Category Archives: Islam

Robert Stark talks to Constantin von Hoffmeister about the Iran War

Afghanistan, Africa, anti-semitism, Arabs, automation, Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, China, colonialism, Constantin von Hoffmeister, Culture, demographics, Depravity, Donald Trump, Economics, energy, ethnopluralism, Europe, European Nationalism, George Bush, Germany, Globalization, History, Identitarianism, Immigration, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Isis, Islam, Islamization, Israel, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Latin America, Los Angeles, Michel Houellebecq, Middle East, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Oil, Politics, Reza Pahlavi, Saudi Arabia, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Ukraine, War, Zoroastrianism

Robert Stark speaks with German journalist and author, Constantin von Hoffmeister, about the geopolitics of the Iran War. Constantin is director of the online publishing house,  Multipolar Press, and has worked as an author, journalist, translator, editor, and business trainer in the United States, India, Uzbekistan, and Russia. Constantin has a new book out, The Fate of White America. Follow him on X and subscribe to his Substack, Eurosiberia. (update: this podcast was recorded last week during the ceasefire and the war is escalating again today)

Topics:

-The case that the Iran war was for Israel and whether antisemitic narratives deny Trump culpability
-How Trump did not even bother with a propaganda campaign for the war
-How the US attack was entirely unprovoked, which along with attacks on Iranian civilians, discredits the Trump admin
-How Israel wants Iran totally destroyed rather than regime change
-Why Iran is rational for seeking nuclear armament, and how mutual self-destruction maintains peace
-How Iran is a civilizational state unlike Arab or Latin American nations
-Contrasting the failed Iran war with Trump’s successful invasion of Venezuela
-How ironically this war would be less likely under an establishment president
-The absurdity of Trump’s statements and lack of any coherent plans
-How Trump admitted to arming protesters to get protesters harmed rather than regime change
-The violation of the reciprocity principle in bombing anti-regime Iranians and why Constantin is skeptical of any large-scale opposition to the government, even before the war
-The pro-Shah, pro-Israel demonstrations among the Iranian diaspora
-Why Constantin considers the term “regime” to be propaganda
-How the US is desperately failing to prevent a multipolar order which this war is ushering in
–Prof. Robert Pape on the escalation trap in which Iran has gained the upper hand by controlling the Strait of Hormuz 
-How long can the status quo of a stalemate with a blockade of the Strait last?
-How this war exposes America as a paper tiger
-War rhetoric as market manipulation to save the stock market and keep petrol prices down
-The impacts of rising petrol prices on geopolitics and the global economy
-How a fertilizer shortage will cause a global famine that will cause a massive refugee crisis into Europe
–Nigeria now has more births than all of Europe, including Russia
-Trump’s immigration policy of performative cruelty without deporting that many people
-How America will shift from being a world power to a regional power in the Western Hemisphere
-The Russia/Ukraine war; Russia as the aggressor from the non-aggression principle vs the argument that Russia’s geopolitical sphere was threatened
-Revisiting the past when Iran offered an olive branch to the US after 9/11
-How Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was successful, which Trump ripped up, discrediting diplomatic trust in the US
-How the war squanders any of Trump’s positive policy accomplishments and discredits nationalism and the Right
-Would we be better off if Kamala were president?
-Why Robert thinks that automation will reverse immigration to America in the long term, though not for Europe
-The impact of Trump and the war on Europe’s politics, and how Germany’s AFD is successfully distancing themselves from Trump
-An accelerationist case in favor of Trump weakening American imperialism and ending the American establishment’s soft power
-How radical Islam is primarily a Sunni, not Shia, problem (eg. Sunni extremist iconoclasm)
-How Islamophobia detracts from the culpability of Western elites
-Michel Houellebecq’s prophetic novel, Submission, about an Islamic takeover of France, which is ambiguous about whether that is a good or bad thing
-How remigration is unworkable and ethnopluralism as an alternative
-The Indo-Aryan connection between Iranians and Europeans, and remnants of pre-Islamic paganism in Iran
-How Israel was semi sane when it was more Ashkenazi, thus closer to Europe, and how it is just becoming another Middle Eastern country
-Whether Zionism could have worked if it didn’t embrace imperialism

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Robert Stark is interviewed about his new Religion Cosmoplatonism

aesthetics, American Culture, Art, Asian Culture, attachment, Buddhism, Catholicism, China, Christianity, conformity, Control, Cosmoplatonism, Culture, death, Drugs, Gnosticism, History, Human Bio Diversity, Islam, Jin the Ninja, Judaism, Julius Evola, Matthew Pegas, Morality, Mormonism, Neoplatonism, Occultism, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sexuality, social status, Sufism, Theosophy

Robert Stark is interviewed as a simulcast by Jin the Ninja for his podcast, Threshold Saints, about his new religion, Cosmoplatonism. Jin the Ninja is a Tantric Buddhist and you can follow him on Twitter/X. 

Topics: 

-The esoteric significance of Zelda’s Triforce
-How Theosophy is legit but there is a spiritual hierarchy among faiths
–Theurgy as ritual acts and use of aesthetics to become closer to the Divine
-Why Neoplatonic emanation theory makes more sense than the gnostic rejection of the physical world
-Jin the Ninja addresses the critique that the Buddhist rejection of attachment is demoralizing
-How a dualism about what is divine can help with both ethics and politics
-How Buddhism is misrepresented by western hippie leftists
-Why Cosmoplatonism is simultaneously sex positive and sex negative, regarding stages of consciousness
-A nuanced embrace of asceticism 
-How science is fundamentally interconnected to spiritually
-How human consciousness is an emanation from divine consciousness
-How human genetic differences reflect spirituality (eg. Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy)
-The Americanization process as an analogy for split consciousness
-Placing things and subjects in a neoplatonic hierarchy of importance
-How all Abrahamic faiths have factions that are influenced by Neoplatonism
-What actually is evil and sin?
-How to use occult practices, including Kabbalah, to reach the 5th layer of density
-Explaining the metaphysics of Cosmoplatonism, including the avatars
-Co-opting the gnostic demiurge to describe the manmade spiritual prison

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Robert Stark talks to James O’Meara about Mysticism After Modernism

1960's, aesthetics, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Aleister Crowley, Alfred Hitchcock, American Culture, Aristocratic Individualism, Art, automation, Basic Income, Bronze Age Pervert, Buddhism, California, capitalism, Carl Jung, Christianity, Cinema, Class, Colin Wilson, conformity, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, Corporations, counterculture, Culture, David Lynch, Donald Trump, dreams, Economics, England, Fascism, Franz Kafka, Gnosticism, Greg Johnson, H. P. Lovecraft, History, Hollywood, Homosexuality, Human Bio Diversity, Islam, James O'Meara, Jason Reza Jorjani, Jeffery Mishlove, Journey to Vapor Island, Judaism, Julius Evola, Liberalism, Literature, Managerialism, Marin County, Marquis de Sade, materialism, Media, meditation, Mitch Horowitz, Morality, Mythology, Neoplatonism, Neville Goddard, New Thought, Nietzsche, Occultism, Oscar Wilde, parapsychology, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Rudolf Steiner, Science, Sexuality, Socialism, spirituality, Stanley Kubrick, Sufism, Surrealism, Theosophy, Third Way Economics, Traditionalism, Transcendentalism, Transhumanism, Utopia, Vaporfornia, William S. Burroughs

Robert Stark speaks with James O’Meara about his book, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, & Other Populist Gurus. Mysticism After Modernism is published by Manticore Press, where it is available for purchase. You can also find it at Counter-Currents and on Amazon.

“Our spirituality has gotten too tame today. James J. O’Meara has a solution [in Mysticism After Modernism]
–Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award-winning author of Occult America and The Miracle Club

-The intersection of mysticism with politics and culture, and how mysticism is available to any political persuasion
-Countering the Hippie-dippy liberal  stereotype about New Age gurus
-Critiquing the reactionary who passively accepts cycles of decay, and the need to embrace infinite possibilities
-A practical take on magic/mysticism, in regards to enacting real world change
-Aleister Crowley’s definition of magic as transforming the World in accordance with one’s will
-Examples of opinions and attributes of Alan Watts and William Burroughs that come across as anti-liberal
-Greg Johnson’s article, “The Spiritual Materialism of Alan Watts: A Review of Does It Matter?”
-Watts’ ties to quasi-fascist Serbian mystic, Dimitrije Mitrinović
–New Thought, and an explanation for how Neville Goddard’s Law of Assumption works
-New Thought as a vehicle for political change, by removing all mental constraints
-Why Theosophy is the theology best adapted to hereditarianism (eg. illiberal pluralism)
-William Burroughs’ obsession with rejecting control in a metaphysical sense
–The Greek Qabalah, hidden esoteric traditions in Abrahamic faiths
-Colin Wilson’s practical mysticism, focused on expanding consciousness
-Parapsychology and Spiritual Science
-The need for spiritual elitism and Aristocratic Radicalism
-Robert’s novel, Vaporfornia, which has themes relating to New Thought
-James’ book, Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians

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Robert Stark talks to Guillaume Durocher about Éric Zemmour

Alternative Right, Ancient Greece, California, capitalism, censorship, Class, Classical Liberalism, colonialism, Conservatives, coronavirus, Culture, decentralization, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, Emmanuel Macron, Éric Zemmour, ethnopluralism, Eugenics, Europe, European Nationalism, France, Freedom of Speech, Guillaume Durocher, History, Identitarianism, Immigration, IQ, Islam, Islamization, Joe Biden, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Marine Le Pen, Media, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Republican Party, Secessionism, Singapore, welfare state

Robert Stark talks to French author Guillaume Durocher about the 2022 French Presidential Election and the campaign of Éric Zemmour. Other topics discussed include Singapore’s politics, rightwing multiculturalism, and biopolitics . Guillaume Durocher has written for a number of dissident publications including The and American Renaissance, and is the author of The Ancient Ethnostate: Biopolitical Thought in Classical Greece. Follow Guillaume on Twitter.

Topics:

Éric Zemmour’s background as a political pundit and comparisons to 2016 Trump
How Zemmour is to the right of his challenger Marine Le Pen on both economics and on issues of nationalism and identity
How Zemmour’s demographic of support tends to be older, more well off, and more conservative than Le Pen’s
Zemmour’s policy proposals including an immigration moratorium, natalist bonuses for rural areas, ending hate speech laws, and cutting off funding for woke NGOs
Polling and projections for the runoff and general election and how it is Macron’s election to lose
Zemmour’s strategy of balancing assimilationism with preserving an “ethnic steady state”
A case for the right to embrace multiculturalism as an alternative to nationalism and assimilationismism
Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore as a model for successful multi-ethnic nations
The Secession of French Elites: The Key to Macron’s Success…and Failures

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Poolside Over Politics with Anatoly Karlin

Afghanistan, Africa, Alt Center, Anatoly Karlin, automation, Banking, Basic Income, censorship, China, conformity, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, cryptocurrency, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, income inequality, India, Islam, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Republican Party, Ron Unz, Russia, Transgender, Vladimir Putin, War, Zoomers

Robert Stark talks to Moscow based blogger Anatoly Karlin about his resignation from the Unz Review, current events, geo-political trends, and revisiting political predictions from past podcasts. Check out Anatoly’s new Substack: Powerful Takes and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

The Last Reaction: Why Anatoly is returning to his roots as an independent blogger
Anatoly’s assessment of Biden’s presidency
The continuation of countering China as part of  the US foreign policy consensus
The post-pandemic economic recovery, the inflation scare, and risk of crash due to financialization
The pandemic as a test run for UBI and zoomers demanding higher wages
The pollicization of vaccinations (anti-vaxxer Red Tribe in America and Anti-Putin Communists in Russia)
The minimal impact of covid lockdowns on fertility trends and why Anatoly predicts that Germany will have a higher fertility rate than India by 2050
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Why Anatoly embraces The Great Reset but thinks its overhyped
What to expect out of the Woke Culture War
Why Anatoly predicts Biden vs. Trump in 2024, with a Biden victory
Why American politics  are no longer of a concern since Anatoly returned to Russia

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Robert Stark talks to Jason Reza Jorjani about Promethean Philosophy

aesthetics, Archeofuturism, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, Black Lives Matter, Brutalism, Buddhism, capitalism, censorship, Christianity, Class, Communism, conformity, Conservatives, Culture, democracy, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Egypt, Francis Nally, Frank Lloyd Wright, Futurism, Gnosticism, Hinduism, History, Islam, Jason Reza Jorjani, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Liberalism, Martin Heidegger, Mass Democracy, Mass Movements, Morality, Mythology, Neoliberalism, New York, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Plato, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Retro Futurism, Romain d'Aspremont, Science, Silicon Valley, Skyscrapers, Social Justice Warriors, Socialism, technology, Traditionalism, Transhumanism, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Francis Nally talk to Jason Reza Jorjani about his essay Towards a Prometheist Platform and the philosophical foundation of Prometheism. Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD is an Iranian-American philosopher, lifelong native New Yorker, and author of numerous books including Prometheism and Prometheus and Atlas, and has an upcoming book out on UFO close encounters. Also check out the recent Stark Truth TV Interview with Jason Reza Jorjani and Jason’s Twitter and Patreon.

Topics:

Revisiting the Promethean Archetype
Jason’s critique of Romain d’Aspremont’s The Promethean Right
The Promethean take on the prerequisite for free will, infinite creativity, consciousness, and the cosmos
The philosophical basis for science, technology, and the aesthetic arts
The philosophical and political symbolism in architecture
How Prometheism is beyond the left-right-center spectrum with the objective of overcoming the limitations of established social orders
The Task of a Philosopher as revealing the secrets of the universe and the rejection of perennial wisdom
Why Jason is focusing Prometheism on an elite audience (eg. Plato’s guardians as the Promethean class) and why he rejects populism in all forms

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Robert Stark interviews Dutch Vlogger Faust

aesthetics, American Culture, Archeofuturism, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, automation, Baby Boomers, Banking, Basic Income, Black Lives Matter, Calvinism, capitalism, censorship, Cities, Class, Classical Liberalism, coronavirus, Corporations, Culture, democracy, demographics, Distributism, Donald Trump, Economics, England, Eugenics, Europe, European Nationalism, Faust, Free Trade, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Globalization, History, Identitarianism, Immigration, Imperialism, income inequality, Islam, Islamization, Middle Class, Millennials, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Netherlands, New Urbanism, Oligarchy, Police, Police State, Political Correctness, Political Parties, Politics, Psychology, Retro Futurism, Skyscrapers, social capital, Socialism, South Africa, Steampunk, Suburbia, Third Way Economics, Traditionalism, Urbanism, Wealth, welfare state, Zoomers

Robert Stark talks to Dutch Youtuber Faust about Dutch politics, economics, and geo-politics. Faust has an English language political channel, a Dutch language channel Dietse Bazuin. Faust is the publisher of an arts and history magazine that is also called Dietse Bazuin.

Topics:

Advocacy of a Germanic Union as a geopolitical alternative to the EU
The historic rivalry between the British and Dutch
The debate about the origins of capitalism (the Germanic Rhine model of capitalism vs. Anglo/American shareholder capitalism)
Thoughts on Dutch populist figures Geert Wilders  and Thierry Baudet
Faust’s critique of the welfare state and advocacy of building up social networks and economic niches as the solution to economic problems
The impact of American Imperialism on Europe and why Faust wants to disassociate from the American movement
Thoughts on the civil unrest in America, the politics of crisis, and America’s slide into neo-feudalism
“Ok Boomer” – a right wing meme turned left
Faust’s Dutch video on South Africa: Solidariteit met Afrikaners
Archeofuturist Architecture
The impact of architecture and urbanism on psychology and social capital

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Robert Stark & Matt Pegan discuss the work of Michel Houellebecq

1990's, alienation, Baby Boomers, Ben Arzate, capitalism, Class, coronavirus, Culture, Delicious Tacos, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, Economics, Ellliot Rodger, Emmanuel Macron, England, Erik Erikson, Feminism, France, Gender, Globalization, humor, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, Internet, Islam, Islamization, Journey to Vapor Island, Liberalism, Literature, Loserdom, Manosphere, Marine Le Pen, Marxism, Matt Pegan, Matthew Pegas, Michel Houellebecq, Middle Class, Millennials, Morality, Neoliberalism, Nihilism, Normies, Paris, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, psychosocialism, Race Relations, relationships, Roger Devlin, Sexuality, Social Isolation, Social Justice Warriors, social status, social trust, Socialism, technology, The Black Pill, the New Right, Transhumanism, Travel, Yellow Vests, Zoomers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Matt Pegan discuss the significance of French author Michel Houellebecq to our current zeitgeist and his novels Atomised, Whatever, Platform, Submission, and Serotonin.

Topics:

Houellebecq’s early “loser” status, achieving success later in life, and auto-biographical themes in his work
French archetypes and cultural themes
Houellebecq’s Incel Prophecy: The Alienated and Intimacy-Starved
Houellebecq’s comparison of the sexual marketplace to free-market economics
Houellebecq as a social commentator and satirist but offers no explicit political solutions
Transhumanism and Geomaxxing presented as non-conventional escapes from the post-modern predicament
The infamous night club scene from the film rendition of Whatever dealing with the Age Pill and Black Pill
The normie script for life and Houellebecq as an example of someone who broke the script and succeeded
Houellebecq’s commentary that the World Will Be Same But Worse After ‘Banal’ Virus and Study on long term impacts of pandemic on relationships                                                               
Houellebecq’s literary style and dry witty dark humor
Robert and Matt plug their upcoming novels which deal with similar themes to Houellebecq’s work
Submission, the vulnerability of atomized liberal societies to cohesive outside forces, and why France is the most politically significant European country

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Robert Stark interviews Martin Lichtmesz about Ethnopluralism

Africa, Alain de Benoist, American Culture, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, colonialism, Communism, Culture, demographics, Diversity, Emmanuel Macron, ethnopluralism, Europe, European Nationalism, Fascism, France, Germany, Globalization, Guillaume Faye, Identitarianism, Immigration, Imperialism, Islam, Islamization, Israel, Liberalism, Martin Lichtmesz, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, neo-tribalism, Neoconservatism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, South Africa, terrorism, The Cold War, the New Right, Vienna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Martin Lichtmesz about his new German language book Ethnopluralismus: Kritik und Verteidigung about the political concept of ethnopluralism. Martin Lichtmesz is an Austrian journalist and translator based in Vienna, and you can read his articles at Sezession and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

The need to put forth a clear definition of ethnopluralism
Influence of the concept on the European New Right
How the concept was coined in the 70s by Germany sociologist Henning Eichberg but goes back further to romantic philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder
Eichberg’s sympathies with anti-colonial struggles from a German perspective
A rejection of monolithic universalist values and embracing of uniqueness
Defining the nation state, concept of Self-determination, and difficulties of drawing exact borders to respect national populations
The original version of Multiculturalism in Canada and degree to which it overlaps with ethnopluralism
The failure of the Left to preserve diversity and feasibility of maintaining a version of multiculturalism where all can take part
Claude Lévi-Strauss’ The Sad Tropics and Jean Raspail’s La Hache Des Steppes about lost tribes
Orania, the Afrikaner enclave in South Africa
The recent terrorist attack in Vienna 

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Robert Stark interviews Peter Nimitz about LA

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Beverly Hills, Black Lives Matter, Brno, Calexit, California, China, Cities, Class, coronavirus, Crime, Culture, Czech Republic, demographics, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, energy, Environment, gentrification, Global Warming, Hollywood, Immigration, income inequality, India, Iran, Islam, Joe Biden, Los Angeles, Mass Transit, Mexico, Middle Class, Mormonism, Moscow, Nagorno-Karabakh War, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Peter Nimitz, Pilleater, Political Correctness, Politics, Religion, Republican Party, Russia, Skyscrapers, social capital, technology, Ukraine, Urbanism, Zoning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to San Fernando Valley based commentator, Peter Nimitz about the demographics, culture, economy and politics of the Los Angeles region from the perspective of a transplant. Check out Peter’s interview about the Russian Revolution and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

LA’s class structure
City-Data Forum thread on demographic trends of the past decade by city
Immigrant groups in the LA region, including from Mexico, China, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Armenia, various European nations, and more recent community from Uzbekistan
Industry in LA, including entertainment, aerospace, tech, and shipping
Unique LA tropes/archetypes
Contrasting communities that have strong patronage networks with those that are more atomized
Poll on hypothetical proposal to base immigration on a local level
America’s neo-tribal future
The Double Horseshoe Theory of Class Politics and how that impacts how different demographic groups align politically
Crucial California issues of housing (YIMBYism), energy, water, and infrastructure being neglected by a one party state focused on national issues and a GOP that’s out of touch with younger voters and urban concerns
The degree to which LA’s post pandemic exodus and urban decay is overhyped
New urban development in LA (ex. futuristic complex planned in Beverly Hills) and metro expansions
The debate about education reform,

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