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It's a popular trend for leftist academics to deconstruct nationalism by pointing to its recency. They point to examples of empires past to show that multiculturalism has been the norm for most of history. Rome is especially popular in this regard.

But what does Rome actually tell us about race, ethnicity and politics? Was there a "Roman nationalism" modern academics have overlooked? This question is the topic of my latest Substack:

https://keithwoodspub.substack.com/p/ethnopolitics-in-the-roman-empire

I have now added an audio version of this essay. Read or listen now!

The idea that ancient peoples were constituted ethnically is so obviously correct that nobody even thought to question it until the embarrassment that is modern scholarship. We get our very word “tribe” from Latin, and our word “genetic” shares a root with the Roman term for clan.

Keith lays out the case for Roman identity as being ethnic. Many good points in this article.

https://keithwoodspub.substack.com/p/ethnopolitics-in-the-roman-empire

Uh what? Greenwald is very obviously being sarcastic here

https://t.me/mpeinovich/3470

With SNEAKO tonight at 10pm EST. NO matter what these demons do, I only get farther. https://rumble.com/v47a6m3-this-will-be-a-good-stream.html

Pox Populi on why you shouldn't believe the doomsayers about demographic replacement — and what the real solutions to it are, as opposed to some of the common wisdom on the Right about it. https://counter-currents.com/2024/01/population-doom/

Jundallah, the precursor to Jaish al Adl, was reportedly infiltrated by Israeli Mossad agents to carry out false flag attacks inside Iran, according to this Foreign Policy Magazine article from 2012.

Israel’s covert backing of Jundallah “roiled the Bush administration until the day it left office” and jeopardized US-Pakistan relations.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/01/13/false-flag/#cookie_message_anchor

I've been ranked 166 in the most influential accounts on X/Twitter, ahead of top right-wing influencers like Candace Owens and Matt Walsh.

Pretty crazy considering I was banned off the site this time last year. Thanks for the support on there.

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🇩🇪 Germany's ruling coalition wants to ban the AfD because its getting too popular

The debate kicked off in earnest after Saskia Esken, the co-chief of the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), came out earlier this month in favor of discussing a ban — if only, as she put it, to “shake voters” out of their complacency.

Since then, politicians from across the political spectrum have weighed in on whether a legal effort to ban Alternative for Germany (AfD), while possible under German law, would be tactically smart — or only further fuel the party’s rise.

Like so much of German politics, the conversation is colored by the country’s Nazi past. In a society mindful that Adolf Hitler initially gained strength at the ballot box, with the Nazis winning a plurality of votes in federal elections before seizing power, a growing number of political leaders, particularly on the left, view a prohibition of the AfD — a party they see as a dire threat to Germany’s democracy — as an imperative rooted in historical experience.

Others fear the attempt would backfire by allowing the AfD to depict their mainstream opponents as undermining the democratic will of the German people, desperate to ban a party they can’t beat.

“Calls for the AfD to be banned are completely absurd and expose the anti-democratic attitude of those making these demands,” said Alice Weidel, co-leader of the party, in a written statement to POLITICO. “The repeated calls for a ban show that the other parties have long since run out of substantive arguments against our political proposals.”

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/can-a-ban-stop-the-rise-of-germanys-far-right/