New TBR Podcast: Leon Trotsky

New TBR Podcast: Leon Trotsky

In this broadcast Dr Matthew Johnson attempts to summarize a huge amount of information concerning early Soviet economic policy and ideology. The argument can be summarized this way: 1. Trotsky had far more power and influence than Lenin. 2. Marxism was almost totally irrelevant to the Red forces during and after the Civil War. 3.…

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Chernobyl after 30 Years: Accident or Terrorism?

Chernobyl after 30 Years: Accident or Terrorism?

In the Russian language, there is a massive literature in mainstream publications pointing out the inconsistencies and absurdities of the official Soviet and western line on the event. Recently, Nikolai Kravchuk, formerly of the National Academy of Sciences Institute for Theoretical Physics and a graduate of Moscow State University. Kravchuk states that the malfunctioning reactor,…

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Why Subscribe to The Barnes Review?

Why Subscribe to The Barnes Review?

“I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where’s Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.” Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, DC “I’m going to be honest with you — I don’t know a lot about Cuba’s healthcare system. Is it a government-run…

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TBR Podcast on Alexander Dugin

TBR Podcast on Alexander Dugin

This is an Introduction to Alexander Dugin’s philosophical foundations by one of the few Americans that can claim to know his work well. Almost totally unknown to American journalists and academics, Dugin remains an important subject. Matthew Raphael Johnson has been both a student and a supporter of Dugin for many years, introducing history students to…

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First Phoenician DNA is European

First Phoenician DNA is European

Traditional historical accounts which claim the Phoenicians were all Semitic has been turned on its head with the news that ancient DNA extracted from a 2,500-year-old Phoenician skeleton has unquestionably shown European racial origins. The study found that the DNA of the famous “’Young Man of Byrsa,” was an extremely rare—and exclusively European marker—and that this…

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TBR on The Daily Traditionalist

TBR on The Daily Traditionalist

TBR was represented again by its Senior Researcher Matthew Raphael Johnson on the Daily Traditionalist, the daily radio show of Matthew Heimbach, founder of the Traditionalist Worker’s Party. After several requests from listeners to discuss this topic, Dr. Johnson and Matthew discuss the ideology of Dr. Aleksandr Dugin, a Russian thinker, author and political activist on…

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The Poisonous Legacy of World War I

The Poisonous Legacy of World War I

The poisonous legacy of the First World War—which officially ended on November 11, 1918—continues to be felt on the French-Belgian border to this very day, where a 38 square mile (100 square kilometer) stretch of land is still officially an uninhabitable no-man’s-land, to which human access is legally barred. The cordoned-off area, little known outside…

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Half of Western European Men Descended from “One King”

Half of Western European Men Descended from “One King”

Around 50 percent of all men in Western Europe are descendants of one Bronze Age “king” who generated much of the nobility class which spread throughout Europe, a new genetic study has claimed.
The study, published in the Nature Genetics journal, analyzed the sequences of 1,244 human male Y chromosomes drawn from the 1000 Genomes Project.

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Podcast on The Cossacks

Podcast on The Cossacks

  Matthew Raphael Johnson’s “Orthodox Nationalist” podcast ran from 2009 to 2012. Dealing with all facets of Russian and Ukrainian history, theology and politics, it was the #1 draw at the Voice of Reason Network. Today, it is a part of The Barnes Review and sponsored in part by the Traditionalist Worker’s Party.In this edition…

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Putin’s Orthodox Faith

Putin’s Orthodox Faith

Putin’s Orthodoxy: A Few Hints about His Religious Views Matthew Raphael Johnson Vladimir Putin is fairly mute about his own religious views. Being a member of the Communist Party is no evidence of atheism. Its evidence only of conformity. Party membership was essential for having any a career of any substantial kind, especially in the…

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