It is always hard to judge the true relevance of events as they happen. Sometimes the biggest news stories have little long-term impact, while relatively unreported events can sometimes change the course of history.
Relevance is something that often emerges long afterwards. Therefore, to come up with a valid list of the top ten most important news stories of any one year requires a considerable amount of crystal ball gazing and "pushing" into the future.
With that in mind, then, here is my list of the top ten news stories of 2018, with a few comments on why I regard them as important. In reverse order, naturally...
(10): THE RISE OF THE "MORAL RIGHT"
This has gone almost unreported, but in 2018, what was known as the Alt-Right—and is better referred to as the Dissident Right—took a turn towards a more moral or "affirmative" direction, and not just at this site. Even irredeemably immoral sites like TRS and The Daily Stormer made attempts to repackage themselves as more normie friendly, banning the swastikas and even cutting down on their ration of K-words and N-words—which must have really hurt!
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| I did "nazi" that coming. |
In my first article of the year "The Alt Right's Six-Point Plan for World Domination in 2018," I pointed out that the true strength of the Dissident Right was in the moral character of its fundamental ideas:
The Alt-Right got its start in some respects by pissing on the steps of the temples of preceding ideologies. We took pleasure in trolling and shocking these fusty and flawed world views by saying what we knew would shock and horrify them. We were the ones outside throwing stones at the windows. It was fun and quite justified by the situation of the times, but it also involved us in morally noxious behaviour.Despite this, the Alt-Right, under its poor leadership, had allowed itself to become a convenient Liberal reference point for "hate-filled bigot," "racist," and "Nazi."
Times have changed and we no longer have to resort to such tactics to get attention. We have outgrown the enfant terrible role, especially since our ideology actually represents the moral core of the World and indeed the Universe. All other moralities are diseased, solipsistic, lopsided, and degenerate (in every sense of that word), as they all ultimately lead to weakness, sickness, death, and decay.
The Alt-Right, by contrast, stands for all that gives health and power to individuals, nations, and civilisations. We stand for healthy families, growing demographics within the context of a sustainable environment, and economics that eschew the parasitical, while also reaching with one hand towards and beyond the heavens, but lacking the hubris that has brought down preceding civilisations.
What we believe in is a thing of absolute and terrible moral beauty, and one that enables us to project moral power over everything and in all directions. There is only one pair of feet that will not besmirch the moral high road by walking on it, and that pair of feet is ours. Our role is to be the sainted sage who sees all, explains all, and points the world in the right direction.
Further explanation of the moral approach needed was also provided in my interview with the Quebec nationalist magazine Harfang:
...it is clear that the Alt-Right has serious blind spots. In particular it fails to understand moral power, which, in its essence, is a device for lessening opponents and opposition to any positive message you have.As an aspect of its strength, morality also involves doing what is necessary to avoid fighting too many enemies at once (literally why Hitler is evil).
For the years ahead, what the Dissident Right needs is a firmer understanding of tactical moralism and an understanding of past mistakes, by which it has (a) divided itself, (b) united its enemies, and (c) made itself a pariah and alienated neutrals. Much of the work we published this year dealt with this problem.
In the new year I expect to see further developments in this direction.
Memes come and go, but the real reason the NPC meme was so important was because it exposed not only liberal and leftist group think, but also the decline of the media establishment and the attempt to reimpose a "gate keeper" culture by the Big Tech companies.
The grey, bot-like face with its easily programmable opinions perfectly captured the leftist hive mind. So effective was it that Twitter was provoked into a mass purge of NPC accounts, something that revealed the Left's panic, along with its enormous institutional power—also demonstrated in its continuing efforts to deplatform anyone to the right of Trotsky.
The NPC meme grew out of the toxic cynicism of our age. The fact that it soon became ubiquitous was a sign of a general redpilling about the way the establishment continually lies to us about everything all of the time.
A long-time classic on the Dissident Right has been Jean Raspail's dystopian novel "The Camp of the Saints" (1973). This paints a disturbing picture of a morally and socially disarmed West that is overwhelmed and destroyed by migrant hordes, which it is unable to deny entry. The migrant caravans that started moving up from Central America to the still extremely porous US-Mexico border throughout the year were an attempt by shady NGOs to turn this into a reality, and also drive a wedge between Trump and his base.
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| See, I wasn't exaggerating at the end of the previous item. |
With literally hundreds of millions of Third Worlders ready and willing to come to the West, such "non-racist" utilitarian arguments are no defence. What is required, of course, are arguments that emphasise identity. The Dissident Right is the only source for such arguments. We have to be able to say "No" to continued mass immigration without having to say "because..." followed by a list of rational arguments, all set within a context of universal egalitarianism and international brotherhood.
The only real argument is that they are not us, and we are not them—and that should be enough.
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| Another woman with two children by a fence. |
It has to be stressed again and again that it wasn't Blacks who ended slavery, Jim Crow, or Apartheid. In each case it was White people. But instead of getting the credit—and indeed the gratitude—for ending these "social arrangements," all Whites get is the blame and the imposition of a double standard that serves to endlessly punish them.
The most recent outcome of this was the decision by South Africa's Marxist ANC government to seize White-owned land and property without compensation. This made a mockery of the "social contract" on which the supposed "Rainbow nation" was founded on. Instead of a post-racial society, where all were free and equal, we have instead the power of the majority politically weaponised by the ANC to oppress, punish, and humiliate the minority.
This serves as a useful indicator of what happens when Whites lose control of a society they formerly controlled. The question here is will Whites in other countries pay attention and heed the obvious lessons.
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| Chinbabwe |
The Zimbabwean election may seem a triviality, but it revealed an interesting geopolitical trend, namely a new kind of Chinese globalism.
This has long been in formation with the "One Road One Band" policy that seeks to expand Chinese influence along its major trade routes through investment and debt ownership.
The previous Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe was best known for greatly reducing the power and influence of Whites in his country, leading to economic chaos. But his removal in 2017 and the rise of President Emmerson "the Crocodile" Mnangagwa was evidence that China was prepared to pick up the slack there and in the continent generally.
Mnangagwa's links to China go back decades. With Mugabe becoming senile and controlled by his corrupt in-laws, Mnangagwa was the obvious choice as a suitable successor who would protect Chinese interests. These had grown sharply, as the removal of Whites has opened up a slot for another high IQ group to come in and "help" manage the economy.
The August elections pitted the Chinese-backed Mnangagwa against a more pro-Western candidate, Nelson Chamisa, with Mnangagwa claiming victory with 50.8% to 48.3% of the vote.
(5): THE U.S. MIDTERMS
The U.S. Midterm elections were important in a number of ways. While the Democrats gained Congress, the GOP strengthened its hold on the Senate. All-in-all it seemed like an honourable draw for both parties, and a confirmation of the increasingly polarised state of America. But more than this, the Midterms made it clear that Civic Nationalism was a dead letter.
Leading up to the elections, Trump had made much of how he had benefited specific ethnic and racial groups that typically vote Democrat, with the hope that these groups would now reciprocate and vote for him. His decision to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was supposed to win over the normally Democrat-voting Jewish vote. It didn't. Likewise his boast of record-low Black unemployment did nothing to win the Black vote.
Meanwhile, working class and middle class Whites continued to vote for the GOP despite the fact that they failed to deliver on the Wall. The real importance of these Midterms therefore was to confirm the increasingly racial, ethnic, and identitarian character of American politics.
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| Democracy when it works: Salvini |
(4): ANTI-IMMIGRANT PARTIES TAKE CONTROL OF ITALY
Anti-immigrant parties have been doing well in Europe for years, but 2017 marked their first big breakthrough into government in one of the major European powers, namely Italy.
Here, in a massive political upset, a coalition of two populist parties—one from the Left and one from the Right—replaced the old centre-right centre-left parties by offering voters what they really wanted. Naturally this also included immigration restriction.
Matteo Salvini, the leader of Lega—one of the two parties in the coalition, the other being the more Leftist 5 Star—took the all-important Minister of the Interior slot, and immediately began working to stop the boats, gangs, and NGOs that had been dumping Third World migrants on Italy's Southern shores. He also speeded up processing and repatriation, while defying the globalists at the centre of power in the EU.
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| Democracy when it doesn't work: Macron |
(3): THE YELLOW VEST PROTESTS
One of the reasons that Salvini was able to get his way is because the globalists at the centre of power in the EU were deeply weakened this year. Both Angela Merkel in Germany and Emmanuel Macron in France were cut down to size by events in their country. In Germany further gains by the AfD and rebellions in her own party forced Merkel to finally announce that she would resign as party leader and step down as Chancellor at the end of the present term.
In France, with Macron just beginning his career as President, the dynamic was different.
Initially triggered by hikes in fuel tax, demonstrations against Macron became a conduit for so much more, as ordinary French citizens took to the streets to denounce the direction that France had been going. Underneath it all was a barely conscious rage at the way that the globalist elites had manipulated the hunger for real change in the 2017 elections, only to give the voters a metrosexual Blair/Obama clone married to his schoolteacher as President.
Possibly the real trigger for the riots were pictures that emerged shortly beforehand of Macron "on holiday" posing excitedly with his hands around semi-naked, sweaty Black men. What was it that Abraham Lincoln said about fooling all of the people all of the time?
If nothing else, the Yellow Vest Protests were an interesting symptom of the exhaustion of the conventional political process. Also interesting was the degree to which the movement effortlessly blended left-wing and right-wing ideas in a sort of "Horseshoe Theory" way, reminding us that the old left-right divide had never looked more past-its-sell-by date than in 2018.
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| Woes and Twitter |
One reason that Trump, Brexit, and so much else that is positive happened in the last few years was because of the ending of the old "gate keeper" media, which essentially told people what to think and how to vote. This had a lot to do with the freedom created by the internet.
2018, however, saw a massive effort to clamp down on the free expression of healthy, radical, and controversial ideas, with many commentators deplatformed, demonetised, and doxxed. This was even extended to relatively milquetoast individuals and ideas, including actual liberals or libertarians who are regarded as "a bit edgy," like Gavin McInnes.
Also, Dissident Righters who were careful to deal with radical right-wing ideas in a nuanced, careful, and moral way, like Roosh, Millennial Woes, and Luke Ford, all found themselves banned, barred, or censored to some degree. More insidiously, the shadow banning of sites, like our own, and the "de-viralling" of certain trending topics were used with much less restraint than ever before.
This was done not only to "contain" the Dissident Right, but also to disadvantage conservatives, civic nationalists, and Trump supporters.
Given that the Left already controls the mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, and television, the fact that they were also trying to exert their power over the internet and social media was deeply worrying. Also deeply worrying was the lack of response by important non-Leftist politicians like President Trump. Quite simply if the Left had controlled social media in 2016 like they do now, Trump would simply not be President.
But while this trend should give us cause for concern, it is also a deep sign of weakness by the Left and an actual admission that in the market place of ideas their ideas always fail.
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| The civilian in this shot looks a lot less like a civilian than the non-civilians. |
(1): THE SHRINKING OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE
Even as I write, it is still not clear if Trump will follow through on his recently delivered statement about withdrawing American forces from Syria. Whether he does or not is actually unimportant, as the reality on the ground is that in both Syria and Afghanistan the American Empire has been soundly defeated.
In Afghanistan, after spending over a trillion dollars—or 200 times the $5 Billion dollars that Trump is seeking in wall funding—the US has failed to significantly change that country. The puppet government that the US has been propping up is close to collapse, and the consensus is that it is only a matter of time before the Taliban are back in power.
In Syria, the US can only justify its involvement by claiming to fight against a group that it actually invested in and built up in the hope of overthrowing Assad. Now the US, through its Kurdish proxies, controls the North-Eastern part of the country, but with Assad in control of the rest of the country and the Turks straining at the leash, it is only a matter of time before things become extremely dicey for the 2,000 or so US military personnel reportedly in the country. Pulling them out now would actually be the smart thing to do.
So, why have America's interventions failed so badly? There are a number of reasons.
Firstly, the historical trend is towards a more multi-polar world, and America is still used to a unipolar one.
Secondly, America is attempting to play an imperial role without being in any way a truly imperial country. It lacks a true sense of mission and its forces are essentially unmilitary in character. All that needs to happen is for a few hundred GIs to die and the cracks begin to show. Since the Vietnam War, America has been a post-military superpower LARPing as a military one. Without air power, allies, and proxies, it simply wouldn't exist in a geopolitical sense.
Thirdly, America lacks geopolitical flexibility. Even with its enormous weaknesses, America still has enormous strengths. It should be doing a lot better than it has been doing projecting power and influence. But the problem is that all American foreign policy and geopolitical projection serves one pointless goal, namely to serve the interests of the Jewish colony in the Middle East.
This means that when America competes against other powers, it is effectively like a boxer with its shoes nailed to the canvas. While someone like Putin can do deals with—or walk away from—a number of partners, America can never walk away from Israel, which makes it pretty crap at doing deals with everybody else.
Back in 2014, the US could probably have done a very good deal with Assad, but its subservience to Israeli interests closed off such a possibility and allowed Putin to ride in and rearrange the Middle East to serve Russian oil interests.
Whether Uncle Sam quietly leaves or is carried out of places like the Middle East in a body bag doesn't much matter, as the World has already seen that the American Empire has no clothes.
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