Monthly Archives: October 2012

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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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.

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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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 | Comments closed

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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.”

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 …