A Madison, Wisconsin-based atheist group called Freedom From Religion which is a member of the Atheist Alliance continues to attack local governments in the South and other rural, traditional areas over religious activities and symbols. As noted in recent SNN articles, the Northern Progressive group has threatened a rural county in North Carolina because short prayers are...
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The post-plantation societies known to many nineteenth century Southerners as the ‘Golden Circle’ (which included the Southern States, the Caribbean islands, Brazil as well as other parts of northeastern South America) continue to suffer similar problems under the imposed ideology and social structure of the United States and Western Europe. As recently documented in...
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While the United States Federal Government claims that ‘Promoting freedom and democracy and protecting human rights around the world are central to US foreign policy,’ polls reveal that at home three-quarters of its citizens say they distrust it and a majority believe the Feds pose a threat to their freedoms. A recent news story demonstrates that such...
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Ron Maxwell’s new film ‘Copperhead‘ comes out this summer. In stark contrast to the anti-Southern films of late which have glorified Abraham Lincoln and the US conquest of the South while demonising Southerners, this new film is described as ‘A timeless, deeply moving examination of the price of dissent.’ Bill Kauffman, the author of...
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Residents of Memphis continue to wait for the final vote by the city council on the permanent names of the city’s three Confederate-themed parks formerly (and, to many still) known as Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, Jefferson Davis Park, and Confederate Park. Late last month, the special committee appointed by the city council to review...
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General Philip Breedlove of Forrest Park, Georgia, recent commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe, is the new military head of NATO. He replaces James Stavridis, who was born in Florida to ethnic Greek immigrants from Turkey. John Vadiver writes for Stars and Stripes. “Within the borders of our Alliance we enjoy...
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As SNN continues to document the failure and decline of the ‘New South’ (imposed upon Southerners by the US Federal Government) we note the recent front page of the The Augusta Chronicle, the major newspaper in Georgia’s second largest city, Augusta. It follows up on a story we covered recently of the savage beating...
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On his popular talk radio program today Rush Limbaugh told his audience that ‘there is more going on than just Benghazi.’ He then proceeded to defend at length the Republican media’s focus on the subject, admitting that it was to a large degree motivated by politics and then saying ‘we will stick with it.’...
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Violent crime continues to plague cities throughout the post-plantation societies that once comprised the Golden Circle region. As reported on SNN, tanks now patrol the streets of Atlanta, Georgia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as authorities try to get a handle on the situation. Black religious leaders pray for members of their community to stop...
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While Southerners, whose culture was founded explicitly on undemocratic, inegalitarian principles, continue to try to limit the excesses of US-imposed democracy, many Northern Progressives in New York City and beyond are excited about the prospect of allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections. Jessica Chasmar reports for The Washington Times that the proposal has garnered enough support...
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A proposal has been made to close eleven underused schools in Memphis, including three high schools, in an attempt to save the soon-to-be-merged Shelby County and Memphis City Schools districts an estimated $4.7 million. However, the financial savings could come at a greater cost: student safety. Jackie Orozco with ABC 24 in Memphis reported:...
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Dr Charles Verlinden, professor of history at the University of Ghent and member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences in Belgium, explains in the first chapter of his important book The Beginnings of Modern Colonization (1970) that the colonial techniques which were put to use on the islands of the eastern Atlantic and across the...
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The Delaware Grays Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) met in April for Confederate History Month and commemorate adding two additional names to a monument which honours citizens of the Blue Hen State who fought for Southern independence. Delaware was once the northernmost part of a ‘seigneurial’ civilisation of wealthy and classically-inspired plantation societies...
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In yet another case of Yankee arrogance, we have Mr. John Flannery, a lawyer from the Bronx, NY who wishes to have a statue removed from the front of a courthouse in Leesburg, VA.  The statue was erected in 1908 to honour the Confederate soldiers who valiantly defended Loudoun County from Lincoln and his...
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As noted in SNN’s study of the Golden Circle region and its origins, the South and the other classically-influenced cultures of the New World were heavily influenced by Renaissance thought and taken together formed a unique civilization of plantation societies that shared a common origin and many of the same struggles. In addition to their different...
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Robert Barnwell Rhett, the Father of Southern Nationalism, explained using clear language in his memoir the root of the conflict between the North and South in the 1860s. Rhett, who had served as a US Senator and a representative in the provisional Confederate Congress, wrote a report in the latter capacity which explained to European governments as well as to...
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The new SNN video below is an attempt at summarising the foundation of the Golden Circle region and the broader plantation civilisation that was created in the New World over the course of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is all about how the civilisation to which the Old South belonged was created...
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The following video is an introduction to the Golden Circle historical perspective, a subject that SNN has explored in depth over the last year and a half. In this video three distinct possibilities are discussed as the starting point of ‘America.’ Each is discussed in terms of the ideological trends and soci0-economic model which is associated...
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As Professor Ralph Raico has pointed out in public presentations, the United States media and academia tend to look with great favour upon US presidents who expand executive power and engage in war-making. Typically, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are at the top of the lists of  ‘greatest presidents’ for those reasons. Of...
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William Porcher Miles was a Southern gentleman of many skills. He was a math professor in South Carolina, medical worker in Norfolk (when yellow fever struck the city in 1855), Mayor of Charleston, US Congressman, Confederate Congressman, plantation manager, university president (of South Carolina College), researcher (he helped Robert Barnwell Rhett compile the information for his memoir) and...
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Southern nationalists, the earliest and most ardent of whom were referred to as ‘Fire Eaters,’ struggled for more than three decades to convince Southerners of the necessity of independence from the Union. Men such as South Carolina statesman and US Senator Robert Barnwell Rhett (who spent all of his adult life leading the effort for...
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Dr T Hunt Tooley, professor of history at Austin College in Texas, recently spoke at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s yearly research conference and gave a review of the leaders of the US warfare state since William McKinley, the Ohio Republican president (and Union veteran of the US war against the South) who oversaw the...
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