PODCAST 37: PARIS AND THE ABYSS OF WESTERN IDENTITY

The Bataclan minutes before the terrorists struck.

Andy and Colin are joined by Ann Sterzinger to discuss the Islamic terrorist attack on Paris, and whether the West's negative culture of "freedom" will ultimately submit to the crude positivism of Islam, or whether Europe will start to define itself positively and fight back.

Also discussed are Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission, about an Islamicized France of the near future.

SYRIZA: FRIEND OR FOE

The flattery begins: Tsipras gets the Simpsons treatment.

by Jan Stadler

The election of Syriza marks a watershed moment for Europe. For the first time in modern European history, a crypto-Communist and explicitly anti-capitalist party has won a national election. A feat not even seen during the Cold War at the height of global Marxist-Leninist power.

At initial glance, most right-wingers are dismayed at the fact that Greece, which was becoming the poster child for a right-wing/nationalist re-emergence via Golden Dawn, has suffered what could be a setback.