Editor’s Update

Posted By Greg Johnson On In North American New Right | Comments Disabled
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1. VDARE Closes

When I first became a White Nationalist, I took an intense interest in immigration reform. I rapidly found my way to VDare.com, which was then a relatively new website. It immediately became one of the websites I would read every day. Thus I was very sad to learn that VDare is shutting down after 25 years due to legal harassment from the state of New York.

I understand why Peter and Lydia Brimelow, as well as their writers and supporters, feel that this is a very personal defeat. Their organization has been destroyed. There’s no question that this is a defeat for our movement and a victory for the forces of wokeness. However, there are things that we can do to make their victory a hollow one and take some of the sting out of the defeat.

VDARE was an institution and a brand. Those are important. But even more important is the purpose they served: to bring together writers to support pro-white immigration reform in America. VDARE is gone. But the cause is still there. The writers are still there. The readers and donors are still there. If everyone involved in VDare continues the fight on other platforms, then this was a hollow victory. I will do everything I can to make that possible.

Peter Brimelow told me that this closure was coming months ago, and we discussed some ways that Counter-Currents can help mitigate the blow.

Why did VDARE shut down? Because they had spent more than a million dollars donated to promote immigration reform on legal bills, with no end in sight and no clear prospect of gaining any sort of precedent that might stop such lawfare in the future. To put that in perspective, that is more than three times the annual operating budget of Counter-Currents. And that does not include the countless hours the Brimelows themselves put into dealing with lawfare. At a certain point, it became clear that fighting to maintain the VDARE institution and brand was no longer serving the greater cause. They made the right decision.

Shutting down VDARE frees the Brimelows to get back in the fight. I have urged Peter Brimelow to keep writing. But even if he decides to retire to spend more time with his family, he’s earned it. After all, he’s 76. If none of this had happened, and he had chosen to retire at 76, would that have been a “defeat” for the movement? No, we’d feel lucky he devoted so much time to us for so long and thank him for his service. Everyone’s time is limited. Death or retirement are in the nature of things. They of course interrupt our work, but they are defeats only if nobody takes our places and the cause suffers a permanent setback. The same is true of an institution like VDARE.

Another way we can make this a hollow victory is to learn from it. You can be assured that all of us are studying what happened to VDARE very carefully, with an eye to learning how to fortify our institutions from such attacks in the future. (Lydia Brimelow’s summary [4] of all the ways VDARE managed constant deplatforming attacks will give other and new institutions a roadmap to fortify themselves for the future.)

I want to thank Peter Brimelow, Lydia Brimelow, and all of VDARE’s writers for what they have contributed to American immigration patriotism over the years. Once this depressing interlude is behind them, I hope all of them will be back in the fight with renewed vigor.

2. PoliticAll.com 

I wish to recommend PoliticAll.com [5] to my friends and readers in Europe. PoliticAll is a social networking and blogging platform for the politically engaged. The site is attractive, useful, and, most importantly, committed to freedom of speech and thought.

3. The No Thanks App

Every time you buy a product, you might be unknowingly contributing to Israeli occupation, genocide, and global meddling, most especially in American politics. How can you be sure? Get the No Thanks Boycott App [6]. Download it onto your phone. Whenever you are in doubt about a product, just scan the barcode, and the No Thanks app will let you know if the product supports Zionist mischief. You’ll save money and accumulate less bad karma at the same time!

4. The 2024 Fundraiser

Our annual fundraiser is chugging along. This year, Counter-Currents is raising $300,000. Thus far we have received $92,098.55, so we are close to a third of the way to our goal. And remember: half of all fundraising happens in the last quarter of the year! This means that if we get to $150,000 by the end of September, we will be very likely to reach our annual goal. Our deepest thanks to everyone who helped out.

5. The Counter-Currents Book Club livestream on Saturday, July 27th

The next episode of the Counter-Currents Book Club is on Derek Hawthorne’s new book Being and “The Birds.” [2] Greg Johnson welcomes author Derek Hawthorne as well as Martin Lichtmesz and James O’Meara to discuss the book.

Join us at noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern/9 PM Central European Time on:

Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents/ccradio [7]

DLive: https://dlive.tv/Counter-Currents [8]

Send questions & donations to Entropy: entropystream.live/countercurrents [9]

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Greg Johnson
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