First, a warning to my dear readers. Please read this article on an empty stomach and when you are in a comparatively calm, placid mood. The subject matter is so nauseating, infuriating, and outrageous, that I do not want to be held liable (here goes that attorney in me!) for the consequences. Having said all...

At the end of last month, Mehdi Nemmouche (also spelled “Nammouche”, “Namouche”, or “Nemouche”) shot up the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people:  an Israeli married couple on vacation, a French visitor, and a Belgian museum employee. About a week later, the French police picked up the jihadist in Marseilles. The media...

The twin scandals that enveloped our glorious military are proof of its degradation and the ineptitude of the Obama administration. First, there is the 115 day waiting period at the Phoenix, Arizona VA hospital, which officially resulted in 40 deaths (the real figure is probably in the hundreds). Seventy-one-year old Navy veteran Thomas Breen died...

The recent passing of Maya Angelou generated a predictable panoply of gushing grief from the mainstream media. “The definition of a phenomenal woman” gushed CNN; “Commanding Literary Voice” enthused The New York Times; “A Hymn to Human Endurance”, raved Time Magazine. The latter characterization is actually the most accurate, just not in the way the...

Russian traditionalist conservative writer and publicist Elena Chudinova recently gave a lengthy interview to Srdja Trifkovic and was the subject of my article in the latest issue of this magazine. Her recent article, “Eurovision’s Blue Beard” describes the current atmosphere in Europe with the author’s characteristic verve and bluntness. Chudinova’s friend, a religious Christian mother...

The Front Nationale is expected to get at least 18% of the vote in the ongoing European Parliament elections and with eleven new cities in France resulting from a “breakthrough” (the BBC’s words, not mine) in the recent local elections. The best forecast of Le Pen’s triumph is the change of the mainstream European media’s...

The fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education generated several articles in Chronicles outlining the noxious legacy of that dubious decision. But there were hundreds (if not thousands!) of other decisions by the judiciary that misinterpreted the Constitution, disregarded millennia of Western traditions and laws, and spat in the face of American voters....

The highlight of my time in law school – three years of varying degrees of dreariness and constant irritation was the visit of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The great jurist came to my nominally Catholic second-tier alma mater – I cannot help, but shudder at the latter word, so inappropriately used to describe...

A few months ago, Srdja Trifkovic aptly described the Eurovision song contest as “a political as well as a cultural irrelevance” and an “infomercial of poor taste pop”. He correctly if lightheartedly characterized the only global hit that came out of Eurovision (Abba’s song “Waterloo”) as “a typical example of cheesy tra-la-la europop”. Well, this...

“Get used to it guys. Here in America you will see a lot of these murder cases: children killing parents, parents killing children, siblings rubbing out each other. This might shock you now, but in a few months, you will just glance over it in the paper and forget”. This was the slightly snobbish admonition...

Last week, a brawl between supporters of a federalized Ukraine (known in the Western media as “pro-Russian separatists” and supporters of the neo-nazi dominated Brown revolution (known in the Western media as “pro-government demonstrators”) escalated into a massacre. A crowd of anti-Maidan demonstrators was chased into the Trade Unions building. The building was then torched...

Commenting on the Donald Sterling (a grimy shyster lawyer formerly known as Donald Tokowitz), Pat Buchanan asks: “Is America Still a Serious Country?”  Absolutely not and it has not been one for a very long time. Our country has become one big TV show: at best like Oprah and Dr. Phil and at worst like...

A few blogs ago, my devoted reader Louis from San Antonio asked me to share the mystical secrets of that famous elixir known as vodka. In the former Soviet Union – not only Russia, but even the Central Asian republics, drinking vodka involves a series of preparations and elaborate rituals, not far behind the famous...

[Final part of the interview between Srdja Trifkovic and Elena Chudinova that was started in Part I and Part II.] ST: Finally, this is something I have asked others and never got a satisfactory answer.  Why is the Russian intelligentsia so fascinated with the West and why does it still have this inferiority complex vis-a-vis...

[A Continuation of the interview between Srdja and Elena] ST: One worrying aspect is that Russia has allowed almost uncontrollable immigration from former Soviet Central Asia and this may, in view, of the low birth rates of the Orthodox Russians, change the demographic picture of the country in only a few decades. EC: I always...

Elena Chudinova is a Russian traditionalist conservative author and publicist who is Russia’s leading critic of Islam, mass non-European immigration, and a dedicated proponent of Russia’s engagement with the European Right. Chudinova’s famous bestseller “The Notre Damme de Paris Mosque” – a fast-paced dystopian novel about a 2048 Western Europe taken over by Wahhabi Islam...

With the upcoming Easter in mind, I could not help but to share a Twitter observation reposted by Scott Richert: “Advertisers now call an Easter ham a “holiday ham”. You know, so as not to offend all those celebrating Passover with a ham” Funny? Of course. Sad? Even more so. As someone who actually observes...

The recent rebellion against Brown revolutionary rule in the eastern, Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine erupted in bloodshed today, with four pro-autonomy activists killed in the small city of Kramatorsk. After Russian-speaking activists, with the approval of local authorities, took over administrative and law enforcement buildings in the Donetsk region, the Banderovites began an “anti-terror” operation...

JavaScript computer programming language inventor, founder and later, CEO of Mozilla free software community Brendan Eich was forced out of his job. And what was Eich’s crime or misdemeanor? Was he caught using narcotics, possessing child porn, beating his wife, or abusing his pets? Nope, the hapless executive donated a measly thousand dollars to a...

Recent weeks saw an increase of media attention to events in Syria, shifting away from Ukraine after the Crimean referendum. The main reason for the flurry of Syrian-related activity on the Internet was the ubiquitous #SaveKessab campaign on social media websites Twitter and Facebook. Kessab is a small town in the Latakia region of northwest...

Recently, American Jewish naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard who is serving a life sentence for espionage in favor of Israel has reentered the news. Apparently, the Obama administration is strongly considering his early release in exchange for Israeli concessions in the “peace process”. Israel only admitted that Pollard was their agent in 1998, thirteen whole...

Recent events in the United Kingdom, show that moral Britain is not only dead, in the words of our own Christie Davis, but buried and forgotten. Consider the following two news items.  First, the funeral of Tony Benn, the godfather of the hard Left in Britain, darling of that Midwestern socialist blowhard Michael Moore and...

A recent Gallup poll interviewed more than 178,000 people to determine which state is the “happiest”. Residents of each state were asked various questions about work, social life, the availability of food, shelter, and healthcare, as well as physical and emotional health. The poll showed that residents of the Midwest are the happiest in the...

The on-air resignation of RT (the station formerly known as Russia Today) anchor Liz Wahl (I guess young journalists are too hip to use their full names anymore) made tsunami waves in the American media. The mainstream networks and journalists, caught up in a perfect storm of anti-Russian hysteria, were ecstatic. She was interviewed by...

In an LA Times op-ed (“Ukraine’s threat from within”), University of South California professor of international relations Robert D. English describes the ugly essence of the Brown Revolution. His take on the neo-nazi dominated rebellion is much needed and sorely lacked in the American media. I already picture the pro-Maidan hacks at NYT, National Review,...

Sen. John “Invade the world, invite the world” McCain recently treated American television viewers to another of his trademark hysteric attacks on Russia. He told CNN’s Candy Crowley: “Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country . . . Look at Moldova and Georgia, both of whom are occupied by Russian troops as we...

Several days ago, in conversation with Financial Times journalist Guy Chazan, Mustafa Dzhemilev, a Soviet-era Crimean Tatar dissident and the former chairman of the Crimean Tatar representative body warned that a bloody jihadist uprising will erupt if Crimeans dare to join Russia in the upcoming referendum:  “We have Islamists, Wahhabis, Salafis, groups who have fought...

With the Brown Revolution running into a war of Russian resistance in the Crimea, the pleasant Peninsula, forgotten for two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union is all of the sudden at the top of all media headlines and is being discussed by talking heads on both sides of the Atlantic. As to...

A recent BBC article on the “far right” in Ukraine by David Stern is a perfect example of the mainstream media’s effort to obfuscate and distort events in Ukraine to make the neo-nazis that dominated the anti-Yanukovych forces seem legitimate.  This is first seen in the title of the article itself (“Ukraine’s Revolution and the...

The Brown Revolution leader most known, recognized, and respected by the West is former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Unlike his allies Yatsenyuk and Tyahnybok, Klitschko’s past makes him an unlikely participant in the neo-nazi led overthrow of legitimate rule in Ukraine. Vitali “Dr. Ironfist” Klitschko was born to an exclusively Russian-speaking family in Soviet Central...

Taking the subway a few days ago, a subway ad grabbed my attention. Usually, the ads on the Big Bunelo/Big Burrito (formerly known as the Big Bagel) subway involve such gems as: “The Alliance for Gay, Lesbian, Queer, Confused, and Bi Asian Youth”, or “Addicted to Marijuana: Join This Confidential Study”. Well, there is a...

The radical organization “Right Sector” is the hidden force behind the armed overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych.  Even the openly neo-nazi political party “Svoboda” led by the urologist-turned-aspiring fuhrer Oleh Tyahnybok seems almost respectable, compared to the militant thugs of “Right Sector”. That has not prevented such diverse media outlets as New York Times and Steve...

The most surprising thing about the ongoing Brown Revolution in Ukraine is neither the West’s support for neo-nazis, nor its immediate acceptance of the armed, violent overthrow of a legitimate president, whose election four years ago was deemed valid by the Eurocrats and the State Department. The most stunning aspect of the neo-nazi putsch is...

The cowardly collapse of Viktor Yanukovych’s legitimate government and the triumph of the violent, bloodthirsty neo-nazi-dominated revolutionaries may spell the last throes of modern Ukraine. After all, it is an artificial, amorphous country, created by Lenin, Stalin, and Khruschev and doomed to failure and fragmentation. As I’ve described at length exactly four years ago, after...

To the joy of traditionalists everywhere, the obscene-named punk feminist band’s exploits in Sochi came to an inglorious end.  The bandmembers gained worldwide celebrity status after yelling out Christophobic slogans on the altar of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.  After being pardoned from their two year sentences by Vladimir Putin, they made a whirlwind tour...

One of the biggest accomplishments of the Sochi Olympics has been its role in dousing the fires of the unrest in Ukraine – a fiery sequence of events that took the woefully unstable country to the brink of civil war. Crowds of bloodthirsty hooligans, goaded on by the terrible trio of anti-Yanukovych leaders (Tyahnybok, Yatsenyuk,...

The American mainstream media’s coverage of the Sochi Olympics has been more concerned with bashing Russia and Vladimir Putin than with analyzing the performance of athletes and teams.  Even previously non-political magazines like ESPN started coming out with vehemently anti-Putin articles.  As if on cue from the White House, the American media started an anti-Russian...

The opening ceremony, which stunned and impressed the skeptical West, will probably be the most interesting part of the Sochi Olympics.  The ceremony was Putin’s Russia’s attempt to re-introduce herself to the world and show that it’s neither the old Soviet Union, nor the wrecked, pitiful Russia of Yeltsin. The musical introduction with the Russian...

Anatoly Gladilin next shares his experience with the baleful reality of French public schools.  His daughter Liza was attending school with Nastya, the daughter of Pravda’s Paris correspondent.  Ironically, the daughters of two purported ideological enemies befriended each other.  Anyway, by that time the Soviet Union has collapsed and Gladilin was more of a freelancer....

I recently stumbled onto a short, but excellent book by Soviet dissident author Anatoly Gladilin who moved to Paris in 1976 during the strongest days of Brezhnev and worked for Radio Liberty.  The book, called “Rogues and Criminals, Welcome to Paris!” is a collection of uber-politically incorrect observations of the state of affairs in France....

The first Superbowl I’ve ever watched was the battle between the famous Dallas Cowboys powerhouse of the mid 90s and Bill Cowher’s inspiring underdog Pittsburgh Steelers (Superbowl XXX, played in Tempe, Arizona).  I was in America a little more than a year and was the only kid in my small Russian Jewish immigrant neighborhood in...

The Arizona GOP (a species disappearing faster than the Amur tiger), came out with a strongly worded condemnation of John McCain.  Seems like they had enough of Mr. Invite the World, Invade the World’s support of amnesty for illegals, Obamacare, and “assaults on the Constitution and the 2nd amendment”.  They were especially angry about McCain...

John “Invade the World, Invite the World” McCain is one of the loudest supporters of the anti-Russian, pro-EU forces in Ukraine, who are in armed rebellion against the legitimate (if bumbling and corrupt), government of Viktor Yanukovych.  One of the leaders of this uprising, concentrated in Kiev’s Independence Square (Maidan) is Oleh Tyahnybok, a former...

After the last two blog posts, several readers and acquaintances asked me to recommend some books on the topic of demonic possession and exorcism.  Over the last few years, I read several non-fiction books on the topic. 1.  “Hostage to the Devil” by the late Fr. Malachi Martin.  A book that opened my eyes to...

As I’ve mentioned in my previous blog entry, until I watched “The Exorcist” in late high school, I was more or less skeptical about the possibility of demonic possession.  However, I did witness, what I to this day believe was an exorcism as a child in post-Soviet Moldova.  Walking past a Russian Orthodox church dedicated...

Following the lead of Scott Richert, I read William Peter Blatty’s “Legion”.  Blatty, the descendant of Lebanese Maronite Catholics is world-famous for his chilling and yet uplifting novel “The Exorcist”, which he later adapted into an Academy Award-winning screenplay.  In “Legion”, Blatty re-introduces several characters from “The Exorcist” and the new novel still takes place in...

The recent passing of “poet” Amiri Baraka set in motion an outpouring of grief by the mainstream media.  The taxpayer-funded NPR called him “one of America’s most important literary figures” and called his legacy “achingly beautiful”.  The Washington Post gushed that Baraka was “one of the most influential African American writers of his generation”.  Baraka...

Turkey’s Islamist PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come out in support of the retrial of hundreds of military officers sentenced as part of the Ergenekon and Sledgehammer show trials.  These Moscow 1937-like shabby spectacles, discussed at length on this website (here and here), seemed to have been the final nails in the coffin of Turkey’s secular-nationalist military...