Alex Graham on the rise and fall of brass bands in Britain, a once-universal form of implicitly white popular music whose existence is now being threatened by the rise of other forms of pop culture. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/the-british-brass-band/
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The British Brass Band | Counter-Currents
2,006 words Trevor Herbert, ed. The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 The brass band was central to British musical life for over a century. The brass band movement arose in the 1840s thanks to the invention…
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It's also ironic that the most powerful people in the world dedicate a large portion of their resources trying to control what unpowerful people think is true.
If truth doesn't matter, what are they hoping to avoid by preventing people from knowing it?
If truth doesn't matter, what are they hoping to avoid by preventing people from knowing it?
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Mark Gullick on John Foxx and Ultravox!, the pioneering electropop band of the 1970s. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/the-quiet-man-john-foxxs-ultravox/
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The Quiet Man: John Foxx’s Ultravox! | Counter-Currents
2,632 words Listening, they were listening. -- John Foxx, The Quiet Men Ultravox! were a band out of time. -- My brother Genres in music, like genders elsewhere, keep multiplying. But there is one which seems particular to England: art-rock. Founder members…
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An excerpt from Jean-Marie Le Pen's autobiography about how Charles De Gaulle betrayed France in the Algerian War is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/charles-de-gaulle-a-valka-v-alzirsku/
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Charles de Gaulle a válka v Alžírsku | Counter-Currents
1.303 slov English original here Poznámka Guillaume Durochera, překladatele z francouzštiny: Text je výňatkem ze závěrečné kapitoly knihy Jean-Marie Le Pena Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), s. 396-398. [Občanská válka mezi gaullisty a jejich…
The first part of Savitri Devi's friend Muriel Gantry's "curriculum vitae," covering the early years of her life in early twentieth-century England, has been published. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/curriculum-vitae-of-muriel-gantry-part-1/
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Curriculum Vitae of Muriel Gantry, Part 1 | Counter-Currents
3,116 words Part 1 of 5 (Part 2 here) Editor's Note: The following text is an unpublished "curriculum vitae" by Muriel Gantry (1913–2000), which she prepared in 1995 for Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, who was then writing a biography of her friend Savitri Devi.…
Jim Goad on why we should perhaps not be so eager to applaud the much-vaunted new prison for gang members in El Salvador, which many are proclaiming to be a model solution for rising crime rates. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/40000-brown-sardines-packed-into-one-prison/
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40,000 Brown Sardines Packed Into One Prison | Counter-Currents
1,502 words Last week, striking footage emerged of about 2,000 heavily tattooed Salvadoran inmates, their heads shaved and bowed, wearing nothing but white boxer shorts and packed together like sardines while being herded at gunpoint to a spanking-new prison…
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Nicholas R. Jeelvy reviews The Banshees of Inisherin, a 2022 film about conflict between friends in a small Irish town set against the backdrop of the Irish Civil War. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/the-banshees-of-inisherin-2/
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The Banshees of Inisherin | Counter-Currents
1,513 words I have a rule about films: I don’t watch any made after 2008, which I consider to be the last year in which good films were made. Sometimes, however, my rule can be wrong and I’ll make an exception. I’m pleased to report that my rule was wrong…
The transcripts and translations of a previously-unpublished exchange of letters between the Swiss neo-fascist Gaston-Armand Amaudruz and Julius Evola from 1958, mostly focusing on Evola's criticisms of the biological conception of race, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/correspondence-between-gaston-armand-amaudruz-julius-evola/
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Correspondence between Gaston-Armand Amaudruz & Julius Evola
6,175 words A previously unpublished exchange of letters between the Swiss neo-fascist activist Gaston-Armand Amaudruz and Julius Evola from 1958 was recently discovered among the former’s papers (scans of the original letters can be found here). Mr. Amaudruz…
The second part of Savitri Devi's friend Muriel Gantry's "curriculum vitae," covering her life in the theater in wartime London, has been published. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/curriculum-vitae-of-muriel-gantry-part-2/
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Curriculum Vitae of Muriel Gantry, Part 2 | Counter-Currents
2,703 words Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) I went to Maidenhead; it was probably safe, not far from London, and Ivor Novello lived there. Since autumn 1937, when he opened in London with his third Drury Lane musical Crest of the Wave, I had seen him…
Dr. Roger Pearson, a lifelong hardworking white advocate who gave us nearly a century of service, passed away on February 23 at the age of 95. Dr. Pearson lived an extraordinary life that included volunteering in the British Indian Army, serving as Chairman of the World Anti-Communist League and as President of University Professors for Academic Order, and publishing the groundbreaking racialist journal Mankind Quarterly. The following is a transcript of remarks Dr. Pearson made last year, summarizing his life and work. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/dr-roger-pearson-on-his-life-work/
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Dr. Roger Pearson on His Life & Work
3,021 words Dr. Roger Pearson, a lifelong hardworking white advocate who gave us nearly a century of service, passed away on February 23 at the age of 95. Dr. Pearson lived an extraordinary life that included volunteering in the British Indian Army, serving…
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Margot Metroland's review of Personality and Power by the esteemed British historian Ian Kershaw, which is an examination of prominent personalities who shaped European history in the twentieth century, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/ian-kershaws-personality-power/
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Ian Kershaw’s Personality & Power | Counter-Currents
3,355 words Ian Kershaw Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe New York: Penguin Press, 2022 This book caught my eye when it came out a few months ago because its format reminded me of Standardbearers: British Roots of the New…
Spencer J. Quinn offers a questionnaire you can fill out to determine if you have what it takes to be a dissident Rightist. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-a-dissident/
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Do You Have What It Takes to be a Dissident?
1,133 words The easiest thing a dissident can do is screw up. When choosing this dangerous path, a dissident faces numerous obstacles and pitfalls and becomes an easy target for his well-funded and organized enemies. Dissidents are, in a way, intellectual…
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David Lewis offers some simple financial tips for dissident Rightists for how they can improve their lifestyles while hurting our enemies. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/personal-finance-tips-for-dissidents/
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Personal Finance Tips for Dissidents
2,878 words Many of us on the dissident Right are eager for action. We see the myriad ways our enemies conspire to destroy us — psychologically, financially, and even physically — and we feel a growing need to fight back. Metapolitics and online analysis…
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Ondrej Mann interviews Alexander Deptolla, a longtime German nationalist activist who organizes the Kampf der Nibelungen martial arts event, on his activities and about the situation of nationalists in Germany more generally. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/survival-of-the-fittest-interview-with-alexander-deptolla-of-kampf-der-nibelungen/
The audio and transcript of Bowden’s lecture “Tragedy, Horror, and the Transcendent,” also known as “Western Civilization: A Bullet Through Steel,” which he gave to the Isles of the North Atlantic (IONA) group in November 2011 has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/tragedy-horror-and-the-transcendent/
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Tragedy, Horror, and the Transcendent
7,500 words / 49:12 Editor’s Note: The following text is Michael Polignano’s transcription of Jonathan Bowden’s lecture “Western Civilization: A Bullet through Steel,” given in London on November 5, 2011, at the third meeting of the Isles of the North Atlantic…
This Saturday on Counter-Currents Radio:
https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/this-weekends-livestream-cyan-quinn-on-cpac-project-veritas-jan-6-east-palestine/
https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/this-weekends-livestream-cyan-quinn-on-cpac-project-veritas-jan-6-east-palestine/
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This Weekend’s Livestream Cyan Quinn on CPAC, Project Veritas, Jan. 6, & East Palestine
272 words On Saturday, March 11th, Greg Johnson welcomes Cyan Quinn back to Counter-Currents Radio to discuss such Current Things as CPAC, Project Veritas, the truth about January 6th, East Palestine, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS. The stream will start at…
The third part of Savitri Devi's friend Muriel Gantry's "curriculum vitae," describing her life in wartime London, has been published. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/curriculum-vitae-of-muriel-gantry-part-3/
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Curriculum Vitae of Muriel Gantry, Part 3 | Counter-Currents
789 words Part 3 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here) I decided to return to London and chance the bombs; things were quiet enough. An agent in Bow Street handed me the keys of two rooms in Drury Lane. 180 Drury Lane is still there; its six two-room…
James Dunphy's essay introducing and presenting a text by the American pioneering eugenicist Paul Popenoe on the role that religion plays in eugenics has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/religion-eugenics/
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Religion & Eugenics | Counter-Currents
3,778 words Foreword James Dunphy Paul Popenoe (1888-1979) was a leading figure in the American eugenics movement, publishing his book Applied Eugenics in 1918. The following chapter, “Religion and Eugenics,” is taken from it. After writing Applied Eugenics…
The complete PDF of Bowden’s novel Apocalypse TV has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2007_Apocalypse-TV.pdf
Coming at the top of the hour: Counter-Currents Radio with Cyan Quinn on CPAC, Project Veritas, January 6, and East Palestine. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/this-weekends-livestream-cyan-quinn-on-cpac-project-veritas-jan-6-east-palestine/
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This Weekend’s Livestream Cyan Quinn on CPAC, Project Veritas, Jan. 6, & East Palestine
272 words On Saturday, March 11th, Greg Johnson welcomes Cyan Quinn back to Counter-Currents Radio to discuss such Current Things as CPAC, Project Veritas, the truth about January 6th, East Palestine, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS. The stream will start at…