An update on our fundraiser, the imminent release of the long-awaited Centennial Edition of Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, and Saturday's livestream on the #ZeroSeats campaign in the UK with Morgoth, Mark Collett, and Millennial Woes. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/editors-update-7/
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Editor’s Update
358 words There’s always a lot going on at Counter-Currents, and this week is no exception. 1. Our 2024 Fundraiser This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000 to sustain and expand our work. We had a slow start to the campaign because of debanking, but…
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Coming at the top of the hour on Counter-Currents Radio: Morgoth of Morgoth’s Review, Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative, and Millennial Woes will discuss the #ZeroSeats campaign in the UK, and of course YOUR QUESTIONS.
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Paroled from the Paywall: Steven Clark on two classic adaptations of short stories that reflect aspects of the American spirit: The Scarecrow, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Who Am I This Time?, based on Kurt Vonnegut. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/the-scarecrow-and-who-am-i-this-time/
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The Scarecrow and Who Am I This Time?: The Necessity of Role-Playing
words I was a modest, 20-year old television baby by 1972, and drifted on and off to the newly-minted network, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). It had taken over in 1969 from NET (National Educational Television), and I found myself drawn to it, especially…
Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown,” on the cancellation of and fallout that followed from a high school event featuring a group of lard-assed black women in bikinis dribbling and twerking in the school gym for cash prizes in a basketball competition called “Nuttin’ But Az” in that all-American town of Newark, New Jersey. https://counter-currents.com/2024/06/buttocks-n-basketball-bash-banned-in-blacktown-video/
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Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown
67 words / 8:50 Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Buttocks-‘n’-Basketball Bash Banned in Blacktown,” on the cancellation of and fallout that followed from a high school event featuring a group of lard-assed black women in…
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Paroled from the Paywall: The next lecture in Greg Johnson's series on Plato's Alcibiades I deals with how Socrates inculcates in Alcibiades the wisdom to recognize that it is only by cultivating self-knowledge that one can attain virtue, which is in turn necessary to practice the art of politics well. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/notes-on-platos-alcibiades-i-part-6/
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Notes on Plato’s Alcibiades I, Part 6
2,497 words Part 6 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 7 here) The final part of the Alcibiades I deals with the self and self-knowledge. Most ancient commentators held that this discussion is the core of the dialogue.…
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New writer Ganainm reports on the outcome of the recent local and European parliamentary elections in Poland, and speculates about why anti-immigration candidates fared so poorly despite polls showing widespread support for remigration https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/what-happened-to-the-irish-anti-migration-vote/
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What Happened to the Irish Anti-Migration Vote? A Report on the Irish Local and European Elections
2,021 words Three things tell us there is widespread enthusiasm in Ireland for mass remigration of our foreign guests: 1. Opinion polls before — and after — the elections showing that 80% of voters are of the view that we have already taken in too many foreigners.…
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Jim Goad on Joe Biden's very public cognitive decline, a West Virginia couple who have been accused of keeping black slaves, a German woman who insulted a convicted migrant rapist and was in turn sentenced to more jail time than he received, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/the-worst-week-yet-181/
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The Worst Week Yet: June 23-29, 2024
1,948 words / 14:11 Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline: A Symbol of America’s Deterioration In case you’re one of the three or four people left on the planet without an Internet connection, you’re aware that Joe Biden’s handlers didn’t pump him full of enough…
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A new interview with French New Right thinker Alain de Benoist, who discusses metapolitics, how politics is changing, the current elections in France, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/whoever-runs-culture-always-ends-up-dominating-the-state/
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Whoever Runs Culture Always Ends Up Dominating the State
1,737 words The following interview, which was first published on June 27, is being reprinted with the permission of the interviewer from the blog of the Turkish writer Eren Yesilyurt. Alain de Benoist is a French writer and thinker, one of the leading figures…
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Greg Johnson's series of lectures on Plato's Gorgias continues as Socrates shows that true freedom is not about having power over others, but rather about doing what is best for ourselves — even if we are compelled to do what is best against our will. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/notes-on-platos-gorgias-part-6/
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Notes on Plato’s Gorgias, Part 6: Two Concepts of Freedom
1,702 words Part 6 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 7 here) Socrates the Pugilist After Socrates outlines why he thinks that rhetoric is not an art but rather merely a “knack” for pandering and corrupting, he apologizes…
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Paroled from the Paywall: Jocelynn Cordes on why it only makes sense to celebrate the national achievements of white peoples in the face of so much disdain in today's culture. https://counter-currents.com/2024/05/national-cheerleading-makes-sense-for-some-cultures/
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National Cheerleading Makes Sense for Some Cultures
1,206 words Like many social-media junkies on the Right, I find it incredibly entertaining to read and respond to posts on Twitter/X written by grievance-mongering liberals or delusional Africanists if only because it gives me the opportunity to pounce on…
An essay on the evolution of France's Front National (today National Rally) from its origins as a radical party to its current state by Bruno Mégret, who was formerly one of Jean-Marie Le Pen's top lieutenants, is now being featured in Counter-Currents' Classics Corner. https://counter-currents.com/2017/09/the-front-nationals-evolution/
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The Front National’s Evolution
Translated by Guillaume Durocher Translator’s Note: Bruno Mégret is a senior French civil servant, politician, and former right-hand man of Jean-Marie Le Pen until the notorious party split of 1998. The title is editorial. Is the conflict between Marine…
New writer Edmund Sigurdsson thanks Counter-Currents readers for their support as he is welcoming his first child into the world, and also discusses what fatherhood has taught him about White Nationalism. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/my-little-valentine/
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My Little Valentine
820 words In November of last year, I commented on a fundraising article by David Zsutty titled “Counter-Currents at the Crossroads.” I mentioned that I had just donated for the first time and that my wife was pregnant. I received several congratulatory messages…
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Mark Collett and Morgoth were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the first half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom. The broadcast is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-595-the-upcoming-uk-national-election-with-mark-collett-morgoth/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 595: The Upcoming UK National Election with Mark Collett & Morgoth
112 words / 1:12:32 Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee) were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the first half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom.…
Alain de Benoist is interviewed about this week's French elections, National Rally, and the future of politics in France. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/national-rally-is-not-uniting-the-right-but-absorbing-its-competitors/
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Morris van de Camp on George Van Horn Moseley, an old-stock American and veteran who was one of the first to realize the destructive course that the US was embarking upon in the first half of the twentieth century and undertook political activism to try to stop it. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/a-career-worth-reviewing-part-1/
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A Career Worth Reviewing: The Life of Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley, Part 1
3,231 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Anglo–American whites were dispossessed in their own country in the two decades between 1913 and 1933.[1] The dispossession happened by degrees, and the it mostly went unnoticed. It wasn’t until the lead-up to the Second…
Millennial Woes and Morgoth were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the second half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom as well as other current events, and answered questions from the audience. The broadcast is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-596-the-upcoming-uk-national-election-with-millennial-woes-and-morgoth/
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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 596: The Upcoming UK National Election with Millennial Woes and Morgoth
147 words / 1:21:51 Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee) were Greg Johnson‘s guests on the second half of Counter-Currents Radio‘s most recent broadcast, where they discussed the upcoming national election in the United Kingdom…
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Clarissa Schnabel reviews Sacrificing Liberty, a new documentary miniseries that describes in depth the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, as well as the US government's complicity as well as its attempts to prevent the survivors from telling the truth about what happened. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/a-million-questions-why-sacrificing-liberty/
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A Million Questions Why: Sacrificing Liberty
4,455 words Something that I see being referenced a lot on the dissident Right is the attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War in June 1967 as an ironic statement on the “greatest ally” myth. It’s usually merely a mention: the Liberty. Everybody is…
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Morris van de Camp's biography of Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley concludes with a look at Moseley's attempts to expose Communist and Jewish subversion in America during the 1930s. https://counter-currents.com/2024/07/a-career-worth-reviewing-part-2/
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A Career Worth Reviewing: The Life of Lieutenant General George Van Horn Moseley, Part 2
3,716 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) The Crisis Years The Roaring Twenties ended with a tremendous economic collapse which lasted for more than a decade. But all was not lost. Old-stock American patriots had been able to enact the 1924 Immigration Act, which…
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