• The Absurd Adventures of the American Youth Congress

    Counter Currents - Dec 8th 2020 6:45am EST

    Eleanor Roosevelt and Joseph P. Lash. 3,650 words The American Youth Congress was a largely-forgotten but very unique activist organization in the history of the New Deal era. Formed in 1935, it experienced tremendously rapid growth. Within four years, it became a massive nexus, somehow converging 413 youth groups encompassing nearly 4.7 million young Americans. […]

  • Orientez vos vues vers l’éternité: Notre cause 

    Counter Currents - Dec 7th 2020 11:33am EST

    7 449 mots Traduit par Le Fauconnier Note du rédacteur: Cette transcription d’un discours prononcé en 1976 lors d’un meeting à Arlington en Virginie par le fondateur de l’Alliance Nationale William Luther Pierce. Il s’agit une défense éloquente et inspirante de la nécessité de jeter les bases métapolitiques du changement politique. Pour encourager la discussion, j’ai […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: November 29-December 5, 2020

    Counter Currents - Dec 7th 2020 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Plague Upon Your House, 2020. 1,601 words Can we all secretly agree that they’re all secretly conspiring to publicly drive us all insane? With so few of us agreeing on anything — and with some of us so conflicted that half the time, we don’t even agree with ourselves — can we […]

  • The Mere Thought of Racism

    Counter Currents - Dec 7th 2020 6:30am EST

    1,273 words For the better part of the last 60 years, social engineers have been conducting a rigorous sociopolitical campaign in which they have attempted to merge biology with ideology. More precisely, they’ve conducted a successful experiment that has amalgamated the tangible traits of race with the abstract ideological concepts of –isms. The result is […]

  • Remembering Pentti Linkola (December 7, 1932 — April 5, 2020)

    Counter Currents - Dec 7th 2020 6:15am EST

    1,197 words Like other Nordic countries, Finland has a strong conformist mentality. The Law of Jante is in force to keep too headstrong or conflict-seeking individuals leashed. In this respect, it is strange that one of the modern Finnish cultural icons is a character as extreme as Pentti Linkola. Throughout his career as a public […]

  • A Comic View of History

    Counter Currents - Dec 7th 2020 6:00am EST

    Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant, June 19, 1937, page 2. 1,576 words I always enjoyed reading newspaper comics as a kid. Whether I was learning to read or developing my appreciation for surreal humor, I looked forward to each week’s new strips. Some series even sparked my interest in European literature and history. Just as history […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser We’re Getting Warmer! (Plus Upcoming Livestreams & A Way to Deduct a Contribution to the Counter-Currents Foundation Even if You Do Not Itemize Your Return)

    Counter Currents - Dec 4th 2020 5:04pm EST

    1,000 words Counter-Currents is trying to raise $150,000 this year, and we have made enormous progress since our last update. In the last week, we received 32 new donations for a total of $3,659.11, which has been matched for a total of $7,318.22. We have now received 824 donations totaling $124,380.89 for which we are enormously grateful. We are […]

  • Yes, This is a Conspiracy Theory

    Counter Currents - Dec 4th 2020 6:45am EST

    2,320 words Quick question: Did Jeffrey Epstein kill himself? If you say “no,” then you’re a conspiracy theorist. Or, at least, you are buying into this one conspiracy theory. And why not? The official narrative in which he committed suicide by hanging in his prison cell during the brief period in which two security cameras […]

  • Black Gorilla Crime Syndicates

    Counter Currents - Dec 3rd 2020 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Gorilla, 2020. 1,502 words Maybe it’s because I’m a racist, but I get intrigued when I hear that a part-time rapper who calls himself “Casanova” gets indicted on federal charges along with 17 other members of a street gang calling itself “Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation.” Proof that I’m a racist is that […]

  • A Promised Land: Obama, from Illinois to Abbottabad

    Counter Currents - Dec 3rd 2020 6:30am EST

    3,518 words Barack ObamaA Promised LandNew York: Random House, 2020 There were stacks and stacks of Barack Obama’s new memoir at the brick-and-mortar bookstore I went to on Black Friday, 2020. I hadn’t been to a brick-and-mortar store for some time. If possible, I go to the library. The bookstore had Christopher Caldwell’s excellent Age […]

  • The No Time to Die Trailers

    Counter Currents - Dec 3rd 2020 6:15am EST

    1,779 words Since my pre-review based on the first trailer of Denis Villeneuve’s much-anticipated and much-postponed Dune got a good discussion going, I decided to do the same with the equally-hyped, equally-postponed Bond movie No Time to Die. Everybody has a time to die, including James Bond. Bond has cheated death countless times, but this […]

  • Tony Blinken’s Cringe American Myth

    Counter Currents - Dec 2nd 2020 6:45am EST

    1,193 words Joe Biden’s cabinet promises to restore globalism to its previous dominance. Gone are any hints of America First or aspirations to pull back from foreign hellholes. Liberal interventionism will be the Biden administration’s credo. Biden’s pick to be the next Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, encapsulates the cabinet’s worldview. Upon announcing his nomination, […]

  • Ibram X Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist

    Counter Currents - Dec 1st 2020 6:45am EST

    5,116 words Ibram X. KendiHow to Be an AntiracistNew York: One World, 2019 I recently ran across a copy of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, neé Rogers. I figured it would be a good opportunity to get rid of some of that unearned white privilege. Heck, who needs all that extra […]

  • The Second Civil War: Did a 1997 HBO Film Accidentally Presage Today’s America?

    Counter Currents - Dec 1st 2020 6:30am EST

    2,458 words In 1998, when I was 12 years old, my father and I were watching television one evening when we stumbled upon an HBO made-for-TV movie called The Second Civil War. The film has been largely forgotten in the years since, but its content — and the eerily accurate predictions within it — are […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: November 22-28, 2020

    Counter Currents - Nov 30th 2020 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Dancing for Dollars, 2020. 1,595 words If white Americans kissed black America’s ass any harder, black America’s steatopygian ass would have a visible hickey — possibly even bleeding welts. And yet the harder that white Americans try to appease blacks, blacks act less and less appeased. While campaigning for the presidency in […]

  • The Counter-Currents 2020 Fundraiser Our $10,000 Matching Grant + Livestreams with Millennial Woes & Endeavour

    Counter Currents - Nov 27th 2020 4:55pm EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Nancy Pelosi, 2020 716 words Counter-Currents is trying to raise $150,000 this year. We also have a $10,000 matching grant. In the last week, we received 16 new donations for a total of $2,114, which has been matched for a total of $4,228. Thus far, we have received 792 donations totaling $117,092.67, […]

  • Sun & Steel: The Tatenokai Phenomenon in Brief

    Counter Currents - Nov 27th 2020 6:45am EST

    1,938 words In post-1945 Japan — as in most of the states that lost in World War II — American occupation brought about radical political and social changes. In the 1946 to 1948 Tokyo trial (similar to Nuremberg), several leaders of the war cabinet were sentenced to death or long prison terms. It was also […]

  • Fox News & the Boomer Question

    Counter Currents - Nov 27th 2020 6:15am EST

    1,064 words Fox News’ coverage of the 2020 election alienated much of their viewership. The network was the first to call Arizona for Biden, refused to call Florida for Trump even when 90% of the votes had been counted, and declared Biden the winner of the election. Fox News’ ratings have since declined, and many […]

  • Black Friday Special It’s Time to STOP Shopping for Christmas

    Counter Currents - Nov 27th 2020 6:00am EST

    1,111 words / 5:45 Audio version: To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” Translations: Danish, French Did the system cancel your Thanksgiving? Time to cancel their Black Friday. Even though I am an unbeliever, the Christmas season is my favorite time of […]

  • A Totally Racist Thanksgiving

    Counter Currents - Nov 26th 2020 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Red Lives Matter, 2020. 1,278 words I’m not much of a holiday-celebratin’ guy, but if I had to pick my favorite, it would probably be Thanksgiving, and merely for the basic gustatory pleasures it provides. I could eat turkey, stuffing, and sweet potatoes three times a day for the rest of my […]

  • The Meaning of Mishima’s Death

    Counter Currents - Nov 25th 2020 6:45am EST

    1,234 words It was fifty years ago today that Yukio Mishima, one of Japan’s most celebrated men of letters and an ardent man of the Right, committed suicide at the age of forty-five. What happened, and what did it mean? On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four followers wearing the uniforms of his private militia […]

  • Meet The Whites Who Voted Against Trump

    Counter Currents - Nov 25th 2020 6:30am EST

    1,303 words Last week I wrote “White America Still Voted For Trump.” This is still true — 58% of white Americans backed nationalism. However, there is a group of whites who rejected nationalism and voted for a return of the corrupt status quo: affluent whites. This demographic played a major role in Joe Biden’s alleged […]

  • “Thankful” . . . for What, Exactly?

    Counter Currents - Nov 24th 2020 6:45am EST

    Franck Antoine-Bail, Cutting the Pumpkin, 1910. 3,362 words In a few days, we Americans are supposed to be “giving thanks.” This normally involves getting together with members of your extended family and feasting. Turkey. Stuffing. Biscuits. Blasphemous, unnameable casseroles that combine foods man was never meant to combine, concealed beneath dubious sauces. With the exception […]

  • Ruuben Kaalep on the Intermarium

    Counter Currents - Nov 24th 2020 6:15am EST

    Ruuben Kaalep 2,928 words At the end of summer, Ruuben Kaalep came to Hungary at the invitation of the Hungarian nationalist party Mi Hazánk (Our Homeland). Ruuben Kaalep is one of the main advocates for the Intermarium project, a political and geostrategic plan aiming to regroup the Baltic countries, the Visegrád 4, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovenia, […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: November 15-21, 2020

    Counter Currents - Nov 23rd 2020 6:45am EST

    Phil Eiger Newmann, Killjoy Was Here, 2020. 1,642 words The nights grow long and dark and cold. I’ve often suspected that Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s are merely three sedatives we administer ourselves to collectively brace for the gaping black icy void in the months that follow when the sun never seems to shine […]