• Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

    Counter Currents - Mar 27th 2024 9:56pm EDT

    1,923 words I would be lying if I said I try to avoid pop culture, because it really doesn’t take much effort. When you are young, you pick stuff up from being around other young people, and if you are a parent, you pick stuff up from your kids. But I’m old and have no […]

  • The Establishment’s Radicals

    Counter Currents - Mar 27th 2024 5:54pm EDT

    You can buy Kerry R. Bolton’s book Generation ’68 here. 2,706 words Kerry R. Bolton Generation ’68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy Allentown, Penn.: Antelope Hill, 2023 A Left-wing freakout took place among students across the world in 1968, most prominently in France, where student protesters occupied universities and factories, clashed with police, and […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 578: Angelo Plume on Confronting the Ethnicity Deniers

    Counter Currents - Mar 27th 2024 3:16pm EDT

    162 words / 2:06:27 Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) was our guest host on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where he discussed confronting the ethnicity deniers, among other issues, and answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed include: 00:0:02 The Story of Angelo’s viral Wikipedia battle 00:10:32 Who is […]

  • The Union Jackal, March 2024

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2024 11:16am EDT

    One of the Ramadan messages that appeared on the signboards at London’s King’s Cross railway station last week. Photo courtesy of @surplustakes on Twitter/X. 2,120 words That elusive last puzzle-piece The jigsaw puzzle that is the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland has a piece missing. Of the puzzle’s four parts, as of this […]

  • Fascism in Texas, the Inalienable Right to Nappy Hair, and Other Fertilizer from the Mainstream Media

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2024 10:36am EDT

    2,253 words It’s been a while since I did a roundup of news items from the The System’s propaganda organs. Time and again, the mainstream media always puts extra BS into their bias. Is Texas soon to be the new Fourth Reich? Last September, when I saw the headline “How Texas became the new ‘homebase’ […]

  • The Power of Myth: Remembering Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987)

    Counter Currents - Mar 26th 2024 10:18am EDT

    2,471 words Joseph Campbell, the famed teacher of comparative mythology, was born on this day in 1904. For many people, including yours truly, he has served as a “gateway drug” into not only a new way of looking at myths, but into a non-materialistic way of viewing the world. And although as a public figure, […]

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  • Remembering Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925–August 4, 1964)

    Counter Currents - Mar 25th 2024 2:58pm EDT

    1,836 words Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021 Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: March 17-23, 2024

    Counter Currents - Mar 25th 2024 12:36pm EDT

    2,218 words Beating Up White Kids and Filming It Despite the sickly-sweet rainbow-colored lollipops they’ve been trying to sell us for generations now, racial violence will be a factor in any multiracial society — especially when that multiracial society endlessly posits these groups as warring tribes with unsettled historical grievances. Until everyone decides to assimilate […]

  • Keith Olbermann Is a Deeply Unhappy Man

    Counter Currents - Mar 24th 2024 11:33am EDT

    42 words / 9:23 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Keith Olbermann Is a Deeply Unhappy Man,” on why TV commentator Keith Olbermann, like many of his ilk among the woke crowd, seems like a deeply unhappy man. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-KeithOlbermannIsADeeplyUnhappyMan.mp4

  • Saturday’s Livestream: Angelo Plume on Confronting the Ethnicity Deniers

    Counter Currents - Mar 22nd 2024 7:00pm EDT

    76 words Saturday’s livestream will be a solo broadcast with Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube), who will discuss confronting the ethnicity deniers as well as host an Ask Me Anything with listener questions. The stream will start at 1 PM Pacific, 4 PM Eastern Time, 8 PM UK time, and 9 PM Central European Time on: DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents […]

  • Psychoanalyzing the Natives: The Big Lift

    Counter Currents - Mar 22nd 2024 2:41pm EDT

    3,375 words “We are the natives of Trizonesia,” as the singer Karl Berbuer once put into words the feeling in “colonized” West Germany, the three-way occupation zones of the United States, Britain, and France. A film that was produced on that topic is The Big Lift, filmed on the heels of the now famous Berlin […]

  • The Toronto Police Want You to Hand Over Your Car Keys . . . to Criminals

    Counter Currents - Mar 21st 2024 5:44pm EDT

    Image courtesy of QuoteInspector.com. 1,397 words Police in the city of Toronto have come under fire lately for some controversial advice. Car thefts have become such a problem in the city that citizens have taken extra steps to protect their vehicles. With approximately 12,000 vehicles stolen in Toronto in 2023 alone, some residents have installed […]

  • Keith Olbermann Is a Deeply Unhappy Man

    Counter Currents - Mar 21st 2024 1:25pm EDT

    1,129 words / 9:14 A long time ago, when society was far happier and vastly more functional, a basic rule of etiquette dictated that one should “never discuss religion or politics in polite company.” But these days, the fact that hardly anyone can shut the fuck up about politics for five minutes means that there […]

  • The White Tory Whale

    Counter Currents - Mar 21st 2024 12:27am EDT

    Moby Dick, courtesy of ianbeverdge on Deviantart. 929 words There’s a meme about the upcoming election in Britain involving the simple slogan “Zero Seats.” The slogan relates to the impending wipeout of the Tory Party. It isn’t being used by British liberals, but by politically engaged people on the Right. Naturally, such a statement and […]

  • The Phil Lynott Conundrum

    Counter Currents - Mar 20th 2024 7:39am EDT

    Phil Lynott 2,921 words My father is Italian. He was born in London in the 1960s. At no point was he ever under the impression that he was English. I assume that no one else, certainly not his Italian parents, considered him to be English, either, regardless of his birthplace. Nor did his parents, my […]

  • Bo Gritz, Ruby Ridge and Presidential Run, Part 2: 1987-present 

    Counter Currents - Mar 20th 2024 7:21am EDT

    Gritz on the campaign trail in 1992. 2,408 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) In 1991, as the Cold War was ending, President George H. W. Bush proclaimed a New World Order, but failed to define what the term actually meant. It came to be seen as a negative by men such as […]

  • Bo Gritz, Vietnam Veteran and Military Adventurer, Part 1: 1939-1986 

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2024 10:39pm EDT

    Lt. Col. James Gordon “Bo” Gritz 2,275 words Part 1 of 2 The 1992 United States presidential election was one in which both candidates for the two mainstream parties offered the electorate nothing more than sweeping neo-liberal economic policies as well as continued military involvement in far-off foreign lands. The third-party candidate who had different […]

  • Twisted Logic: Fagin the Jew and Charles Dickens

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2024 4:44pm EDT

    Fagin as depicted by Joseph Clayton Clark, aka Kyd (1889) 2,283 words [S]tanding over them, with a toasting-fork in his hand, was a very old shrivelled Jew, whose villainous-looking and repulsive face was obscured by a quantity of matted red hair. — Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist All my dearest companions have always been villains and […]

  • Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 577: Jason Lee Van Dyke on the Law and the Dissident Right

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2024 4:07pm EDT

    Jason Lee Van Dyke 242 words / 1:18:16 Texas attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke (Twitter) was Greg Johnson and David Zsutty‘s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the challenges of representing the dissident Right in the legal process and answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online […]

  • The Red Terror in Kiev: A Warning from a Century Ago, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2024 12:05pm EDT

    Another rough day at the office, drawn by a guard. 2,875 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) No Russian Leaders The London Morning Post correspondent then tried to determine who the Bolsheviks were who had terrorized Kiev. His findings were: In the first place, as Kiev knew the Bolsheviki, they are utter aliens […]

  • The Red Terror in Kiev: A Warning from a Century Ago, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Mar 19th 2024 12:05pm EDT

    Another rough day at the office, drawn by a guard. 2,875 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) No Russian Leaders The London Morning Post correspondent then tried to determine who the Bolsheviks were who had terrorized Kiev. His findings were: In the first place, as Kiev knew the Bolsheviki, they are utter aliens […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: March 10-16, 2024

    Counter Currents - Mar 18th 2024 12:29pm EDT

    Vaughan Gething 2,217 words Wales Elects a Black Leader — the First of Any European Country ’Twas but a century ago that the British Empire ruled over roughly one-quarter of the world’s people and had control over one-quarter of the planet’s land, making it the largest empire in world history. And then, as this son […]

  • White Girl Twitch a Lot

    Counter Currents - Mar 17th 2024 11:55am EDT

    59 words / 12:15 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “White Girl Twitch a Lot,” on the case of Kaylee Gain, a white high school student who got in a fight with a black female student from her school in suburban St. Louis recently and was beaten to the […]

  • Saturday’s Livestream: The Challenges of Legally Representing the Dissident Right

    Counter Currents - Mar 15th 2024 11:54pm EDT

    Jason Lee Van Dyke 78 words Texas attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke will be host Greg Johnson and co-host David Zsutty‘s guest on Saturday’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they will discuss the challenges of representing the dissident Right in the legal process, and of course answer listener questions. The stream will start at 1 […]

  • How Long Can the Anti-Zionist Coalition Last?

    Counter Currents - Mar 15th 2024 3:04pm EDT

    For how long will these people be our allies? (Photo courtesy of Flickr) 1,973 words There’s been a lot of talk lately about the “2016 energy” returning to Twitter/X. That was a magical time when all the factions of the non-establishment Right came together for a single purpose. The Alt Right, the Alt Lite, Right-wing […]