For a long time, Left-leaning satirists and comedians have owned funny. Credit it to nepotism or closed doors, but the best humor you could hope for Right-of-center was the occasional libertarian toker or cartoonish redneck self-parody. Blogger Jonathan Chait congratulated the Left for their mastery of satire in a post for The New Republic only a few months ago. (more…)
Month: October 2011
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Translated by Greg Johnson
From the end of the 1930s to the mid-1940s and beyond, I was greatly interested in the personality of the American poet Ezra Pound. I saw a lot of myself reflected in him. Indeed, during the Second World War he was opposed to the government of his country and embraced the cause of Italy and Germany. (more…)
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“The human individual is, at one and the same time, much more and much less than is ordinarily supposed in the West; he is greater by reason of his possibilities of indefinite extension beyond the corporeal modality, . . . but he is also much less since, far from constituting a complete and sufficient being in himself, he is only an exterior manifestation, a fleeting appearance clothing the true being, which in no way affects the essence of the latter in its immutability.” (more…)
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October 31, 2011 Greg Johnson
Counter-Currents Matching Grant Update
Trick or Treat?Since our last update, we have received $451.93 in additional donations, in increments from $13.60 to $100. Because every donation is matched dollar for dollar up to $6,000, that means that we are $903.86 closer to our goal of $25,000. (more…)
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Tomorrow, October 31, Halloween, at 12:00 pm Pacific Standard Time, the Great Pumpkin will rise from the pumpkin patch and bring the first Counter-Currents fundraising campaign to a close. (more…)
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October 30, 2011 Greg Johnson
More Food for Thought
Counter-Currents/North American New Right publishes a FREE monthly electronic Newsletter. It includes information on our web traffic, most popular articles, upcoming books, special offers, etc.
The next letter will go out November 2nd. (more…)
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October 29, 2011 Matt Parrott
Die singende Revolution
Übersetzt von Deep Roots
English original here
The Singing Revolution ist ein Dokumentarfilm über den Kampf der winzigen Ostseenation Estland um Souveränität, einer Nation, die das halbe zwanzigste Jahrhundert im Griff des Sowjetimperiums verbrachte. (more…)
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“A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.” — Ezra Pound
One of the ongoing projects of the North American New Right is the recovery of our tradition. One does not have to go too far back before one discovers that every great European thinker and artist is a “Right Wing extremist” by today’s standards. (more…)
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A student group at the University of Ohio has received praise from the mainstream media for its “We’re a culture, not a costume” campaign. The group is called Students Teaching About Racism in Society. As with all multicultural groups, it is fundamentally a product of the administration, beginning in 1988 as a class. Ohio University also features a multicultural center with no fewer than 31 separate student organizations (including STARS) featured on the site. (more…)
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Recently Counter-Currents contributor Jef Costello published a light-hearted piece entitled “Aryan Cows?,” in which he discussed contemporary hysteria over “Aryan” and “Nazi” cattle.
He also wondered, tongue-in-cheek, “Was Blondie, Hitler’s shepherd, an Aryan dog?” (more…)
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Czech version here
From 1945 through 1958 America’s iconoclastic poet — the flamboyant Ezra Pound, one of the most influential individuals of his generation — was held in a Washington, D.C. mental institution, accused of treason. Pound had merely done what he had always done — spoken his mind. Unfortunately for Pound, however, he had made the error of criticizing the American government in a series of broadcasts from Italy during World War II. (more…)
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We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception.
I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. (more…)