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  • A Forgotten Treasure from the 1970s: The Star Wars Holiday Special, Part 2

    Counter Currents - Apr 2nd 2024 9:00am EDT

    How 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 EDT

    Sean “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 […]

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  • 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 EDT

    2,083 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 EDT

    48 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 EDT

    76 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 EDT

    1,482 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 EDT

    George 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 EDT

    Fani 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 EDT

    George 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 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 […]