The Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, A Muslim Slave
In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic. To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, here is the remarkable story of… Continue reading
#Opinion by Maria Zakharova
💬 Zelensky said that Kiev was hostage to the election process in the US.
So… were there no elections in the United States before 2024? Or is that the absent Ukrainian presidential elections have been moved to the US?
I get it. Zelensky wants to believe he’s one of a kind and everything revolves… Continue reading
” … These two Romes are fulfilling the legacies they inherited: American Rome, like its pagan predecessor, has become an oppressive conqueror, seeking to impose its culture on all its victims. Russian Rome, like Orthodox Constantinople, seeks friendly relations with anyone on the basis of shared spiritual values … And just as the old Roman… Continue reading
‘You know who I blame? The old Ayatollah, for calling us the Great Satan. It’s like he put the evil eye on us and we shrank.’ – John Updike
John Updike, Rabbit At Rest, 1990
It can’t be denied that the English-American worldview/alliance was the sole victor of all three of the most impactful revolutions in modern… Continue reading
With thanks to Batiuska, our writer
‘If you do not live for something, you will die for nothing’.
The Sitting War and The Three Aims
Aim One
Those addicted to Hollywood war films and special effects, with sweeping advances of tanks across vast panoramic plains, huge explosions, mass death and destruction, wars over in weeks, are rather bored by… Continue reading
I received a document and it deals with NATO war prisoners from the Korean war.
I’ve been following the deep research work done by Jeffrey Kaye and others on the issue of biological warfare during the Korean war. Not in depth, but enough to understand what happened there. Jeffrey also wrote the book “Coverup at Guantanamo”,… Continue reading
With thanks to Batiushka, the writer
Introduction: Two Civilisations
The tragic Washington-Moscow war which is starting to come to an end after nine long years on the battlefields of the Ukraine, where very many Ukrainian men are dying in futility, may well be entering its last year. The Western arming of the Kiev regime which began the… Continue reading
With thanks to Batiushka, the author
There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization.
– Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Ezra Pound
Introduction: The Orthodox Christian View
I belong to the 200 million-strong Orthodox Christian Church and Civilisation. I am an Orthodox priest who has lived in many European countries,… Continue reading
I’m a tough nut to crack and in terms of trust, I don’t trust many. But here, in this video Ritter tells a good story that has actually convinced me that he has a heart and also is emotionally mature enough to say the things that he says (despite major errors initially). He talks about… Continue reading
