Eric Eugene Washington, who is described by his mother as a fine gentleman despite having been arrested for assaulting the mother of his child a month before trying to hold up a taqueria. 1,680 words The difference between a hero and a vigilante depends on whether you love or hate the person he killed. Around […]
2,262 words If the fraudulent 2020 elections have taught us anything, it’s that if you want to find what a country’s elites are most threatened by, look for what they are trying to suppress. A four-part FOX News report from December 2001 recently resurfaced on YouTube, garnering millions of views. And then, suddenly, it was […]
Carl Cameron 3,129 words This report by FOX News was first broadcast in four parts between December 11 and 14, 2001. We would like to thank Spencer J. Quinn for the transcript. PART 1 BRIT HUME: It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets […]
Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, wants to make sure that Canadian children are fully vaxxed. 1,261 words One would think that here, beyond The Wall, in the primordial snowscape that is the Great White North, we would still be revelling in wind-swept freedom and happiness, hunting caribou across the tundra all while sporting […]
2,121 words As the world continues to convulse in economic and military strife, the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia is unlikely to be topping the thoughts of policy makers or the global public. Yet, sometimes by looking at the small details of world politics we can gain huge insights into the coming macro trends. By […]
Republican Party mastermind Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar, aka Ali Alexander. 2,636 words Ali “Scammy Davis, Jr.” Alexander: Time-Traveling Father of Dragons As a primary architect of the entirely unsuccessful “Stop the Steal” movement and now an alleged strategist for Kanye West’s 2024 presidential ambitions, Ali Alexander squirms and wiggles like a greasy brown salamander to place […]
3,356 words Once again, a deluge of digital detritus washed in on my MS Edge start page. This cybernetic flotsam always gives me such hope for the future of humanity that it warms my flinty little heart. As usual, I just can’t help sharing. Here I’ll give special recognition to blacks, the race that has […]
458 words Anthony Mario Ludovici was born on January 8, 1882. Ludovici was one of the first and most accomplished translators of Nietzsche into English and a leading exponent of Nietzsche’s thought. Ludovici was also an original philosopher in his own right. In nearly forty books, including eight novels, and hundreds of shorter works, Ludovici […]
921 words It is difficult for people to accept harsh realities after exposure to the truth, but at some point, one must embrace the facts of life. Early in life, I was taught by discerning adults that blacks have a different psychology from other races. Though such arguments were intriguing, I viewed them as sweeping […]
1,342 words For media junkies like myself, the blessed week between Christmas and New Year’s should be rehab. It isn’t, of course. We can’t quit the needle. We spend the week watching myriad round-ups of the year that has just left us from around the media globe, as well as the other side of the […]
173 words Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915. A prolific scholar and dazzling stylist, Watts is best known as the chief popularizer of Asian philosophy for the Beat and Hippy movements, but he was also an original thinker in his own right and a quiet man of the Right. In commemoration of […]
1,172 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) In the first part of this essay, we covered the plethora of spending — over $20 billion — for immigrants and immigration-related services which the United States federal government packed into the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill. The bill is a veritable laundry list of programs […]
Albrecht Dürer, Femme battant son mari 1,556 words Women say they want equality — unless you hit them back. In that case, they suddenly become weak, frail, shuddering kittens with no personal agency who must be protected by the all-powerful state from physically superior males. It’s a biological fact — remember biological facts? — that […]
Barricade of the Communard National Guard, Paris, March 18, 1871. 3,377 words Introduction here, Chapter 9 Part 2 here The Revolution of 1789 was itself above all a liberal and bourgeois revolution — even “ultra-liberal,” as the very liberal Gaspard Koenig affirms, not failing to celebrate this. “The French Revolution,” he writes, was at its […]
76 words / 2:26:32 The lads were nursing their hangovers on Nick Jeelvy‘s special hangover edition of The Writers’ Bloc with good friends Pox Populi, Hwitgeard, American Krogan (Substack, Telegram), and Greg Johnson. It was a broad-ranging, free-form discussion on the year that passed and a look ahead at what 2023 is going to be […]
7,071 words Part 3 of 6 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) The following should only be used to supplement the Hare Checklist-Revised, the real way psychologists diagnose psychopaths. It draws heavily on excerpts from interviews with the serial killer Ed Kemper. Kemper is an unusually intelligent psychopath whose IQ was tested at 136 and […]
Juvenal 2,040 words And who will guard the guardians? — Juvenal During my long life, I cannot recall approaching the New Year with a greater sense of apprehension and angst. Looking back over the last several years, 2020 was a tipping point of chaos: COVID lockdowns, George Floyd riots and deification, an Alzheimer’s POTUS, adolescent […]
348 words / 2:11:27 The latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a cozy New Year’s Eve livestream Ask Me Anything hosted by Greg Johnson, and with special guests Tim Murdock (Horus the Avenger), Jim Goad, Sam Dickson, Cyan Quinn, Nick Jeelvy, and Stephen Paul Foster, and it is now available for download and online listening. […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger giving a Roman salute, as well as demonstrating the Covid safety distance. 1,704 words Countless multitudes recently undertook an annual ritual: making New Year’s resolutions. Surely one of the most popular is to begin an exercise program. For regular gym rats, we observe that the January crowding starts to taper off by February. […]
2,202 words Janusz Bugajski Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture Washington, DC: The Jamestown Foundation, 2022 Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture is a sober examination of the Kremlin’s weaknesses and the prospect of Russia’s disintegration in the near future. Bugajski predicts that Russia’s disunity, political corruption, repressive climate, and economic exploitation of […]
4,031 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) II. To Winter Wonderlands The road through the Almond and Raisin Gate led Nutcracker and Marie to Rock Candy Mountain and the Christmas Woods, Bon-Bonville, Marzipan Castle, and Jamburg. Upon crossing Lemonade River, six monkeys in red vests began “playing the most beautiful Turkish military music,” […]
3,527 words First the good news: 2022 is over. Now the bad news: 2023 is just beginning. I am an incurably irascible person who wrote roughly 100 articles for Counter-Currents last year. Poring over them, I hand-picked 22 events that irritated me to the point where I became re-irritated reading about them again. This list […]
1,376 words Three things end today: Our 2022 Fundraiser Our Year-End Clearance Sale (click here to order) Our Free Book Incentive for Joining Our Paywall (click here or scroll down to sign up) Today is the last day of the Counter-Currents 2022 fundraiser. Our goal this year is ambitious: $300,000. But actually the amount is […]
318 words On Saturday, December 31st, Greg Johnson will host a cozy New Year’s Eve livestream AMA with special guests Tim Murdock (Horus the Avenger), Jim Goad, Sam Dickson, Cyan Quinn, Nick Jeelvy, Stephen Paul Foster, Margot Metroland, and the great Kevin MacDonald. The stream will start at noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern Standard Time, 8pm […]
Christmas in Costa Rica. 1,118 words Christmas in Costa Rica was its usual low-key affair. What I like most of all is its simplicity. There are Christmas trees in the courtyards and bunting in the store opposite, but none of the materialistic vulgarity I remember from London. Nicest of all are the children’s toys in […]