Posted on 11 April 2013. Tags: conservatism, freedom, ideology, liberalism, liberty, reason, tradition
Freedom, as a general concept is often taken for granted in this so-called modern world. In the modern political language, nations are either “free or not free”; the governments that manage them are either “friends” or “enemies” of freedom, as are the persons living in them. For those living in the Far West, this notion [...]
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Posted in Most Recent, Politics, Religion
Posted on 08 March 2013. Tags: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela
Riding the Tiger today remembers Hugo Chavez and extends our deepest sympathies to the Venezuelan people on the loss of their leader. His death on Tuesday March 5th, after a long struggle with cancer could not have come at a worse time, both for his own people and internationally. Hugo Chavez first shot to prominence [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Politics
Posted on 20 December 2012.
La República Popular Democrática de Corea lanzó con éxito el cohete Unha-3 y se colocó un satélite en el espacio. Esta es sin duda una gran victoria para el pueblo coreano, y una bofetada a la cara a los intereses imperialistas y globalistas. Este logro demuestra lo que un pueblo decidido puede hacer aun frente [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Politics
Posted on 12 December 2012. Tags: deterrence, DPRK, foreign affairs, imperialism, Kim Jong-eun, Korea, Libya, Lukashenko, military, Nuclear weapons
Yesterday’s successful rocket launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a smack in the face to imperialist and globalist interests and shows what a determined people can accomplish even in the face of isolation, sanctions, and threats. The controlled media in many Western countries couldn’t help but gloat over any glitch or delay in this launch, and predicted failure, [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Most Recent, Politics
Posted on 15 November 2012. Tags: Colonialism, imperialism, the Cold War, the Third World
In modern discourse, the term imperialism is generally considered by both mainstream historians and leftists to be a “dirty” word. The former regard it as a relic of the past, conjuring up images of pith helmets and colonial settlements, the Scramble for Africa and the “Great Game” in Central Asia. In Marxist discourse, the term [...]
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Posted in Europe, History, Middle East, Most Recent, North America, Politics
Posted on 23 August 2012. Tags: democracy, elections, government, voting
Democracy is one of the championed pillars and ideals of the modern world- it is consistently toted as a sign of “progress” and development, and as a way to make society the happiest. To call a government a dictatorship is a slur, and the western media describes governments it opposes as undemocratic, totalitarian, authoritarian, etc, [...]
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Posted in History, Most Recent, Other, Politics, Society, Uncategorized
Posted on 14 August 2012. Tags: democracy, government, monarchy
Monarchy is a principle as old as history itself. The natural order of human history was with notable exception a society based around a king and his court, or the chief and his tribe from the noble to the yeoman down to the serf. It is a principle which was held to have an authority [...]
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Posted in Culture, History, Politics, Society
Posted on 11 August 2012. Tags: conservatives, culture war, egalitarianism, liberalism, superstition
Modernists and liberals often deride conservatives for their beliefs in what the liberals often consider to be superstitious fallacies. After all, to the modernists, if human history is the unbridled march of progress from barbarism to what they call “civilization,” the Far West now represents the summit of that said “civilization,” the past and its mystic [...]
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Posted in Culture, Politics
Posted on 08 August 2012. Tags: crime, political correctness, propaganda, racism, sikhs, white supremacism
The recent shooting in Wisconsin comes less than a month after a similar incident in Colorado. The one crucial difference here is the apparent ideological underpinnings that the media is playing up; already is an image of the shooter, Wade Page, with a swastika behind him and the word “NAZI” emblazoned on the front page [...]
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Posted in Current Events, History, North America, Politics
Posted on 20 May 2012. Tags: agrarianism, America, Balkanization, collapse, confederacy, debt, empire, failure, farming, future, history, secession, the South
If there is any hope for the future of America, it lies in the South. While it is duly noted that the American spirit, generally speaking, is different from that of the Old World, in that it is more libertarian, it is in the South that there is yet a semblance — though arguably an obscured [...]
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Posted in Politics, Society