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Literature

Before the Flood
Literature

Before the Flood

Posted by: John Phoenix A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine by Ramzy Baroud The social, political, and historical context of the Israeli war on Palestine told through the stories of the author’s family and village."Deeply researched and highly readable, Before the Flood is a must read, leading to action and protest."—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United StatesA profound exploration of Palestinian history and resilience through the personal stories of the author’s family—the al-Badrasawis. Beginning with intimate details of village life in Beit Daras prior to the Nakba, Ramzy Baroud vividly portrays the rich cultural heritage, deeply rooted tra...
Stalin’s Library
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Stalin’s Library

Posted by: John Phoenix by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review Over the next few issues of LALKAR we shall be publishing this review of Geoffrey Roberts’ book on Stalin’s library.  Although as a bourgeois academic Roberts is obliged to take an anti-communist approach and to repeat may of the usual slanders against Stalin, such as in the sentence; “this book explores the intellectual life and biography of one of history’s bloodiest dictators, Joseph Stalin”  (Introduction, p.2), nevertheless, as an honest historian, he has been able to shed a bright light on Stalin as a person, showcasing not only his genius as a political leader but also his untiring and meticulous devotion to the cause of proletarian revolution and the well-being of the toiling masses.. PART...
Jewish History, Jewish Religion, the Weight of 3000 Years
Literature, ZIO-NAZI

Jewish History, Jewish Religion, the Weight of 3000 Years

Posted by: John Phoenix by Israel Shahak  The first difficulty is that, over the last one hundred and fifty years, the term 'Jew' has come to be used in two very different ways. To understand this, let's imagine ourselves back in 1780. At that time, the meaning of this term for everyone coincided with what the Jews themselves considered to be the constitutive basis of their own identity. This identity was essentially religious; moreover, the precepts of religion governed, down to the smallest daily detail, all aspects of the social and private life of Jews amongst themselves and in their relations with non-Jews. It was unthinkable for a Jew to drink even a glass of water in a non-Jew's home. This situation was changed by a twofold process, which began in Holland and En...
“You Have a Mother”
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“You Have a Mother”

Posted by: John Phoenix We lost my dear friend, Lola Mozes, who survived Auschwitz, this morning. I wrote her story a decade ago. Concentration Camp Auschwitz, Women survivors in the barracks at Birkenau. February 1945. Photo taken from a Russian film about the liberation of the camp. The Soviet First Army of the Ukrainian Front entered Auschwitz on the afternoon of January 27, 1945, finding 7,650 surviving prisoners, 1,200 in Auschwitz I, 5,800 in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and 650 in Auschwitz III-Buna-Monowitz. Poland. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images) BROOKLYN, N.Y — Lola Mozes’ childhood came to an end in the fall of 1939 at a small bridge in Poland. She was 9 — seated in a horse-drawn wagon, her back propped against her family’s silver Sabbath candelabra, which...
News on 3I/ATLAS: Lack of Non-Gravitational Acceleration Implies an Anomalously Massive Object
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News on 3I/ATLAS: Lack of Non-Gravitational Acceleration Implies an Anomalously Massive Object

Avi LoebFollow Residuals in sky coordinates (Right Ascension [RA] and Declination [Dec]) of 3I/ATLAS relative to a gravity-based trajectory between May 15 and September 15, 2025. Averages and uncertainties are shown for 4,022 observations from 227 observatories worldwide, which were binned in time. The residuals are consistent with zero between May 15 and September 23, 2025. Given its mass loss, the lack of non-gravitational acceleration during this period implies that 3I/ATLAS is more massive than 33 billion tons and its diameter is larger than 5 kilometers. (Credit: Cloete, Loeb & Veres 2025) BREAKING NEWS: the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is anomalously massive and large! In a new paper (accessible here) that I co-authored wit...
American Pravda: Six Unknown Books and Their Dangerous Jewish Secrets
Literature, ZIO-NAZI

American Pravda: Six Unknown Books and Their Dangerous Jewish Secrets

Posted by: John Phoenix Table of Contents Far Right Classicist Revilo P. Oliver Unknown Books that Would Transform Our History EPub Format For the last decade or so, Tucker Carlson has reigned as the unchallenged monarch of the conservative media world, with his influence and audience only growing stronger after FoxNews forced him to resign in 2023 and he quickly established his own Tucker Carlson Network. The increasing maturity of the Internet allowed Carlson to easily create his own media outlet, a possibility that would have been unimaginable a decade or two earlier. Two weeks ago, Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes, a young right-wing podcaster who had become notorious for his strident criticism of Jews and Israel, someone wh...
Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 5
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Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 5

Posted by: John Phoenix Stalin’s pometki (annotations) Stalin was in the habit of writing in the margins of books he read, as well as underlining some sentences or paragraphs.  Among his expressions of disapproval or disdain were expressions such as ‘haha’, ‘gibberish’,  ‘nonsense’, ‘rubbish’, ‘fool’, ‘scumbag’, ‘scoundrel’, etc. He could also be effusive in his praise, writing ‘yes, yes’, ‘agreed’, ‘good’, ‘spot on’, ‘that’s right’.  At times his annotations were full of the choicest abuse, such as ‘swine’, ‘liar’, ‘fool’. If he was sceptical about the text he simply marked it ‘m_da’ (meaning more or less ‘really?’). As is the case with Lenin, his most frequent annotation was NB in Latin or its Russian equivalent. Stalin’s pometki&n...
Six Unknown Books Against a Century of Falsehoods
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Six Unknown Books Against a Century of Falsehoods

Ron Unz  Table of Contents Sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Unknown Books and How They Transform Our History of World War II EPub Format World War II was the most colossal military conflict in all of human history, and the shaping event of our modern world. As a consequence, over the last eighty years it has become the subject of hundreds of thousands of books and articles written in English, and an equally vast outpouring of electronic media content based upon these. But in a long article I published last week, I emphasized that some of the most important books on that topic remain almost entirely unknown today because the information or analysis they provide ...
Lost Illusions and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Literature, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Lost Illusions and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

By: Lawrence Erickson  Cracking open a copy of Lost Illusions by French writer Honoré de Balzac proved to be a surprising experience. As possibly the most admired work from a titan of Western Literature, it should not be a work that is considered obscure. Yet it almost certainly would be for anyone outside of literary circles, with it having fewer ratings on Goodreads than fifteen of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s works, another titan that Balzac inspired. The novel proved to have all the penetrating human insight and moral struggles that would be expected from a writer of this caliber, as it told the tale of the ambitious young poet Lucien Chardon and his idealistic friend David Séchard. When Lucien arrives in Paris to pursue his dream, this fascinating human drama quickly morph...