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BRINGING HISTORY INTO ACCORD WITH THE FACTS IN THE TRADITION OF DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES “Even Alexander Hamilton said that ‘every act of a delegated auth- FROM ONE REVIEWER: ority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised “[This book] shows that is void.’ Unconstitutional acts cannot be passed by the federal govern- “nullification” was an idea ment, Hamilton said, because such acts would by definition not be law. championed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madi- The Barnes Review Such acts are null and void.” —BRITT COMBS, The McDowell News son, and flowed seamlessly from the ‘compact theory of the Union.’ Nullification A JOURNAL OF NATIONALIST THOUGHT & HISTORY NEW How you can resist was not an ad hoc principle from the dreamed up in a particular VOLUME XVI NUMBER 5 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010 BARNESREVIEW.COM battle over states’ rights, but TBR BOOK Federal Tyranny in instead was an integral part CLUB of Jefferson’s philosophy of the 21st century via a federation in which the central government only received enumerated (and strictly limited) powers NULLIFICATION from the states who consti- tuted the Union. This book is a great read for anyone opular author THOMAS E. WOODS JR. provides an who loves colo- eloquent defense of the historical subject of nulli- nial and early U.S. history. fication, a remedy used by states against uncon- Woods sketches stitutional federal power grabs. Tom Woods’ latest a vision of early book—Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny America that in theP 21st Century—is another example of the author doing what we didn’t learn he does best—dissecting political and economic failure by striking in grade school. at the root of the problem and offering common sense and For example, Constitution-based solutions. Ironically, the the handbill solutions Woods offers are unconventional announcing and controversial say the same profes- the ‘Anti-Slave- Catchers' Mass sional “talking heads” who got us into Convention’ is every mess the author addresses. amazing—out- Here Woods provides a “how-to raged citizens Lady Michele Renouf: guide” for Americans fed up with in Wisconsin out-of-control D.C. politicians. Woods asks, “How didn’t want to hand over can we expect a federal government no longer re- an escaped slave as the feds dictated. This episode is but ‘Mideast Peace in SE Russia’ strained by the Constitution to be contained by that document any time in the future?” Answer: one example that Woods By containing it ourselves! Hardcover, 306 provides to prove that very often ‘states' rights’ were pages, #548, $25. Order from TBR BOOK ALSO INSIDE: used to protect liberty. Is Churchill & CLUB, P.O. Box 15877, Washington, D.C. that really so hard to under- • Mystery U-Boat finally found 20003. Inside U.S. add $5 per book stand—that sometimes the Mussolini: • King Philip’s War S&H. Foreign S&H: Please email federal government is the • Shocking Neanderthal update [email protected]. To charge toll free, bad guy?” Their Wartime • Golden Dawn interview please call 1-877-773-9077. Use Visa, —ROBERT MURPHY Correspondence • Civil War oddities MasterCard, AmEx or Discover. Nashville, TN • The Greek military junta Controversy • Yevgeny Primakov BRINGING HISTORY INTO ACCORD WITH THE FACTS IN THE TRADITION OF DR.HARRY ELMER BARNES the Barnes Review A JOURNAL OF NATIONALIST THOUGHT & HISTORY SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010 O VOLUME XVI O NUMBER 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS BENITO MUSSOLINI’S SURPRISING PEN PAL VIGNETTES FROM THE U.S. ‘CIVIL’WAR BY MARC ROLAND BY ELBERT L. WATSON The real reason Benito Mussolini was killed? To pre- A well-known historian brings you a potpourri of 4 vent the surfacing of letters written for over 10 years 38little-known yet remarkable stories and facts from from Churchill, some of which offered Italy a separate the most tragic war in America’shistory. For example, did peace. This correspondence would have been quite em- you ever hear of the Union general who fought the Mor- barrassing to Churchill in the postwar world. mons, the Navahos, rioting NewYork Irishmen—and also took the surrender of two Southern armies? If you are THE MYSTERIOUS &DEADLY U-869 looking for a few surprises, you’ll want to read this. BY FRANK JOSEPH AT UCHANAN THE OLOCAUST A mysterious something was spotted a few years P B & H 14 ago on the bottom of the sea. Almost beyond belief, OPEN LETTER FROM JUERGEN GRAF it turned out to be a long-lost Nazi submarine. In the Switzerland’s leading Revisionist and patriot, course of exploring the ill-starred shipwreck, three Amer- 42 Juergen Graf, who now must live in Moscow be- ican divers lost their lives. cause there is no freedom of speech in his native land, calls upon one of America’s best-known patriots to do LADY RENOUF’S ‘FINAL SOLUTION’ even more in the cause of America and to resist Israel’sef- forts to entangle the United States in an attack on Iran BY LADY MICHÈLE RENOUF (which has never done anything to harm America). The TBR readers are probably aware of the efforts of hour is late. 19 TBR contributing editorial board member Lady Michèle Renouf to gain freedom for such imprisoned his- torians as Dr. Fredrick Töben, Ernst Zündel and others. SPIRIT OF GREEK NATIONALISM LIVES But did you know she recently spoke to a gathering in INTERVIEW WITH NIKOLAOS MICHALOLIAKOS Teheran that included President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad TBR’sPeter Papaheraklis talks with the man at the about a controversial but reasonable plan to solve the 44 center of the current upheaval in Greece, the ultra- Mideast peace impasse in one stroke—in SE Russia? . nationalist leader of the Golden Dawn political move- ment. Nikos Michaloliakos turns out to be the sort of BIG NEWS ABOUT NEANDERTHAL MAN populist leader every land could use. BY MICHAEL BRADLEY EW OOK AT THE RA OF THE REEK UNTA A prestigious science magazine has confirmed N L E G J 22 what daring and prescient author Michael Bradley BY M. RAPHAEL JOHNSON,PH.D. has been saying for many years: Neanderthal man did not In America, the man in the street, if he knows any- vanish from the surface of the Earth thousands of years 50 thing about it at all, is led to believe the rule of the ago, but still walks among us—at least in a manner of colonels in recent Greek history was a terrible time. Well, speaking. The author warns us, however, that we need to it was—if you were a Communist in Greece. But for reg- Features: read between the lines of the article in Science magazine, ular folks, Dr. Johnson informs us, it was a good time to if we really want the whole story. be living in Greece, certainly better than today. Personal from the Editor—2. Editorial: “Inconvenient Facts”—3. THE FORGOTTEN WAR OF KING PHILIP HISTORY FROM A RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE The Decima Flottiglia MAS—7. Neanderthal could speak quite well—26. BY DUNCAN HENGEST BY DANIEL W. MICHAELS History You May Have Missed—27. “King Philip” was a name that struck dread into Russian politician and diplomat Yevgeny Maksi- 28the hearts of New England’sColonists. The war in 56 movich Primakov is also a writer whose works are Joseph Shelby: undefeated Rebel—40. which he battled the settlers was a nearly genocidal strug- worth reading for those who want to understand the real The “Mud March” of Gen. Burnside—41. gle between the Red Man and the White Man for control world. Primakov in his books takes you behind the scenes The Greek debt crisis—49. of the land. And the White Man nearly lost that struggle. and gives you the Russian insider’sview of recent histor- Letters to the Editor—62-63. There are lessons for today in all of this. ical developments. TBR uncensored products—B-1 to B-8. PERSONAL FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR THE BARNES REVIEW WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER ... Editor & Publisher: WILLIS A. CARTO olitical Correctness: It truly is a powerful poison. Since the in- Assistant Editor: JOHN TIFFANY ception of this insidious cult*, nothing has done more to impede Managing Editor/Art Director: PAUL ANGEL Editorial Assistant: OLGA BELINSKAYA free speech and free thought. And just a few drops can kill. We Board of Contributing Editors: P all know what happens to Revisionist historians who delve too PETER HUXLEY-BLYTHE ERICH GLIEBE GRACE-EKI OYAMA far into “taboo subjects.” They get locked up or are ruined financially Nottingham, England Parma, Ohio Osaka, Japan (Fredrick Töben, Horst Mahler, Vincent Reynouard, Ernst Zündel et al.). JOAQUIN BOCHACA STEPHEN GOODSON MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER Barcelona. Spain Cape Town, South Africa Washington, D.C. We all know what happens to politicians who speak their minds about ver- PROF.GEORGE W. BUCHANAN PROF.RAY GOODWIN LADY MICHELE RENOUF boten subjects like race relations, the phony “Holocaust” or illegal immi- Washington, D.C. Victoria, Texas London, England gration. They get shut up or legally railroaded—or perhaps their more MATTHIAS CHANG, J.D. JUERGEN GRAF HARRELL RHOME,PH.D. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Moscow, Russia Corpus Christi, Texas pliable opponents come up with millions of dollars from unknown sources to challenge them in re-election bids (Jim Traficant, Cynthia McKinney). TREVOR J. CONSTABLE MICHAEL A. HOFFMAN II E. STANLEY RITTENHOUSE San Diego, California Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Warrenton, Virginia And we all know what happens to actors or actresses who hold views at HARRY COOPER M.R. JOHNSON,PH.D. VINCENT J. RYAN odds with the moguls who run Hollywood. They are attacked, ridiculed, os- Hernando, Florida Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Washington, D.C.