came to the international rule of law. So strong was this principle that the U.N. General Assembly voted unanimously in 1984 to adopt the Convention Against Torture. When it came to ratifying it, however, Washington dithered on the subject until the end of the Cold War when it finally resumed its advocacy of international justice, participating in the World Conference on Human Rights at Vienna in 1993 and, a year later, ratifying the U.N. Convention Against Torture.

Even then, the sovereign decided to reserve some exceptions for his country alone. Only a year after President Bill Clinton signed the U.N. Convention, CIA agents started snatching terror suspects in the Balkans, some of them Egyptian nationals, and sending them to Cairo, where a torture-friendly autocracy could do whatever it wanted to them in its prisons. Former CIA director George Tenet later testified that, in the years before 9/11, the CIA shipped some 70 individuals to foreign countries without formal extradition -- a process dubbed “extraordinary rendition” that had been explicitly banned under Article 3 of the U.N. Convention.

Right after his public address to a shaken nation on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush gave his staff wide-ranging secret orders to use torture, adding (in a vernacular version of Schmitt’s dictum),“I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.” In this spirit, the White House authorized the CIA to develop that global matrix of secret prisons, as well as an armada of planes for spiriting kidnapped terror suspects to them, and a network of allies who could help seize those suspects from sovereign states and levitate them into a supranational gulag of eight agency black sites from Thailand to Poland or into the crown jewel of the system, Guantánamo, thus eluding laws and treaties that remained grounded in territorially based concepts of sovereignty.

Once the CIA closed the black sites in 2008-2009, its collaborators in this global gulag began to feel the force of law for their crimes against humanity. Under pressure from the Council of Europe, Poland started an ongoing criminal investigation in 2008 into its security officers who had facilitated the CIA’s secret prison in the country’s northeast. In September 2012, Italy’s supreme court confirmed the convictions of 22 CIA agents for the illegal rendition of Egyptian exile Abu Omar from Milan to Cairo, and ordered a trial for Italy’s military intelligence chief on charges that sentenced him to 10 years in prison. In 2012, Scotland Yard opened a criminal investigation into MI6 agents who rendered Libyan dissidents to Colonel Gaddafi’s prisons for torture, and two years later the Court of Appeal allowed some of those Libyans to file a civil suit against MI6 for kidnapping and torture.

But not the CIA. Even after the Senate’s 2014 Torture Report documented the Agency’s abusive tortures in painstaking detail, there was no move for either criminal or civil sanctions against those who had ordered torture or those who had carried it out. In a strong editorial on December 21, 2014, the New York Times asked “whether the nation will stand by and allow the perpetrators of torture to have perpetual immunity.” The answer, of course, was yes. Immunity for hirelings is one of the sovereign’s most important exceptions.

As President Bush finished his second term in 2008, an inquiry by the International Commission of Jurists found that the CIA’s mobilization of allied security agencies worldwide had done serious damage to the international rule of law. “The executive… should under no circumstance invoke a situation of crisis to deprive victims of human rights violations… of their… access to justice,” the Commission recommended after documenting the degradation of civil liberties in some 40 countries. “State secrecy and similar restrictions must not impede the right to an effective remedy for human rights violations.”

The Bush years also brought Washington’s most blatant repudiation of the rule of law. Once the newly established International Criminal Court (ICC) convened at The Hague in 2002, the Bush White House “un-signed” or “de-signed” the U.N. agreement creating the court and then mounted a sustained diplomatic effort to immunize U.S. military operations from its writ. This was an extraordinary abdication for the nation that had breathed the concept of an international tribunal into being.

The Sovereign’s Unbounded Domains

While Presidents Eisenhower and Bush decided on exceptions that violated national boundaries and international treaties, President Obama is exercising his exceptional prerogatives in the unbounded domains of aerospace and cyberspace.

Both are new, unregulated realms of military conflict beyond the rubric of international law and Washington believes it can use them as Archimedean levers for global dominion. Just as Britain once ruled from the seas and postwar America exercised its global reach via airpower, so Washington now sees aerospace and cyberspace as special realms for domination in the twenty-first century.

Under Obama, drones have grown from a tactical Band-Aid in Afghanistan into a strategic weapon for the exercise of global power. From 2009 to 2015, the CIA and the U.S. Air Force deployed a drone armada of over 200 Predators and Reapers, launching 413 strikes in Pakistan alone, killing as many as 3,800 people. Every Tuesday inside the White House Situation Room, as the New York Times reported in 2012, President Obama reviews a CIA drone “kill list” and stares at the faces of those who are targeted for possible assassination from the air.  He then decides, without any legal procedure, who will live and who will die, even in the case of American citizens. Unlike other world leaders, this sovereign applies the ultimate exception across the Greater Middle East, parts of Africa, and elsewhere if he chooses.

This lethal success is the cutting edge of a top-secret Pentagon project that will, by 2020, deploy a triple-canopy space “shield” from stratosphere to exosphere, patrolled by Global Hawk and X-37B drones armed with agile missiles.

As Washington seeks to police a restless globe from sky and space, the world might well ask: How high is any nation’s sovereignty? After the successive failures of the Paris flight conference of 1910, the Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare of 1923, and Geneva’s Protocol I of 1977 to establish the extent of sovereign airspace or restrain aerial warfare, some puckish Pentagon lawyer might reply: only as high as you can enforce it.

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President Obama has also adopted the NSA’s vast surveillance system as a permanent weapon for the exercise of global power. At the broadest level, such surveillance complements Obama’s overall defense strategy, announced in 2012, of cutting conventional forces while preserving U.S. global power through a capacity for “a combined arms campaign across all domains: land, air, maritime, space, and cyberspace.” In addition, it should be no surprise that, having pioneered the war-making possibilities of cyberspace, the president did not hesitate to launch the first cyberwar in history against Iran.

By the end of Obama’s first term, the NSA could sweep up billions of messages worldwide through its agile surveillance architecture. This included hundreds of access points for penetration of the Worldwide Web’s fiber optic cables; ancillary intercepts through special protocols and “backdoor” software flaws; supercomputers to crack the encryption of this digital torrent; and a massive data farm in Bluffdale, Utah, built at a cost of $2 billion to store yottabytes of purloined data.

Even after angry Silicon Valley executives protested that the NSA’s “backdoor” software surveillance threatened their multi-trillion-dollar industry, Obama called the combination of Internet information and supercomputers “a powerful tool.” He insisted that, as “the world’s only superpower,” the United States “cannot unilaterally disarm our intelligence agencies.” In other words, the sovereign cannot sanction any exceptions to his panoply of exceptions.

Revelations from Edward Snowden’s cache of leaked documents in late 2013 indicate that the NSA has conducted surveillance of leaders in some 122 nations worldwide, 35 of them closely, including Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff, former Mexican president Felipe Calderón, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. After her forceful protest, Obama agreed to exempt Merkel’s phone from future NSA surveillance, but reserved the right, as he put it, to continue to “gather information about the intentions of governments… around the world.” The sovereign declined to say which world leaders might be exempted from his omniscient gaze.

Can there be any question that, in the decades to come, Washington will continue to violate national sovereignty through old-style covert as well as open interventions, even as it insists on rejecting any international conventions that restrain its use of aerospace or cyberspace for unchecked force projection, anywhere, anytime? Extant laws or conventions that in any way check this power will be violated when the sovereign so decides. These are now the unwritten rules of the road for our planet.  They represent the real American exceptionalism.

Alfred W. McCoy is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a TomDispatch regular, and author most recently of the book, Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation (University of Wisconsin, 2012) which explores the American experience of torture during the past decade. Previous books include: A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (American Empire Project);Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State, and The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. He has also convened the “Empires in Transition” project, a global working group of 140 historians from universities on four continents. The results of their first meetings were published as Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State.

mardi, 03 mars 2015

L’horreur synallagmatique

LA GRANDE FRAUDE, CRIME, SUBPRIMES ET CRISES FINANCIÈRES*

L’horreur synallagmatique

Auran Derien
Ex: http://metamag.fr
grande_fraude.jpgLa civilisation a toujours reposé sur la parole donnée, éthique qui dispense d’une grande partie de la bureaucratie puisque les élites considèrent qu’elles s’insultent elles-mêmes si les contrats ne sont pas respectés. Dans de telles civilisations, il n’est nécessaire ni de terroriser les populations ni de les abrutir pour qu’elles participent à l’ordre du monde. Aujourd’hui, à l’inverse, règne la terreur synallagmatique, la terreur légale des contrats. 

Les dernières élections en Suède avaient vu apparaître un nouveau parti, le SD, avec 12% des voix. Un autre parti d’opposition s’est alors joint à lui pour rejeter le budget. Que faire? En France, le gouvernement sort le 49-3. En Suède, le chef du gouvernement, Stefan Löfven, a décidé que les élections prévues pour 2015 n’auront pas lieu. Ce n’est rien de plus que la mise en place de la tyrannie des temps maastrichtiens. Les promesses faites aux électeurs n’engagent pas. Pour l’Europe, la banque Morgan a même publié un document en mai 2013 réclamant des régimes autoritaires

Jean-Claude Juncker, à la tête de la Commission européenne, est le chargé de mission d’une opération de conversion des oligarques européens en collabos des intérêts américains. La méthode économique, le ficelage par des contrats léonins reste la manière privilégiée des habitués de Davos, du Bilderberg et autres lieux identiques. Représentant de l’oligarchie, Jean-Claude Juncker agit comme si les élections, comme en Grèce, n’avaient aucune importance car les traités sont irréversibles. Un fanatique a succédé à Manuel Barroso.

gayraud.jpgAristote enseigna que le contrat était une loi faite par des particuliers en vue d’une affaire déterminée. L’absolutisation du contrat est contraire aux us et coutûmes européennes. Un contrat tire sa force d’un engagement. Non pas d’un écrit ou d’un texte, mais d’un souffle de l’âme. Ce totalitarisme des accords entre boutiquiers endimanchés étalant leur rolex, c’est l’inhumanité des valets du veau d’or, toqués et visionnaires d’un paradis sur terre qui résulterait de leurs magouilles. Juncker incarne à la perfection le néant du contrat.
 
Les financiers assassins se présentent comme des victimes car rien ne laisse jamais prévoir les crises dont ils sont responsables et coupables. Mais la collusion entre la finance et la politique construit une oligarchie criminelle qui cherche à tout moment comment rendre légale la fraude. Les criminels deviennent ainsi le droit et le système social. Les contrats qui mettent les Européens en coupe réglée manifestent que les politiques sont des prédateurs au service de ploutocrates, ainsi que l’expose Jean-François Gayraud dans son ouvrage "La grande fraude"*.
 
Les politiciens soumis aux banquiers se prennent finalement pour des Christophe Colomb: ils acceptent leur bimbeloterie, leur verroterie en échange de la civilisation. Les peuples, seule donnée valable en politique, interlocuteurs de ces tristes sires, sont traités comme les indigènes, à peine des hommes. Nous affirmons qu’à ce prototype de parvenu, nul ne doit rien. Personne ne doit les respecter.

*Jean-François GAYRAUD : La grande fraude. Crime, subprimes et crises financières. O.Jacob, 2011, 23,25€

BN-​Anstoß VI: Geopolitik

BN-​Anstoß VI:

Geopolitik

Ex: http://www.blauenarzisse.de

geopolitikBN.jpgGerade erst ist mit „Die Ausländer“ der fünfte Band unserer Schriftenreihe BN-​Anstoß erschienen. Jetzt kommt schon der nächste. Gereon Breuer hat über „Geopolitik“ geschrieben.

Ein Hauptargument von Felix Menzel in seinem Bändchen über Die Ausländer. Warum es immer mehr werden (BN-​Anstoß V) lautet, daß durch eine verfehlte Außenpolitik des Westens der derzeitige Flüchtlingsansturm auf Europa erst entstehen konnte. BN-​Autor Gereon Breuer schließt genau hier an und erklärt auf beeindruckende Weise die derzeitige internationale Lage, die viele als chaotisch wahrnehmen.

Jeder Staat muß seine nationalen Interessen verteidigen dürfen

Sein Büchlein heißt Geopolitik. Das Spiel nationaler Interessen zwischen Krieg und Frieden (BN-​Anstoß VI). Es erscheint voraussichtlich Ende März und kann ab sofort vorbestellt werden. Breuer geht es darum, anhand der aktuellen Konflikte in der Ukraine und in Syrien aufzuzeigen, wie Geopolitik funktioniert. Geopolitik sterbe nämlich nicht aus, auch wenn die deutsche Presse, Politikwissenschaft und Wikipedia den Begriff nur noch als Erweiterung von Imperialismus verstehen.

Das ist komplett falsch und beweist nur, wie großflächig der Versuch unternommen wird, den Deutschen das Denken in eigenen, nationalen Interessen abzutrainieren. Breuer will hier verlorengegangenes Terrain zurückgewinnen und fängt dazu gewissermaßen beim kleinen Einmaleins an. Er erklärt, was unsere nationalen Interessen sind und wie sie verteidigt werden müßten.

Das Scheitern supranationaler Gebilde

Das Büchlein verfügt über vier Kapitel. Im ersten geht es um die Frage, warum Geopolitik nicht aussterben wird. In Kapitel zwei beschäftigt sich Breuer damit, warum der Mensch immer Krieg führen wird. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei, daß es supranationalen Gebilden wie den Vereinten Nationen in den letzten Jahrzehnten in keinster Weise gelungen ist, den Krieg abzuschaffen, so wie sich das einige verblendete Intellektuelle gewünscht haben.

Kapitel drei thematisiert schließlich die Veränderung des Krieges in naher Zukunft. Wird dieser vielleicht durch Terrorismus ersetzt? Breuer nutzt diese Frage insbesondere, um sich zum Islamischen Staat zu äußern. Seine Ausführungen sind hier deshalb so wichtig, weil er zu der These vordringt, daß jeder Krieg auch etwas über den zivilisatorischen Stand einer Gesellschaft aussage.

Ein Buch für „Putin-​Versteher“?

Im abschließenden Kapitel skizziert Breuer das geopolitische Agieren der drei Großmächte der Welt. Zu diesen zählt er aktuell die USA, Rußland und China. Europa hingegen fehlt in der Auflistung, weil sich sowohl die einzelnen Nationalstaaten als auch die Europäische Union lieber für fremde Interessen einspannen lassen, als eine eigenständige Politik zu verfolgen.

Für einige wird der sechste Band der Reihe BN-​Anstoß das „Buch eines Putin-​Verstehers“ sein, andere werden es lesen als den Versuch, auf die drohende Islamisierung Europas mit einer außenpolitischen Kurskorrektur zu reagieren. Einige werden sich die kritischen Passagen über den Weltpolizisten USA herauspicken, andere hingegen werden in diffamierender Absicht versuchen, dem Autor vorzuwerfen, er wolle mit diesem Buch den Krieg schönreden.

Um all diese Sachen geht es Breuer jedoch nicht. Er will, daß wir endlich wieder unseren gesunden Menschenverstand benutzen, um zu erkennen, wie Staaten ihre Interessen durchsetzen müssen. Breuer betont dabei: „Nur dann, wenn Staaten sich nur dort einmischen, wo das ihren Interessen dient und sich überall sonst heraushalten, kann ihr weltpolitisches Engagement erfolgreich sein. Ironischerweise fällt es gerade denjenigen, die vehemente Verfechter der Frieden-​schaffen-​ohne-​Waffen-​Ideologie sind, besonders schwer, diesen banalen Grundsatz zu verstehen.“

Gereon Breuer: Geopolitik. Das Spiel nationaler Interessen zwischen Krieg und Frieden. BN-​Anstoß VI. 100 Seiten. 8,50 Euro. Chemnitz 2015. Erscheint Ende März.

+ Hier kann Geopolitik vorbestellt werden.
+ Hier gibt es die Bände 4 bis 6 der Reihe BN-​Anstoß im Paketpreis für 20 statt 25,50 Euro.
+ Band IV: Nazivorwurf. Ich bin stolz, ein Deutscher zu sein.
+ Band V: Die Ausländer. Warum es immer mehr werden.

dimanche, 01 mars 2015

Gender Gaga

Gender Gaga

samedi, 28 février 2015

Houellebecq, Islam, & the Jews: A Review of Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission

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Houellebecq, Islam, & the Jews:
A Review of Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission

By Guillaume Durocher 

Ex: http://www.counter-currents.com

Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, Soumission [2], has attracted enormous attention. The book portrays the coming to power of an Islamist president in France in 2022 and has predictably been condemned as Islamophobic. The timing of the Charlie Hebdo massacres – a few disgruntled French-born Muslims murdering left-liberal cartoonists and Jews – could not have been better in terms of boosting sales. Indeed, Soumission is already that rarest of things: a succès européen (rather than our usual pan-European cultural fair of Hollywood blockbusters and degenerate Anglo pop music). Translated versions have already become instant best-sellers in Italy and Germany. Evidently, Houellebecq has struck a nerve going to the heart of contemporary European Man’s fears and aspirations.

Anglophones have however largely been left out of the fun, being stuck getting dribs and drabs of information from news and book reviews, as there is as yet no English translation. I hope this review proves useful in this respect.

One can fairly ask the question: Did we really need another existentially subjective French novel about an alienated, ineffectual, sexually accomplished bookish fellow? If Soumission is any indication, the answer is an unambiguous “yes.”

A first, not unimportant point: Soumission is an easy and highly enjoyable read. One can breeze through it in a weekend or so. You’ll chuckle away at a joke or wry observation, delivered with a certain deadpan objectivity, on almost every page. Many consider Houellebecq’s writing to be “dark,” including his trademark highly graphic sex scenes, but I tend to think it’s just matter-of-fact. It seems to me one can only be “shocked” if one is in denial about a few basic realities about oneself, but maybe I am asking too much of my fellow featherless bipeds. It is true that the points in Houellebecq’s dialectic – whether on the safety of Paris’ Chinatown in case of a race war, the emptiness of casual sex or the slow decay of the body – are made with a rare biting force.

Soumission is among other things a marketing coup. The title translates as “submission,” which of course is one of the translations of the Arabic Islām. The rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in France taps into deep fears in Western Europe regarding the steady growth of the Islamic population, which given enough time will eventually become majoritarian in many countries.

But the work is not an apology for Identitarianism, nor is it even Islamophobic. On the contrary, the author uses the fantasy of an Islamic regime in France as a critique of the West’s feminist, individualist, “social democratic,” liberal-egalitarian degeneracy, his usual target. One wonders if any of his readers will be disappointed by the bait-and-switch. Houellebecq is not defending the White Man, but attacking the Last Man, the effeminate, cowardly, isolated, depressed, and yet terribly comfortable consumer-slaves we have become.

Politics by no means overwhelms the novel but rather forms the background to the protagonist’s musings. But, from the little we are told, France’s joining the House of Islam proves highly salutary, and the administration of President Mohammed Ben Abbes is an enlightened one. Even if we cannot automatically assume that the protagonist’s statements necessarily reflect the author’s views or that the narrator is completely reliable, it seems fair to say that Soumission can be read as Houellebecq’s portrayal of a possible ideal polity. Which raises the question: What are the characteristics of this polity? What destiny for nationalists, Identitarians and Jews?

A Return to Tradition

The Muslim takeover, far from being a bloodthirsty or even really an authoritarian event, is achieved democratically. Ben Abbes and Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen make it to the second round of the presidential elections, prompting the mainstream parties to back the Muslim Brotherhood to prevent a nationalist victory. Islam achieves power through the sheer apathy of the postmodern, nihilist, and feckless Westerner.

The new regime slowly but steadily changes the society and its mores. Patriarchy is restored as women no longer teach, and girls begin spontaneously dressing modestly, curbing a male desire which had been constantly taunted by short skirts and our pornographic advertising and pop culture. Many public universities become Islamic and only allow Muslim teachers, although secular ones are allowed on the side. Non-Muslims do fine as dhimmitude, we are told, is “flexible” in its interpretation (p. 155).

Well-known French politicians and journalists are amusingly skewered. The media is inbred while the drastic budget cuts for public education (l’Éducation nationale) has highly positive effects. Evidently Houellebecq believes France’s current cultural-ideological superstructure is basically parasitic and destructive. Democracy is no more than the competition of two rival gangs and at best an impression.

Ben Abbes having gutted the education budget, schooling becomes mandatory only up to the age of 12, apprenticeships are promoted and higher education becomes an entirely private affair. State aid to giant corporates is abolished, welfare is reduced by 85%, taxes on craftsmen and small businessmen are sharply reduced, while family allowances are massively increased on the condition that the wife is not working. The result? A flowering optimism not seen since the Trentes glorieuses and a huge fall in unemployment as women drop out of the workforce. Crime nosedives as social conservatism reigns.

The family resumes its central role in the economy (family businesses) and society as the location of intergenerational transmission. G. K. Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc and their Distributist theories of an ownership society are explicitly mentioned as models. (Is Houellebecq aware of Belloc’s Judeo-criticism [3]?)

In short, Houellebecq’s Utopia is a traditional society of personal responsibility and organic hierarchy rather than a hopelessly over-bureaucratized society of hapless, coddled cogs over-determined by the double domination of mega-corporate oligopoly and an overbearing Nanny State.

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The Destiny of the Identitarian

Identitarians and nationalists have mixed portrayals. Marine Le Pen is a stately figure. Jean-Marie Le Pen is described by the protagonist as “an idiot, more or less completely uncultivated” (p. 103). It’s not clear whether this is Houellebecq’s view. In any case, Le Pen père took the characterization in stride, responding with reference to the writer’s wretched appearance: “Houellebecq writes that I am an idiot and uncultivated. One can get the wrong impression, I always thought he was a homeless drunk!”

The Identitarians are sometimes portrayed as a kind of mirror image of violent jihadis, the two sides being involved in occasional bloodshed and electoral shenanigans. Both the Front National and the Muslim Brotherhood take the more “responsible,” route of peaceful democratic politics. Ben Abbes scolds the impatient jihadis: Why use violence now? Simply wait, and the hollow Occident will naturally turn to Islam.

In the book, the destiny of both the militant Identitarian and the depoliticized liberal is to embrace Islam. After all, pleads one Identitarian-turned-Muslim, do they not agree on the scourges of atheism and feminism, and the need for patriarchy?

The portrayal of nationalists and Identitarians is ultimately not hostile, but has a certain understanding for those calling themselves “Indigenous Europeans.” The humble goy protagonist ruefully notes as his Jewish girlfriend leaves for Israel, fearing violence: “There is no Israel for me” (p. 112).

The Disappearance of the Jews

The Jews gradually disappear throughout the course of the book with the rise of Muslim power: first the student union in the university, then the kosher aisle in the supermarket, and so on. Houllebecq repeatedly has the 44-year-old protagonist sexually desecrating his pretty young Jewess, the main love interest. She and her parents leave for Israel with the rise of the Ben Abbes regime (though no persecutions are portrayed or really implied).

A third party describes the Muslim president’s attitude thus:

[H]e really believes that massive conversions are possible with the Christians – and nothing proves that this is impossible – he no doubt has very few illusions concerning the Jews. What he hopes deep down I believe is that they will decide themselves to leave France – to emigrate to Israel. (p. 157)

Apparently Ben Abbes does not believe Jews are compatible with his Utopia.

At the end of the novel the protagonist, happily reconciled to the new regime, worries about his former girlfriend’s future: “She would live her own life, I knew it, in much more difficult conditions than mine. I sincerely hoped her life would be happy – even though I did not believe it very much” (p. 299). Her challenges are not made explicit however.

The new regime’s foreign policy is touched upon. France creates a new “Roman Empire” by re-centering the European Union southwards, with Morocco and Turkey joining, and others still in the wings. France “retakes the ambition of De Gaulle, that of a great Arab policy,” no longer participating in the United States’ destruction of the Islamic World under Zionist influence. The Gulf petro-monarchies, having become too unpopular due to collaboration with Washington, “are starting to think that an ally like Europe, less organically linked to Israel, could be for them a much better choice . . .” (p. 158–59). Now why would one Houellebecq’s characters suggest that America is “organically linked to Israel”?

Insofar as Ben Abbes’ administration can be taken as a portrayal of Houellebecq’s ideal regime, the implications are indeed rather anti-Judaic: as the forces of disintegration at work in the West are overcome, the Jews (coincidentally or not) disappear. Is the author not implying that Jewish influence is not compatible with a regenerated, patriarchal, hierarchical France? What to make of the fact that France’s return to grandeur in the world  is achieved by leading a new foreign policy independent of Israelite influence? Nonetheless, Houellebecq leaves himself more than sufficient plausible deniability to avoid the charge of anti-Semitism.

Eugenic Themes

The novel makes several intriguing inegalitarian and eugenicist points. The protagonist explains early on:

A few private lessons I gave in the hope of increasing my standard of living had soon convinced me that the transmission of knowledge was most of the time impossible; the diversity of intelligences, extreme; and that nothing could eliminate or even attenuate this fundamental inequality. (p. 18)

Later on the alleged eugenic effect of polygamy is presented as the most prominent benefit of the practice, driving mankind’s self-realization:

In the case of mammals, given the gestation time of females, to be contrasted with the almost unlimited reproductive abilities of males, selective pressure exerts itself above all on males. Inequality between males – if some were granted the enjoyment of several females, others would necessarily be deprived of it – should not be considered as a perverse effect of polygamy, but indeed its actual goal. Thus the destiny of the species fulfilled itself. (p. 269)

Later still, this eugenic effect is described as concerning especially intelligence, which is where selective pressure among human males is most prominent (p. 292). Women, in choosing men, have this effect, while men only select for beauty in their choice of mate. Although he amusingly adds that culture plays a role: “One can even, to a certain extent, persuade them [women] of the high erotic value of university professors . . .” (p. 294).

The demographic obsession is present throughout the novel. The postmodern world is selecting for those predisposed to religion, as only they breed. The new regime assures its hegemony by focusing on education: “he who controls the children controls the future, end of story” (p. 82). Islam will conquer the world through the womb; even China and India will eventually fall, for they have “allowed themselves to be contaminated by Western values” of materialism and individualism (p. 271).

A Soralian Vision?

Now, one can be forgiven for thinking that Houellebecq is engaging in some “epic trolling” of any of his readers with nationalist or Identitarian leanings. Instead of the advertised attack on Islamic immigration, one in fact gets a critique of Western liberal degeneracy through the prism of a positive portrayal of Islam. The heights of chutzpah are reached when one character explains:

One had to admit the obvious: having reached such a repugnant degree of decomposition, Western Europe was no longer in any condition to save itself – no more than Ancient Rome had been in the fifth century of our era. The massive arrival of immigration populations imbued of a traditional culture still marked by natural hierarchies, the submission of women, and the respect due to elders constituted a historic opportunity for Europe’s moral and familial rearmament, opened the perspective of a new golden age for the old continent. (p. 276)

michel houellebecq,littérature,littérature française,lettres,lettres françaises,livreThis kind of argument, even if it is part of a dialectic, can only be very troubling for Identitarians, who incidentally are portrayed in the book as wanting “Race war now!” while we are still the overwhelming majority in mother Europa. This is not an irrational attitude if a war must occur: there is no question that we grow demographically weaker with every generation in the face of the fatal triad of sub-replacement fertility, displacement-level immigration, and miscegenation.

In any case, Houellebecq’s positively showing Islam as a force for Tradition in a book marketed to Identitarians reveals him to be a man of peace. The French nationalist and anti-Judaic activist Alain Soral warmly welcomed the book [4] and the author as “a great French writer and a guy possessed by the eternal French genius.” Soral goes so far as to argue that the narrative indicates Houellebecq has been reading from his Égalité et Réconciliation website and his Kontre Kulture bookstore. (Although Soral adds he does not want a Muslim president, but rather a Putin or a Chávez.)

Soral is against both immigration to Europe and forced remigration out. One can criticize this position, given the threat against us of irreversible genetic damage and ultimately extinction in Europe. But there is a legitimate sense in which we must be careful and not macho in fantasizing about civil war. We are much weaker today than we were in 1914 or 1933. There is clearly a tendency within Western oligarchies – among neoconservatives, Zionists, representatives of the Surveillance State and Military-Industrial Complex, etc – of actively promoting a clash of civilizations between the West and Islam in order to strengthen Liberal-Atlanticist power elites and destroy the enemies of Israel. Identitarians must not prove their useful idiots.

Houellebecq and the Right

Houellebecq is not a White Nationalist; he is a ruthless chronicler of European Man’s descent into degeneracy under Liberal hegemony. Soumission positively portrays and compellingly shows the case, on a personal, emotional and subjective level, for organic hierarchy, transcendental values and even eugenics. Clearly this is a work of the Right.

The book is completely unrealistic on numerous counts. There is no prospect of an Islamic takeover in 2022 or even decades after that, given the numbers still in our favor. Muslim political organization in France is nil, their ethnic lobbies being effectively emanations of the state and of (often Jewish-led) “antiracist” groups. This is an important point: Muslims, for the most part, do not have political agency (in contrast to Jews [5] and Liberals, who have it in spades). There is no evidence Islamic polygamy is eugenic, and a lot of evidence that their institutionalized cousin-impregnating is highly dysgenic and evidently the exogamous polygamy of Sub-Saharan Africa has not had positive results. (Although could polygamy, in the right conditions, be eugenic?) These are trivial observations however. The point of the novel is not realism but a fantasy allowing one to play with ideas and argue a morality.

More relevant would be to point out that Islam – though an amusing way of criticizing feminism and liberalism – is not our way. Nor should the Roman Empire be glorified as a model, given that it eventually ruined its Latin core through miscegenation and deracination. The case for close association with Morocco or Turkey is lost on me, given for example that the Islamic World’s scientific output since the end of its Golden Age is close to nil.

Having said all this, I would argue that Houellebecq’s novel is useful to nationalists and Identitarians. Islam, I am convinced, is not our primary enemy because Muslims for the most part have no political agency. The enemy would be those who opened the floodgates and continue to marginalize European nationalists: the Zionist and/or Liberal elites who are in varying proportions hegemonic across the West.

Recognizing this, Houellebecq’s work is an invitation to Identitarians to be creative and not misidentify their enemy, to not overlook possible alliances. We need to be forward-looking and creative in our approach, which does not mean selling out. Soumission’s protagonist is obsessed with the 19th-century French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans, particularly of his use of rare or forgotten French words as neologisms. Perhaps this is trivial, but I was struck by the similarity between this usage and the wider notion of archeofuturism.

For having made the Right-wing diagnostic, having identified a past as less degenerate, how do we go from A to B? One cannot simply start up a time machine and undo the fall of medieval Christendom, the American Civil War, or the Great European Civil War of 1914–1945. One cannot, as some might want to, simply pick up where Jefferson or Hitler left off. We must come to terms with our defeats. If Identitarianism is purely backward-looking – wishing merely to preserve Europe like a kind of mummified museum – then it will fail. I believe Houellebecq is calling on us not to cling to the past or simply charge against the wave of destruction, but to ride it, to move forward to seize the contradictions that will in turn destroy it, so that in that mysterious dialectical process we overcome the current age and ensure our salvation.

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[2] Soumission: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2081354802/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=2081354802&linkCode=as2&tag=countecurrenp-20&linkId=LLYJKOSV4DUNKEHP

[3] Belloc’s Judeo-criticism: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/09/reflections-on-hilaire-bellocs-the-jews-1922-part-one-of-three/

[4] Alain Soral warmly welcomed the book: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fu3qw

[5] Jews: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/05/as-happy-as-god-in-france-the-state-of-french-jewish-elites-part-1/

dimanche, 22 février 2015

Populisme : et si les demeurés de l'Europe n'étaient pas ceux que l'on croit ?

Populisme : et si les demeurés de l'Europe n'étaient pas ceux que l'on croit ?

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Chantal_Delsol.jpgLe « populisme » évoque un courant d'opinion fondé sur l'enracinement (la patrie, la famille) et jugeant que l'émancipation (mondialisation, ouverture) est allée trop loin. Si le « populisme » est d'abord une injure, c'est que ce courant d'opinion est aujourd'hui frappé d'ostracisme. Cet ouvrage a pour but de montrer sur quoi repose cet ostracisme, ses fondements et ses arguments. Et les liens entre le peuple et l'enracinement, entre les élites et l'émancipation. Extrait de "Populisme - les demeurés de l'Histoire", de Chantal Delsol,édité aux éditions du Rocher (1/2).

Bonnes feuilles

Il me semble que le désamour entre les centres et les périphéries est homothétique du désamour entre les élites et les peuples. Des deux côtés, même écart culturel qui avec la modernité s’analyse comme un écart moral et vient échouer dans la relation condescendance/ ressentiment. Même rébellion finalement chez les méprisés qui traduisent leur position, jugée inférieure ou retardataire, comme une opinion, pas moins cohérente que d’autres.

Les centres ont déployé des idéaux et des idoles pour les envoyer rayonner dans l’ensemble du cercle imaginaire, et jusqu’aux confins. Ils ont éduqué les élites des confins pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Ils ont servi d’exemples, rêves et cauchemars mêlés. Ainsi les centres européens (Londres, Berlin, Paris) se confèrent-ils à eux-mêmes une vocation de découvreurs, peut-être usurpée. Quand les centres, où s’était concoctée l’idée d’unification européenne, ont mis en oeuvre l’élargis-sement de l’Europe institutionnelle, il s’agissait pour eux de s’adjoindre des périphéries considérées comme « en retard » dans la marche au progrès.

Ces périphéries étaient supposées désireuses de faire un pas en avant, de se moderniser à tous égards, avec l’aide bienveillante des centres. Se moderniser, autrement dit avancer vers le progrès et les Lumières : cette démarche n’a pas seulement une connotation économique, mais aussi morale. Les centres européens ont pensé qu’ils allaient aider les périphéries à améliorer leur niveau de vie, mais aussi les aider à abandonner des moeurs devenues indésirables avec la marche du temps : les périphéries devraient par exemple accepter la libéralisation des moeurs, repousser la religion dans la seule sphère privée, et en tout cas, devenir en toute chose les admirateurs des centres et non leurs contradicteurs, car les centres ne se voient pas en égaux, mais en guides. C’est ce qui explique la dureté des phrases de Jacques Chirac à l’adresse des pays du centre-est : ceux-ci auraient dû imiter les centres, et non pas revendiquer une liberté de parole et d’action.

Aujourd’hui une grande méfiance s’est instaurée face à l’élargissement, et l’on entend partout en Europe occidentale que l’élargissement a été trop rapide, que l’on n’a pas assez réfléchi, qu’il aurait fallu attendre davantage, voire même qu’il faudrait revenir à un « noyau dur » composé des quelques pays occidentaux dans lesquels l’idée de l’Europe institutionnelle a germé juste après guerre. Cette méfiance répond naturellement à une crainte de devoir partager matériellement le bien-être occidental avec un grand nombre de pays moins favorisés (comme on le sait, les Occidentaux sont assez matérialistes, donc peu portés au partage du bien-être). Mais cette méfiance répond aussi, pour une large part, à la crainte de voir des pays moins « avancés » dans la marche aux Lumières gagner de l’influence en ce qui concerne la définition de la « bonne vie ». Autrement dit, les Occidentaux ont le sentiment que l’élargissement, en incluant des provinces périphériques, pourrait faire reculer l’Europe tout entière dans sa marche au Progrès. Car ces périphéries, comme disait Mauriac à propos des provinces, « croient encore au bien et au mal, gardent le sens de l’indignation et du dégoût ». Autrement dit, à l’égal des provinces par rapport à la capitale, elles sont plus attachées aux traditions et plus défiantes face à des changements dont les centres se font les champions. Nul doute, par exemple, qu’une loi autorisant l’euthanasie, déjà votée en Hollande, s’instaurera plus facilement en Espagne ou en France qu’en Pologne ou en Roumanie. Il suffit de lire la presse occidentale vociférant sur les opinions irlandaise ou polonaise à propos de l’IVG, pour apercevoir l’expression de ce qui est vu comme une menace : le traditionalisme des périphéries.

Les périphéries de l’Europe, comme les provinces au sein d’un même pays, tiennent davantage que les centres au maintien des cultures héritées, et si elles acceptent bien le progrès (qui ne l’accepterait pas ?), elles refusent le plus souvent d’adopter des transformations avant d’en avoir mûrement réfléchi les conséquences. Il est clair qu’aujourd’hui, avec le déplacement de l’Europe élargie vers l’Est, la Pologne met tous ses efforts à faire de Varsovie un nouveau centre européen. Varsovie (ou le duo Varsovie/Cracovie) deviendrait alors une métropole assez différente de Berlin ou de Paris, au sens où elle enverrait l’écho d’une autre interprétation des droits de l’homme et de la post-modernité.

Ces deux pôles, qui symbolisent le paradoxe entre le particulier et l’universel, ont réciproquement besoin l’un de l’autre. Il n’y a pas seulement des centres qui tirent vers les Lumières des périphéries passéistes et trop récalcitrantes. Il y a aussi des périphéries habitées d’anciennes sagesses capables de domestiquer le progrès et d’en limiter les perversions. C’est pourquoi on ne peut approuver sans réflexion la volonté de domination des centres qui s’instituent trop facilement détenteurs du Bien. L’histoire avance sans doute à l’instigation des centres. Mais ce sont les périphéries qui peuvent dresser des barrières au bord des gouffres.

Extrait de "Populisme - les demeurés de l'Histoire", de Chantal Delsol,édité aux éditions du Rocher, 2014. Pour acheter ce livre, cliquez ici.


Read more at http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/populisme-et-demeures-europe-etaient-pas-ceux-que-on-croit-populisme-demeures-histoire-chantal-delsol-editions-rocher-1956339.html#P5qXvdXQzuACbTK4.99

mardi, 17 février 2015

Soumission de Michel Houellebecq: l’illusion d’un renouveau spirituel

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Soumission de Michel Houellebecq: l’illusion d’un renouveau spirituel

Dans Soumission, Michel Houellebecq imagine la victoire d’un parti musulman face au Front national au second tour de la présidentielle française. Perçu par beaucoup comme islamophobe, raciste et comme s’inscrivant dans le sillage des idées d’Éric Zemmour, le roman de Houellebecq n’est pourtant pas réductible à ces caricatures : tout en critiquant la médiocrité du monde moderne, individualiste et démocratique, il annonce l’impasse dans laquelle s’engouffrent les mouvements identitaires et  islamiques qui entendent œuvrer à un prétendu renouveau spirituel.

Michel Houellebecq est un romancier important bien qu’inégal. Depuis son premier roman paru il y a vingt ans, le remarquable Extension du domaine de la lutte, Houellebecq s’est contenté de coucher ses états d’âme libidineux sur le papier, en les agrémentant de diverses divagations philosophiques plus ou moins intéressantes sur son époque. Soumission n’échappe pas à la règle. De plus, Houellebecq ne se démarque pas de ce style « moyen », caractéristique de la littérature contemporaine : les phrases sont plates et simples et évoquent la prose chargée de métaphores stéréotypées que l’on rencontre dans les magazines.

Pourtant, le personnage principal, que Houellebecq fait évoluer dans le milieu universitaire parisien, apparaît lui-même comme le défenseur d’une certaine idée de la littérature. Passionné par l’œuvre de Huysmans, hostile à Bloy, « prototype du catholique mauvais, dont la foi et l’enthousiasme ne s’exaltent vraiment que lorsqu’il peut considérer ses interlocuteurs comme damnés », son intérêt pour la fin du XIXe siècle met en évidence la parenté de l’époque décadentiste et de la nôtre. Ainsi, ce n’est pas sans ironie qu’il évoque ces « différents cercles catho-royalistes de gauche, qui divinis[ent] Bloy et Bernanos », croyant retrouver chez ces auteurs la source d’inspiration nécessaire au renouveau spirituel en ce début de XIXe siècle. À travers ses portraits d’enseignants enthousiastes et ses considérations – discutables mais renseignées – sur les auteurs chrétiens, Houellebecq démontre qu’il se tient parfaitement au fait des modes philosophiques les plus récentes, tout comme il maîtrise les références aux marques de plats surgelés, à Rutube et à Youporn, et à tout cet arrière-plan culturel de notre époque. Là où nombre d’écrivains prétendûment modernes s’émerveillent encore en 2015 de l’essor des télécommunications.

Houellebecq ne traite absolument pas de politique

Le véritable mérite de Houellebecq réside donc dans cette faculté à saisir son époque. Très rapidement, la lecture de Soumission devient jubilatoire pour peu que l’on accepte de laisser de côté toute exigence stylistique. Encore faut-il, contrairement à ce que s’acharnent à faire les critiques épouvantés par un racisme pourtant radicalement absent du livre, laisser également de côté toute prétention politique. La mise en scène de personnalités, comme François Bayrou, David Pujadas ou Marine Le Pen, constitue une formalité purement narrative, parfois amusante, mais dénuée de signification. Soumission ne traite pas de politique, mais des grandes forces idéologiques qui parcourent notre époque – et, une fois de plus, Houellebecq fait preuve d’un esprit d’analyse extrêmement lucide.

L’un des personnages déclare ainsi, sur un ton spontané et naturel : « Le véritable agenda de l’UMP, comme celui du PS, c’est la disparition de la France, son intégration dans un ensemble fédéral européen. Ses électeurs, évidemment, n’approuvent pas cet objectif ; mais les dirigeants parviennent, depuis des années, à passer le sujet sous silence. » Plus loin, on fait allusion à ces « ultimes soixantehuitards, momies progressistes mourantes, sociologiquement exsangues mais réfugiés dans des citadelles médiatiques d’où ils demeuraient capables de lancer des imprécations sur le malheur des temps et l’ambiance nauséabonde qui se répandait dans le pays ». Ce décor romanesque, d’un réalisme saisissant, et nécessairement déplaisant pour les journalistes qui se reconnaissent dans la description peu gracieuse que Houellebecq livre d’eux, c’est bel et bien celui du XIXe siècle. Dans l’imagination de Houellebecq, la Fraternité musulmane ne parvient à faire campagne sur les thèmes de la famille et de l’autorité que grâce aux médias, pour qui ces sujets ne sont réactionnaires et dangereux que lorsqu’ils sont abordés par la droite, alors qualifiée d’extrême.

Le seul véritable enjeu : le XIXe siècle sera spirituel ou ne sera pas

houell4194413539.2.jpegTout le paradoxe de la France de 2022 telle que présentée par Houellebecq réside dans cet affrontement entre le Front national et la Fraternité musulmane, autrement dit entre l’islam et les identitaires. A priori diamétralement opposés, ces deux courants de pensée apparaissent pourtant comme similaires puisqu’ils revendiquent des valeurs comme l’enracinement et la famille. Tous deux entendent répondre au vide laissé par la parenthèse si courte ouverte en 1789, c’est-à-dire à cet « humanisme athée » plein « d’orgueil et d’arrogance » et caractérisé par « l’opposition entre le communisme – disons, la variante hard de l’humanisme – et la démocratie libérale – sa variante molle ». Tous deux entendent œuvrer au retour du spirituel. Le fascinant personnage de Rediger, professeur d’université ayant fréquenté les mouvements identitaires avant de se convertir à l’islam et de devenir finalement ministre, symbolise à lui seul cette aspiration incessante que ni le libéralisme, ni la démocratie, ni l’athéisme ne seront parvenus à éteindre. D’abord convaincu qu’une renaissance de la chrétienté était possible, il comprend finalement que « cette Europe qui était le sommet de la civilisation humaine s’est bel et bien suicidée, en l’espace de quelques décennies » en 1914. Qu’importe alors si le vecteur du renouveau spirituel ne se fait plus au nom des Évangiles mais du Coran. Pourvu que l’essentiel demeure.

Et c’est justement dans les ultimes lignes du roman que tout lecteur honnête devrait percevoir la véritable charge subversive de Soumission, qui provoque bien davantage les croyances effrayées en un « Grand Remplacement » que les musulmans eux-mêmes, fussent-ils fanatiques. Le personnage principal accepte finalement de se convertir – notamment convaincu par Rediger et son exaltation au sujet de l’islam – mais sa vie ne s’en trouve pas pour autant bouleversée. Bien au contraire, il se voit offrir la possibilité de prendre plusieurs épouses en vertu du mariage polygame récemment mis en place, et peut désormais travailler à la publication des œuvres de Huysmans dans la collection de la Pléiade. Ce qui importe le plus à ses yeux en tant qu’individu moderne sera préservé : il pourra écrire et baiser. Car au fond, le renouveau spirituel porté par l’islam s’avère de la même teneur que la régénérescence de l’Europe chrétienne tant désirée par les identitaires : c’est un renouveau superficiel, qui contraint les magasins Jennyfer à fermer tout en autorisant les hommes à épouser des jeunes filles de quinze ans, qui appose un croissant islamique au fronton de la Sorbonne en ouvrant son capital aux pétrodollars du Golfe, et qui engage une profonde réforme économique du pays en le maintenant cependant indéfectiblement au sein d’une Union européenne plus forte que jamais, et désormais étendue à l’Égypte et au Liban.

Le personnage principal ne s’y trompe pas : « Je n’aurais rien à regretter », conclut-il sobrement, comprenant que, tout comme celles de Huysmans en son temps, son histoire et celle de sa civilisation s’achèvent sur un échec.

vendredi, 13 février 2015

Unterwerfung als Option

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Unterwerfung als Option

von Felix Menzel

Ex: http://www.blauenarzisse.de

2001 sagte der Bestsellerautor Michel Houellebecq: „Die dümmste Religion ist doch der Islam.“ Ist sein Mitte Januar auf Deutsch erschienener Roman „Unterwerfung“ folglich ein Anti-​Islam-​Pamphlet?

Um es gleich vorwegzunehmen: Nein, das ist er nicht. Vielmehr überrascht der Franzose Houellebecq mit einem recht positiven Bild des Islam. Im Gegensatz zur atheistischen, toleranten und weltoffenen Gesellschaft bewundern viele Figuren in Unterwerfung diesen Glauben für seine religiöse Stärke. Er habe die Fähigkeit, der Gesellschaft eine klare, einfach zu verstehende Ordnung zu geben.

Warum „Unterwerfung“ Islam-​Hasser enttäuschen wird

Insofern hat Houellebecq seine Meinung zum Islam überhaupt nicht geändert: Gerade das „Dumme“, das Antiliberale und tendenziell Totalitäre machen diese Religion so attraktiv. Das ist auch der Grund, warum es vielen Muslimen schwer fällt, sich von religiösen Fanatikern zu distanzieren. Denn das Vereinfachende gehört zu den Grundprinzipien des Islam.

Houllebecqs Buch erschien auch in Frankreich genau zum richtigen Zeitpunkt: Anfang des Jahres griffen Islamisten die französische Satirezeitschrift Charlie Hebdo an und brachten 17 Menschen um. Damit trugen sie den Terror endgültig nach Europa. Und es war sofort klar, daß Unterwerfung zum ersten großen Buchereignis des Jahres 2015 werden mußte. Sowohl in Deutschland als auch Frankreich stand das Buch umgehend auf dem ersten Platz der Amazon-​Bestsellerliste. Es spielt dabei keine Rolle, daß dieser Roman definitiv nicht sein bester ist. Houellebecq hat nach Die Möglichkeit einer Inselseinen Zenit überschritten. Und er weiß das auch.

Relativ am Anfang des Romans läßt Houellebecq seine Hauptfigur, den Literaturwissenschaftler François, referieren, wie der Schriftsteller Joris-​Karl Huysmans mit dem Verfall seiner eigenen Leistungsfähigkeit umgegangen ist. Er habe einfach einen enttäuschenden Roman über eine Enttäuschung geschrieben und so doch noch einen „ästhetischen Sieg“ davon getragen. Da nun Houellebecq schon immer über Enttäuschungen geschrieben hat, entfiel für ihn diese Strategie.

Politische Literatur: Fast immer schlecht

Er hat aber eine andere Lösung für dieses Dilemma gefunden und einfach einen politischen Roman geschrieben. In dem wird ein Szenario beschrieben, das sich nah an der Realität bewegt. Mit Michael Klonovsky könnte man nun einwenden: „Wenn Literatur politisch wird, ist sie fast immer schlecht.“ Das stimmt auch. Betrachtet man einzig die literarische Qualität, ist Unterwerfung im Vergleich zu den früheren Romanen von Houellebecq wirklich schlecht.

Aber was hätte Houellebecq, der seinen eigenen Verfall als Person regelrecht inszeniert, denn tun sollen? Nichts mehr schreiben? Nein, natürlich nicht! Er hat – wieder einmal – alles richtig gemacht. Frankreich, Deutschland und Europa haben einen Roman wie Unterwerfung gebraucht, um über die eigene Dekadenz und das mögliche Ende des modern-​aufklärerischen Zeitalters debattieren zu können.

Islamisierung, die Houellebecq in seinem Roman skizziert, läuft dabei anders ab, als sich dies die üblichen Islam-​Hasser so denken. Nach einem Bürgerkrieg zwischen Islamisten auf der einen Seite sowie Rechtsradikalen und Identitärenauf der anderen gelangt der charismatische Muslimbruder Mohammed Ben Abbes an die Macht. Denn alle etablierten Parteien wollen verhindern, daß der Front National in Zukunft das Sagen hat. Abbes ist ein Visionär, der das Gravitationszentrum Europas nach Süden verschieben will. Er strebt eine eine Mittelmeer-​Union mit arabischen Staaten an. Sein Vorbild ist dabei das Römische Reich.

Ein Islamisch-​Römisches Reich: Alptraum oder Zukunftsvision?

Innenpolitisch gelingt es ihm, eine neue soziale Solidarität durch die Kraft des Religiösen zu stiften. Das fällt Abbes deshalb so leicht, weil vor seiner Herrschaft die offene Gesellschaft daran gearbeitet hatte, die Familie als Kernstruktur jeder Gemeinschaftsbildung zu zersetzen. Wenn man so will, macht Houellebecq also darauf aufmerksam, daß die Vorstellungen der Muslime und der Rechten zur Bewahrung traditioneller Werte und Gemeinschaftsstrukturen sehr ähnlich sind – mit dem feinen Unterschied freilich, daß der Islam die Polygamie erlaubt.

Die Rechten – so könnte man seinen Gedankengang weiterspinnen – haben jedoch das Problem, daß von den christlichen Institutionen kein Impuls zur bewahrenden Erneuerung ausgehen wird. Das europäische Christentum könnte von der aufklärerischen Moderne dermaßen vergiftet worden sein, daß es unfähig ist, der Unterwerfung durch den Islam überhaupt etwas entgegensetzen zu wollen.

Ohne Religion überleben wir nicht

Wie geht es also weiter? Der Roman gibt keine klare Prognose ab. Im Gespräch mit der ZEITsagt Houellebecq, ein Happy-​End habe es nicht geben können. Denn sein Verlag hätte ihm keine Recherchereise nach Israel ermöglicht. Und ansonsten? „Eine Gesellschaft ohne Religion ist nicht überlebensfähig. Der Laizismus, der Rationalismus und die Aufklärung, deren Grundprinzip die Abkehr vom Glauben ist, haben keine Zukunft“, betont Houellebecq. Er könne sich vorstellen, in einem moderaten islamischen Staat zu leben.

Ist das nur Provokation? Vielleicht. Vielleicht bereitet uns Houellebecq aber auch nur darauf vor, daß es mit dem Christentum sowieso nichts mehr wird. Auch das ist die zentrale, bittere Botschaft von Unterwerfung.

Michel Houellebecq: Unterwerfung. Roman. Köln: Dumont 2015. Hardcover. 280 Seiten. 22,99 Euro.

Anm. d. Red.: Hier geht es zu unserem nach Michel Houellebecq benannten Jugendkulturpreis. Es gab fast 300 Einsendungen junger Nachwuchskünstler.

dimanche, 08 février 2015

Houellebecq’s SOUMISSION: Would Nietzche Say Islam Can Redeem Europe?

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Houellebecq’s SOUMISSION: Would Nietzche Say Islam Can Redeem Europe?

 

mercredi, 04 février 2015

À propos de « Nouveaux cathares pour Monségur » de Saint-Loup

À propos de « Nouveaux cathares pour Monségur » de Saint-Loup

par Rüdiger NON CONFORME

Ex: http://cerclenonconforme.hautetfort.com

nvxcath2956457755.jpgJ’ai comme l’impression qu’on ne lit plus beaucoup Saint-Loup (nom de plume de Marc Augier) aujourd’hui, ce que je ne peux que déplorer. Aussi, si ces quelques considérations sur l’un de ses ouvrages phares pouvaient donner à d’aucuns l’envie de se plonger dans l’œuvre de ce grand écrivain, j’en serais ravi.

 

Grand écrivain, oui, c’est indéniable. Et même si l’homme était avant tout un écrivain de combat aux idées bien trempées, il mérite d’être (re)découvert tant son talent peut séduire au-delà du lecteur typique de notre mouvance. Comme le savent ses lecteurs, Saint-Loup mettait énormément de lui-même dans ses livres et mêlait à ses convictions des thèmes chers qui avaient beaucoup compté dans son parcours personnel : la noblesse de comportement devant la vie, le dépassement de soi par le sport (ou la guerre) ou encore la joie de la camaraderie telle qu’on la pratiquait dans les Auberges de Jeunesse avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

 

Nouveaux cathares pour Monségur, premier volume du cycle des « Patries charnelles », entraîne le lecteur dans l’Occitanie de la fin des années 1930 à la fin des années 1960 et prend comme fil directeur le combat identitaire occitan. L’Occitanie étant l’une de ces nombreuses patries charnelles constituant l’Europe voulue par Saint-Loup, une Europe fédérale respectueuse de toutes ses identités régionales. Ce combat « régionaliste » est ainsi illustré dans ce roman datant de 1968 par une galerie de personnages bien différents dont les opinions (tant politiques que religieuses), les choix devant l’histoire de leur temps, les évolutions et les divergences apportent l’essentiel de la matière ici développée.

 

L’ombre de la croisade contre les Albigeois plane sur le récit et, pour bien des protagonistes de l’histoire, c’est la déclaration de guerre faite à l’Occitanie par la France du Nord au XIIIe siècle. En effet, pour Roger Barbaïra, héros du livre, « la France n’est pas la terre de mes pères », c’est « une patrie qui n’a d’autres contours qu’idéologiques ». Partant de ce postulat que la France écrase l’Occitanie depuis le Moyen Âge et que celle-ci se doit d’être libérée, Roger Barbaïra et sa bande de compagnons issue des Auberges de Jeunesse  vont tout faire pour lutter contre cette domination vue comme étrangère. Et c’est là que la plume de Saint-Loup s’exprime, à mon sens, le mieux. Quelle stratégie adopter à l’aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour ces jeunes gens bien différents, tant dans la personnalité que dans les opinions politiques, mais unis par le combat identitaire ? Certains choisiront Vichy, d’autres le maquis communiste; Barbaïra choisira la S.S. Ils en viendront à s’entretuer ou à s’entraider, dépassés par les événements de la grande guerre civile européenne. Le combat continuera ensuite après la guerre, pour ceux qui y auront survécu et qui seront restés fidèles, avec d’autres moyens.

 

Comme dans beaucoup de livres de Saint-Loup, on retrouve l’idée de la dureté de l’engagement. Celui qui s’engage pour une cause fait face à de multiples difficultés et la guerre vécue par les différents acteurs de cette fresque occitane en sera la meilleure illustration : combattre ou s’engager au sens large, ce n’est pas aller dans le sens de la facilité, bien au contraire. Les péripéties de ceux qui auront choisi le mauvais camp et qui deviendront des « maudits » illustrent cela à merveille : ils seront traqués, torturés et tués par ceux qui prétendaient combattre pour la « paix », la « dignité » et les « droits de l’homme » et qui sont toujours adulés et loués de nos jours puisque, dans le monde moderne, il y a des persistances qui ont la vie dure.

 

sl380539376.jpgAu-delà de la question identitaire, Nouveaux cathares pour Monségur est un voyage en Occitanie, dans ses châteaux, ses montagnes, ses légendes. C’est l’occasion aussi pour Saint-Loup de traiter de religion et en particulier du catharisme. Cette foi est ainsi celle de ce mystique personnage qu’est Auda Isarn (dont le nom a été repris par une célèbre maison d’édition). Membre de la bande d’amis de Roger Barbaïra, sa beauté froide la rend désirable à bien des hommes qui s’opposeront pour l’avoir mais une telle femme, dotée d’une telle foi, peut-elle réellement appartenir à un homme et lui dévouer sa vie? Auda Isarn fait partie de ces femmes un peu mystérieuses voire insaisissables que l’on retrouve dans l’œuvre de l’auteur, telle la fameuse Morigane de Plus de pardons pour les Bretons, et est résolument le personnage le plus énigmatique de l’histoire.

 

Saint-Loup profite de son récit pour y fondre différents éléments ésotériques. C’est ainsi la rencontre entre Otto Rahn, l’auteur de Croisade contre le Graal et de La cour de Lucifer, d’une part et Roger Barbaïra et ses amis d’autre part qui donnera à ces derniers le goût du combat pour leur identité. C’est encore Otto Rahn qui mettra Barbaïra sur la piste des « vérités éternelles » par sa recherche du Graal dans les grottes proches de Monségur. Ce Graal, sous la plume de Saint-Loup, n’est plus la coupe qui recueillit le sang du Christ mais les tables de lois des Aryens « en écriture païenne enchevêtrée » dont la redécouverte changerait la face du monde moderne, ce qui explique les recherches menées par Rahn, en mission spéciale en 1938, puis par une section de l’Ahnenerbe à laquelle Barbaïra prêtera main forte durant la guerre avant de s’engager dans la Waffen S.S. Cet engagement s’explique par le fait que Barbaïra veut donner à l’Occitanie une place digne de ce nom dans l’Europe nouvelle et c’est seulement par le sang versé à la guerre qu’elle l’aura selon lui. De plus, il n’est plus, à l’aube de son départ sur le front de l’Est, qu’un simple combattant régionaliste. Il sait que ce combat fait partie d’un mouvement plus vaste, d’une conception totale du monde, d’une Weltanschauung où l’élément spirituel se mêle à l’élément biologique.

 

Qui sont ces nouveaux cathares évoqués par le titre du livre ? Vous le découvrirez avec cet ouvrage passionnant et extrêmement bien écrit, doté d’une interprétation très personnelle de l’histoire de l’Occitanie. Nouveaux cathares pour Monségur recèle de multiples richesses qui en font un très grand roman et un ouvrage absolument indispensable pour qui veut comprendre ou découvrir Saint-Loup.

 

Rüdiger Non Conforme

 

• Saint-Loup, Nouveaux cathares pour Monségur, Presses de la Cité, 1968; réédition Avalon, 1986.

 

• D’abord mis en ligne sur Cercle non conforme, le 17 novembre 2014.


Article printed from Europe Maxima: http://www.europemaxima.com

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Exporting Sherman’s March

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Sherman statue anchors one southern corner of Central Park (with Columbus on a stick anchoring the other):
 
Exporting Sherman’s March

By

DavidSwanson.org

& http://www.lewrockwell.com

shermans_ghosts.jpgMatthew Carr’s new book, Sherman’s Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War, is presented as “an antimilitarist military history” — that is, half of it is a history of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s conduct during the U.S. Civil War, and half of it is an attempt to trace echoes of Sherman through major U.S. wars up to the present, but without any romance or glorification of murder or any infatuation with technology or tactics. Just as histories of slavery are written nowadays without any particular love for slavery, histories of war ought to be written, like this one, from a perspective that has outgrown it, even if U.S. public policy is not conducted from that perspective yet.

What strikes me most about this history relies on a fact that goes unmentioned: the former South today provides the strongest popular support for U.S. wars. The South has long wanted and still wants done to foreign lands what was — in a much lesser degree — done to it by General Sherman.

What disturbs me most about the way this history is presented is the fact that every cruelty inflicted on the South by Sherman was inflicted ten-fold before and after on the Native Americans. Carr falsely suggests that genocidal raids were a feature of Native American wars before the Europeans came, when in fact total war with total destruction was a colonial creation. Carr traces concentration camps to Spanish Cuba, not the U.S. Southwest, and he describes the war on the Philippines as the first U.S. war after the Civil War, following the convention that wars on Native Americans just don’t count (not to mention calling Antietam “the single most catastrophic day in all U.S. wars” in a book that includes Hiroshima). But it is, I think, the echo of that belief that natives don’t count that leads us to the focus on Sherman’s march to the sea, even as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza are destroyed with weapons named for Indian tribes. Sherman not only attacked the general population of Georgia and the Carolinas on his way to Goldsboro — a spot where the U.S. military would later drop nuclear bombs (that very fortunately didn’t explode) — but he provided articulate justifications in writing, something that had become expected of a general attacking white folks.

What intrigues me most is the possibility that the South today could come to oppose war by recognizing Sherman’s victims in the victims of U.S. wars and occupations. It was in the North’s occupation of the South that the U.S. military first sought to win hearts and minds, first faced IEDs in the form of mines buried in roads, first gave up on distinguishing combatants from noncombatants, first began widely and officially (in the Lieber Code) claiming that greater cruelty was actually kindness as it would end the war more quickly, and first defended itself against charges of war crimes using language that it (the North) found entirely convincing but its victims (the South) found depraved and sociopathic. Sherman employed collective punishment and the assaults on morale that we think of as “shock and awe.” Sherman’s assurances to the Mayor of Atlanta that he meant well and was justified in all he did convinced the North but not the South. U.S. explanations of the destruction of Iraq persuade Americans and nobody else.

sher4130-004-383D8192.jpgSherman believed that his nastiness would turn the South against war. “Thousands of people may perish,” he said, “but they now realize that war means something else than vain glory and boasting. If Peace ever falls to their lot they will never again invite War.” Some imagine this to be the impact the U.S. military is having on foreign nations today. But have Iraqis grown more peaceful? Does the U.S. South lead the way in peace activism? When Sherman raided homes and his troops employed “enhanced interrogations” — sometimes to the point of death, sometimes stopping short — the victims were people long gone from the earth, but people we may be able to “recognize” as people. Can that perhaps help us achieve the same mental feat with the current residents of Western Asia? The U.S. South remains full of monuments to Confederate soldiers. Is an Iraq that celebrates today’s resisters 150 years from now what anyone wants?

When the U.S. military was burning Japanese cities to the ground it was an editor of the Atlanta Constitution who, quoted by Carr, wrote “If it is necessary, however, that the cities of Japan are, one by one, burned to black ashes, that we can, and will, do.” Robert McNamara said that General Curtis LeMay thought about what he was doing in the same terms as Sherman. Sherman’s claim that war is simply hell and cannot be civilized was then and has been ever since used to justify greater cruelty, even while hiding within it a deep truth: that the civilized decision would be to abolish war.

The United States now kills with drones, including killing U.S. citizens, including killing children, including killing U.S. citizen children. It has not perhaps attacked its own citizens in this way since the days of Sherman. Is it time perhaps for the South to rise again, not in revenge but in understanding, to join the side of the victims and say no to any more attacks on families in their homes, and no therefore to any more of what war has become?

Bien analysée par Obertone dans La France Big Brother, la double-pensée orwellienne…

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Bien analysée par Obertone dans La France Big Brother, la double-pensée orwellienne…

 
par Marcus Graven
Ex: http://www.lesobservateurs.ch

Un ami m’a envoyé la copie d’un texte du général Jean Delaunay, ancien chef d’Etat–Major de l’armée française.

Comme beaucoup d’entre nous, il s’insurge contre les « Je suis Charlie ».

« Alors, comme ça, vous êtes des Charlie? demande-t-il. Vous, la meute tirant à vue depuis des années sur tous ceux qui vous dérangent, vous vous émouvez maintenant que la mitraille retentit contre votre camp ? 

“ Je suis Charlie ”, scandent vos avatars et vos hashtags sur les réseaux sociaux.

Seulement…

Vous êtes Charlie aujourd’hui, mais vous n’étiez pas Éric Zemmour hier, quand il s’est fait virer d’iTélé pour raisons politiques. Pire encore : vous pétitionniez à tour de bras pour l’évincer du service public. »

Le général Delaunay dénonce le peu de soutien reçu par Robert Redeker, Clément Weill-Raynal, Renaud Camus, Michel Houellebecq, Robert Ménard ou Christine Tasin à leurs procès respectifs pour avoir critiqué l’islam.

Il conclut par : « Les mots manquent pour dénoncer une telle débilité intellectuelle…..

Comme quoi la preuve est faite, à chaque drame, que les gens dits intelligents sont souvent beaucoup plus crétins que le commun des mortels.

Mais ça nous le savions déjà… »

Le général Delaunay n’a aucune chance d’avoir un poste important au sein de la caste médiatico-politique.

Il n’a pas compris qu’il ne s’agit pas d’une débilité intellectuelle mais d’un système subtil qui permet d’être à la fois Charlie et contre Zemmour, pour la liberté d’expression et la censure de Richard Millet, pour une manifestation d’union nationale d’où sera exclu le F.N.

C’est un mécanisme mental qu’Orwell, dans 1984, appelle la double-pensée. C’est réussir, en soi, à résoudre sans problème psychique majeur des contradictions apparentes avec des arguments de raison, tout au moins d’illusion de la raison.

Laurent Obertone dans La France Big Brother analyse très finement ce procédé.

La double-pensée permet de prétendre que les races et les sexes n’existent pas (suppression du mot « race » dans les textes de loi, oubli systématique des travaux scientifiques démontrant l’existence de races, théorie de l’indifférenciation sexuelle mise en pratique dans les maternelles) tout en dénonçant le racisme et le sexisme et en demandant dans la foulée la discrimination positive dans les concours.

C’est grâce à cette gymnastique de l’esprit que l’artiste crache sur la religion chrétienne (Piss Christ, flacon d’urine de l’artiste dans laquelle baigne un crucifix) et vante, dans le même mouvement, la religion des droits de l’Homme tout en cajolant l’islam à laquelle s’attaque les méchants islamophobes.

C’est encore par cette démarche mentale que le journaliste affirme que toutes les cultures se valent (relativisme qui tue l’intellect depuis des décennies) tout en exprimant la nécessité que les autres adoptent notre vision du progrès, de la démocratie, notre déclaration des droits de l’Homme.

oberpolll.jpgL’adepte de la double-pensée hait le déterminisme tout en prétendant que « tout est social » ; rejette la peine de mort tout en militant pour l’avortement et l’euthanasie; abhorre la famille tout en imposant le mariage homosexuel, la GPA et la PMA pour les couples gays et lesbiens ; prétend que les immigrés sont des chances-pour-la-France (ils vont payer les retraites des Français de souche, faire les travaux dont ceux-ci ne veulent plus, remédier à la fécondité dérisoire des femmes autochtones), tout en dénonçant le fait que les immigrés sont les plus touchés par le chômage, souffrent de l’apartheid, et, en parallèle, constate que les retraites diminuent et le gouffre de la sécu ne cesse de s’agrandir ; refuse le lien entre le multiculturalisme (un enrichissement !) et les tensions communautaires qui agitent la rue ; parle d’un sentiment d’insécurité (sauf quand ce sont des locaux de Libé et de Charlie-Hebdo qui sont attaqués), tout en affirmant que la violence est due à la pauvreté des habitants des quartiers « sensibles »…

La double-pensée autorise à brandir la liberté de se déplacer et de s’établir où l’on veut tout en vomissant sur Depardieu qui s’installe en Belgique ; de refuser toute idée d’hérédité tout en lançant c’est« inscrit dans votre ADN »,« le naturel revient au galop » à l’hérétique, généralement étiqueté d’extrême-droite, identitaire.

La double-pensée promeut la charité ostensible (ronde de nuit en voiture sérigraphiée et gilets fluo, aide humanitaire en Afrique ou en Asie), la sensibilité, l’émotion, la compassion à condition qu’elles ne s’adressent pas à un Blanc d’origine européenne, toujours coupable d’être victime. La double-pensée le dénonce alors comme raciste, sexiste, homophobe, xénophobe aux goûts de chiotte, à la mentalité de merde, aux habitudes alimentaires de porc, aux idées forcément de beauf et d’inculte, au vote bas du Front, à la morale simplette de pue-de-la-gueule et de sans-dents.

La double-pensée procure une supériorité morale qui permet de détruire les rares intellectuels qui affirment la supériorité morale de notre civilisation.

Refuser la double-pensée revient à s’exclure de la caste médiatico-politique, et ainsi perdre beaucoup : studios de télé et de radio interdits (terminées les promotions de film, disque, livre, spectacle), finis les articles dithyrambiques dans les journaux, oubliés les repas dans les grands restaurants, les nuits tous frais payés dans les hôtels de luxe, les voyages en première classe à l’œil, les croisières offertes en échange d’une conférence bidon d’une dizaine de minutes.

La double-pensée, cette souplesse cérébrale des avaleurs de slogans, des traqueurs d’hérésies, de ceux qui étouffent délibérément la réalité, est obligatoire pour faire partie de la caste, même aux plus bas échelons. Elle procure une immunité qui permet de se croire rebelle tout en salivant sur ce que la caste souhaite que vous léchiez.

Les enfants y sont formés dès la première année d’école, le reste n’est plus que formalités : collège, lycée, université, show-biz, médias, monde politique.

Obertone termine son livre par « Cesse d’être foule et sois un homme ».

C’est précisément ce que déteste la caste dans son entreprise de domestication du peuple grâce à la double-pensée.

Marcus Graven (article paru en premier sur RL)

mardi, 03 février 2015

Le soleil d'or...

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Le soleil d'or...

Les éditions Alexipharmaque viennent de publier un roman de Bruno Favrit intitulé Le soleil d'or. Alpiniste chevronné, lecteur passionné de Nietzsche et porteur d'une vision du monde païenne, Bruno Favrit est l'auteur de nouvelles comme Nouvelles des Dieux et des montagnes (Les Amis de la Culture Européenne, 2004) ou Ceux d'en haut (Auda Isarn, 2007), d'un roman, Criminel de guerre (Les Amis de la Culture Européenne, 2005) et de plusieurs essais comme Vitalisme et Vitalité (Editions du Lore, 2006) ou Esprit du Monde - œuvres en perspectives (Auda Isarn, 2011). Il a aussi publié Midi à la source (Auda Isarn, 2013), le journal qu'il a tenu entre 1990 et 2011, ainsi qu'un recueil d'aphorismes,Toxiques & Codex (Alexipharmaque, 2013).

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" Le so­leil d’or, c’est un ro­man d’aven­tures.
Des aven­tures au bout du monde — parce qu’il n’y a d’aven­tures vé­ri­tables qu’au bout du monde : au-de­là de la fron­tière, au-de­là de la carte, vers les ter­ri­toires… Ce se­ra alors pour l’es­sen­tiel la Pa­ta­go­nie, âpre et er­ra­tique, dont les in­fi­nis sont con­tem­p­la­tions au­tant que per­di­tions.
C’est aus­si une quête, celle d’un so­leil d’or dont les feux ma­lé­fi­cient peut-être, dont les rayons blessent les cons­ciences, brûlent les âm­es et les pas­sions.
Tan­dis qu’on re­t­rou­ve­ra les thèm­es chers à Bru­no Fa­v­rit, l’homme face à la na­ture, les som­mets et les pics — la ver­ti­ca­li­té qui, si elle est él­é­va­tion est aus­si, et da­van­tage que dans d’autres de ses livres, ver­tige, abîme, chute.
Dans des dé­cors im­menses où pour­raient mi­roi­ter Fran­cis­co Co­loane et Ni­co­las Roe­rich, Bru­no Fa­v­rit ép­rouve l’éva­sion, prouve le Grand De­hors. "

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Els Witte over het orangisme

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Elitaire opstandelingen in eer hersteld

Els Witte over het orangisme

door Edi Clijsters
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ew9789085425502.jpgHet moet zowat de grootste lof zijn die een historicus kan toegezwaaid krijgen, en die lof komt dan zelfs van de veeleisende Nederlandse NRC: 'Het gebeurt niet vaak dat een historicus geschiedenis echt kan herschrijven. Maar Els Witte is het gelukt.'

Dat kan tellen als compliment. Als compliment is die commentaar volkomen terecht, al is de formulering voor verbetering vatbaar.

Want de geschiedenis – als opeenvolging van feiten – kan natuurlijk niemand herschrijven. Geschiedenis als geschiedschrijving daarentegen – als weergave van de feiten en hun samenhang – kan daarentegen wel degelijk worden herschreven. En dat gebeurt gelukkig ook, al is het vaak moeizaam en ondankbaar werk. Terecht stelt Witte (hoogleraar emeritus en ere-rector van de VUB) dat de geschiedschrijving doorgaans meer (of bijna uitsluitend) aandacht heeft voor de 'winnaars', al was het maar omdat dié nu eenmaal in eerste instantie bepalen hoe het verdergaat. Daartegenover staat dat de officiële historiografie nog maar weinig belang hecht aan de verdedigers van een verloren zaak, zodra het pleit is beslecht. Voor zo ver later nog aandacht gaat naar die 'verliezers' is dat dan meestal in apologetische of ronduit hagiografische geschriften, die soms vér af staan van ernstige geschiedschrijving.

Dat zijn beschouwingen waarmee iedereen vertrouwd is die ook maar iets of wat belangstelling heeft voor geschiedenis. En ze gelden a fortiori wanneer de politieke geschiedenis van een land ter sprake komt. Ondertussen zijn immers al vele boekdelen gewijd aan de stelling (of het bestrijden daarvan) dat elke staat (en/of natie) een min of meer kunstmatige constructie is, en dus behoefte heeft aan enkele 'dragende mythes' die het geheel wat romantische luister moeten bijzetten. Met mythes en demystificaties hebben zich dus al ettelijke generaties historici verlustigd, en de bij uitstek kunstmatige creatie België maakt daarop geen uitzondering. Integendeel.

Heilige huisjes

En zie: de Belgische orangisten (die de revolutie van 1830 niet accepteerden en wilden trouw blijven aan het Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) zijn werkelijk een schoolvoorbeeld van 'geschiedschrijving door en voor de overwinnaars'. Generaties historici hebben – in het spoor van de 'vader van de Belgische geschiedschrijving', de grote historicus en nog veel grotere belgicist Henri Pirenne – het verschijnsel 'orangisten in België' ofwel haast totaal genegeerd ofwel minachtend afgedaan als een onbeduidend stelletje nostalgici, meelijwekkende amateur-samenzweerders en/of achterbakse verraders des vaderlands.

Welnu, dat beeld zal elke bonafide historicus voortaan grondig moeten bijstellen, want aan de monumentale studie van Els Witte over 'het harde verzet van de Belgische orangisten tegen de revolutie 1828-1850' kan niemand voorbijgaan. En aangezien je bij een zo vooraanstaande historica van de VUB bezwaarlijk van 'monnikenwerk' kan spreken mag hier gerust het woord 'titanenwerk' worden gebruikt.

Jarenlang heeft Els Witte stapels en stapels officiële en geheime documenten doorploegd, bladen, vlugschriften, brieven en memoires; van rapporten in geheimschrift moest zij zelfs eerst de code ontcijferen. Dat alles vermeldt zij in haar boek slechts langs de neus weg, maar het illustreert wél met hoeveel inzet en volharding zij deze 'herschrijving' heeft aangevat én tot een goed einde gebracht.

Het resultaat is dan ook een kanjer. Pardon: een wetenschappelijke kanjer. Buitenstaanders durven wel 's monkelen dat historici zich blijkbaar soms verplicht achten "meer noten dan tekst" te produceren. Dat valt dan nog mee: tegenover 516 bladzijden verhaal staan 'slechts' 97 bladzijden (wel erg klein gedrukte) noten. Terecht. Niet zonder reden zal Witte het nodig geacht hebben haar studie zo minutieus te documenteren en (bij wijze van spreken) haast elke zin te staven met een verwijzing naar een of andere bron. Want die studie gaat nu eenmaal in tegen ettelijke lang gekoesterde heilige huisjes, en mag dus in het feitenrelaas geen enkele zwakke schakel vertonen.

Die heilige huisjes bevinden zich overigens niet alleen bij 'belgicistische' geschiedschrijvers (die de triomftocht van de sacrosancte Belgische natie sinds 1830 alleen nog kunnen gedwarsboomd zien door domoren of kwaadwilligen) maar evenzeer bij Groot-Nederlandse nostalgici of flamingantisch geïnspireerde auteurs die het orangisme ten onrechte in verband brengen met de prille Vlaamse Beweging).

Daarenboven heeft Witte het verschijnsel 'orangisme' vanuit verschillende hoeken willen bekijken en zoveel mogelijk verbanden willen duidelijk maken tussen de verschillende niveaus en terreinen waarop van orangisme sprake was, zodat onvermijdelijk herhalingen opduiken.

Al die op zichzelf loffelijke bekommernissen maken het boek bijwijlen tot een moeilijk verteerbare brok; maar dat is dan ook de enige negatieve bedenking bij dit opus. Want hoewel het niet bepaald makkelijke lectuur is, toch blijf je lezen – zelfs al weet je 'hoe het afloopt'. Omdat dit in essentie een heel niéuw verhaal is, dat althans met dit ene spook van Pirenne eens en voorgoed afrekent.

Franstalige conservatieven

Wie waren ze eigenlijk, die 'orangisten' ? En vooral: waarom waren ze dat ? Dank zij het minutieuze speur- en puzzelwerk van Els Witte krijgt de lezer nu voor het eerst een correct – niet gediaboliseerd noch geïdealiseerd – beeld van deze politieke stroming die meer dan tien jaar lang voor het prille België een reële bedreiging uitmaakte – én door het nieuwe bewind ook wel degelijk zo werd gezien.

Waarom bleven zo lang zovele Luikenaars, Gentenaars, mensen uit Henegouwen en Antwerpen, de Westhoek of Luxemburg gekant tegen het 'Belgische feit' dat uit de separatistische opstand van 1830 was ontstaan ? Om dat begrijpelijk te maken verwijst Witte naar de geest van die tijd. Na de nederlaag van Napoleon wou het Congres van Wenen vooral de oude monarchieën in eer herstellen en komaf maken met de erfenis van de Franse Revolutie. Het was een tijd van restauratie, en ook in het zuiden van het Verenigd Koninkrijk konden velen zich daarin vinden: oude en nieuwe kleine en grote adel, behoudsgezinde bourgeoisie en ambtenarij, én tal van industriëlen voor wie nieuwe markten opengingen, koninklijke steun niet ontbrak maar sociale rechten taboe bleven. Kortom: een conservatieve grondstroom avant la lettre.

Met name adel, bourgeoisie en ambtenarij hadden een uitgesproken legitimistische kijk op de gebeurtenissen: trouw aan de vorst was vanzelfsprekend en een erezaak, opstand daartegen was ongehoord. Voor de meeste industriëlen en handelslui ging het veeleer om welbegrepen eigenbelang: het opbreken van het Verenigd koninkrijk betekende het einde van nieuwe markten en mogelijkheden. Allen hadden ze een diepe afkeer gemeen van het straatgeweld door opgehitst gepeupel, waardoor niet alleen de 'proletarische opstand van 1830' werd getekend, maar ook de herhaalde repressie tegen orangisten.

De legitieme vorst was en bleef Willem I van Oranje of eventueel zijn zoon. Leopold I was daarentegen in de ogen van de 'orangisten' niets meer of minder dan een usurpator, een adellijke avonturier die zich (dank zij straatgeweld en het Franse leger) een troon had toegeëigend waarop hij geen recht had. Ook hier bleek de geschiedenis rijkelijk ironisch, want de meest fervente revolutionairen van 1830 beschouwden Leopold evengoed als een usurpator want zij hadden gevochten voor een democratische republiek; hun frustratie ging later zelfs zover dat zij toenadering zochten tot de orangisten.

In elk geval is duidelijk dat de verstokte aanhangers van Oranje vooral bij de sociale elite te zoeken waren. En die was toen ook in Vlaanderen Franstalig. De omgangstaal in kastelen, manoirs en herenhuizen was natuurlijk Frans, hun bladen en brochures waren in het Frans (Le Messager de Gand!), hun onderlinge correspondentie en evengoed die met hofkringen in 's Gravenhage gebeurde in het Frans.

Aanmoediging met handrem

Tja, Den Haag. Uiteraard werd het orangisme door de nieuwe Belgische bewindslieden afgeschilderd als een complot van de Nederlanders om het Zuiden terug in te lijven. Dat de grote meerderheid van de Nederlanders zelf daar hoegenaamd niet op belust was, is inmiddels voldoende bekend. Maar Witte toont onweerlegbaar aan dat Willem I wel degelijk ongeveer een decennium lang de hoop – en daarmee gepaard gaande financiële en diplomatieke inspanningen – niet heeft opgegeven om het zuiden weer onder zijn gezag te brengen. Zijn zoon koesterde die hoop evenzeer, en wou desnoods zelfs genoegen nemen met de 'Belgische' troon. Het verhaal van de rivaliteit tussen vader en zoon is bekend, evenals de funeste weerslag daarvan op de pogingen om de scheiding tussen noord en zuid ongedaan te maken.

Leerrijk is vooral hoe Witte de dubbelzinnige houding van Willem I (en evenzeer van zijn zoon) documenteert: hoe Den Haag het verzet van de orangisten tegen de nieuwe (en 'wederrechtelijke' !) staat wel aanmoedigde, maar tegelijk zelf buiten schot wou blijven. Tegenover de Europese grootmachten – die tenslotte in Wenen zijn Verenigd Koninkrijk in het leven hadden geroepen – bleef hij via diplomatieke weg aandringen op een herstel van zijn gezag in het zuiden. Maar hij wou die diplomatie uiteraard niet hypothekeren door rechtstreeks in verband te worden gebracht met opstandige bewegingen tegen het nieuwe België.

Die nieuwe constructie was immers niet alleen (begrijpelijkerwijze !) door Frankrijk enthousiast verwelkomd, maar kon ook rekenen op de goedkeuring van de Britten, zodra in Brussel een neef van Queen Victoria op de troon zat. Pruisen en Rusland hadden in 1830 en ook nadien wel andere opstandige katten te geselen, en Oostenrijk had al in 1815 zijn aanspraken op de voormalige Oostenrijkse Nederlanden laten schieten.

Willems (overigens bescheiden) diplomatieke initiatieven kenden echter geen succes, en de enige echte poging om het zuiden militair te heroveren werd (dank zij snelle Franse interventie) een flop. Dus bleef alleen de mogelijkheid dat de Oranje-getrouwen op eigen kracht het Belgische bewind zouden omverwerpen. Zij werden daartoe moreel en financieel flink aangemoedigd vanuit Den Haag, maar bleven geremd door de opgelegde discretie. Bovendien zou telkens opnieuw blijken dat de orangisten nauwelijks steun genoten bij de bevolking. In de steden had het proletariaat wel andere zorgen, en op het platteland gaf de antiprotestantse clerus de toon aan.

Demystificaties

Het is ondoenbaar hier het hele verhaal van het orangistische verzet tegen het nieuwe Belgische 'usurpatoren'-bewind na te vertellen. Zoals reeds gezegd: het boek van Witte is geen lichte lectuur, maar het biedt wel, met een overvloed aan details, een uitermate boeiend verhaal.

De brutale straatrepressie tegen Oranje-getrouwen in 1830 en herhaaldelijk nadien. De massale onthouding bij de eerste 'Belgische' verkiezingen (waarvoor hoe dan ook nauwelijks 1 – één – procent van de bevolking kiesgerechtigd was, en van die amper 46 000 kiezers nauwelijks 30 000 kwamen opdagen) én het afhaken van de toch verkozen orangisten. De (jammerlijk maar voorspelbaar mislukte) pogingen in 1831 om het Voorlopig Bewind omver te werpen vooraleer Leopold de troon kon bestijgen. Het failliet van de Tiendaagse Veldtocht kort nà die troonsbestijging, en het opgeven van de citadel van Antwerpen als laatste Nederlandse bolwerk op Belgische bodem eind 1832. En tenslotte de aanvaarding van het Verdrag der 24 Artikelen door de Nederlandse én de Belgische koning : schijnbaar de genadeslag voor de Belgische orangisten, maar ook fel betwist door Belgische revolutionairen van het eerste uur omdat daardoor grote delen van Limburg en Luxemburg werden opgegeven. Dat zijn bekende episodes.

Minder bekend is het voortleven van het orangisme nadien. Het is haast ontroerend om zien hoe de Belgische orangisten hardnekkiger vasthouden aan Oranje dan de Nederlandse vorsten aan België, aangezien voor hen immers het Nederlandse (of zelfs het strikt persoonlijke) belang telkens weer de doorslag geeft.

De abdicatie van Willem I in 1840 ontlokt de orangisten enerzijds 'un cri de douleur' maar geeft hen tegelijk hoop dat Willem II, die altijd al het zuiden in het hart droeg, het streven naar hereniging nieuw leven zal inblazen. Quod non, zoals men weet. Wanneer in 1841 nogmaals een orangistische poging tot staatsgreep in extremis wordt verijdeld, verdenkt 'heel Europa' Willem II van betrokkenheid bij dat initiatief. In werkelijkheid verleende hij slechts halfslachtige steun, en haast hij zich om zich van de mislukking te distanciëren.

Omverwerping van het Belgische bewind is nu duidelijk een hersenschim geworden, en de hereniging met het noorden evenzeer. Meer en meer adellijke en economische orangisten kiezen uiteindelijk eieren voor hun geld en verzoenen zich met de nieuwe staat. Maar, zo illustreert Witte andermaal uitvoerig, er blijft in een groot deel van de elite wel iets bestaan wat nu een orangistische 'subcultuur' zou worden genoemd.

Samenvattend dient nog eens beklemtoond dat deze studie enkele 'onprettige waarheden' onderbouwt. Belgicisten van nu zullen ongaarne lezen dat het orangisme zeker even sterk was in Franstalig België als in Vlaanderen. Vlaamse romantici zullen ongaarne toegeven dat dit orangisme ook in Vlaanderen een welhaast volkomen Franstalige aangelegenheid was. De eerste categorie zal er met veel leedvermaak aan herinneren dat de orangisten zo goed als geen steun genoten bij het volk; de tweede zal dat met de dood in het hart moeten erkennen. Er is echter ook dit: voor haast alle orangisten was de trouw aan het Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden een kwestie van eer, waarvoor velen zware offers brachten. Daarom is het goed dat zij nu in eer zijn hersteld.

Een toemaatje voor wie zich na dit alles zou afvragen of orangisten iets te maken hebben met 'appeltjes van Oranje' ofte appelsienen. Jazeker. Op sommige plaatsen kreeg Leopold I bij zijn 'blijde intrede' overrijpe sinaasappels naar het hoofd gegooid; en dat was echt niet als hulde bedoeld.

Titel boek : Het Verloren Koninkrijk
Subtitel boek : Het harde verzet van de Belgische orangisten tegen de revolutie 1828-1850
Auteur : Els Witte
Uitgever : De Bezige Bij Antwerpen
Aantal pagina's : 688
Prijs : 39.99 €
ISBN nummer : 9789085425502
Uitgavejaar : 2014

lundi, 02 février 2015

"Afrique en cartes": le nouveau livre de Bernard Lugan

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"Afrique en cartes": le nouveau livre de Bernard Lugan

Cet ouvrage de 278 pages tout en quadrichromie est composé d'une centaine de cartes accompagnées de leurs notices-commentaires.

Il s'agit d'un exceptionnel outil de documentation et de référence construit à partir des cours que Bernard Lugan dispense à l'Ecole de Guerre et aux Ecoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan.

Il est composé de deux parties. Dans la première sont étudiés les conflits et les crises actuels ; la seconde traite de ceux de demain.

Sa vocation est d'être directement utilisable par tous ceux, civils et militaires qui sont concernés par l'Afrique.

En savoir plus cliquez ici

dimanche, 01 février 2015

"Bérézina" de Sylvain Tesson

En octobre 1812, piégé dans Moscou en flammes, Napoléon replie la Grande Armée vers la France. Commence La retraite de Russie, l’une des plus tragiques épopées de l’Histoire humaine.
La Retraite est une course à la mort, une marche des fous, une échappée d’enfer.Deux cents ans plus tard, je décide de répéter l’itinéraire de l’armée agonisante, de ces cavaliers désarçonnés, de ces fantassins squelettiques, de ces hommes à plumets qui avaient préjugé de l’invincibilité de l’Aigle. Il ne s’agit pas d’une commémoration (commémore-ton l’horreur ?), encore moins d’une célébration, il s’agit de saluer par-delà les siècles et les verstes, ces Français de l’an XII aveuglés par le soleil corse et fracassés sur les récifs du cauchemar.Le géographe Cédric Gras, le photographe Thomas Goisque et deux amis russes, Vassili et Vitaly, sont de la partie. Pour l’aventure, nous enfourchons des side-cars soviétiques de marque Oural. Ces motocyclettes redéfinissent en permanence les lois élémentaires de la mécanique. Rien ne saurait les arrêter (pas même leurs freins). Notre escouade se compose de trois Oural, chargées ras la gueule de pièces détachées et de livres d’Histoire.Au long de quatre mille kilomètres, en plein hiver, nous allons dérouler le fil de la mémoire entre Moscou et Paris où l’Empereur arrivera le 15 XII 1812, laissant derrière lui son armée en lambeaux.Le jour, les mains luisantes de cambouis, nous lisons les Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt. Le soir, nous nous assommons de vodka pour éloigner les fantômes.À l’aube, nous remettons les gaz vers une nouvelle étape du chemin de croix. Smolensk, Minsk, Berezina, Vilnius : les stèles de la souffrance défilent à cinquante à l’heure. Partout, nous rencontrons des Russes qui ne tiennent aucune rigueur à l’Empereur à bicorne.Sous nos casques crénelés de stalactites, nous prenons la mesure des tourments des soldats et nous menons grand train ce débat intérieur : Napoléon était-il un antéchrist qui précipita l’Europe dans l’abîme ou bien un visionnaire génial dont le seul tort fut de croire qu’il suffisait de vouloir pour triompher, et que les contingences se pliaient toujours aux rêves ?Mais très vite, nous devons abandonner ces questions métaphysiques car un cylindre vient de rendre l’âme, la nuit tombe sur la Biélorussie et trois foutus camions polonais sont déjà en travers de la route.
L’AUTEURSylvain Tesson est un écrivain voyageur. Il est le fils de Marie-Claude et Philippe Tesson. Géographe de formation, il effectue en 1991 sa première expédition en Islande, suivie en 1993 d’un tour du monde à vélo avec Alexandre Poussin. C’est là, le début de sa vie d’aventurier. Il traverse également les steppes d’Asie centrale à cheval avec l’exploratrice Priscilla Telmon. Il publie alors L’immensité du monde. En 2004, il reprend l’itinéraire des évadés du goulag et publie L’Axe du Loup, un périple qui l’emmène de la Sibérie jusqu’en Inde à pied. Avec Une vie à coucher dehors, Petit traité sur l’immensité du monde, Dans les forêts de Sibérie (Prix Médicis essai 2011) et un recueil de nouvelles S’abandonner à vivre, font de Sylvain Tesson un auteur reconnu par la critique et apprécié par le public.

"Bérézina" de Sylvain Tesson

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En octobre 1812, piégé dans Moscou en flammes, Napoléon replie la Grande Armée vers la France. Commence La retraite de Russie, l’une des plus tragiques épopées de l’Histoire humaine.

La Retraite est une course à la mort, une marche des fous, une échappée d’enfer.
Deux cents ans plus tard, je décide de répéter l’itinéraire de l’armée agonisante, de ces cavaliers désarçonnés, de ces fantassins squelettiques, de ces hommes à plumets qui avaient préjugé de l’invincibilité de l’Aigle. Il ne s’agit pas d’une commémoration (commémore-ton l’horreur ?), encore moins d’une célébration, il s’agit de saluer par-delà les siècles et les verstes, ces Français de l’an XII aveuglés par le soleil corse et fracassés sur les récifs du cauchemar.

Le géographe Cédric Gras, le photographe Thomas Goisque et deux amis russes, Vassili et Vitaly, sont de la partie. Pour l’aventure, nous enfourchons des side-cars soviétiques de marque Oural. Ces motocyclettes redéfinissent en permanence les lois élémentaires de la mécanique. Rien ne saurait les arrêter (pas même leurs freins). Notre escouade se compose de trois Oural, chargées ras la gueule de pièces détachées et de livres d’Histoire.
Au long de quatre mille kilomètres, en plein hiver, nous allons dérouler le fil de la mémoire entre Moscou et Paris où l’Empereur arrivera le 15 XII 1812, laissant derrière lui son armée en lambeaux.

Le jour, les mains luisantes de cambouis, nous lisons les Mémoires du général de Caulaincourt. Le soir, nous nous assommons de vodka pour éloigner les fantômes.
À l’aube, nous remettons les gaz vers une nouvelle étape du chemin de croix. Smolensk, Minsk, Berezina, Vilnius : les stèles de la souffrance défilent à cinquante à l’heure. Partout, nous rencontrons des Russes qui ne tiennent aucune rigueur à l’Empereur à bicorne.
Sous nos casques crénelés de stalactites, nous prenons la mesure des tourments des soldats et nous menons grand train ce débat intérieur : Napoléon était-il un antéchrist qui précipita l’Europe dans l’abîme ou bien un visionnaire génial dont le seul tort fut de croire qu’il suffisait de vouloir pour triompher, et que les contingences se pliaient toujours aux rêves ?
Mais très vite, nous devons abandonner ces questions métaphysiques car un cylindre vient de rendre l’âme, la nuit tombe sur la Biélorussie et trois foutus camions polonais sont déjà en travers de la route.

L’AUTEUR
Sylvain Tesson est un écrivain voyageur. Il est le fils de Marie-Claude et Philippe Tesson. Géographe de formation, il effectue en 1991 sa première expédition en Islande, suivie en 1993 d’un tour du monde à vélo avec Alexandre Poussin. C’est là, le début de sa vie d’aventurier. Il traverse également les steppes d’Asie centrale à cheval avec l’exploratrice Priscilla Telmon. Il publie alors L’immensité du monde. En 2004, il reprend l’itinéraire des évadés du goulag et publie L’Axe du Loup, un périple qui l’emmène de la Sibérie jusqu’en Inde à pied. Avec Une vie à coucher dehors, Petit traité sur l’immensité du monde, Dans les forêts de Sibérie (Prix Médicis essai 2011) et un recueil de nouvelles S’abandonner à vivre, font de Sylvain Tesson un auteur reconnu par la critique et apprécié par le public.

vendredi, 30 janvier 2015

Un livre explosif sur les relations consternantes entre le Qatar et Sarkozy

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Un livre explosif sur les relations consternantes entre le Qatar et Sarkozy

Auteur : Tunisie Secret
 
 
 
 
 
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Les auteurs de ce brûlot dénoncent un partenariat construit sur un mélange des genres qui confond intérêt personnel et intérêt général. La France a pratiquement été offerte sur un plateau d’argent à l’émir du Qatar par son ami Sarkozy en échange d’opérations biscornues qui rappellent à s’y méprendre celles, honteuses et largement répandues, de la Françafrique. Ces opérations n’ont été rendues possibles que parce que  la France de la rigueur a été détruite par des voyous aventuriers dénués de toute vision lointaine pour leur pays, allant jusqu’à l’impliquer dans une guerre hors de ses frontières et sans le moindre casus belli. En temps normal, c’est la Haute Cour de l’État qui devrait être convoquée pour juger toutes ces affaires de grand banditisme politique.

Annoncé depuis septembre dernier, le livre accablant pour Nicolas Sarkozy vient de sortir aux éditions Fayard. Ses auteurs, Pierre Péan et Vanessa Ratignier ont enquêté sur les véritables raisons qui ont poussé l’actuel président de l’UMP d’ouvrir la France à l’Etat-voyou du Qatar. Un livre qui vient enrichir la bibliothèque déjà bien chargée sur les malfaisances de cet émirat en France et dont le livre de Jacques-Marie Bourget et Nicolas Beau, « Le Vilain petit Qatar. Cet ami qui nous veut du bien » n’a été que la pierre inaugurale.

qatar-jpg_2449318.jpgPourquoi les Qataris ont-ils été exonérés de toutes taxes immobilières, y compris sur la plus value, alors que les contribuables français, y compris les plus démunis, la payent plein pot ? Pourquoi le club de foot le plus prestigieux, le PSG a-t-il été offert à cet Emirat ? Pourquoi des hôtels particuliers et des châteaux, classés patrimoine mondial, ont-ils été vendus aux oligarques de Doha ? Pourquoi le couple Hamad-Sarkozy ont-ils décidé de détruire la Libye ? Pourquoi la droite au pouvoir a-t-elle autorisé le premier émirat financier du terrorisme islamiste d’investir les banlieues pour prendre en charge les français de la diversité ?A ces questions et à bien d’autres encore, Vanessa Ratignier et Pierre Péan répondent avec l’audace des journalistes libres et l’obstination des écrivains qui ne craignent pas les puissants. Dans la quatrième de couverture, on lit que « Nombre d’États du Golfe lorgnent sur le patrimoine français et tentent, des pétrodollars plein les poches, d’acheter tout ce qui peut l’être avant épuisement de l’or noir. Jusqu’ici nos dirigeants leur avaient résisté – du moins en apparence -, offusqués par tant d’audace. Mais, avec le Qatar, c’est une tout autre histoire. La France est devenue le terrain de jeu sur lequel la famille Al-Thani place et déplace ses pions politiques, diplomatiques, économiques, immobiliers ou industriels ».

« Dans son enquête au cœur du pouvoir, Vanessa Ratignier, avec le concours de Pierre Péan retrace l’histoire d’un partenariat ancien qui a mal tourné : la France est désormais « sous influence », comme si elle était devenue une chasse gardée de l’émirat. Nos élites, maniant l’art du double langage, amalgament depuis des années intérêt général et enjeux personnels, si bien qu’on se demande parfois où s’arrête le mélange des genres. Cette situation, qui rappelle le pire de la Françafrique, marque l’avènement d’une Qatar-France oublieuse de nos valeurs et héritière des tares du petit émirat ». Ici se termine la présentation des éditions Fayard.Selon le magazine Marianne du 4 septembre 2014, en août 2008, en vacances dans la résidence tropézienne de son ami milliardaire François Pinault, Jacques Chirac se rend au Cap Nègre visiter le couple Sarkozy-Bruni. L’ancien président « raconte à son successeur que le Premier ministre du Qatar, Hamad Jassem al-Thani a même tenté de le corrompre, venant à l’Elysée avec des valises remplies de billets : « Nicolas, fais attention. Des rumeurs de corruption fomentée par le Premier ministre qatari te concernant circulent dans Paris…Fais vraiment attention ».En effet, poursuit Marianne, « des bruits circulent notamment sur le financement par le Qatar du divorce de Nicolas Sarkozy avec Cécilia en octobre 2007. Certains suggèrent qu’il a été payé par un prélèvement effectué sur l’argent versé par le Qatar à la Libye, en échange de la libération des infirmières bulgares détenues par le régime de Kadhafi. Le Qatar aurait versé bien plus que le montant de la rançon réclamée par la Libye. Le tout sur des comptes en Suisse qui auraient notamment servi à financer le divorce de Nicolas Sarkozy ». C’est à peine croyable. La jeune Marianne serait-elle atteinte de divagation ?Toujours selon Marianne, « En 2008, l’émir de Doha raconte que le président français en a même pleuré sur son épaule : « Sarkozy pleurait presque. Il m’a raconté que sa femme Cécilia lui demandait 3 millions d’euros pour divorcer. C’est moi qui ai payé », confie-t-il à l’ancien activiste libanais Anis Naccache, condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité en 1982 pour avoir tenté d’assassiner l’ancien Premier ministre du shah d’Iran, Shapour Bakhtiar ».

Et à Marianne d’ajouter: « Toujours est-il que Sarkozy contribuera à installer le Qatar comme une puissance incontournable du Moyen-Orient, ses dirigeants lui dictant même sa politique étrangère dans la région. D’autres responsables politiques rapporteront que le Qatar aurait pu être « la pompe à fric  » de Sarkozy bien après avoir quitté le pouvoir, allant jusqu’à imaginer la création d’un fonds d’investissement dirigé par l’ancien chef de l’Etat, qui lui aurait rapporté 3 millions d’euros par an ».

Dans Le point du 6 septembre 2014, Romain Gubert écrivait qu’il s’agit d’une « enquête dévastatrice. Pas tellement pour le Qatar. Mais pour la France et son personnel politique. Dans le livre qu’ils publient ces jours-ci, Vanessa Ratignier et Pierre Péan racontent avec une foule de détails ahurissants la façon dont, petit à petit, le Qatar a tissé sa toile au sein de l’élite française. Et ce avec la complicité de Nicolas Sarkozy…. Et comment grâce à ses devises, Doha fait à peu près ce qu’il veut dans l’Hexagone. Et pour cause : le Qatar s’offre des parti… »

A lire absolument Vanessa Ratignier et Pierre Péan, « Une France sous influence. Quand le Qatar fait de notre pays son terrain de jeu », éd. Fayard, septembre 2014.


- Source : Tunisie Secret

lundi, 26 janvier 2015

Laurent Obertone contre la France Big Brother...

Laurent Obertone contre la France Big Brother...

Vous pouvez ci-dessous découvrir l'entretien avec Laurent Obertone réalisé par Élise Blaise pour TV Libertés à l'occasion de la sortie de La France Big Brother (Ring, 2015), le livre qui dévoile le système dans sa vérité...

dimanche, 25 janvier 2015

Wiederkehr der Kriegsstrategien

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Wiederkehr der Kriegsstrategien

von Helmut Roewer

Ex: http://www.blauenarzisse.de

Was verbindet den Ersten Weltkrieg und die heutige weltpolitische Situation? Helmut Roewer, selbst Autor zum Ersten Weltkrieg, versucht in dieser Rezension, die Frage zu beantworten.

Zwischen diesen Buchdeckeln befinden sich gleich zwei Bücher. Sie könnten kaum unterschiedlicher gedacht werden. Ihre Verbindungsklammer ist das Nachdenken über die USA, über den Ersten Weltkrieg und den daraus folgenden, heutigen Standpunkt Deutschlands.

Am Anfang steht das Buch von Wolfgang Effenberger. Es ist eine mit langem Atem erzählte Vor– und dann zusammengeraffte Ereignis– und Nachgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs. Das Dargebotene ragt wie ein Fels aus dem Flachland deutscher Historiker-​Ängstlichkeiten heraus.

Aggression von allen Seiten – mehr oder weniger

Kriegsgeschichte, das ist für den ehemaligen Offizier Effenberger klar, ist eine Geschichte von Freund und Feind. Ein Krieg, zumal einer von solchen Ausmaßen, ist kein Ergebnis irgendeiner Krise, sondern eine Angelegenheit mit langem Vorlauf. Rüstung, Planung und In-​Position-​Bringen heißt dieses Geschäft. Zu dessen Verständnis gehört, dass Kriegführung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts noch als eine ganz normale Fortsetzung der Politik mit unfriedlichen Mitteln angesehen wurde.

Die Staaten in dieser Zeit waren mehr oder minder alle aggressiv. An der Spitze standen wohl die USA, Großbritannien und Russland. Diese Feststellungen hängen keineswegs im Raum, sondern werden durch eine Unzahl von Fakten untermauert. Daneben wirkt Deutschland fast wie ein Waisenknabe. Doch gemach ‒ das hier ist keine Weißwaschanlage. Effenberger zieht mit guten Gründen gegen die wichtigsten Gerüchtelieferanten und –denunzianten zu Felde. Der Möchtegern-​NS-​Widerstandskämpfer und spätere Historiker Fritz Fischer wird als das beschrieben, was er war. Denn er stellte nicht mehr als eine mehr oder minder kleine Nazi-​Nummer dar, die pünktlich zu Kriegsende entdeckte, dass sie immer schon dagegen war, gar Widerstand geleistet habe. Sein Schüler Klaus Rainer Röhl, der Jahrzehnte lang seinen Deutschenhass ausgelebt hat, wird ebenfalls auf Normalmaß zurückgeschnitten. Dessen absurden Behauptungen über Wilhelm II. werden von Effenberger gewogen und als zu leicht befunden.

Faktensatt und breitgefächert

Breiten Raum nimmt das heuchlerische Tun der US-​amerikanischen Ostküstenelite ein. Für diese war der Krieg von Anfang an beschlossene Sache. Das Sponsoring der Alliierten blieb – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes – ein Bombengeschäft. Schrecklich waren auch die Lügen, die gebraucht wurden, um das kriegsunwillige amerikanische Volk in den Krieg zu zwingen. Doch der erschien den USA schließlich als notwendig, weil Ende 1916 England und seine Verbündeten den Krieg zu verlieren drohten. Eine Mega-​Pleite stand ins Haus. Das wird faktensatt erzählt. Gut, dass es mal einer tut.

Das kann aber bei solch einem umfangreichen Buch nur eine kleine Auswahl sein. Hinzu kommen das aggressive Serbien, britische Weltbeherrschungs-​Phantasien, Flottenbau, die Rolle der Banken und vieles andere. Und immer wieder die USA: Der innenpolitische Kampf zwischen den demokratischen Imperialisten und den wohl eher bodenständigen Republikanern. Natürlich ist es nicht so, dass für die USA im Ersten Weltkrieg die Weltmission erst begann. Das aggressive Vorrücken, das Anzetteln von Kriegen und das Vorschieben von Friedensmissionen ist älteren Datums. Der Erste Weltkrieg brachte schließlich den Ausbruch aus dem amerikanischen Doppelkontinent. Diese konsequente Geschichte der US-​amerikanischen weltumspannenden Kriegführung reicht bei Effenberger bis ins Jahr 2014.

Die Obama-​USA als neuer Kriegstreiber

Hier spielt auch das zweite, wesentlich kürzere Buch des ehemaligen CDU-​Bundestagsabgeordneten Willy Wimmer. Zur Überraschung macher präsentiert sich hier ein weißer Rabe. Dieser Mann ist offensichtlich auf der Suche nach dem heutigen Standort von Deutschland. Dass dieses Deutschland heute nicht viel anderes als eine Vasallenrolle innehat, spricht er gleich mehrfach aus. Zugleich lässt er uns an seinen Erfahrungen als Außen– und Sicherheitspolitiker teilhaben. Denn Wimmer hat als verteidigungspolitischer Sprecher der CDU /​CSU, in Zusammenarbeit mit der „Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa“ (OSZE) und als deutscher Repräsentant einiges von der Welt gesehen. Am eindrucksvollsten bleiben seine Beobachtungen in China und seine Schlussfolgerungen hinsichtlich der erfolgten Interessenabgrenzungen zwischen Russland und China.

Wenn sie denn stimmen, erklärt das am plausibelsten, warum die US-​amerikanischen Kriegsherren mit Blick auf Russland so aggressiv reagieren. In diesem Zusammenhang mag sich der eine oder andere daran erinnern, wie der Mainstream uns vor wenigen Jahren den Messias Obama in die Wohnzimmer transportierte. Wimmer sieht dies anders. Sein Text enthält eine Vielzahl von Zitaten dieses angeblichen Hoffnungsträgers, die nur eine Folgerung erlauben: Dieser Mann ist ein Kriegshetzer.

Aufruhr, Krise, Konflikt, Krieg

Nein, das Buch von Wimmer kann nicht freundlich genannt werden. Es benennt die einschlägigen, durchaus schriftlich fixierten Strategien. Denn für jeden Offensivschritt gibt es vier Eskalationsstufen: Aufruhr, Krise, Konflikt, Krieg. Wimmer tippt mit dem Finger auf den Globus und fragt sich: „Was ist im Moment wo?“ Wir haben uns so an dieses Prozedere gewöhnt, dass kaum noch einer fragt, ob das in meinem oder in unserem Interesse ist.

Die Besetzung des Mainstreams mit US-​hörigen Imperialisten ist erschreckend weit fortgeschritten. Wer versucht, öffentlich gegenzuhalten, wird ausgegrenzt oder totgeschwiegen. Neuster Fall, wie aus dem Propaganda-​Anleitungsbuch, ist Helmut Schmidt (SPD), der ehemalige Kanzler. Ihm wurde seine Vergangenheit als Hitlerjunge und Soldat vorgeworfen. Er sei „von Nazi-​Ideologie kontaminiert“ gewesen, beschuldigte ihn seine Biographin Sabine Pamperrien. So leben wir unter dem US-​amerikanischen Atomschirm. Nicht jeder findet das beruhigend.

Wolfgang Effenberger, Willy Wimmer: Wiederkehr der Hasardeure: Schattenstrategen, Kriegstreiber, stille Profiteure 1914 und heute. Höhr-​Grenzhausen: Verlag zeitgeist Print & Online 2014. 640 Seiten. 29,90 Euro.

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vendredi, 23 janvier 2015

Guillaume Faye’s Sex & Deviance

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Guillaume Faye’s Sex & Deviance

By Christopher Pankhurst 

Ex: http://www.counter-currents.com

Guillaume Faye
Sex and Deviance
London: Arktos, 2014

Recent events have underlined once again that Islam is dangerously incompatible with what many refer to as Western values. The murder of several employees of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a violent reminder of this fact.

But it is interesting that some commentators (myself included [3]) are starting to notice that the “Western values” represented by the likes of Charlie Hebdo are actually completely at odds with anything that could be considered authentically European. Arktos Media’s new translation of Guillaume Faye’s Sex and Deviance is a welcome and timely contribution to this ongoing discussion. Faye is clear that Islam’s anachronistic attitudes towards sex and sexuality are explosively at odds with Western sexual mores, and furthermore that the West’s current sexual mores are themselves a deviation from traditional Western values. His insistence that the individualism of Christianity is at the root of the West’s present sexual ennui is likely to make this book as controversial with social conservatives as it will be with the Islamophiliac left.

Faye’s central concern is the decline of the family and the consequent reduction in the European birth rate. This is the touchstone to which all of his judgments return. If something is judged to be harmful to the birth rate then it is harmful per se. But this focus leads to some surprising conclusions, particularly his relaxed attitude to homosexuality, a subject of some division on the outer reaches of the right. Faye says that his judgement is guided by the Aristotelian mean and this allows him to seek a balanced and healthy path between, on the one hand sexual moralism, and on the other sexual incontinence.

Faye places the family at the center of his discussion because it is the necessary and best developed means of continuing the lineage. The irresistible trend of recent decades has been to undermine the stability of the family in favor of individualistic pleasure seeking. This has resulted in fewer marriages and fewer births as individuals rotate amongst a series of sterile sexual relationships. The properly conjugal element in sexual relationships has largely disappeared and this is something that fatally disrupts the social primacy that should be accorded to reproduction. For Faye, “The couple is not an isolated romantic duo but the central pillar in the architectural structure of a family” (26).

But in order to strengthen this structure he does not advocate a return to conservative family values as such. Or rather, he does and he doesn’t. What he wants is a candid recognition that there are several different types of love (sexual, familial, romantic, etc.) and that they have become confused and conflated in detrimental ways. He regards the bourgeois family as the model of a balanced and secure framework within which to rear children. But crucially, he is alive to the necessary hypocrisies that exist within that model and that allow it to function. In this sense, he argues for a distinction between conjugal love and sexual love, the latter (in the form of adultery or prostitution) being necessary for the former to function well. Not surprisingly, he thinks that such an outlet for sex outside of marriage is more necessary to men than women, although he allows for the latter case.

To some this will smack of a deft form of doublethink, allowing for conjugal fidelity to be maintained by excluding sexual infidelity from the reckoning. A smart excuse for priapic intellectuals. But it must be admitted that there is a strong element of pragmatic sexual Realpolitik to it. What made it possible in centuries past was the strong taboo against discussing sexual matters openly. This is why (as Faye correctly notes) divorce was always much more scandalous than adultery; it was socially unacceptable, whereas infidelity remained outside the purview of society. In the present context where no one can ever shut up about their own sexual concerns for more than five minutes at a stretch, it is difficult to see how such a form of necessary hypocrisy could endure. What is essential for its operation is a certain discretion concerning sexual matters, so that they do not emerge into explicit discourse. And this is surely why so many taboos are enforced so strictly. Once an explicit argument is made for such a system then its hidden aspects are brought to the fore, destroying the division between private and public. None of which means that adultery is any less prevalent now, simply that its effects are experienced as devastating rather than being kept out of mind.

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In his discussion of homosexuality Faye carefully distinguishes between the practice itself and the promotion of homosexuality as an ideological norm that is being used to undermine the family. Although he sees male (though interestingly, not female) homosexuality as a pathology, it is not in itself a particularly harmful one. By contrast, the ideological exploitation of homosexuality, and issues such as gay marriage, are pernicious dogmas that actively undermine and devalue the importance of the family: “Homosexual unions will always remain a marginal phenomenon with few demographic effects, practically none of which will have any influence on the biological composition of Europeans. Moreover, as is the case with everything that is against nature, the homosexual couple does not last. Gay marriage only poses a problem because it is part of an ideological (not biological) dissolution of the natural order” (60).

 

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As evidence for the pathological nature of homosexuality, Faye notes the narcissism of the various “pride” marches held around the world: “Why be ‘proud’ of being homosexual or bisexual?” he asks, noting that such displays betray a “deep infantilism. One can be proud of what one has become, of what one does, of one’s capacities, but to declare oneself proud of one’s sexual orientation is to set the bar for pride pretty low” (51). Despite this, Faye is entirely tolerant of any sort of homosexual or bisexual practice carried out in private. His concern is only with the ideological use to which such tendencies are being put. Regardless of whatever views one might have on the subject, Faye’s arguments are consistent, honest and balanced. It is telling, and very depressing, that his discussion of homosexuality is prefaced with the following remark: “In saying these things, of course, I am conscious of contravening the laws which limit freedom of expression in France” (46).

When Faye describes homosexuality as “against nature” he does so from a biological, rather than a moral perspective. But Christianity is quite different. It sees homosexuality as morally wrong because the individual is deviating from nature. And here Faye identifies the fundamental problem with Christianity, and the root cause of our present sexual confusion. Faye points out that Christianity condemns individual lapses such as homosexuality but is perfectly content with collective lapses such as racial blending. In fact, Christianity has nothing to say about the racial mixing of different peoples and Faye contrasts this with his own preferred Aristotelian view which tolerates individual predilections such as homosexuality, but forbids collective aberrations such as relations between distinct peoples. The problem with the Christian viewpoint is that it sees man as superior and distinct from the rest of nature. Faye terms this “anthropological irrealism” (263). Rather than existing within a wider contextualizing spectrum of natural evolution, man is seen as a special case. It is an error that, in its secular form, has led to the present obsession with equality. All people are sacred and therefore all people are equal. In that case, then, communal concerns become irrelevant when considering who to marry; instead, one should just follow one’s heart and marry whomever one becomes infatuated with, regardless of any wider considerations.

The other religion that Faye pays close attention to is Islam. For the purpose of his discussion, the important distinction between the two is that Christianity is an insidious corrosive that rots from within, whereas Islam is a wholly alien faith that can only cause explosive conflict. Faye is clear that the reason for Islam’s radically alien character is racial rather than spiritual. Religion emerges from a particular people and embodies their existing characteristics. What shouldn’t be surprising is that the importation of large numbers of Muslims who have very, very different notions of gender relations into post-feminist, sexually-liberationist European countries will be a disaster. That political leaders of all stripes are unable (or unwilling) to see this is to their eternal shame.

No doubt, if Faye had written his book a couple of years later he would have made some reference to the Rotherham scandal. Over a period of 16 years at least 1400 (a conservative estimate) white girls were sexually abused (including being drugged and raped, and trafficked) by Pakistani men whilst the authorities did their best to cover up the crimes. The reason for the cover up essentially boils down to a fear of being called racist. Some social workers insisted that the rapists were actually the girls’ boyfriends (despite the fact that the girls were children and the men were clearly several years older), whilst a Home Office researcher who did make reference to the rapists’ ethnicity was warned never to do so again and was sent on a diversity course as penance. The whole sordid affair illustrates Faye’s assertion that, “the media only emphasize ‘sex monsters’ of Gallic origin. The goal is to provide aid and comfort to the propaganda which says that sex crimes (and other crimes) ‘come from all milieus’” (206). Post-Rotherham we can confidently add that politicians and police will actively assist the media in covering up such crimes. The attested reality of Rotherham suggests that Faye is not overestimating the scale of the problem.

Despite some of Faye’s controversial views it is obvious that his concern is largely for protecting such victims from unnecessary predation. He writes, “we should consider the daily unhappiness of these young girls and adolescent boys . . . who get up every morning to go to school and who have to confront the barbarians, sensing that they are not protected by the authorities of their own country (marshmallows who have abdicated all responsibility) and without the young men of their own nation – unmanly, fearful, unworthy of their ancestors – daring to defend them” (164). He also makes the valuable observation that, “the life of a woman, especially a young woman, counts for more than that of a man . . . simply because she is a mother, in charge of reproduction and the upbringing of offspring” (119).

Such observations reveal Faye to be in total opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy, an orthodoxy that will do nothing to protect our women and children, and that will, in an outrageous inversion, identify you as a hateful extremist if you speak in favor of such protection.

This is a radical book in many respects. Even its insistence on a division between private and public is radically at odds with a social norm that has outsourced domestic life to various media, social networks and other technologies. Above all, Faye has written a book that seeks to redress the imbalance of modern sexual mores and to install the family once more at the heart of such considerations. It also seeks to reinstate the virtue of communal considerations above purely individual ones. These aspirations transcend any ideology, whether of the left or the right, because they are attuned with biology and nature. Such wisdom is surprisingly hard to come by nowadays; Sex and Deviance should be read by anyone who seeks it.

 


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lundi, 19 janvier 2015

Le roman de Houellebecq: le roman de l’homme indifférent

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Javier Portella

 

Le roman de Houellebecq:

 

le roman de l’homme indifférent

 

Quelle est la faute ? La soumission à l’islam, parbleu !

Ex: http://www.bvoltaire.fr

« Je n’aurais rien à regretter. » C’est par de tels mots – mis comme en exergue, seuls, perdus au début d’une page toute blanche – que prend fin le roman dont la sortie a éveillé la plus grande expectation, sans doute, de tous les temps.

Pas de remords, rien à regretter. Une faute, sans doute, a été commise. Mais elle doit être bien légère – tout est léger, sans poids, dans le monde de Houellebecq – si les regrets ne sont pas de mise. Quelle est la faute ? La soumission à l’islam, parbleu !

La soumission de tous et du protagoniste en particulier, lorsque la Fraternité musulmane prend le pouvoir en 2022. Chassé de la nouvelle université islamique Paris-Sorbonne, le « héros » du roman finit par regagner son poste et se convertir à la soumission (telle est, on le sait, la traduction du mot arabe « islam »). Tous s’y soumettent… à l’exception, faut-il supposer, des identitaires et du Front national : acteurs secondaires d’un roman qui traite avec indifférence le dernier, déverse son hostilité sur les premiers… et ignore jusqu’à la signification même de mots tels que révolte ou rébellion. Elles n’ont pas de place dans un monde où tout se passe en douceur, dans l’indifférence, avec un léger haussement d’épaules, comme si de rien n’était.

On en reste époustouflé. Malgré la dénonciation évidente de l’emprise de l’islam, Houellebecq se serait-il donc finalement rangé ? Oui et non à la fois. La plus grande ambiguïté plane sur tout le roman. Tout y est tellement subtil qu’on ne sait jamais ce qu’il faut prendre au premier, au second… ou au énième degré. C’est là toute la grandeur littéraire d’une œuvre (moi aussi, je deviens ambigu !) qui n’est pas un essai, encore moins un pamphlet. C’est un roman. Et il ne peut l’être, il ne peut être du grand art, qu’à la condition d’embrasser toute la multiplicité contradictoire du réel.

Une multiplicité dans laquelle l’islam n’est pas, cependant, la cible première. C’est nous qui sommes visés en tout premier lieu. C’est notre décadence qui est, à juste titre, pourfendue : celle d’un monde peuplé d’atomes isolés, où la famille s’estompe, les liens s’effritent, l’identité se perd, le sens disparaît, le sacré s’évanouit. L’idéologie des Lumières – l’homme pris pour seul centre du monde – a fait faillite. Son échec est manifeste, et on ne peut jusque-là qu’applaudir Houellebecq des deux mains. On ne peut que le suivre… pour nous en écarter, ébahis, lorsqu’il prétend que c’est justement l’islam qui pourrait venir charpenter de nouveau le monde, lui redonner le souffle sacré qu’il a perdu.

C’est écrit noir sur blanc. Mais le prétend-il plus ou moins sérieusement ? Ou est-ce là une provocation, une sorte de dérision extrême, pour mieux nous mettre face à notre déchéance ? Ce n’est pas clair. Une seule chose est manifeste : l’islam n’est envisagé, au pire, que comme une sorte de moindre mal face auquel il nous faudrait baisser la tête. Mais il n’y a là, évidemment, nulle adhésion à la religion qui était jadis considérée comme « la plus conne de toutes ». Rien n’est plus étranger que l’adhésion chez quelqu’un qui n’adhère à rien, qui ne prend parti pour rien, son protagoniste évoquant, par exemple, « l’uniforme laideur de l’art religieux contemporain » pour ajouter aussitôt que cette laideur… « me laissait à peu près indifférent ».

L’homme révolté, disait Camus (Albert, mais l’autre – Renaud – le dit aussi dans son combat contre le Grand Remplacement). L’homme indifférent, dit par contre Houellebecq. Voilà son « héros » : l’homme qui hausse les épaules, qui reste de marbre face à des malheurs dont il est pourtant d’une lucidité sans faille. Pire : il semble faire mine, pour en sortir, d’accepter un malheur bien plus effroyable encore. Mais il s’en contrefiche, au fond. Il n’est concerné par rien, il ne combat rien, l’homme indifférent : l’homme du cynisme accompli.