First written by Matthew Raphael Johnson in October of 2015 The old guard is almost gone. For many of them, its probably a good thing. However, where Willis Carto is concerned, its a terrible thing. His passing leaves a gaping hole in the nationalist idea (I hesitate to call it a “movement”). Willis…
While increasingly well known, the Taliban had destroyed the Afghan poppy crop years ago. Their drug war was an immediate success because normally, in a war, enemy soldiers are not given lawyers and endless hearings to decide if they are, in fact, enemies. Taliban areas of Afghanistan before 9/11 had precisely zero poppy production. The…
Matthew Raphael Johnson deals with the Russian economist Valentin Katasonov (he erroneously refers to him as “Vladimir” at the beginning of the show. Vladimir Katasonov is also a philosopher of some repute. Its an easy mistake to make). As an economist, Katasonov is a historian concerned with the development of not only capitalism, but the…
TBR’s Senior Researcher Matthew Raphael Johnson was the guest of Matthew Heimbach on “The Daily Traditionalist,” a show produced by Radio Aryan. Could Putin’s Russia be a source of funds for nationalists abroad? Russia has been initiating positive relations with Nationalist parties throughout Europe. Russia is at the forefront of the fight against the NWO and…
TBR’s Senior Researcher, Matthew Raphael Johnson, has released his first podcast-lecture since 2012. From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Johnson created The Orthodox Nationalist, a series of lectures on all facets of Russian Orthodox history and philosophy as well as European nationalism more generally. He was soon shocked to learn that it was the most accessed…
One of Hillary Clinton’s leaked emails gives the real reason for the attack on Libya that toppled and killed Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi: The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically,…
Holocaust revisionists are attacked daily. They are imprisoned and beaten for their refutation of the Holocaust fable. No revisionists are part of academic history departments anywhere. More disturbing than this was that an entire pro-Stalin revisionist movement was fashionable in European and American academia for a long time. Celebrated with promotions and grant money, this…
There’s a list circulating around social media purporting to be the definitive list of all nations with a “Rothschild controlled” central bank. Its nothing but a list of all the countries in the world except North Korea and Syria. There are several nations with state-run central banks besides North Korea and Syria, almost all of them…
Matthew Raphael Johnson has returned to The Barnes Review as its Senior Researcher. He was the editor of TBR from 2000 to 2005 when he left to take a job as professor of history at Mount Saint Mary’s University. He always remained close to The Barnes Review and regularly published there even while working elsewhere. “Its…
By Paul T. Angel. On February 17, 2016, Willis Allison Carto, 1926–2015, was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, on property once owned by the family of Confederate war hero Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Carto earned this honor, having received a Purple Heart after being shot by a Japanese sniper during his time in the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater of World War II. “I never held any animosity for that Japanese soldier,” Carto told this writer many years ago. “He was doing his duty, and I was doing mine.”