Weekly Round-up 10/21/2023

A dream of flight

Oct 21, 2023

Another week in the books!

This week's slate of articles was on the eclectic side, ranging from two very interesting intelligence reports on the American Expeditionary Force’s limited intervention in the Russian Civil War to a sober warning that we’re all about to die for the third time this week.

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There were a staggering 6 new articles this week:

Two intelligence reports from the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1919 (Free) - Reproduces two very revealing intelligence reports written by a seasoned American diplomat attached to the American military intervention during the Russian Civil War. Examines the role that public morale, passivity, and dysfunction play in revolutionary environments, allowing small groups of unpopular revolutionaries to punch well above their weight. Please read these.

Watch-along #5: The North Water E5 (Paid) - The series finale of The North Water and final entry in this round of the Watch-along series, which provides live commentary and trivia on tv shows and movies. You can check out the first episode in the series here.

Do not intellectualize arguments for why you should be killed (Free) - More thoughts on the ongoing internet feuds about how to respond to the latest Israel-Palestine fighting. I think the solution is pretty clear: Don’t support either side (neither are friendly), but definitely don’t endorse the logic of decolonization that leftists are using to justify the attacks on Israel. This thinking is something that has to be actively opposed. That same logic can and will be used to justify similar attacks against us.

How to read history (Free) - Using the death of Michael Brown and the birth of the professional Black Lives Matter movement to illustrate how fake history is made. There’s only one way to short circuit this process.

ALERT: TURN ON THE NEWS (Free) - Hard-hitting analysis of the ongoing apocalyptic WW3 death collapse. If you don’t read this article you will likely be carried away by the storm.

That’s all, folks! See you next week. Catalog below.