Within hours of the September 22 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, a consensus emerged that the Americans did it, in spite of the fact that the mainstream media were united in blaming Russia. Only the Americans had the motive and the means. The evidence was circumstantial but irrefutable. Within hours of the attack, the video of President Biden’s February 2022 press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was making the rounds on the Internet. In response to a question from a reporter in February, Biden said in no uncertain terms that if Russia invaded the Ukraine, America would take out the Nord Stream pipelines. The video of Victoria Nuland saying the same thing also started circulating within hours of the attack.

The John Fisher School in Purley has just appointed a new chaplain. Fr. James Clarke resigned the chaplaincy back in March of this year at the height of one of the most ludicrous and embarrassing debacles in the history of the John Fisher School and of the Archdiocese of Southwark. If canonized saints resort to the same posthumous expressions of exasperation as other mere mortals, I reckon that St. John Fisher is spinning in his grave at a serious rate of knots. The John Fisher School is also on the lookout for a new librarian…

Following her death in September, Mahsa Amini became the face which ignited massive protests in Iran over that government’s dress code. Over the course of the next few weeks, Amini became a feminist icon in Iran. Like all icons, Amini had little to say about how her image was venerated. The woman in charge of putting words into her mouth was Masih Alinejad, a frizzy haired harridan who lives in New York city and is an employee of Voice of America Persian, which is “part of an international network of propaganda-producing organizations originally created by the CIA.

Buckle up and prepare for a wild ride. After a lifelong contemplation of the subject, popular author Paul Thigpen has decided to make a case for aliens living on other worlds, and perhaps visiting ours. Catholics will be interested in what he has to say because Paul attempts to use scriptural, magisterial, and traditional sources to support his pro-alien view.

Gandhi, having been attracted by the example of Jesus, made a determined effort to see whether Christianity was the path he should follow but after meeting Mr. Banerjee, he seems to have been disappointed that he could not convince him. I

What do Prime Minister of Hungary Victor Orban and Italian artist Salvatore Garau have in common?

Back in the 1970s, Jorge Luis Borges complained that American publishers would not publish his novels and short stories because he called the black man “negro” and not “colored man” and the blind man “stone-blind” and not “visually-impaired.”

Apparently the Critical Race theoreticians never learned that we are not to speak ill of the dead. This became apparent when the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II of England spread through the ether on September 8, 2022. Uju Anya, an “anti-racist” associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, sparked outrage after calling the ailing queen the head of a “thieving, raping, genocidal empire” and concluded her diatribe by hoping that whatever pain she experienced while dying was “excruciating.”

In an article in the Unz Review in July, retired CIA agent Philip Giraldi described an encounter he had at what he called “an antiwar conference.”

Five years ago, I wrote an article entitled “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s wars.” It turned out to be the most popular piece that I have ever written and I was rewarded for it by immediately being fired by the so-called American Conservative magazine, where I had been a regular and highly popular contributor for fourteen years. I opened the article with a brief description of an encounter with a supporter whom I had met shortly before at an antiwar conference. The elderly gentleman asked “Why doesn’t anyone ever speak honestly about the six-hundred-pound gorilla in the room? Nobody has mentioned Israel in this conference, and we all know it’s American Jews with all their money and power who are supporting every war in the Middle East for Netanyahu? Shouldn’t we start calling them out and not letting them get away with it?”…

Why would a Soviet-led expedition of eight women climbers prefer to die, in the worst storm that hit Lenin Peak in twenty five years, rather than accept help from fellow male climbers?

Not considered steep or technical, but nonetheless very high at 7,134 meters (23,406 feet), situated within the Pamir Mountain range at the Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan border. Lenin Peak is subject to harsh, unstable weather conditions. It is known by climbers for its strong winds, frosty temperatures, with sections of moderately steep ice. At such a high altitude the weather can turn very suddenly with an additional risk from avalanches for those ascending or descending. The peak is the highest mountain in the Trans-Alai range. This combination of changeable weather and high altitudes has resulted in the deaths of many of its climbers…

Having dealt with what is undoubtedly the biggest weapon in the mainstream Holocaust propaganda campaign, namely Auschwitz (once referred to in this context by David Irving as “the great battleship Auschwitz,” with the major task for revisionists being, “Sink the Auschwitz!”), Germar Rudolf moves on to look at other camps, beginning with the so-called “Operation Reinhardt” camps, the terminology used by mainstream writers for the alleged systematic extermination of Jews in three “pure extermination camps” in eastern Poland, namely Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibór. Rudolf asserts that this claim of mass murder is wrong…

In one of my numerous podcasts, I announced that I was a guinea pig in a social experiment which had been kept a secret from me for my entire life. The name of that experiment was social engineering. It began shortly after the Allied victory in World War II by driving my family out of our ethnic neighborhood in Philadelphia, and it eventually drove my generation insane with a combination of sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll. The one thing that remained constant during this period of time was the silence of the social engineers and the ignorance of the guinea pigs who had been the unwitting recipients of their ministrations. The author who writes under the pseudonym of Margaret Clare Devlin has done the baby boomer generation a favor by breaking that silence in a way that is no less shocking than it would have been if a lab rat had stood up to the scientist who was experimenting on it and said, “Cut it out” or, better, “I know what you’re doing, and I’m not going to take it anymore.” After a lifetime spent as part of an unnamed experiment which wrecked her life and the lives of everyone in her family, one of the guinea pigs finally figured out what was going on and decided to tell her story in all of its gruesome detail. Boomers’ Families springs from the Catholic tradition which Augustine founded when he wrote his Confessions and Thomas Merton resurrected for Americans when he wrote The Seven Storey Mountain. It’s required reading for every baby boomer whose life got ruined by the enemies no one ever warned him against in an undeclared culture war whose main strength was that the victims didn’t know that war was being waged against them.

On Friday, August 12, a 24-year-old New Jersey resident by the name of Hadi Matar stormed the stage in western New York where the Anglo-Indian author Salman Rushdie was scheduled to speak and stabbed him 15 times before he was subdued by a security guard and members of the audience.1 The assault was immediately labeled “an assault on freedom of thought and speech”2 and Rushdie was praised as “an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world.”

Spain’s government will finish passing a law this autumn to turn the Basilica of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen – the world’s longest basilica – into a “museum of the horrors of Franco” and to destroy its cross – the world’s largest – due to its association with general Francisco Franco.

The new law also aims at kicking the Benedictine monks, its custodians since 1958, out of the basilica’s adjacent abbey and at exhuming the bodies of the thousands of martyrs and victims of both sides of the Spanish Civil War buried there.

The Catholic Church has already recognized 66 of them as martyrs and three more will be recognized in November. There are also over 40 Servants of God whose beatification process is underway.

It’s easy to miss the D. L. James house. Allegra, sometimes known as Jennie, had told us that it was directly across Highway 1 from the Tickle Pink Inn, and so with my eyes fixed on the left side of one of the narrowest and most scenic highways in America, I drove right past the unobtrusive entrance to what is probably the most beautiful house in California. After making a U-turn I catch fleeting glimpses of my destination while trying not to slide into southbound oncoming traffic. The entrance is easy to miss because it is simply a door placed in a rock arch which is part of a wall that extends along the highway for the length of the property. Aquinas said that happiness resulted from a sudden change in state. If so, the modest entrance to the D. L. James house gave rise to happiness as we opened the door, leaving the danger of the highway behind and entering an enchanted garden of indigenous trees shading a stone path which sloped gently downward toward an as yet unseen house. Both sides of the path were covered with exotic large-leafed plants that looked as if they belonged in a fantasy world….

Any lingering regard I had for David Baddiel disappeared back in 2014. That was the year his first children’s book was published. Writing books for children is the last – but one – refuge of the washed-up “alternative” comedian. I have a particular loathing for children’s books written by alternative comedians, washed-up or otherwise. With titles like The Parent Agency, The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked and Head Kid, it was painfully obvious that in rehashing his “alternative” comedy schtick for schoolchildren, this pin-up boy of the 1990’s “comedy is the new rock n’ roll” generation thought it would be a good idea to impose on the children of England the jaded revolutionary politics with which the grown-ups of England are becoming increasingly fed up. With this deeply held prejudice I decided to read Jews Don’t Count, at which point I discovered that David Baddiel had reinvented himself again – this time as cultural commissar, the last refuge of the washed-up alternative comedian….

In an article which appeared recently in the National Catholic Register, Father Raymond J. de Souza announced that the Church had a “German problem.”1 The indisputable evidence for this problem could be found in the results of the German synod, which announced that the main problem facing the Church lay in lack of tolerance for sexual deviance. Whether that was construed as a celibate clergy, prohibitions against the divorced and remarried receiving communion, or disapproval of homosexuality, the German “Synodal Weg,” made it clear that it was the Church which had to change, not the Germans who had acquired a lot of bad habits over the past half century. The flagrant use of Church structures to undermine Church teaching provoked outrage among a group of “more than 70 bishops—led by four cardinals from three continents”—who “issued an open ‘fraternal letter’ to the bishops of Germany stating that ‘the potential for schism … will inevitably result’ if they do not repent of their ‘Synodal Path.’”

As Dr. Thomas Dalton has also stated, “Holocaust revisionists are often called ‘Holocaust deniers’ by mainstream writers. This appellation is both derogatory and, technically, almost meaningless.”9 What is needed, as was stated in the earlier article, is a recognition that an objective investigation of empirical issues can arrive at the truth, and that it is essential to state the truth in love. What follows is an attempt once more to do exactly that, setting it in the context of two lives and two struggles, those of Germar Rudolf and of Eduard Wirths….

The case of Fr. Prof. Dariusz Oko began in July 2021, when the District Court in Cologne convicted him of allegedly “inciting hatred.” The Polish clergyman and scientist was to pay a fine of EUR 4,800 or spend 120 days in German arrest. The court’s decision took the form of a sentence in absentia – that is, one in which the convicted person did not even have the opportunity to defend himself. In fact, Fr. Oko learned about the trial itself only after receiving the sentence. Thanks to the quick response of Ordo Iuris lawyers, the sentence was overturned and a regular trial began in which Fr. Oko received professional support from a German lawyer – a longtime associate of Ordo Iuris. The alleged “incitement to hatred” was a scientific text, published in the renowned scientific journal Theologisches, which has been published for over 50 years. The article was an excerpt from the book Lawendowa [Lavender] Mafia. In it, Fr. Prof Oko reveals the activity of a group of homosexual priests who – using their position in the Catholic Church – hide the crimes of priests molesting children and clerics in seminaries. The text was supplied with a rich bibliography and footnotes and cited, among others, Benedict XVI, who during the pontificate of St. John Paul II dealt with the investigations of sexual crime cases in the Church, and who spoke outright about “homosexual cliques which arose in various seminaries.”

In an exquisite example of Providence’s comedic wit, Pope Francis announced the self-referentially named Synod on Synodality two years ago during the annus horribilis. Last year “the synodal process” began slouching its way toward Rome. This October, the world’s dioceses will begin the process of tabulating and synthesizing the results of their listening sessions. In October of next year, the world’s bishops will gather to be midwives at the birth of what has already been hailed as the newest “new Pentecost” (yes, really).3 What is the Synod on Synodality? What implications does it have for an already divided and ailing Church?

The media hype surrounding the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade brought back memories of my engagement in the almost fifty years of America’s abortion wars. Eleanor Smeal, who was then head of the National Organization of Women, had just given a talk on abortion at the University of Notre Dame in what must have been the 1980s. The room was packed with feminists from that university and St. Mary’s College, the soi disant Catholic institution which had fired me for being against abortion a few years earlier. As my attempt to inject some reality into what was obviously a pep rally for what St. Paul referred to as silly women obsessed with their sins, I asked Ms. Smeal during the Q & A “Does the fetus have sex?” Seeing that Ms. Smeal was taken aback by the question, I rephrased it: “Is the fetus identifiable as either male or female?” Expecting a realistic answer to the question, I was ready to follow it up with asking how the National Organization of Women justified the murder of unborn women, but what I got was unexpected. “The process of sexual differentiation,” the president of NOW opined, “begins at birth.”

Nader Talebzadeh passed away last week. I got an e-mail a few days earlier asking for prayers. He was in the intensive care unit. His heart, weakened by the effects of a poison gas attack which damaged his lungs during the Iraq-Iran war, was functioning at five percent of its normal capacity. A week later I learned that he had died…

Watered in turn by powerful hurricanes and the blood of martyrs, Florida continues to be the scene of epic battles. Today, my home state of Florida is the site of the crucial battle between representative government and big-tech oligarchic rule. The man elected by the people to promote the common good is Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who is “not the kind of Roman Catholic who draws cheers from journalists who admire progressive Catholics.” On March 28, 2022, DeSantis signed into law The Parental Rights in Education bill to combat the grooming of small children in Florida’s classrooms. This daring act landed him astride the broad back of Bucking Bull Bob Chapek, Walt Disney’s CEO, who was immediately roused out of the gate by the Left to, according to DeSantis, mobilize his “considerable corporate resources out of the coffers” of his “Burbank, CA-based corporation to overturn the rights of parents in the State of Florida, and effectively commandeer our democratic process.”

Desert Island Discs is 80 years old this year. The BBC Radio 4 favorite owes a great deal of its enduring popularity to the simple perfection of its interview form. To make desert island existence more endurable, each guest is permitted eight pieces of music, one book and one luxury. The same two books are given to every guest — the Bible and the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Each guest gets to choose a third. When you, dear reader, get your D.I.D. 45 minutes of fame, may I suggest that you choose E. Michael Jones’ latest book. If you insist, as the ideal complement to the Bible and the Bard, to go for one of Jones’ other tomes — any one of which will double very nicely as a desert island coffee table – then I suggest this simple solution: take, let’s say Logos Rising as your book, and take The Dangers of Beauty as your luxury.

Want to read something about Ukraine? A great lost Catholic thriller from the early 20th century, The Supreme Crime, is set there. Elite newspapers publish annual recommended summer reading lists (“Hottest Summer Reads,” “Ultimate Beach Reads,” etc.), which are usually books on current events, or, alternatively, are scorching page-turners that are easy to read while on vacation? This book is both.

Biden is giving expression to what could be called the a priori school of foreign policy, according to which he can deduce a statement about reality from abstract principles. So, there can be no Nazis in the Ukraine because its president is Jewish. Another member of this school of foreign policy is Catholic neocon pundit George Weigel, who said much the same thing, dismissing any references to actual Nazis in Ukrainian army units like the Azov Brigade as chimeras evoked by conspiracy theories.

By the summer of 2018 I began researching why the Japanese invaded Korea, why comfort women issues are so sensitive in the same region, why the Nanking (or Nanjing) incident has been so simplistic, and to what extent Soviet communism influenced Korean revolutionaries from the early 1900s up until the late 1940s.

What became unquestionably clear to me throughout my studies was that what was true in the United States and much of Europe with respect to subversive movements, the deconstruction of the moral and social order, and messianic politics was a fortiori true in much of Asia, most specifically in China under Mao, in Cambodia under Pol Pot,1 in Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh,2 in Korea through the communist movement,3 and in Japan when the feminist movement began to assault the nuclear family in the 1970s.4

The Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was an important figure in recent Iranian history. Widely recognized as the Ayatollah Khomeini’s heir apparent, Shahroudi was an Iranian-Iraqi dual citizen whose job was to unify Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon under a Shi’a alliance based on anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism whose ultimate goal was the elimination of Israel in collaboration with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Shahroudi was also involved in Iran’s Ostpolitik—or perhaps Nordpolitik would be a better term—which began on January 3, 1989 when the Supreme Leader, as one of his last acts, sent a delegation which included Abdollha Javadi-Amoli, Mohammed Javad Larijani, and Marzieh Hadidchi to Moscow bearing a letter in which Khomeini warned Mikhail Gorbachev of the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union. Marxism, in Khomeini’s opinion, could not deal with the world situation because its materialistic ideology could not resolve a spiritual crisis brought on by lack of belief in spirituality, which he considered “the prime affliction of human society in the East and the West alike.”

“At the beginning of the Dark Ages the great pagan cosmopolitan society now grown Christian was as much a slave state as old South Carolina. By the fourteenth century it was almost as much a state of peasant proprietors as modern France. No laws had been passed against slavery; no dogmas even had condemned it by definition; no war had been waged against it, no new race or ruling caste had repudiated it; but it was gone. This startling and silent transformation is perhaps the best measure of the pressure of popular life in the Middle Ages, of how fast it was making new things in its spiritual factory. Like everything else in the mediæval revolution, from its cathedrals to its ballads, it was as anonymous as it was enormous. It is admitted that the conscious and active emancipators everywhere were the parish priests and the religious brotherhoods; but no name among them has survived and no man of them has reaped his reward in this world. Countless Clarksons and innumerable Wilberforces, without political machinery or public fame, worked at death-beds and confessionals in all the villages of Europe; and the vast system of slavery vanished. It was probably the widest work ever done which was voluntary on both sides; and the Middle Ages was in this and other things the age of volunteers. It is possible enough to state roughly the stages through which the thing passed; but such a statement does not explain the loosening of the grip of the great slave-owners; and it cannot be explained except psychologically. The Catholic type of Christianity was not merely an element, it was a climate; and in that climate the slave would not grow."

On Thursday, January 28th 2022, at a press conference the Vatican organized with members of the newly formed International Media Consortium from Catholic-factchecking.com, Pope Francis complained that: “in addition to the pandemic, an ‘infodemic’ is spreading: A distortion of reality based on fear, which in our global society leads to an explosion of commentary on falsified if not invented news.” Was Pope Francis referring to the suppression of stories about Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Mercola, Dr. McCulloch, and others who were banned, de-platformed or defamed for challenging the mainstream media COVID narrative? No, he was complaining about the exact opposite, siding with the fact checkers who were being paid to promote Big Pharma’s biowarfare against the 1.2 billion Catholics. “To be properly informed,” the pope continued, “to be helped to understand situations based on scientific data and not fake news, is a human right.”