• Christmas and the Yuletide: Light in the Darkness

    Counter Currents - Dec 25th 2023 9:21am EST

    4,087 words Like many children, some of my most vivid early memories center on the Christmas season. Preparations always began immediately after Thanksgiving. My mother and I would drag the dusty boxes of decorations down from the attic, while my father ascended onto our rooftop to string up the lights. A few weeks later we […]

  • Merry Christmas from the Counter-Currents Team!

    Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2023 4:48pm EST

    463 words This evening and tomorrow, white families around the world will gather in homes, churches, and at parties to celebrate Christmas. In today’s increasingly unhinged world, it is easy to feel cast adrift. Christmas offers us a chance to reconnect with friends, families, and our own identities. Counter-Currents, made possible by our wonderful donors […]

  • Christmas Reading at Counter-Currents

    Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2023 11:58am EST

    354 words The Meaning and History of Christmas Gunnar Alfredsson, “Christmas in the Trenches.” Fullmoon Ancestry, “All I Want for Christmas.” Fullmoon Ancestry, “Christmas Wishes.” Steven Clark, “Christmas Monologue.” Steven Clark, “The Winter Man.” Collin Cleary, “Some Thoughts on Yule.” Jef Costello, “Living in Truth: A Yuletide Homily.” William de Vere, “Autumnal Reflections.” William de […]

  • Holding France at Knifepoint

    Counter Currents - Dec 24th 2023 11:13am EST

    43 words / 10:16 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Holding France at Knifepoint,” on the already terrible and rapidly worsening levels of violent crime perpetrated by migrants in France, in response to which the authorities are doing nothing. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-HoldingFranceAtKnifepoint.mp4

  • Today’s Livestreams

    Counter Currents - Dec 23rd 2023 11:32am EST

    87 words Today on Counter-Currents Radio, Pox Populi welcomes Gearoid Murphy, The Ayatollah, and Frodi Midjord to talk about Christmas traditions and look back at the current year, as well as answer your questions. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern Standard Time, 8pm UK time, and 9pm Central European Time on: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio […]

  • Last Chance to win a Limited Edition Mug or Tote! . . . & Double Your Gift

    Counter Currents - Dec 22nd 2023 10:04pm EST

    559 words We have $3,263.95 to go to reach our $10,000 Christmas Match! Will you help push us over the edge? This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to fund our operations for 2024. So far, we have raised $168,693.05. Gifts between now and Christmas Day will go twice as far. Here are some ways you […]

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  • Carnival of Fury

    Counter Currents - Dec 22nd 2023 12:57pm EST

    2,920 words Virtually all whites in the South, including New Orleanians, were absolutely convinced that the mass of Negroes were innately inferior mentally and morally to most whites, and were perhaps even more certain that wherever two disparate races occupied the same soil one race must rule the other. —William Ivy Hair, Carnival of Fury […]

  • Anti-Semitism and the Need for Pretending

    Counter Currents - Dec 21st 2023 2:20pm EST

    2,054 words Oh-oh, yes, I’m the great pretender Pretending that I’m doing well My need is such, I pretend too much . . . — The Platters, “The Great Pretender” Who is pretending that the United States of America has any resemblance to what this country once looked and felt like?The “states” are not “united.” […]

  • Holding France at Knifepoint

    Counter Currents - Dec 21st 2023 1:33pm EST

    1,472 words / 10:09 Last week at a grade school in France, a 12-year-old girl attempted to stab her teacher. Other schoolchildren say she told them she was planning a copycat stabbing in honor of a 20-year-old Chechen named Mohamed who’d shouted “Allahu Akbar!” while stabbing his former teacher to death at another school in […]

  • The End of the Optics War

    Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2023 10:38pm EST

    2,868 words I haven’t talked about movement drama in a while. That’s because there hasn’t been much drama in a while. But when it rains, it pours. Over the last month, there has been a series of scandals and controversies that kept the conversations lively around the White Nationalist water cooler. Among them: Eric Striker […]

  • We, the Blood Bladder: America as Feeding Trough for Lampreys

    Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2023 2:54pm EST

    1,127 words I am communing in my office with a sufficiency of Wild Turkey, the whiskey of the great Hunter Thompson. With its help I think curmudgeonly thoughts about America, which is over, done, surrounded by feeding leeches, ticks, hag fish, lampreys, and corporations. And Joe Biden. I find this deeply satisfying. Here you have […]

  • A Black Nationalist on the Jewish Question

    Counter Currents - Dec 20th 2023 1:19pm EST

    2,522 words Ayo H. Kimathi Jews are the Problem, second edition Crestview, Fla.: Money Tree Publishing, 2023 Ayo H. Kimathi received considerable scorn in the mainstream media for his Black Nationalist racial activism while working as a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2013. At the time, he was making many anti-white […]

  • The Guy Who Used a Fire Extinguisher on a Hanukkiah: Who Is Grzegorz Braun?

    Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2023 3:45pm EST

    Grzegorz Braun 1,552 words Now there is a Pole memed round the world . . . On the December 12, 2023, Polish MP Grzegorz Braun used a fire extinguisher to put out the lights on a hanukkiah (incorrectly referred to as a menorah in most reports) in the Polish Parliament. The questions everyone on the […]

  • Who Killed Isolde Yockey?

    Counter Currents - Dec 19th 2023 12:58pm EST

    Isolde Yockey, circa 1967 1,200 words One of America’s oldest missing-person mysteries was solved this past July in Texas. DNA tests identified the remains of a woman who’d been murdered in Colorado County, Texas, most likely in 1975. The dead woman had a sister, the sister finally came forward, and forensics found a match. The […]

  • The Worst Week Yet: December 10-16, 2023

    Counter Currents - Dec 18th 2023 12:45pm EST

    Michelle Wu 2,329 words Boston’s Slant-Eyed Mayor Refuses to Apologize for Hosting a No-Whites-Allowed Christmas Party When the unlovely little twig of a woman named Michelle Wu was first elected as Boston’s first non-white, non-male mayor two years ago, people were griping that she wasn’t black. But the night she was elected, she strode defiantly […]

  • The Punk Rock Roots of Punching Nazis

    Counter Currents - Dec 17th 2023 11:09am EST

    43 words / 12:50 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “The Punk Rock Roots of Punching Nazis,” on how punk went from toying with Nazi imagery to becoming intensely anti-fascist — and becoming a lot less interesting in the process. See below. https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/videos/Goad-ThePunkRockRootsOfPunchingNazis.mp4

  • White-Papers Policy Institute

    Counter Currents - Dec 16th 2023 12:45pm EST

    60 words Today on Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson and David Zsutty welcome James and Cyan from White-Papers Policy Institute to talk about White Papers (Telegram, Substack) plus, of course, your questions. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern Standard Time, 8pm UK time, and 9pm Central European Time on: Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents Send […]

  • An Ideological Foundation for the Vibe Right

    Counter Currents - Dec 15th 2023 11:38pm EST

    Still from a viral social media video made from one of Jonathan Bowden’s speeches, made by possible by our Jonathan Bowden Archive. 520 words Help us hit our new $10,000 match goal! We are pleased to announce that Counter-Currents has been given a $10,000 matching grant offer between now and Christmas. This generous giver emphasizes […]

  • Hitler the Peacemaker: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War, Part 5

    Counter Currents - Dec 15th 2023 12:15pm EST

    Hitler issuing his declaration of war against Poland in the Reichstag on September 1, 1939. 2,746 words Part 5 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 4 here) A German war with Poland was now a certainty, but a new continental war involving Britain and France was not. The most important obstacle to the widening of […]

  • Senses Working Overtime: Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy

    Counter Currents - Dec 15th 2023 11:13am EST

    Bertrand Russell 1,927 words We do not regard any of the senses as wisdom, yet surely these give the most authoritative knowledge of particulars. — Aristotle, Metaphysics And it’s 1-2-3-4-5 Senses working overtime. — XTC, “Senses Working Overtime” The philosopher has a defining trait which, although he shares it with other disciplines, was the first […]

  • Victor Davis Hanson and the Claremont Gang

    Counter Currents - Dec 14th 2023 2:05pm EST

    Victor Davis Hanson 3,048 words I have “conservative” friends and family members who enthuse over the political commentary of Victor Davis Hanson. His columns appear on American Greatness (AG), where its writers regularly huff and puff against liberals and Leftists. At first glance, what’s not to like about this fifth-generation Californian of Swedish and Welsh […]

  • The Punk Rock Roots of Punching Nazis

    Counter Currents - Dec 14th 2023 1:09pm EST

    1,946 words / 12:43 Blacks make up nearly a third of United States postal workers, and I don’t care if someone tries to punch me for suspecting that this is one of the main reasons our postal service is going to hell. I make part of my living by selling my books through the mail, […]

  • Beavis and Butthead Solve the Middle East Crisis

    Counter Currents - Dec 13th 2023 10:35pm EST

    1,408 words Rainbow Albrecht Space Vixen Trek Episode XIII: The Final Falafel Smashwords, 2015 “Must you overly-nostalgic Judeans revive every old custom around here?” Tired and depressed by what’s happening — again — in the Middle East? Wish someone would Make the Holy Land Fun Again?[1] Counter-Currents’ own Beau Albrecht has what you need! Are […]

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  • Ba’athism and Saddam Hussein: A System that Worked, Part 1

    Counter Currents - Dec 13th 2023 11:34am EST

    Saddam Hussein was captured on December 13, 2003. Things have not gone well for Americans in the two decades since. 2,835 words Part 1 of 2 It’s been 20 years since the United States military captured Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi dictator was captured by the American 4th Infantry Division along with commandos from a special […]

  • Hitler the Peacemaker: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War, Part 3

    Counter Currents - Dec 13th 2023 10:34am EST

    Joseph Stalin and Joachim von Ribbentrop during the signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact on August 23, 1939. 1,852 words Part 3 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) By August 1939, everyone understood that a war between Germany and Poland was extremely probable. The great question was whether it might still be prevented […]