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! (more…)
Counter-Currents
Month: October 2012
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October 31, 2012 Greg Johnson
The Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser
Trick or Treat?
$2,697 Remaining on Our Matching Grant -
1,068 wordsI respect Pat Buchanan, but I respectfully disagree with his endorsement of Mitt Romney and his reasons for that endorsement. (more…)
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4,546 wordsPart 1 of 3
1. Introduction
This is the second of two essays on the Germanic cosmology or worldview. (more…)
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October 31, 2012 Ezra Pound
America, Roosevelt, & the Causes of the Present War
5,925 words1944
The main events dealt with in this pamphlet are:
(1) The suppression of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania, A.D. 1750. (more…)
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100 wordsCounter-Currents has republished four of Ezra Pound’s works on economics. These texts were already available online. (more…)
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October 30, 2012 Greg Johnson
The Counter-Currents Summer Fundraiser
Down to the Wire with $2,989 Remaining on Our Matching Grant
545 wordsSince 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! (more…)
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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.
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October 30, 2012 Robinson Jeffers
War-Guilt Trials
75 words(November, 1945)
The mumble-jumble dones on, the hangman waits;
the shabby surviving
Leaders of Germany are to learn that Vae Victis
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1,479 wordsEzra 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. (more…)
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Ezra Pound in the 1920s
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“The earth belongs to the living.”
— Thomas JeffersonDefinitions
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, (more…)
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650 wordsA 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. (more…)
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October 29, 2012 Jack Donovan
The Cycle
1,762 wordsFecundity 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.”
