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

The clownish, Russo-Jewish nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky apparently wants to be cloned for Russia’s sake. Hey, it takes all kinds in this world. God bless those crazy eccentrics, each and every one…

“Scientists should work, we should not be afraid. Cloning is a remedy for humanity… Let us grow people and take their organs to replace [those damaged]“… 

“We should clone clever, talented people, a list of people to be cloned should be created. We should have new Einsteins, Kurchatovs, Tsiolkovskys, Yesenins, Pushkins.” He said he personally would be happy to be cloned. “This would be good, this would be a benefit for the nation”…

Two prominent neo-Nazis have bought a crumbling 18th century palace in an eastern German village. The locals don’t seem bothered about the prospect of far-right neighbors…

There’s talk that Wulff and Schunk plan to use Trebnitz Palace as some sort of far-right training center. Authorities and local political parties are worried. The interior ministry of the state of Saxony-Anhalt suspects they want to Trebnitz into a place of “national importance for right-wing extremists,” not least because of its favorable location close to the A14 autobahn. The region seems to be a focal point for neo-Nazis. The NPD youth organisation “Junge Nationale” recently moved its headquarters to the nearby town of Bernburg, and some leading eastern German extremists live in the area.

Interesting fellow… the recently deceased Nettleford was apparently a strong critic of both Marxism and Capitalism, and admired Marcus Garvey:

“It is now conceded in large measure that both capitalism and apocalyptic socialism in their would-be purest forms have been acultural in their approach to development. Neither really had a pace for the specificities of experience culturally. Development it was felt was scientifically determined and pursued according to immutable law, whether of the market or on the basis of unrelieved class conflict.”

In one of his classic phrases , “the quintessential Caribbean man” is defined as “part-African, part-European, part-Asian, part Native-American but totally Caribbean”… His race consciousness was not a vulgar cultural nationalism. He was too sophisticated a thinker for that… “People say I am the original postmodernist, for I was saying these things long before they became fashionable”.

“In a traditional social order,” or the pre-industrial society, “the languages of the hunt, of harvesting, of various rituals, of the council room, of the kitchen or harem, all [formed] autonomous systems.” The use of language differed per profession and was shaped by the segment of society in which one lived. Nowadays, instead, “it is assumed that all referential uses of language ultimately refer to one coherent world, and can be reduced to a unitary idiom.” The homogenization of language, of culture, is what makes industrialism possible. This is how Gellner understands the notion of “nationalism”. It represents “not the awakening of an old, latent, dormant force” therefore, “though that is how it does indeed present itself.”

[Nationalism] is in reality the consequence of a new form of social organization, based on deeply internalized, education-dependent high cultures, each protected by its own state.

The Asgard is a small sailing yacht owned by Irish Nationalist Erskine Childers. It is most famous for its journey in 1914 when Erskine Childers, his wife Molly and their small crew, made the then treacherous channel crossing with a hold full of German rifles from Hamburg into Howth harbour to arm the Irish Volunteers.

The thousands of nation peoples of the world are organized into the fewer than 180 states or countries represented in the United Nations. More than 95% of these states are multinational; that is, composed of many nations or distinct peoples, many of who do not consent to being absorbed and governed by an imposed central government in the hands of a different people. That this is so—and how it came about historically—goes a long way in explaining the phenomenon of national liberation movements.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, who leaves office soon after losing last week’s presidential elections, has awarded the Hero of Ukraine title to Stepan Bandera, a nationalist leader in 1930-1960…

Stepan Bandera, the son of a clerical family, was a leader of the Ukrainian national movement in Western Ukraine and headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in 1941-1959. The Soviet authorities accused Bandera of numerous acts of murder and terrorism and authorized his assassination by the KGB in Munich, Germany, on October 15, 1959. Bandera is a controversial figure in Ukraine. His supporters consider him a hero, while others see him as a Nazi collaborator.

The host of my favorite radio program, The Political Cesspool, has joined the American Third Position’s Board of Directors.

A “neo-Gramscian Marxist” professor takes on the thorny question of nationalism:

“So for Gramsci Marxism could meet these criteria for being the new counter-ideology … It was … national-popular in that it tried to inspire people with symbols and emotions rooted in popular culture and national traditions…

It seems to me that the strength of the national-popular is that it calls up two ideas, those of solidarity, which is in turn based on a shared history, an evolved tradition. Can the combined idea of political and economic citizenship aspire to the same emotional resonances which could be conjured up by the idea of the nation?”

Although Egypt was known as one country for more than 5,000 years, the search for an Egyptian identity started crystallising in the middle of the 19th century when Egypt freed itself from foreign occupation.

Three chief ideologies came to surface: the ethno-territorial Egyptian nationalism and by extension Pharaonism, pan-Arabism, and Islamism, each one of them was supported by intellectuals, politicians, and parties.

Maksim Travnikov, Russia’s deputy minister for regional development and a member of the “first hundred” of Dmitry Medvedev’s presidential reserve of administrative cadres, argues that because “national delimitations” have led Russia into “a blind alley”, Moscow must promote that idea that “multi-national” Russia is “a single nation” [natsiya].

Russia has “more than 180 peoples who speak more than 230 languages and dialects,” Travnikov points out, a diversity which represents both “an enormous creative potential” but also “can contain potential risks”…

Frank Roman of European Americans United on nationalist prospects for this decade and rest of the 21st Century.

An interesting 2008 interview with Thierry Vanroy of the Flemish Nationalist Student Movement (NSV)