Dr. Norman Berdichevsky

The Stalinist and Daniel Webster

As a resident of Florida's 8^th Congressional District in the Greater Orlando area, and a former New Yorker who grew up in the Bronx a few blocks away from the childhood home of Congressman, Alan Grayson, I cast my ballot last week in early voting to help defeat a man who rightly deserves the title of "America' s only Stalinist Congressman".

Freedom of religion is not ‘absolute’ according to the laws of the U.S., States, Constitution

Obama and scores of academics and ultra-liberal know nothings among inane/insane politicians such as Mayor Bloomberg and radio/television “journalists” do not, cannot acknowledge and prefer to remain willfully deaf, dumb and blind with regard to the Middle East, “allies” like our “friends in Afghanistan and Iraq and so MUST accuse us – ordinary, decent, law-abiding and patriotic Americans with charges of Islamophobia, and worse, bigotry of every sort that includes racism, homophobia, greed, and of course, INTOLERANCE and IGNORANCE.

What a Weak and Divided America Meant in 1861-65

A great deal of heated discussion and debate has followed in the wake of the conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan with much criticism directed toward the preponderance of American military power coming from erstwhile “friends” and “allies” of the United States but they do not differ significantly from the views of the social elites and ruling classes in Europe of more than 150 years ago when the United States had absolutely no overseas possessions or imperialist ambitions.

True Friends and Allies; Denmark, 1945 and None in Iraq and Afghanistan Today

The strength of 1,400 years of history lies behind those who claim that our attempts to “nation-build” and reach accords with allies in Iraq and Afghanistan are implausible and doomed to failure. Those who still hope to justify “our mission” in both countries to create a stable government that is not wholly corrupt and subject to Islamic fundamentalism, rely on "statistical trends" purporting to show a reduction in mayhem since the departure of the majority of American forces “evidence” that our “mission” there ultimately may have a positive outcome.

Carter’s Book, Obama’s Speech: Do Israeli Arabs Live Under “Apartheid”?

“Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid“ by former President Jimmy Carter called into question the strong traditional and emotional support for Israel as a thriving and beleaguered democracy and raised the specter of an oppressed Arab population in the territories and within Israel itself on a par with the Black population under the previous Apartheid regime in South Africa.

The Same Cause: Muslim Intransigence and the Same Effect: War and Endless Conflict

Following the atrocious act of terrorism in Mumbai, a considerable number of pundits/observers with a “liberal” persuasion, have argued that some blame should be put on India’s Hindus by stressing that the terrorist group carrying out the outrage of random murder of civilians was composed of “disaffected” or “aggrieved” Muslims.

The Garbage Can of History

Gerald Posner’s brilliant and definitive analysis of the Kennedy assassination, Case Closed (Doubleday, 1993), traces the abysmal and pathetic life of the lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, a name that will live in infamy. The story is one of repeated failures and a search for martyrdom to find meaning through death for a life completely unfulfilled.

The Media’s Debacles

In both the coverage of the Ground Zero Muslim Community Center and Mosque and the coverage of the great demonstration organized in Washington by Glenn Beck attracting in the neighborhood of half a million Americans, the mainstream media once again revealed their bias, blatant selectivity, self induced amnesia, and a rush to judgment to "shame" the audience into guilt over their assumed Islamophobia, the newest charge in the litany of grievances with which the public has been maligned focused on racism, sexism, xenophobia and homophobia in the past.

Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948

'Army of Shadows' is a remarkable book with a cogent title that adds new and significant insight to what is, without a doubt, the most exhausted (and exhausting) topic in the modern political lexicon of nationalist disputes.

The Strange Case of J.B. Matthews, the Religious Left and the Censure of Senator McCarthy

While the term “Religious Right” is one of the most frequently used terms in the political lexicon, notably since the rise of what is usually referred to as the Evangelical Churches, the Political Left is alive and well and a strong crutch for the Democratic Party calling for “social justice”. During the first term of the Eisenhower administration, the role of American churches in politics became a major issue and helped precipitate the campaign to defame and censure Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.

Israel’s Allies in 1948; The USSR, Czechoslovakia, American Mainline Churches and the Left

The nearly universal belief, never challenged by the media, is that the United States was wholly or largely and “morally” responsible for fully supporting Israel on the ground from the very beginning of its independence in May, 1948. The world has been inundated with a tsunami of Arab propaganda and crocodile tears shed for the “Palestinians” who have reveled in what they refer to as their Catastrophe or Holocaust (“Nabka” in Arabic).

The New York Times and BBC; Just the News they See Fit to Print

The most influential book written about why intelligent, dedicated and noble men with the highest motives fell under the hypnotic spell of Communism remains The God That Failed, a collection of thirteen essays by Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Louis Fischer, Stephen Spender, R. H. S. Crossman and the book's editor Steven Engerman. The essays chronicle the noble motives that drew these individuals to the Party, its cynical manipulation of their idealism and their ultimate disillusionment and sense of betrayal.

President Obama’s Cairo Speech

President Obama's Cairo speech in June 2009 was equally misleading about what he said and didn't say regarding the "Muslim World", Islam, Israel, Human Rights and His African Black Brothers.

Truth Imitates Fiction—It Has Already Happened Here

It Can't Happen Here was a best-selling satirical political novel by Sinclair Lewis published in 1935. It aroused considerable controversy when published and in the years leading up to World War II. The plot featured the account of a crusading newspaperman, Doremus Jessup, struggling against the newly elected fascist regime of President Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a populist leader whom some observers on the political Right assumed was a parody of FDR while others, particularly on the political Left, rejected the possibility that a "popular" leader of the Democrat Party could possibly lead the country into a Fascist regime.

Obama Set to Follow Tiger

Rarely has history ever witnessed the strikingly similar careers of two stars -- from the diverse worlds of sports and politics. The plot is however well tried and tested by the media and Hollywood -- meteoric stardom accompanied by the adulation of a worshipful press followed by colossal failure and or scandal and a precipitous nose dive, ending in a crash, prompting recourse to such Biblical proverbs as "Oh How the Mighty Have Fallen!" (2 Samuel: 1-25)

Conformity masquerading as diversity

For more than a generation now, one of the most powerful weapons used by the Liberal-Left in American politics is to justify differential treatment of citizens, referred to by the euphemism of "affirmative action." The overriding consideration used to expound on the need for such differential treatment in hiring for jobs in teaching, government, and large sectors of the private sector has been the acquisition of DIVERSITY.

A Parallel Universe?” ; Nazis in Newark, 1933-39 and Their Counterparts Today

(A book review of Nazis in Newark by Warren Grover, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., 2003; ISBN 978-0-7658-0516-4) The crisis we face today that has resulted in an ever more aggressive and truculent, militant Islam threatening the foundations of Western civilization from without and within, bears an uncanny parallel, almost a parallel universe, with the dreadful anxiety-filled 1930s, when a virulent Nazism intimidated and cowed much of public opinion throughout the United States.

Why American Jews Vote so Liberal and Why They Shouldn’t

Time and time again, I read in websites and blogs around the internet the question and puzzling paradox posed by Gentiles who strongly support Israel, how can it be that so many Jews continue to blindly vote for ultra-liberal causes that are inherently ultra-critical of Israel and even subliminally of Jews.

Our Judeo-Christian Heritage

What is meant by "Our Judeo-Christian-Heritage"? What upsets both many Jews and Christians when President Obama reversed the order traditionally used by public figures and spoke of the United States as "A Country of Christians and Muslims,"? Is not Islam one of the "Three Abrahamic Religions" as many Muslims claim? How does Islam fundamentally differ? What does the history of Islamic expansion and its views on the individual, society and what the Constitution calls "inalienable rights" portend?

Read This Book; See This Film

THE BOOK Let me recommend one book that more than any other lays bare the realities of what we face from Islam and the cult of death which is subscribed to by a large part of the Islamic leadership, first and foremost in Iran, among Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and their supporters in a wide range of societies in Somalia and the Sudan and across the globe waiting for circumstances to be ripe after years of demanding “Sharia Compliance”.