Reclaiming Country Music’s Imaginary Black Roots
Counter Currents - Apr 7th 2024 11:48am EDT41 words / 11:30 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Reclaiming Country Music’s Imaginary Black Roots,” on the recent push, everywhere from the Super Bowl to the White House, to “reclaim” country music as a black invention. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-ReclaimingCountryMusicsImaginaryBlackRoots.mp4
Saturday’s Livestream: The Counter-Currents Book Club Discusses Greg Johnson’s Against Imperialism
Counter Currents - Apr 6th 2024 1:17am EDTYou can buy Greg Johnson’s Against Imperialism here. 251 words Join the Counter-Currents Book Club for its fourth meeting on Saturday, where the discussion of Counter-Currents’ latest book, Against Imperialism, will be led by author and host Greg Johnson, Angelo Plume (aka Pox Populi), and Matt Parrott. The book is currently on sale at a […]
National Socialism as a Magical Movement: Stephen E. Flowers’ The Occult in National Socialism
Counter Currents - Apr 5th 2024 11:47pm EDT1,443 words Stephen E. Flowers The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2022 In the realm of the occult and its intersection with the Third Reich, Stephen E. Flowers’ The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third […]
Welcome to the Paywall!
Counter Currents - Apr 5th 2024 11:43pm EDT555 words This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to support our many projects — you can read more about our plans for 2024 in our recent update – so that we can continue bringing you the essays, journalism, books, podcasts, video, events, and other resources that help people to discover and promote white identity politics. […]
Slavery and the Weak Claim Paradox
Counter Currents - Apr 5th 2024 2:24pm EDTTrial of Affection, an illustration from Richard Hildreth, The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (1852). 1,869 words One of the trump cards the Left has over the Right is how it asserts the absolute equivalence of slavery and evil. This is an axiom for the Left, and a holy axiom at that. Leftists […]
White Preservationist Communities: Lessons from the Amish Blueprint
Counter Currents - Apr 5th 2024 9:00am EDTPhoto courtesy of Alvin Trusty, Flickr 2,135 words Given that white people are only around 10% of our globalizing world’s population, it seems reasonable to predict that 100 years from now whites will be facing the same struggle for survival we face today. The decisions we make will affect our descendants’ chances of success, in […]
Communist Barbarism in Hungary — and America Today: When Israel Is King
Counter Currents - Apr 4th 2024 6:06pm EDTYou can buy the book When Israel Is King here. 1,303 words Jerome & Jean Tharaud When Israel Is King Allentown, Penn.: Antelope Hill, 2024 First published by Robert M. McBride & Company in New York, 1924 Shortly after the First World War, Hungary was forced to endure a Jewish-led Communist government that turned the […]
Introducing a Reactionary Aphorist
Counter Currents - Apr 4th 2024 4:30pm EDT2,512 words The Authentic Reactionary: Selected Scholia of Nicolás Gómez Dávila Translated with commentary by Ramon Elani North Augusta, S. C.: Arcana Europa Media, 2023 Large linguistic communities such as the English and Spanish-speaking worlds are peculiarly liable to insularity. It was only in the late 1980s that a few adventurous German souls caught on […]
Reclaiming Country Music’s Imaginary Black Roots
Counter Currents - Apr 4th 2024 1:35pm EDT1,446 words / 9:45 Music superstar Beyoncé Knowles — who has sold over 200 million records, won more Grammy Awards than anyone in history, and recently became the first black woman to score a #1 single on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, all while politicking for Black Lives Matter, the Black Panthers, and all things […]
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 580: On Dealing with the Decline of the White World with Millennial Woes and Morgoth
Counter Currents - Apr 4th 2024 9:00am EDT164 words / 1:30:34 The second half of our latest livestream was a continuation of the Ask Me Anything with Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), focusing particularly on the issue of how dissident can deal with the decline of the white world. It is now available for download and online listening. Topics discussed […]
1A Manifesto for Gamergate II
Counter Currents - Apr 3rd 2024 4:10pm EDT1,895 words Gamergate can be summarized as the backlash against Social Justice Warrior (SJW) themes that were being pushed in video games during 2014-2015. The reader may explore the deep lore surrounding it if he is so inclined, for those days have passed into legend. A second Gamergate has begun, although it is more limited […]
Enlisting in the Military: A Very, Very Bad Idea
Counter Currents - Apr 3rd 2024 9:00am EDT1,439 words If you are a young man wondering what to do with your life, you may consider enlisting in the military. Don’t. Yes, the military has its appeal, or seems to. You may need a job. The uniform looks good. There can be adventure. You might get laid by Asian lovelies in foreign countries. […]
This Saturday! Join the Counter-Currents Book Club to Discuss Greg Johnson’s Against Imperialism
Counter Currents - Apr 2nd 2024 8:31pm EDTYou can buy Greg Johnson’s Against Imperialism here. 304 words There are some debates among those White Nationalists who wish to build a political movement that are best left until after our race is saved from the brink of extinction, such as: Christianity or paganism? Capitalism or socialism? Allow abortion or ban it? Ethnonationalism versus […]
Is Trump Planning to Become the White Martin Luther King?
Counter Currents - Apr 2nd 2024 4:34pm EDTImage courtesy of Rawpixel 1,472 words The news outlet Axios published an article on Monday entitled “Exclusive: Trump allies plot anti-racism protections — for white people” in which it was claimed that, should a second Donald Trump administration come to pass, Trump intends to amend civil rights law to give protections to white people: “If […]
A Forgotten Treasure from the 1970s: The Star Wars Holiday Special, Part 2
Counter Currents - Apr 2nd 2024 9:00am EDTHow does she know that “11 Inches of Snow in Minnesota” is my porn star name? 2,547 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Third commercial break There’s another spot from GM, and after that is an ad for Pillsbury Plus Yellow Cake. It has pudding in the mix! Nom nom nom . . […]
The Worst Week Yet: March 24-30, 2024
Counter Currents - Apr 1st 2024 1:25pm EDTSean “Diddy” Combs (photo courtesy of Wikipedia) 2,488 words Sean “Diddy” Combs: The Hip-Hop Jeffrey Epstein? One thing that federal informants never seem to realize is that the federal government is not their friend. It can turn on them and lock them away for life whenever it sees fit. I’m not saying that hip-hop billionaire […]
Remembering Robert Brasillach, March 31, 1909–February 6, 1945: Robert Brasillach and Notre avant-guerre — The Joie of Fascisme
Counter Currents - Apr 1st 2024 9:00am EDT2,083 words Editor’s Note: March 31 marks the 115th birthday of Robert Brasillach, the French journalist, novelist, film historian, and man of the Right who was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad for “intellectual crimes” he was alleged to have committed as a German collaborator during the Second World War. The following translation is offered […]
A Bold New Level of Stupid: Why the Island Boys are the Future
Counter Currents - Mar 31st 2024 1:29pm EDT48 words / 9:52 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “A Bold New Level of Stupid: Why the Island Boys are the Future,” on why these social media “influencers” just might be a vision of the Americans of the future, if present trends continue. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-ABoldNewLevelOfStupid.mp4
Today’s Livestream: Millennial Woes
Counter Currents - Mar 30th 2024 1:08pm EDT76 words Today’s livestream will be a solo AMA by the redoubtable Millennial Woes, so put your thinking caps on and get your questions ready. 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 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio Send questions & donations to […]
New Energy and New Projects: Announcing the 2024 Fundraiser — & What We’re Up To Behind the Scenes
Counter Currents - Mar 29th 2024 11:55pm EDT1,482 words Spring is a time of renewal, energy, and strength. Here at Counter-Currents, we have you to thank for our vitality and success. Our annual fundraiser begins every year in March in part because this is the anniversary of the month our enemies tried to destroy us. Fortunately, all of you, our generous supporters, […]
“Few Out of Many Returned”: Theaters of Naval Disaster in Ancient Athens, Part 2
Counter Currents - Mar 29th 2024 1:35pm EDTGeorge Romney, The Ghost of Darius Appearing to Atossa (1778-79) 2,602 words Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here) The Play Written nearly ten years after its subject events, Aeschylus’ drama The Persians was revolutionary, since its Athenian author[1] told the story from the enemy’s point of view; still, the sensibility was Greek. The “dialogue” […]
Black Corruption: Funny Until It Isn’t
Counter Currents - Mar 29th 2024 1:35pm EDTFani Willis (photo courtesy of Wikipedia) 2,443 words Corruption can be funny. This is especially the case when someone is bad at it, because then it ventures into the realm of comedy. Ultimately, however, it isn’t funny. It is the rust that corrodes civilizations. It rewards the lazy, the selfish, the cunning, and it punishes […]
“Few Out of Many Returned”: Theaters of Naval Disaster in Ancient Athens, Part 2
Counter Currents - Mar 29th 2024 9:00am EDTGeorge Romney, The Ghost of Darius Appearing to Atossa (1778-79) 2,602 words Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here) The Play Written nearly ten years after its subject events, Aeschylus’ drama The Persians was revolutionary, since its Athenian author[1] told the story from the enemy’s point of view; still, the sensibility was Greek. The “dialogue” […]
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
Counter Currents - Mar 27th 2024 9:56pm EDT1,923 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 EDTYou 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 […]