Léon Frédéric (1856–1940), "The Ages of the Worker," 1895, central part of a triptych, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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I know of a large German American Catholic family consisting of 22 single-birth children born to one married couple. The “children” are now middle-aged. At a recent reunion, over 100 family members were present. Read more …
World War II Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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“We lose 1000 WW II veterans every day. Take a moment to share your stories.” — Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, tweet, June 6th, 2011
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) is the second novel/movie in the dismayingly popular Millennium Trilogy by the late Swedish communist and feminist Stieg Larsson. It is the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which was recently remade in English directed by David Fincher. Assuming that Hollywood will remake all three Swedish films, we might as well get a sneak preview by taking a look at the Swedish sequels. Read more …
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And now spring comes to the starved and blackened land
where the tailless abominable angel has spent his passion;
dead roots are twined through the bones of a broken hand;
now death, not Schiaparelli, sets the fashion.
In the twentieth century of the Christian era
the news-hawk camera man, no Botticelli,
walks on this stricken earth with Primavera,
and Europe cries from the heart of her hungry belly. Read more …
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Editor’s Note:
A. R. D. Fairburn was born on February 2, 1904. Fairburn was a poet, painter, critic, essayist, and advocate of Social Credit, New Zealand Nationalism, and organic farming. In commemoration,we are publishing the following expanded version of Kerry Bolton’s essay on Fairburn. To read Fairburn’s magnificent poem “Dominion,” click here. Read more …
William Blake, "The Good and Evil Angels," 1795
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Evil is to be conquered by absorption, not by rejection.
I passed my life in one horizon,
locked in the sky’s blue prison.
That blue bubble of the sky
broke, and left me here to die. Read more …
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Editor’s Note:
Due to technical problems with the recording, we have decided it best to release only the transcript of our interview with Andy Nowicki.
Mike Polignano: Welcome to Counter-Currents Radio. We’re joined here today by one of our authors, Andy Nowicki. Read more …
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In the United States, Black History Month — formerly known as “February” — is, unfortunately, not just about history. It is also an occasion for lies and propaganda to stoke black pride in spurious achievements and white guilt over spurious crimes. To combat this propaganda, we have assembled the following articles. Read more …
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Ludovici published the following three-part article on “Hitler and the Third Reich” in The English Review in 1936. Ludovici describes his travels in the Third Reich in his autobiography, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist. Read more …
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The only thing I hate more than watching sports on TV is watching sports movies. And as for baseball, well, I would rather watch the AstroTurf grow. So when I tell you that Moneyball
Rudolf Hess, 1894–1987
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“My coming to England [sic] in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children’s coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.”
—Rudolf Hess to his wife Ilse, June 10, 1941 Read more …
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Andy Nowicki
Under the Nihil
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2011
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Like a hellhound on the heels of his last book, The Doctor and the Heretic, comes snarling in Andy Nowicki’s Into the Nihil (pronounced, as the characters do, as “Nile,” as in Land of the Dead). Read more …
The Fall of Constantinople
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O que é Europa? O que é um europeu?
Do ponto de vista geopolítico e histórico, a Europa é definida por suas fronteiras. O centro, o núcleo europeu, é formado de nações que, ainda que muitas vezes em conflito, tem experimentado uma história comum desde a Alta Idade Média. Read more …
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Lars von Trier’s Melancholia might be a uniquely bleak film. Even for a director who is well known for offering dark and disturbing pictures of humanity, Melancholia expresses a special sort of hopelessness. The film begins with a series of strange, surreal tableaux shot in extreme slow motion. The musical accompaniment is the Tristan und Isolde Prelude. Read more …
Edward Burne-Jones, Angel, stained glass, St. Catherine window at Christchurch Cathedral Oxford
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Two novelists who have published their works at Counter-Currents, Andy Nowicki and Ward Kendall, have recently been interviewed on the Voice of Reason Broadcast Network.
Ernst Jünger and his brother Friedrich Georg Jünger
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English version, Part 1 and Part 2
Ao evocar O Trabalhador, ao mesmo tempo que a primeira versão de Coração Aventureiro, o ensaísta Armin Mohler, Read more …
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Para evitar repetir-me, devo primeiramente pontuar a afirmação que fiz no começo do manifesto Why We Fight [Porque Nós Lutamos]. Agora, vamos resumir, seguindo esta afirmação, algumas sugestões referidas neste manifesto. Por conta de nossa situação sem precedentes históricos, recomendo uma estratégia inspirada por certos líderes revolucionários cujos nomes não necessitam ser mencionados. Read more …
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« Le problème avec nos païens occidentaux modernes, c’est qu’ils ne croient pas vraiment en leurs dieux, ils croient seulement croire en eux. » (Cleary, Summoning the Gods, 21). Read more …
Varg Vikernes
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Depuis les années 1990, l’exportation norvégienne la plus connue a été son Black Metal. Read more …
"Christ Before Pilate," School of Hieronymus Bosch, 16th-Century, Princeton University Art Museum
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Nos adversaires prétendent que le fascisme n’a pas d’arrière-plan historique ni de philosophie, et cet après-midi ma tâche est de suggérer que le fascisme a des racines profondes dans l’histoire et qu’il a été soutenu par quelques-uns des meilleurs élans de l’esprit spéculatif. Read more …
