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From The Barnes Review, July/August 2024
Personal From the Editor
WHERE ARE TODAY’S DARING EXPLORERS?
On the front cover of this July/August 2024 edition of TBR, we feature the great Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. From the late 1940s until his death in 2002, Heyerdahl epitomized the curiosity, skill, perseverance and courage demonstrated by his Norse and Viking ancestors 1,000 years and more earlier as he braved the open oceans to prove that ancient man—even with the technology and maritime skills of Stone Age peoples—could cross both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans to settle faraway lands.
Though ridiculed at the time for his ideas, Heyerdahl’s successful expeditions proved his critics wrong and inspired a new generation of Revisionist historians to reconsider their views on the peopling of the Americas, and engendered a new understanding of what our ancient ancestors were actually capable of in the realm of maritime exploration. Where are these kinds of explorers today? Some might say the closest thing we have are those astronauts who are boldly traveling on vehicles to outer space, but their craft are packed to the gills with advanced electronic technology, leaving much of the navigation to the computer.
Not so in Heyerdahl’s case. He and his crew preferred to accomplish their daring journeys with as little modern technology as possible, if only to prove that ancient man was quite capable of achieving things once considered beyond his “primitive” abilities. Thank you, Thor Heyerdahl, for having the courage to undertake these daring journeys and for rousing a generation of researchers to look beyond the Court Historians’ limited view of our past. Would there were more Heyerdahl’s out there today.
Also in this issue of TBR are articles on a variety of historical periods, from the Middle Ages to colonial times and the battle for control of North and South America, all the way to the World War II era, the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s in the United States and beyond. We also feature an inspiring interview with a former member of the Estonian parliament, Ruuben Kaalap, who brings up to date on the condition of Eastern Europe and gives us his outlook for the future, not only of Estonian culture but the entire region, as well. There’s more, but I won’t spoil it.
On another note, TBR’s assistant editor, John Friend, who has made many important contributions to this magazine, has found himself a new job. I can’t blame him. Plain and simple, TBR did not have the funds to truly compensate him for his many talents. We wish him well and hope to hear more from him in the future.
John replaced Dr. Ed DeVries as host of the TBR HISTORY HOUR podcast series when Ed passed from pneumonia in 2020. Thus, that TBR interview series is currently in limbo until I find a new host as good as they both were. Wink, wink: It sure would be nice if someone out there would send TBR a nice donation so I can train and pay a few new employees. Right now, I am doing this magazine by myself, so please let me know if I missed anything. —PAUL ANGEL, Executive Editor
The Barnes Review
A JOURNAL OF POLITICALLY INCORRECT HISTORY
JULY/August 2024 ❖ VOLUME XXX ❖ NUMBER 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REMEMBERING THOR HEYERDAHL
BY PATRICK CHOUINARD In this issue we remember Thor Heyerdahl, whose daring, dangerous and controversial voyages of the mid-20th century inspired an entire generation of historians, ethnographers, archeologists and researchers.
CENSORING UNCOMFORTABLE HISTORY
BY FRANK JOSEPH The methods used to smear Thor Heyerdahl and other “amateurs” are exposed.
KINGSHIP & LAW IN THE MIDDLE AGES
BY ANTONIUS J. PATRICK When people think of the Middle Ages, the image of an all-powerful despotic ruler only worried about his own wealth and power come to mind. But, as we learn in this article, even kings had to keep the peasants contented.
FORMER ESTONIAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER SPEAKS WITH TBR
INTERVIEW BY JAMES EDWARDS In this issue, TBR interviews Ruuben Kaalap, a former member of the Estonian parliament. Kaalap brings us up to date on the state of Europe, mass migration into the continent, and the future for Estonia and Europe.
THE WAR OF JENKINS’ EAR: A FORGOTTEN WORLD WAR
BY MIKE MAINS Few people have even heard of it, but the War of Jenkins’ Ear was truly a world war, with armies from major European powers clashing on the high seas and fields of battle in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
THE BRITISH JEWS WHO HELPED INSTIGATE WORLD WAR II
BY JOHN WEAR, J.D. Were Jewish agitators and financiers working behind the scenes to force England to challenge and then destroy Nazi Germany—even though it might cost the lives of millions of White European Christians?
HOW THE GERMANS THWARTED CHURCHILL’S ATTACK ON SWEDEN
BY MARC ROLAND Iron ore from the Nordic countries was a must-have resource for Hitler’s armed forces if they had any hope of winning World War II. Winston Churchill knew this and was willing to do anything to cut the supply off— even mining Swedish ports without warning.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GERMANY’S STRENGTH THROUGH JOY PROGRAM
BY SIDNEY SECULAR While people in the U.S. were suffering through the Great Depression, the citizens of Germany were enjoying a standard of living and a cultural renaissance unmatched by any other nation in the world. What was the role of the Strength Through Joy program?
THE FIRST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST MARTIN LUTHER KING
BY PAT SHANNAN On April 4, 1968, while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed. But that was not the first attempt to murder him.
REMEMBERING THE VIETNAM WAR AND THE RAUCOUS 1960S & ’70S
BY JOHN MASSARO When you talk to younger people these days, few of them know anything about the Vietnam War or even the tumultuous events that gripped America in the 1960s and 1970s. In this article, author John Massaro reflects on this era of widespread national unrest.
NEW MULTI-VOLUME EDITION OF MARCH OF THE TITANS COMING
BY MARC ROLAND Writing a 500-page book on the White race is hard enough, but now Arthur Kemp has expanded his classic March of the Titans into a multi-volume, full-color affair, updating, expanding and rewriting every chapter. Here is a review of the new Volume I.
