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The L’Ordre blog visits YouTube
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Harry J. Bentham
Ainsi, presque tout est imitation. Thus, almost everything is imitation. Voltaire This post is dedicated to a new medium that I am once again going to use to share my thoughts. That’s right. I have published videos to YouTube in the past, under another channel name, during my student years. You might even find one…
Billions on “democratization” buy new dictators for the people of Egypt and Ukraine
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Harry J. Bentham
Il arrivera, donc. ce moment où le soleil n’éclairera plus. sur la terre. que des hommes libres. et ne reconnaissant d’autre maître que leur raison. It will happen, then, in the moment the sun is brightest upon the world, that men will be free and they will recognize no other master than their reason. Nicolas…
The war on terror is over: we lost
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Harry J. Bentham
La guerre est toujours le premier vœu d’un gouvernement puissant qui veut devenir plus puissant encore. War is always the first wish of a powerful government that wants to become even more powerful. Maximilien de Robespierre The war on terror is lost. That’s why the phrase is no longer in use and we’re all withdrawing…
The purpose of the Order
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Harry J. Bentham
Je sens que j’existe, mais je ne sais pas ce que je suis. I feel that I exist, but I do not know what I am. Nicolas Malebranche We should embrace the fact that many of the critics of our excessive states, which entitled themselves to monitor and intrude heavily against our persons today, are antistatists…
Charlie Hebdo’s freedom of speech was never violated, it simply had consequences
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Harry J. Bentham
Ce que l’on conçoit bien, s’énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément. What is well designed, is expressed clearly, and the words to say it come easily. Nicolas Boileau The concept of freedom of speech seems to have been abused and misrepresented in recent days, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre.…
Recommendations from the Order: Robert Wei’s politics and culture blog
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Harry J. Bentham
L’hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu. Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue. François de La Rochefoucauld I have a new viewpoint article due to appear at Press TV soon, but in the meantime, I would like to congratulate Robert Wei on being added to our club of writers…
To be or not to be Charlie Hebdo: when being a politically correct coward is brave
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Harry J. Bentham
Au bout d’un ou deux siècles d’exploitation se produit une véritable émaciation du panaroma culturel With one or two centuries of exploitation comes a thorough emaciation of the cultural landscape. Frantz Fanon All of us regret the tragic loss of life in the shooting of staff and police officers at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The social…
Political cinema and the fine line between depicting and inciting violence
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Harry J. Bentham
Il se fit un abondant silence à l’entour, et la majeure partie du reste du monde se mit à compter pour du beurre. There was an abundant silence around, and most of the rest of the world began to count for nothing. Boris Vian Movies are considered a part of the arts in modern liberal democracies,…
Enemy within: US shoots at North Korea over a cyberattack from inside the US?
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Harry J. Bentham
Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution? Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution? Maximilien Robespierre First, I would like to repeat wishes for a Happy New Year and all the rest of that business that took place between posts. In considering my next opinion article at the global news website Press TV, there are several topics I…
On the Cards: antistatism as a sound political life, not another ideological house of cards
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Harry J. Bentham
Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mècontents et un ingrat. Every time that I fill a high office, I make one hundred men discontented and one ungrateful. Louis XIV Anarchism is many things, and it is faulted in many ways by its challengers. Opponents see it as insufficient, incapable…
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