Greg Johnson is Free
Counter Currents - Nov 5th 2019 4:16am EST508 words I am writing this after 48 hours of detainment with little sleep and bad food (honestly, I would have preferred lutefisk). I want to let everyone know that I am in good health and in good spirits. I was treated with the utmost courtesy and professionalism by the Norwegian police, who were “just […]
Arresting Dissent
Counter Currents - Nov 5th 2019 3:55am EST1,487 words We all know that there is nothing new or special about the use of state power to silence dissent. And if history has shown us anything, it is that those who decry such actions now rarely hesitate to engage in such activities later, once they have attained power. This never-ending game makes hypocrites […]
We Want the Groyper War
Counter Currents - Nov 5th 2019 3:09am ESTCharlie Kirk 1,254 words Do you want the Culture War? Yes? Then you’re in luck. The cuckservative student group Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) “Culture War Tour” is traveling all over the country and igniting a battle its hosts didn’t intend. Rather than pitting the cringe conservatives of TPUSA against campus Leftists, the tour has become […]
Słowo liberałowie nie mogą usłyszeć
Counter Currents - Nov 4th 2019 1:25pm EST5,849 words English version here Każdego lata obecnie rządząca partia Węgierska, Fidesz, organizuje swój letni otwarty uniwersytet Bálványos i obóz studencki w Tusnádfürdő (Băile Tuşnad), w Transylwanii. Prezydent Fideszu i premier Węgier Viktor Orbán, zawsze wygłasza przemówienie na tym wydarzeniu, które jest zazwyczaj stwierdzeniem jego zasad i oceny minionego roku oraz obecnej sytuacji politycznej. Poniżej […]
I am Mother
Counter Currents - Nov 4th 2019 10:21am EST1,618 words How do you break into Hollywood? Director Grant Sputore and writer Michael Lloyd Green might have a few tips for you in their first full-length feature film for Netflix. Released in 2019, their debut, I am Mother, does all it can to please the Hollywood elite and bring a warm glow of smug […]
Stair’s Way to Heaven
Counter Currents - Nov 4th 2019 3:37am ESTBrother Stair 3,897 words Millions of prayers are daily unanswered because man prays to a God who does not exist. — Neville Goddard[1] When last we caught up with (perhaps poor choice of words for someone so jail-prone) Brother Stair and his Overcomer Ministry,[2] the “Last Day Prophet of God” had emerged from detention on […]
Video of the Day An Interview with Greg Johnson’s Lawyer
Counter Currents - Nov 4th 2019 2:08am EST24 words / 5:32 Yesterday, Frodi Midjord interviewed Greg Johnson’s Norwegian lawyer about Greg’s situation and the legal underpinnings — or rather lack thereof — of Greg’s arrest on Saturday.
Greg Johnson Arrested in Norway for Thoughtcrime
Counter Currents - Nov 2nd 2019 1:05pm EDT878 words Greg Johnson was scheduled to speak at the Scandza Forum conference in Oslo, Norway today. Over the last few days, the Norwegian antifa were on a social media campaign against Scandza and Greg in particular, claiming that he supports terrorism and was therefore a threat — ludicrous given Greg’s many diatribes against terrorism. […]
Imitation of Life & an Imitation of Imitation of Life
Counter Currents - Nov 1st 2019 9:10am EDT4,134 words We live an age where no one wants to be white if they can help it. That’s why you have honkies like Robert “Beto” O’Rourke pretending be Hispanic, Shaun King pretending to be black, and Elizabeth Warren pretending to be Native American. But it was not so long ago when the opposite was […]
The Counter-Currents Newsletter, October 2019
Counter Currents - Nov 1st 2019 6:06am EDT1,406 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, October was another very strong month. We backed off from our peak number of unique visitors in September, but we had our highest number of page views ever. There has been a steep and steady rise in traffic since June. This is not merely due to a few viral […]
Roger Waters’ Us + Them
Counter Currents - Nov 1st 2019 4:20am EDT1,670 words I gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused. Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just being used. –“Dogs,” Animals, Pink Floyd (1977) In this documentary, Roger Waters constantly struts about the stage like an aged and anorexic Richard Gere, his spindly arms held defiantly aloft in a clichéd clenched-fist salute […]
Video of the Day An Alternative Take on Rammstein’s Deutschland
Counter Currents - Nov 1st 2019 3:33am EDT51 words / 11:05 Hungarian Traditionalist author Jonatán Gődény presents a video analyzing Rammstein’s controversial Deutschland video, positing that the black woman as a symbol of Germany is meant to represent an evil force running through German history. Be sure to click “CC” to see the English subtitles. The English text is also available here.
Zaprzeczenie libertarianizmu
Counter Currents - Oct 31st 2019 1:57pm EDT1,023 words English original here Poniższy tekst to przemówienie, które wygłosiłem na londyńskim forum w dniu 3 października 2015 r. Chciałbym podziękować Jez Turner, London Forum Team i ich wiernym odbiorcom za umożliwienie mi tego. Libertarianizm to polityka indywidualistyczna. Indywidualizm odnosi się do kwestii metafizycznych oraz etycznych. Metafizyczny indywidualizm postuluje, że istnieją tylko jednostki. Grupy […]
Fake Hitlers on Parade
Counter Currents - Oct 31st 2019 5:59am EDT1,331 words Michael Hoffman Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People Coeur d’Alene, Id.: Independent History and Research, 2019 I don’t really get the “Fake Hitler” trope, but apparently it’s very seductive for some people. There is this compulsion to believe that the German Reichskanzler wasn’t the real Adolf Hitler. No, he was a body-double, […]
The Great Alaskan Race
Counter Currents - Oct 31st 2019 5:43am EDT1,501 words It’s always nice when a film presupposes that empathy is a universal human trait. Films that do this rarely go much beyond being merely nice, however. They tend to cling to their PG rating and their predictable story arcs until the obligatory uplifting ending. There is good in all of us, and if […]
A Beautiful Mind
Counter Currents - Oct 31st 2019 5:28am EDT3,329 words Infinite Potential: The Greatest Works of Neville Goddard Introduced and edited by Mitch Horowitz New York: St. Martin’s, 2019 All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day […]
“Nowy typ prawicy powstał”: Rozmowa z Alain de Benoist
Counter Currents - Oct 30th 2019 7:32am EDT2,146 words English original here Tłumaczenie z węgierskiego autorstwa György Balázs Kun, ponownie przetłumaczone na Polski. Poniższy wywiad pojawił się w węgierskim konserwatywnym czasopiśmie kwartalnym “Kommentár”, w jego drugim numerze 2019 roku. Przypisy zostały dodane przez Counter-Currents. „Stara Prawica nie żyje, niech żyje Nowa Prawica!” To może być naszym okrzykiem po obejrzeniu przychylnych zmian politycznych […]
Rambo: Last Blood
Counter Currents - Oct 30th 2019 6:21am EDT3,590 words Have you ever wanted to watch a movie where a 72-year-old man engages in gratuitous violence against racially-defined enemies? Rambo: Last Blood delivers. In this world of remakes, reboots, and endless installments of cash-cow franchises, Rambo: Last Blood is refreshingly current and lucid, even if it is a product of its time and […]
For Leo Yankevich: October 30, 1961 to December 11, 2018
Counter Currents - Oct 30th 2019 5:31am EDTLeo Yankevich, March 22, 2016 430 words A Glosa[1] Four lines from an abandoned poem: Come the time, a season of chaste snow, And over meadows, birds will greet the dawn, And you will see where the dead have gone, There where the sun has shed its final glow. — Leo Yankevich Your voice gave […]
Video of the Day An Amateur History of Halloween
Counter Currents - Oct 30th 2019 5:06am EDT15 words / 10:40 Hugh MacDonald discusses the history of the Halloween tradition as an element of European identity.
Remembering Ezra Pound: October 30, 1885 to November 1, 1972
Counter Currents - Oct 30th 2019 4:39am EDT707 words “A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.” — Ezra Pound One of the ongoing projects of the North American New Right is the recovery of our tradition. One does not have to go too far back before one discovers that every great European thinker and artist is a […]
Mad Max & the Folly of Third Parties
Counter Currents - Oct 29th 2019 5:23am EDT1,391 words The once-promising People’s Party of Canada (PPC) suffered a humiliating defeat in its federal election last week. It lost the only seat it had, held by the party leader Maxime Bernier, and garnered only 1.6 percent of the vote. It was a bad start for the independent party’s first race, and it may […]
A Northern Light
Counter Currents - Oct 29th 2019 4:06am EDT1,112 words I believe I am from the light, whereas other people are from the dark. — Annie Haslam, lead singer of Renaissance With eyes shining as bright as Tolkien’s Silmarils, and her five octave vocals ringing out her anthem-like 1978 hit “The Northern Lights,” Renaissance’s Annie Haslam flutters across the stage, an ectoplasmic butterfly […]
Greta & Left vs. Right Environmentalism
Counter Currents - Oct 28th 2019 4:51am EDT1,207 words I saw a recent photo of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist, and the poor thing looked quite ragged. Just run down. I felt deep sympathy for her. She’s right: Her childhood is being stolen, and people are indeed suffering. I hope she makes it. She is often mocked and ridiculed – sometimes […]
Kanye West’s Jesus is King: A Review
Counter Currents - Oct 28th 2019 4:10am EDT2,138 words Joy to the world, the album has come! Much anticipation, anger, and fanaticism surrounded the missed release date of Kanye West’s new album, Jesus is King, which was released several hours behind schedule on Friday, October 25. Clocking in at a mere 27 minutes long, West has managed to produce some of the […]