Some Thoughts About Our Lying (Dying?) Regime
Counter Currents - Oct 23rd 2024 10:32am EDT2,294 words “We know they are lying. They also know that they are lying. They also know that we know they are lying. We also know that they know that we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” Anonymous Soviet dissident One of the salient features of the current political reality that is […]
The Return of the King?
Counter Currents - Oct 23rd 2024 9:45am EDT3,112 words Aragorn: What do you fear, lady? Éowyn: To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King The Restoration did not so much restore as replace. Ronald Carter, The Routledge […]
Against All Enemies: The Cost of Israel’s Military Misadventures
Counter Currents - Oct 23rd 2024 8:47am EDT1,817 words When Israel resorts to extreme violence against its neighbors, the fallout is felt throughout the world, especially in the United States and the wider West. Iran, for instance, will activate its terror networks in Europe. We have already seen domestic unrest as rival groups clash in major cities throughout the civilized world, the […]
The Desolate March of the Twenty-first Century
Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2024 12:01pm EDTJ.M.W. Turner. The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire 1,411 words The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done, and things don’t look so good. It may be time to pause and contemplate the remarkable socially and morally transformative effects of three powerful, intermingling forces that have come into ascendancy. They are the pernicious legacy of […]
Neanderthals, Early Humans, & the Origin of Whites
Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2024 11:42am EDT2,000 words Richard D. Fuerle Erectus Walks Amongst Us New York: Spooner Press, 2008 Richard Fuerle (1941 – 2018), was a man with an extremely active mind. He was a Pennsylvanian and a lawyer who continuously sought out further education and learning. One such field of study was the science behind the evolution of humanity […]
Of Pure Blood
Counter Currents - Oct 22nd 2024 9:30am EDT3,290 words I forgot who said it, but it went like this: There is a difference between best movies and favorite movies. You might know objectively that Citizen Kane is the best movie of all time (I happen to disagree), but few people would name it as their favorite movie. A favorite has nothing to […]
Restoring the White Voice on College Campuses
Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2024 1:53pm EDT1,919 words You can buy Greg Johnson’s White Identity Politics here. American universities are clearly antagonistic to the concept of a unified white identity. The academy is now dominated by an egalitarian left that overwhelmingly favors multiculturalism, affirmative action, and, in some circles, white replacement. Furthermore, the right wing of racial politics on the American […]
The Women’s Resistance
Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2024 12:36pm EDT3,329 words Catherine Ruth Pakaluk Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth New York: Regnery Gateway, 2024 It is uncanny how many contemporary ideals find their common denominator in the rejection of procreation—much of environmentalism, the liberation of homosexuality and other nonprocreative sex, careerism for women, easy divorce, “family planning,” and the envisioning […]
Nice ‘n’ Sleazy: 10 Disreputable American Albums
Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2024 8:59am EDT3,037 words The word “sleaze” has a strange history which has left it with a number of meanings. In the UK, it has become associated with political corruption, and has recently been brought back into service as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer continues to let down our old school by accepting inappropriate gifts and services […]
Are Normies the Real Extremists?
Counter Currents - Oct 21st 2024 7:53am EDT2,650 words What is an extremist? It’s a word which is thrown around a lot these days. I’ve never considered myself to be an extremist. Aside from going through a brief phase of the convert’s zeal a few years back as I digested the “red pill”, I’ve never been a particularly extreme person when it […]
Editor’s Update
Counter Currents - Oct 19th 2024 11:43am EDTYou can buy Jonathan Bowden’s collection The Cultured Thug here. 329 words 1. This Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio Livestream Greg Johnson and Angelo Plume (and perhaps some special surprise guests) will be on this Saturday’s Counter-Currents Radio livestream, which will focus on the upcoming US presidential election, current events, and, as always, your questions. Join us […]
Counter-Currents: Now More Than Ever
Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2024 1:26pm EDT885 words Domina Jalbert. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Onesime Jalbert of Quebec and his wife Celestine had 17 children. In their defense, the television had not been invented yet. Of the 17 Jalbert children, 16 of them lived and died leaving nary a mark on the world. Ah, but the 17th child, now he […]
Why I Voted for Vance-Trump
Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2024 10:03am EDT2,514 words This year, the Trump train has been more like an emotional roller-coaster. My decision to vote for Trump has flip-flopped almost as much as Trump has. Recently, I re-read my endorsement of Trump from four years ago, “Trump, Without Illusions or Apologies.” I feared that I would want to eat my words. But, […]
Why I Voted for Vance-Trump
Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2024 10:03am EDT2,514 words This year, the Trump train has been more like an emotional roller-coaster. My decision to vote for Trump has flip-flopped almost as much as Trump has. Recently, I re-read my endorsement of Trump from four years ago, “Trump, Without Illusions or Apologies.” I feared that I would want to eat my words. But, […]
Trump: Without Illusions or Apologies, 2024
Counter Currents - Oct 18th 2024 10:02am EDT1,319 words I recently re-read the following article from 2020, where I made my case for Donald Trump. I thought it was well-argued and prescient. Although I am even more disappointed by Trump now than four years ago, I think the arguments still stand. All you need to do is mentally substitute “Harris” for “Biden.” […]
Woody Allen Without Woody Allen, II: Blue Jasmine and Coup de Chance
Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2024 3:18pm EDT1,294 words I can just imagine Woody Allen’s elevator pitch for Blue Jasmine: “Imagine Streetcar Named Desire, only Blanche du Bois was married to Bernie Madoff.” Yes, Blue Jasmine (2013) is derivative. Yes, it is derivative of a classic, to which it will inevitably be compared and found wanting. But for all that, it is […]
Anti-White Hurricane Relief
Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2024 9:34am EDT1,276 words Hurricane Milton’s trajectory. Image courtesy of National Weather Service Hurricane Milton developed into a whirling colossus that made landfall on Wednesday October 9. It was initially set to create a storm surge of up to 20 feet, with winds expected to surpass the 100-mph mark and gusts topping 200 mph. Milton was powerful […]
Heidegger, Schelling, and the Reality of Evil: Part 6
Counter Currents - Oct 17th 2024 9:08am EDT4,125 words A young Martin Heidegger. Part 6 of 15 (Part 1 begins here) Creation is the Transfiguration of the Dark Love, according to Schelling, is a principle of wholeness or harmony, drawing all things together. Out of many, it produces a one, a whole. Here, in the first primal stirrings of divine being, love […]
Episode 3 of The New Nationalism: The Great Replacement
Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2024 11:28am EDT57 words The Great Replacement. You’ve heard of it before. Is it just a baseless, far right conspiracy theory? Or is it an observable, quantifiable reality? In this episode, Angelo Plume talks to James Karlsson and Cyan Quinn of the White Papers Policy Institute to find out the truth. Listen to The New Nationalism Podcast […]
Enemy of the State
Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2024 11:05am EDT1,444 words A new project that has been started in Germany by journalist Aya Velázquez is Wir beobachten zurück, “We’re watching (you) back”. The one being watched back is the Verfassungsschutz, short for Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution – Germany’s domestic intelligence service. Aya Velázquez’s claim to fame […]
Enemy of the State
Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2024 11:05am EDT1,444 words A new project that has been started in Germany by journalist Aya Velázquez is Wir beobachten zurück, “We’re watching (you) back”. The one being watched back is the Verfassungsschutz, short for Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution – Germany’s domestic intelligence service. Aya Velázquez’s claim to fame […]
Five Worthy Books Read by Me in 2024
Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2024 9:46am EDT2,346 words Isolationism Reconfigured (1995) by Eric A. Nordlinger Professor Nordlinger passed away before Isolationism Reconfigured was published, so he couldn’t promote it on CSPAN and other places. The book is also written in a turgid academic style. Those facts hampered the spread of isolationist ideas in the mid-1990s, unfortunately. In Isolationism Reconfigured, every point made by past non-interventionist […]
Why Will We Win?
Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2024 7:47am EDT1,424 words In this article I will focus on the future of the Counter-Currents website. What could be done, what could be improved, and I will suggest some successful strategies. It is now important for our website to penetrate new White Nationalist environments and to get the authorities of these environments to share our articles […]
JD Vance is Half-Right About Race (and That’s Okay)
Counter Currents - Oct 16th 2024 7:13am EDT2,296 words While fielding questions during a rally in Detroit last week, Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance was forced to speak about race. The questioner, who was black, asked, “Detroit is 77% African American and the state is 14% African American. Why should African American Michiganders vote for the Trump-Vance ticket?” While I am […]
Unmourned Funeral: Chapter 10
Counter Currents - Oct 15th 2024 9:49am EDT4,944 words Chapter 1 begins here CHAPTER 10 THE RETURN OF THE QUEEN A Quiet Homecoming O what can it mean To a daydream believer Or a homecoming queen? The Monkees, Daydream Believer Can the Queen return to what was once her kingdom? Any return, any cultural reconquista by philosophy would require philosophers who […]