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Animal Poachers Should Be Executed

In 2009 the largest deer killed in North America was killed by a poacher in Ohio. After the killer was caught, he was fined over $1,500 and had a restitution fee of over $23,500 imposed upon him. He also lost his hunting privileges for life. Unfortunately, this incident was not the first for this individual. Read more …

Published: September 14, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, deep ecology, ecology, evironmentalism, George P. Stimson Jr., hunting, North American New Right, poaching, reprints | Comments closed

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In Praise of Pentti Linkola

Derek Hawthorne

2,799 words

Pentti Linkola
Can Life Prevail?
A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis
Trans. Eetu Rautio and Olli S.
Arktos, 2009

paperback: $20

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Years ago, “deep ecologist” Andrew McLaughlin (a follower of Arne Naess) produced an essay titled “For a Radical Ecocentrism.” Read more …

Published: June 17, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 9/11, book reviews, Can Life Prevail?, deep ecology, democracy, Derek Hawthorne, ecofascism, ecology, environmentalism, fascism, North American New Right, originals, Pentti Linkola, philosophy, political philosophy | Comments closed

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D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love:
Anti-Modernism in Literature, Part 4

Derek Hawthorne

2,470 words

Part 4 of 4. Click here for all four parts.

Gudrun Brangwen, the Modern Woman

Gerald Crich is only one half of Lawrence’s portrait of the “modern individual.” The other half is Gudrun Brangwen. Of course, Birkin and Ursula are modern individuals, though in a different sense. The latter couple are both seeking some fulfilling way to live in, or in spite of, the modern world. Read more …

Published: January 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-modernism, articles, book reviews, D. H. Lawrence, Derek Hawthorne, ecology, Ernst Junger, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hawthorne-Women in Love, literature, Martin Heidegger, misanthropy, modernity, nihilism, North American New Right, on Jünger, originals, philosophy, progress., technology, vitalism, Women in Love | Comments closed

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Humanflood

Pentti Linkola

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Translated by Harri Heinonen and Michael Moynihan

Introduction by Michael Moynihan:

Is Pentti Linkola posing the most dangerous thoughts mankind has ever considered? Or is he this planet’s only remaining voice of sanity? Living an ascetic existence as a fisherman in a remote rural region of his frigid homeland, the Finnish philosopher has pondered mankind’s position vis-à-vis the earth it inhabits and dares to utter the unspeakable. Read more …

Published: September 1, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, ecology, environmentalism, humanism, Michael Moynihan, North American New Right, Pentti Linkola, philosophy, reprints, translations | Comments closed

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Trevor Lynch

The Angel of Death

1,511 words

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) looks like director Guillermo del Toro’s audition for The Hobbit. (He got the job, but backed out because of scheduling problems with the studio.) The root mythology is Tolkienesque: In remotest antiquity, elves, trolls, and other beings shared the earth with mankind. The visual style is pure Peter Jackson: The elves look like Tolkien/Peter Jackson elves; the trolls look like Tolkien/Peter Jackson trolls; etc.

Pentti Linkola’s Can Life Prevail?

Diord Fionn

1,032 words

Pentti Linkola
Can Life Prevail?
A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis
Trans. Eetu Rautio and Olli S.
Arktos, 2009

paperback: $20

Order here

Little known outside of Scandinavia, Pentti Linkola is a voice that deserves a wide audience. He is revered amongst radical environmentalists for his uncompromising stance on a variety of issues and for his works that show the breadth of his vision.

Impeachment of Man

Savitri Devi

Costa Mesa, Cal.: The Noontide Press, 1991
156 pages
paperback: $7

Savitri Devi’s Impeachment of Man is a manifesto of animal rights and deep ecology. Written in 1945-46, Impeachment of Man both anticipated modern environmentalism and exceeded it in radicalism. Read more …