Old hill fort covered in over 50,000 crosses as a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs

The Washington Post is reporting that the Obama administration has substantially expanded the role of US special operations forces across the globe as part of what the paper calls Washington’s “secret war” against al Qaeda and other radical organizations. Obama, according to the paper, has increased the presence of special forces from 60 countries to 75 countries. US Special Forces, the paper reports, have about 4,000 people in countries besides Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nazi edifice built on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults

JIAJU, China - In 2005, the National Geographic China magazine named this ethnic Tibetan village in western Sichuan province, sprawled over a valley amid snow-capped mountains, China’s most beautiful. Depending on how you look at it, that distinction was either a blessing or a curse…

“These cultures are unique, and an invasion of different cultures will destroy them. Furthermore, with an increasing number of tourists pouring into minority regions, the local governments commercialize the cultures, and even religious practices are changed.”

Remaining in the army, he was sent to Bavaria to fight against left-wing revolutionaries. (And yet Mr. Weber has discovered that, briefly at the turn of 1918-19, and unmentioned in “Mein Kampf,” Hitler wore a red brassard and supported the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.) Demobilized, he became an informer for the army’s propaganda unit— though whether he volunteered or was coerced because of his short-lived involvement with the Bavarian Soviet Republic…

Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War by Andrew Bacevich.

This is an excerpt from Andrew Bacevich’s bestselling new book, Washington Rules, that focuses on how, as his army career was ending, his real education, which would turn him into a leading critic of American war policy, began. What follows below is the introduction to the book which stands on its own as a political essay about a personal odyssey into recent history and the realities of our moment; it also offers a powerful sense of the book itself.

Norman Lowell giving his speech at the New Right Meeting in London, October 2010. Subject: Implementing the Imperium.

Alternatif, Autonome & Identitaire! 

“Bell may, indeed, be the least liked member of Bloomsbury. Bell has been found wanting by biographers and critics of the Group – as a husband, a father, and especially a brother-in-law. It is undeniable that he was a wealthy snob, hedonist, and womaniser, a racist and an anti-Semite (but not a homophobe), who changed from a liberal socialist and pacifist into a reactionary appeaser. Bell’s reputation has led to his being underestimated in the history of Bloomsbury.”

Okaaay…. not sure what to think of this one:

Gay Marriage: Would It Turn Americans Into Valueless, Collectivist Spartans?

“Marriage is the crucible by which we pour all of our values and pass them on to our children, and that is how the culture is renewed each time. So, if we lose marriage - for instance, if our children are raised in warehouses, so to speak. There have been civilizations that have tried to do that. The Spartans did that. They took the children away and taught them to be warriors. It’s a good way to defend a country, but not much of a way to run a civilization.”

Oops! The open borders crowd might find this statistic a bit inconvenient:

In 2007, 50 percent of Latinos surveyed told the Pew Hispanic Center that the growing number of illegal immigrants was a positive force for the existing Latino population. In a Pew survey released Thursday, that number had plummeted to 29 percent.

Joe DioGuardi is masquerading as an off-the-shelf, GOP, pro-life, small-government conservative. But what he also is — and the typical Tea Party candidate is not — is a supporter of a radical terrorist organization tied to Albanian organized crime, which is rampant in New York. 

Is this a cynical and discriminatory ploy to taint Joe DioGuardi, and an entire nationality, with the criminal element that every ethnic group is entitled to? If only. The sad fact is that the Albanian mafia and DioGuardi’s’s KLA are inextricably intertwined. And thanks to him, the United States is now intertwined with them both.

A group of Brooklyn teens this summer took to the streets of Bed-Stuy to count billboards and posters that promote alcohol in their neighborhood. The most frequently spotted ad? “A Spike Lee Collaboration” with Absolut Vodka. How shocking!

“You’re not supposed to be promoting stuff like that in areas that can barely afford food.”

An abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini…