Nick Holmes, singer/songwriter for Paradise Lost. 1,054 words For many rock musicians, the quality of their output tends to go downhill for good after a certain point. It is not clear whether this is due to age, or whether there is a limit on how many good original ideas one person can produce, but in […]
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn 1,543 words It’s fitting that Martin Luther King Day occurs so near to the hysteria surrounding the Capitol protests. The media described the protests as an attack on our sacred temple of democracy. Politicians and journalists insisted the Capitol, populated with lowlifes and reprobates, was our church. A police officer tried […]
2,166 words Albert CamusTrans. Joseph LaredoThe StrangerLondon: Penguin, 2000 (1942) “I love my country too much to be a nationalist.” — Attributed to Albert Camus Whenever I watch Pontecorvo’s iconic movie The Battle of Algiers (1966), I find myself thinking of the Gitane-smoking and brilliantine-coiffured Albert Camus. I’m especially reminded of him in the scene where a […]
2,121 words The past few months have seen the dissolution of several dissident narratives, even as the year 2020 worked overtime to produce them. Many people developed a healthy skepticism of the governments and reigning elites in the West. More who were already skeptical about governments and elites upgraded their skepticism to outright distrust of […]
3,395 words Mike DuncanThe Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic New York: Public Affairs, 2017 If the United States is anywhere on the Roman timeline, it must be somewhere between the great wars of conquest and the rise of the Caesars. — Mike Duncan Following the selfie-fest at […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Think No Evil, 2021. 1,608 words Watching footage from January 6th’s “Capitol Siege,” I saw oceans of American flags and Trump flags. I heard people screaming about democracy and a stolen election. I heard them chanting “Christ is King!” and “Four more years!” I saw what appeared to be a crowd composed […]
3,648 words Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn et al.From Under the RubbleBoston: Little, Brown & Company (1975) Shortly before being deported from the Soviet Union in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn contributed three essays to a volume that was later published in the West as From Under the Rubble. The title was a clear metaphor for dissident voices speaking out […]
463 words Dear Friends of Counter-Currents, 2020 was the most challenging and exciting year so far in the history of Counter-Currents. In March, we lost our credit card processor for the nth time, which severely hurt our ability to sell books and receive donations; on the other hand, March was our best month ever in […]
Caspar David Friedrich, Greifswald in Moonlight, 1817. 9,130 words As men and women of the Right, we are searchers for Truth. We believe that by finding Truth and living by Truth, we might know Beauty, and we might know ourselves. Essence is our mission and with it, survival. And so this essay will try to […]
Map demarcating the terms of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty 1,628 words To understand Central and Eastern Europe as they are today, we must go back an entire century to the immediate aftermath of the First World War. As old empires collapsed, newly independent nations fought numerous conflicts for territory culminating in the Polish-Soviet War. As soon […]
Mark Baumer 1,534 words So much of what passes for journalism these days is reductionist. What is worse is that there is an ideological underpinning that once would have been considered unacceptable in filing news stories. The tragic death of Ashli Babbitt and the way it’s been covered in the days following her being shot […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Melanin’s Deficiency, 2021. 1,266 words Last week, doddering President-Elect Joe Biden nominated a black female lawyer named Kirsten Clarke to head the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Referring to the Brooklyn-born daughter of Jamaican immigrants as “one of the most distinguished civil rights attorneys in America,” the CIA robots who control […]
948 words Spanish translation here Yukio Mishima was one of the giants of 20th-century Japanese literature. He has exercised an enduring influence on the post-World War II European and North American New Right. In commemoration of his birth, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this website: By Mishima: “A Call […]
1,611 words A line was crossed on January 6, 2021: a large group of what seemed to be almost entirely white Americans marched to the Capitol building in Washington DC in an effort to both express a general displeasure at election fraud and to protest the confirmation of the deeply, hopelessly corrupt and soulless neoliberal […]
Mr. Gurdjieff 7,589 words George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born on this day in 1866, 1872, or 1877 — depending on who you ask. [1] Much else about his biography is equally uncertain. We do know that his father was Greek, his mother Armenian, and that he was born in Alexandropol which was then part of […]
1,918 words A. E. van VogtSlan Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946 Science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt’s first novel-length work, Slan, became a classic, notable for being a pioneer in the mutant protagonist genre that gave us the X-Men comic book series and its cinematic spinoffs. In such literature, conflict with normal humans […]
146 words / 0:55:01 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” On this episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson is joined by Jeff Winston of the White Art Collective (WAC) to discuss Jeff’s work, art, and your questions. Topics discussed […]
2,164 words Okay, so the worst possible outcome has come to pass. We can all, however, take solace in the fact that it wasn’t our fault. It wasn’t Donald Trump’s fault either. He was our fighter — flawed but spirited — who had taken our nemesis Joe Biden into the later rounds and was thoroughly […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Jack London, 2021 467 words Spanish version here Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco on January 12, 1876. An adventurer and Jack of all trades in his youth, London achieved fame and fortune as a fiction writer and journalist. But he never forgot his working-class roots and remained […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Walk of Shame, 2020. 1,836 words I fell asleep early on Election Eve because I lost faith in the federal government — and the very idea that the United States was a sustainable nation — years ago. Ever since November 3, I’ve been disinterested in the issue of election fraud because I […]
1,394 words We are living in remarkable times in which historic events have become so commonplace that they are forgotten within weeks. That won’t be the case for January 6th, 2021. There is no going back to more peaceful times, and the hysterical mainstream media is correct in that January 6th is going to prove […]
1,199 words After the mostly peaceful pro-Trump protests on January 6, 2021, domestic politics moved further along the road to instability and blood in the United States. When and if the United States gets through this rough patch, future generations will look back and compare Nancy Pelosi to John C. Calhoun. Calhoun was a stubborn […]
132 words Saturday, January 9, at at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, Greg Johnson will be on The Writers’ Bloc on Fullmoon Ancestry’s DLive channel: https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry On Sunday, January 10, at noon PST, 3 PM EST, 8 PM UK time, 9 PM CET, I will be hosting a […]
1,300 words The worst event since 9/11 happened this week. No it wasn’t another terror attack, nor was it a natural catastrophe. Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and . . . just kinda wandered around. Sure, they had to fight their way in and break through doors and windows to obtain their objective. But […]
2,874 words The Boston Tea Party, when costumed LARPers began a revolution As an American observing Wednesday’s “mostly peaceful” protest at the Capitol from abroad, I admit I was taken by surprise. Foreign acquaintances had been asking me for months if anything dramatic would happen in relation to the election. While I was sure that […]
Phil Eiger Newmann, Melanin’s Deficiency, 2021. 1,266 words Last week, doddering President-Elect Joe Biden nominated a black female lawyer named Kirsten Clarke to head the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Referring to the Brooklyn-born daughter of Jamaican immigrants as “one of the most distinguished civil rights attorneys in America,” the CIA robots who control […]
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