The Mar a Lago raid is a blunder for the establishment and a win for us no matter what the outcome. It increases polarization. It increases distrust for the establishment. If Trump is not disqualified from running, he will crush everyone in his path and get into the WH. This is the worst case scenario. The best case is that he is disqualified, becomes a martyr, and DeSantis or Tucker rides the wave of vengeance into the White House.

Morris van de Camp's essay "An Aussie Journalist and the Palestinian Rabbit Hole" is now in Arabic. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/an-aussie-journalist-the-palestinian-rabbit-hole-in-arabic/

Frequent Counter-Currents writer Anthony Bavaria was host Nick Jeelvy's guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers' Bloc, where they presented The Best Month Ever, a review of Counter-Currents articles published in July, and it is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-474-anthony-bavaria-brings-the-best-month-ever-on-the-writers-bloc/

James J. O'Meara concludes his epic study of Hunter S. Thompson by speculating on how he might have responded to political events since his death in 2005. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/hunter-s-thompson-the-father-of-fake-news-part-7/

"Weimarican Horror Story," a new satirical poem on the state of America by Tom Zaja. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/weimerican-horror-story/

Greg Johnson's "What is American Nationalism?" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' new Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2018/03/what-is-american-nationalism/

It's important to note that this man, Mohsin Hamid, married a fellow Pakistani and had kids with her, not with a woman of any other race, though he would have had plenty of opportunities. His message of "racial apocalypse" wherein "everyone becomes brown" is directed solely at white people. We should mix ourselves out of existence, but the man telling us to has no intention of doing the same to his own ethnic group.

But it's also important to note that he is a Third Culture Kid. Raised in both America and Pakistan in an upper-middle-class family with a father who was a professor at Stanford, he went to an international school in Pakistan before returning to America for an elite university experience at both Princeton and Harvard. He then worked at a global corporation in New York doing management consultancy. He now holds both Pakistani and British citizenship, yet lives partly in New York. He even describes himself as a "mongrel".

Yet for all that, his novels all seem to have main characters who are Pakistani, his Harvard PhD thesis was about Pakistan, and he married a Pakistani. I don't begrudge him this obvious connection to his homeland, but I deeply resent him trying to persuade my people to submit to racial destruction.

https://t.me/MorgothsReview/3076

Stephen Paul Foster on the rise of obesity in America, and the concurrent rise of a medicalization of morality that makes it impossible to address the problem. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-rise-of-the-bubble-people/

Many of us have been predicting for the last few years that the 2020s will be full of victims of the transgender cult waking up to what has been done to them and deciding to take revenge.

I'm only surprised it has started so soon.

What will be interesting is how this evolves. Will there be broader repercussions for the transgender cult, or will each of these individual cases be kept in isolation, so that the Guardian types will be saying: "yes, we have many individual cases of malfeasance, but it doesn't add up to some big picture of corruption or wickedness! What a terrible thing to say! Are you transphobic...?"

What we need is for this to pulverise the entire transgender cult. It should not be getting promoted in schools, on TV, in adverts, or anywhere.

These massive numbers of people who regret taking part in it should be seen as mass evidence that the thing itself is extremely dangerous and destructive.

The number of people who are genuinely transgender is as tiny as it has always been. Everyone else is an unwitting victim of this cult, which is an evil enterprise that should bring criminal charges upon its practitioners, disgrace upon its media promoters, and shame upon its useful idiot supporters.

Greg Johnson's answer to a question about what someone should do if he or someone he knows is considering suicide has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/contemplating-suicide/

Jim Goad on why the Right shouldn't be so quick to come to Trump's defense in the wake of the FBI raid on his home. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/ask-not-what-theyre-doing-to-trump-ask-what-trump-did-for-you/

Greg Johnson's essay on the concept of whiteness is now being featured in Counter-Currents' new Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2018/07/whiteness/

The MO of the "NRX" is to steal old talking points from the Right, present them as their own, and use them to grift. And to distract uncritical minds.

They never produce original thoughts.

Of course, they only present 80% of the truth. Enough to distract sloppy thinkers, but not enough to form a coherent worldview that threatens the liberal paradigm. Only mediocre, mental masturbation — pseudo-intellectual entertainment within the system.

This is also the method of carnies such as Alex Jones. Enough truth to be interesting, but with enough garbage mixed in to make sure none of it can be taken seriously. Just a modern version of Weekly World News.

Aquilonius on why LARPing causes the Right to become its own worst enemy. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/stop-larping-start-preparing/

This photo got lost in transit so it wasn't shared on Indigenous Peoples' Day, but it's too good not to share now!

A PA Yorkshire activist says "White Lives Matter" 416ft below sea level at the Gulf of Mexico.

Spencer J. Quinn on the memoirs of Ian Smith, the last white Prime Minister of Rhodesia who continued to fervently believe that blacks could rule the country as well as whites even after decades of Robert Mugabe's tyranny. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/ian-smiths-great-betrayal/

Morris van de Camp reviews Bruce Gilley's new book In Defense of German Colonialism, in which Gilley argues that contrary to what most historians have claimed, German colonialism in Africa and Asia was in fact highly beneficial for its subject peoples. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-german-colonial-empire-a-miracle-of-progress/

The broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio with journalist Riley Waggaman, formerly of Press TV and Russia Today and now of the Edward Slavsquat blog, where he discussed the two faces of Russian COVID journalism has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-467-riley-waggaman-on-russian-covid-journalism/

Nicholas R. Jeelvy on how the luxury to walk the streets of a city in flip-flops and earbuds reveals how safe a country is for its citizens. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/flip-flop-nationalism/

Greg Johnson's "Reflections on Carl Schmitt's The Concept of the Political" is now being featured in Counter-Currents' new Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2011/02/reflections-on-carl-schmitts-the-concept-of-the-political/

Kerry Bolton on how the sudden popularity of rock 'n' roll and Elvis in the 1950s was part of a concerted effort by the elites to Africanize white youth. https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/elvis-presley-professor-quigley-the-africanization-of-youth/