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Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on this day in 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration of his birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following resources. (more…)
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“Elements of European Peace”
As with Mosley, Thiriart, and Yockey in their own manners, Strasser sought a new European accord that would eliminate fratricidal wars. (more…)
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One hundred years ago today, on May 18, 1911, Gustav Mahler died in Vienna. Born on July 7, 1860, Mahler is one of the great composers of the late Romantic era, along with such figures as Edward Elgar (1857–1934), Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943).
Mahler is also the only Jewish composer among the first rank of European classical composers. (more…)
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American actress-director-producer Jodie Foster has come under fire for not throwing her friend, Academy Award-winning actor-director Mel Gibson, under the bus. The two have known each other since they met on the set of Maverick (1994).
Gibson has been systematically hounded and maligned since he made the Christian motion picture The Passion of the Christ (2004). (more…)
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Are Jews today responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus two thousand years ago? An ABC News poll indicated that fewer than one in ten Americans believe that they are. Were Jews two thousand years ago responsible for the Crucifixion of Jesus? (more…)
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Gibson Capitulates
Mel Gibson is passionately angry at critics of his upcoming film about the death of Jesus Christ.
In remarks quoted in the New Yorker magazine, he denied “The Passion” is anti-Semitic and accused some of those leading the chorus against the film of being “anti-Christian.” Gibson said he personally has been the target of “vehement anti-Christian sentiment.” (more…)
Translated by Sergio Knipe
Foreword by Michael O’Meara
Artkos Media, 2010
250 pages
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Guillaume Faye was one of the leading advocates of the French New Right in the 1970s and ’80s. (more…)
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French version here
Jared Taylor
White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
Oakton, Va.: New Century Books, 2011
Reading through Jared Taylor’s splendid new book White Identity, I found myself thinking again and again of Allan Bloom’s 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students. (more…)
Franz von Stuck, “War,” c. 1894
Franz von Stuck, “War,” c. 1894
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Translations: Portuguese, Spanish
From the viewpoint of racial nationalism, the musical genre known as Black Metal is one of the most significant popular culture phenomena of the last two decades. Yet it has been seldom discussed by politically congenial scholars and commentators. (more…)
Dean Martin as Matt Helm
Dean Martin as Matt Helm
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One of my guiltier pleasures is the “Matt Helm” films of the 1960s. There were four of these, all produced by Irving Allen and starring Dean Martin as secret agent Matt Helm. The first (The Silencers) appeared in 1966. The story behind these films is an interesting one. In the 1950s Irving Allen was partnered with Albert R. (“Cubby”) Broccoli. Things came to an end, however, when Broccoli announced that he was interested in purchasing the film rights to the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming. (more…)
