“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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
DURING WORLD WAR I, the British press was almost uniformly anti-Russian. What reporter Robert Wilton understood made him stand out: that Russia was not only a first-rank power, but a strongly equitable and just society as well. Wilton stood almost alone among English journalists at the time in trying to get the truth out about…
Matthew Raphael Johnson’s new podcast is an analysis of Lokot’, the part of Bryansk serving as the center of a socialist and nationalist social experiment under German-occupied Russia from 1941 to 1943. Most writers say it lasted until 1944 because the military leader, Brig. Gen. Bronislav Kaminski created the short-lived “Lepel Republic” in 1944 soon after its…
The Barnes Review was represented at the meeting of the Traditionalist Workers Party in Philadelphia, PA on April 30 2016. Matthew Raphael Johnson, TBR’s Senior Researcher in Russian and European History was the featured speaker again, following several other talented party activists, including Matthew Heimbach himself. He had also been the featured speaker at the…
On the 27th of April, Trump gave a substantial foreign policy address. As always, the actual text of the address is not easy to find. Almost always, the media want to “interpret” his words for the reader. His hysterical opposition is quoted right after his own words, often totally out of their context and initial meaning. The…
Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted back in early March that legal action might be taken by the Department of Justice against “climate change deniers.” She pronounced while testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee: “This matter has been discussed. We have received information about it and have referred it to the FBI to consider whether…