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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,
There’s a lot going on at Counter-Currents, so I thought I would combine several announcements into a single post.
The 2024 Fundraiser
We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. (more…)
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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,
There’s a lot going on at Counter-Currents, so I thought I would combine several announcements into a single post.
The 2024 Fundraiser
We started the 2024 Fundraiser at the end of March. (more…)
Donald Trump sat down for an extended interview with Time magazine reporter Eric Cortellessa on April 12 to discuss what a second Trump administration would look like. Two weeks later the pair talked again over the phone, and Time published the story soon after. An example of classic Leftist spin, Cortellessa’s story, with the chilling title “How Far Trump Would Go,” is not worth even a fraction of the 26 minutes Time says it will take to read. (more…)
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Christian evangelicals — or fundamentalists, to be a little less precise — are in the unenviable position of catching flak from both the Left and the Right. There are some points which have already been discussed quite a bit already on our side of it. On the bright side, they tend to have their hearts in the right place, along with some healthy values. Overall they’re good people, despite what the Leftists say about them, except for certain bloviating televangelists who really are that bad. (more…)
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The following essay was written by Serhiy Zaikovsky, a Ukrainian historian, translator, and writer who was one of the founders of the Plomin publishing house. Born in 1994, Zaikovsky also served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was killed in action on March 24, 2022.
The Statesman, Niccolò Machiavelli’s seminal work, was conceived as something that was intended to codify the laws of politics and the mechanisms of the exercise of power that had not yet been expressed by anyone (since antiquity?) and turn them into clear rules that would be understandable to every prince. In the Ukrainian translation by Anatoly Perepadi, the treatise contains 73 pages. (more…)
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One would think that news the FBI has arrested an active US Marine for threatening to go on a shooting rampage against US citizens would be a major news story.
But one would think wrong. As is so often the case, we have ourselves an inconvenient perpetrator and an unprotected target group.
Last Friday at a Marine base in Twentynine Palms, California, federal agents arrested 23-year-old black New Jersey native Joshua Cobb and charged him with transmitting a threat in interstate and foreign commerce. Their case hinges around this social-media post Cobb allegedly wrote on December 17, 2022: (more…)
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation against the city of Rafah has begun in earnest after weeks of deliberation and delays. After driving a captive Palestinian population toward the city, located in Gaza’s south, Palestinian civilians are on the move again. (more…)
Satire is a lesson. Parody is a game. — Vladimir Nabokov
The devil, the proude spirit, cannot endure to be mocked. — Thomas Moore
In 2005, a London production of Christopher Marlowe’s sixteenth-century play Tamburlaine the Great was subject to minor editing by its director. A part of one of the scenes needed to be cut, it was decided — not cut down, but cut out. The scene in question showed the burning of books, one of which was the Koran (which the BBC went through a phase of referring to as “the holy Koran”). (more…)
The second half of the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio continued with the discussion of 1990s British pop culture before moving on to more general topics about politics, current events, and the movement today. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Millennial Woes (official website here), Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), and Travis LeBlanc, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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Everybody has heard of the Oberammergau Passion Play that has been performed almost continuously every ten years since 1634. But there is a lesser-known, even older German folk play: the Drachenstich, or “spearing of the dragon,” in Furth im Wald, a small Bavarian town located near the Czech border. (more…)
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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
The simple answer to the question of how quixotism can be avoided is that we shouldn’t allow romantic idealism to dissuade us from practicality. This is easier said than done, however, as it’s often difficult to recognize quixotism in oneself. (more…)
The team was reminiscing and talking about 1990s British pop culture and what it says about the state of Britain today on the most recent broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. Host Greg Johnson was joined by Brits Millennial Woes (official website here) and Morgoth (Substack, Odysee), as well as Counter-Currents’ resident expert on all things pop, Travis LeBlanc, for a lively discussion, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)
It is a thesis of Das indokrinierte Gehirn that one purpose of the Great Reset is to reduce the individual to a condition in which he no longer believes the evidence of his senses. Owing to his mental exhaustion, he will accept whatever truth is imparted to him provided it is presented by what is seen as legitimate, protective authority. It is the old Orwellian truth that “two and two make five.” (more…)
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In the second part of this series, Socrates shows Alcibiades that he doesn’t know what justice is, so he should not be too eager to get involved in politics before he gets an education. But Alcibiades thinks he’s found a way around Socrates’ argument. Granted, he doesn’t know what justice is. But politics doesn’t really deal with justice (δικαιοσύνη). It deals with the expedient or advantageous (συμφέροντα). (more…)