Monthly Archives: October 2012

520 words Since our last update, we have received 5 donations totaling $292, which will be matched for a total of $584. Our new grand total is $34,591. Thank you for your generous support! Read more …

Published: October 31, 2012 | Posted in news item | Tagged Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, Greg Johnson, news item | Leave a comment

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White Lies:
Buchanan’s Endorsement of Romney

Matt Parrott

Pat Buchanan on Hardball 1,068 words

I respect Pat Buchanan, but I respectfully disagree with his endorsement of Mitt Romney and his reasons for that endorsement. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged 2012 US Presidential Election, articles, conservatism, Matt Parrott, Mitt Romney, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Buchanan, Republicans | 39 Responses

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The Ninefold, Part 1

Collin Cleary

4,546 words

Part 1 of 3

1. Introduction

This is the second of two essays on the Germanic cosmology or worldview. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Asatru, Collin Cleary, cosmology, Martin Heidegger, North American New Right, originals, paganism, philosophy, poetry, religion | 3 Responses

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America, Roosevelt, & the Causes of the Present War

Ezra Pound

5,925 words

1944

The main events dealt with in this pamphlet are:

(1) The suppression of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania, A.D. 1750. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, banking, economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, Third Way economics, usury, World War II | Leave a comment

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From the Editor
Ezra Pound’s Writings on Economics

Greg Johnson

100 words

Counter-Currents has republished four of Ezra Pound’s works on economics. These texts were already available online. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2012 | Posted in news item | Tagged banking, economics, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, news item, Social Credit, usury | 10 Responses

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The Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser
Down to the Wire with $2,989 Remaining on Our Matching Grant

Greg Johnson

545 words

Since our last update, we have received 7 donations totaling $1,056, which will be matched for a total of $2,112. Our new grand total is $34,007. We thank you all for your generous support! Read more …

Published: October 30, 2012 | Posted in news item | Tagged Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, Greg Johnson, news item | Leave a comment

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Remembering Ezra Pound:
October 30, 1885 to November 1, 1972

Greg Johnson

677 words

“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.

Published: October 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, commemorations, Ezra Pound, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, poetry | 5 Responses

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War-Guilt Trials

Robinson Jeffers

75 words

(November, 1945)

The mumble-jumble dones on, the hangman waits;
the shabby surviving
Leaders of Germany are to learn that Vae Victis
Means Weh den Gesiegten. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ezra Pound, North American New Right, Nuremberg Tribunal, poems, reprints, Robinson Jeffers | Leave a comment

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Ezra Pound:
Protector of the West

Ursus Major

1,479 words

Ezra Pound was arguably the finest American-born poet and a first rate Classical scholar. He happened to be born in Idaho, a state not noted for either its poets or Classicists. It was, however, a center of the American Populist Movement, which pitted the (usually family) farmer against the banks and railroads. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, literature, North American New Right, on Pound, poetry, populism, reprints, Ursus Major | 18 Responses

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Social Credit: An Impact

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound in the 1920s

6,248 words

“The earth belongs to the living.”
— Thomas Jefferson

Definitions

Increment of association: Advantage men get from working together instead of each on his own, e.g., crew that can work a ship whereas the men separately couldn’t sail ships each on his own.

Cultural heritage: Increment of association with all past inventiveness, Read more …

Published: October 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged C. H. Douglas, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, reprints, Social Credit, usury | 6 Responses

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The Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser
Matching Grant Update & New Incentives to Give

Greg Johnson

650 words

A reader asks why our Summer Fundraiser ends on Halloween, rather than on the Autumnal Equinox. Aside from the pragmatic reason that Halloween gives us more time to reach our goal, Hugh MacDonald points out that in Celtic pagan rites, October 31st is the end of the season of light/summer/the harvest. These Celtic rites were later fused with the rites of Roman festivals of Pomona, Lemuria, and Parentalia, and the Christian rites of the evening before All Soul’s Day to create our modern Halloween. Read more …

Published: October 29, 2012 | Posted in news item | Tagged Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, Greg Johnson, news item | 2 Responses

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The Cycle

Jack Donovan

1,762 words

Fecundity Demands a Cruel Balance in Anthony Burgess’ The Wanting Seed

“. . . one could not perhaps, after all, and it was a pity, make art out of that gentle old liberalism. The new books were full of sex and death, perhaps the only materials for a writer.”

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Camille Paglia in Berkeley, October 24, 2012

Greg Johnson

Camille Paglia

595 words

On Wednesday, October 24, 2012, some friends and I met at Jupiter Pizza in Berkeley and then went to see Camille Paglia speaking on her latest book Glittering Images at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

The auditorium was almost packed. Paglia spoke for about 90 minutes, answered one question for about 10 minutes more, then signed books for an hour or so. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art, articles, Camille Paglia, Glittering Images, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, painting, sculpture | 9 Responses

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The Monumental Civic Sculpture of Donald De Lue

Andrew Hamilton

Donald De Lue, Rocket Thrower, 1964

2,236 words

For nearly 50 years between 1940 and 1988, Donald De Lue (1897–1988) may have executed more monumental public commissions than any other sculptor of his generation. An iconoclastic figurative artist in an era dominated by apostles of ugliness in art, art criticism, and academia, De Lue’s monumental sculpture adorns such sites as Valley Forge, the Gettysburg Battlefield, Omaha Beach at Normandy, and the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

Published: October 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Andrew Hamilton, art, articles, Donald De Lue, North American New Right, originals, sculpture | 5 Responses

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The Discrete Wit of Whit Stillman

Andy Nowicki

1,063 words

In a previous life, before I pledged fealty to the art of the written word — a pursuit for which I have subsequently won fame, fortune, and unbounded acclaim — a different calling beckoned for a time. Read more …

Published: October 26, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Andy Nowicki, Barcelona, Metropolitan, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, The Last Days of Disco, WASPs, Whit Stillman | 3 Responses

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Video of the Day
Hugh MacDonald, “An Amateur History of Halloween”

Video of the Day

time: 10:41

Published: October 26, 2012 | Posted in video of the day | Tagged Christianity, commemorations, Eurocentricity, European identity, Halloween, holidays, Hugh MacDonald, paganism, video of the day, videos, white nationalism | 2 Responses

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Lycurgus & the Spartan State

Mark Dyal

3,758 words

Portuguese translation here

“And Theompopus, when a stranger kept saying, as he showed him kindness, that in his own city he was called a lover of Sparta, remarked: ‘My good sir, it were better for thee to be called a lover of thine own city.’” – Plutarch[1]

Just as Mussolini looked to Ancient Rome for the model of a healthy, organic society, the Ancient Romans looked to Sparta. Read more …

Published: October 25, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged ancient Rome, articles, Benito Mussolini, education, eugenics, fascism, Italy, Lycurgus, Mark Dyal, North American New Right, originals, physical fitness, Plutarch, Sparta, warrior ethics | 9 Responses

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Camille Paglia’s Glittering Images

Greg Johnson

2,811 words

Camille Paglia
Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars
New York: Pantheon, 2012

Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990) is the greatest work of art and literary criticism since the days of Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater. It is a work of extraordinary ambition, the most sweeping and synoptic book on Western civilization since Spengler’s Decline of the West. Read more …

Published: October 24, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged art, Arthur Schopenhauer, book reviews, Camille Paglia, Friedrich Nietzsche, Glittering Images, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, Oswald Spengler, painting, philosophy of culture, sculpture, Sexual Personae, sexuality | 37 Responses

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The Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser
$5,925 Remains on Our Matching Grant

Greg Johnson

417 words

Since our last update, we have received 3 donations totaling $452, which will be matched for a total of $904. Our new grand total is $28,135. We thank you all for your generous support! Read more …

Published: October 24, 2012 | Posted in news item | Tagged Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, Greg Johnson, news item | 1 Response

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Atlas Shrugged, Part II

Gregory Hood

2,679 words

There were two other people in the entire theater when I entered. About twenty minutes in, they were kicked out – for sneaking into a showing of Atlas Shrugged Part II. I would conquer this film in the Ayn Rand manner – totally alone.

One has to admire John Aglialoro, the producer of Atlas Shrugged Parts I and II. A successful businessman, these films may be his own John Galt Line. Read more …

Published: October 24, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Atlas Shrugged, Atlas Shrugged Part II, Ayn Rand, conservatism, Gregory Hood, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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From the Editor
Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right is Here!

Greg Johnson

185 words

The paperback of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right arrived at our offices yesterday, and it is beautiful! We have now shipped all paperback orders of Artists of the Right.

If you have not ordered Artists of the Right yet, do so today.

The hardcovers have been printed and are in transit. We should have them next week, and they will be shipped immediately.

Published: October 24, 2012 | Posted in news item | Tagged Artists of the Right, Greg Johnson, news item | 1 Response

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The Stark Truth
Robert Stark Interviews William Daniel Johnson

Counter-Currents Radio

37:49 / 97 words

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The Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser
$6,377 Remains on Our Matching Grant

Greg Johnson

448 words

Since our last update, we have received 4 donations totaling $305, which will be matched for a total of $610. Our new grand total is $27,231. We thank you all for your generous support! Read more …

Published: October 23, 2012 | Posted in news item | Tagged Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, Greg Johnson, news item | 1 Response

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The Empire of the End:
A Brief Introduction to Jean Parvulesco

Anonymous

2,326 words

Jean Parvulesco is not exactly a household name in the West. All of his books remain untranslated from French, in no small part due to the complex, idiosyncratic prose style they contain. Parvulesco is a living mystery of European literature. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Jean Parvulesco, literature, North American New Right, reprints, the occult | 8 Responses

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The Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser
$6,682 Remains on Our Matching Grant

Greg Johnson

510 words

It’s a tradition. This is the second year that Counter-Currents has run a fundraising campaign that starts on June 11, the anniversary of our debut online, and runs until Halloween, when the Great Pumpkin rises from the Pumpkin Patch and brings the season to an end. Read more …

Published: October 22, 2012 | Posted in news item | Tagged Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser, Greg Johnson, news item | Leave a comment

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Attack the System
Interview with Welf Herfurth

Counter-Currents Radio

65:33 / 150 words

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Published: October 22, 2012 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Tagged activism, anti-globalism, Attack the System, Counter-Currents Radio, Keith Preston, national anarchism, podcasts, State vs. Nation, Welf Herfurth | 20 Responses

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Now in Stock!
A Life in the Political Wilderness

Welf Herfurth

Welf Herfurth
A Life in the Political Wilderness
Finis Mundi Press, 2011
240 pages

paperback: $20
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Published: October 22, 2012 | Posted in distributed title, politics | Tagged distributed title, Herfurth book, national anarchism, Welf Herfurth | Leave a comment

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Video of the Day
Camille Paglia on Religion

Video of the Day

time: 18:53

Published: October 22, 2012 | Posted in video of the day | Tagged art, Camille Paglia, education, literature, religion, video of the day, videos | 11 Responses

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Eur Hour
The White Student Union & Politically-Correct Hate Speech

Counter-Currents Radio

70:47 / 47 words

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