Art by KEKM8
Art by KEKM8
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The purpose of this article is to clarify a few basic, factual points about what is happening with Trump’s “Muslim ban,” and to pick up the slack where much of the media has continued its sloppy, partisan job of providing coverage.
First of all, a lot of the articles coming out focus on the fact that Iran is supposedly included on the list of banned countries, while Saudi Arabia (for instance) is not. (more…)
Artwork by KEKM8
Artwork by KEKM8
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Many of those who end up exploring the political fringe – particularly on the Right – end up obsessed with various forms of what might loosely be called egocentricity. In those of a libertarian bent, this usually expresses itself as an obsession with contrasting honorable “individualism” against slavish “collectivism.” (more…)
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The ride down the slippery slope never seems to end.
It’s only been a matter of months since the transgender bathroom bill controversy. To recap those events: (more…)
Marc Dutroux, Belgian pedophile, sadist, and serial killer with friends in high places
Marc Dutroux, Belgian pedophile, sadist, and serial killer with friends in high places
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To reiterate a point that should be clear to the more astute reader, my goal in this series (part 1, part 2) has not been to defend “Pizzagate” as such. My goal has been to defend the people who want to investigate it against specific accusations levied against them by people who think Pizzagate has revealed no intriguing information at all—for a specific reason, which I will be honing in and focusing on much more directly in this closing entry. (more…)
Andrew Puzder indicates how much respect he has for American workers
Andrew Puzder indicates how much respect he has for American workers
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One issue that seems to have escaped analysis in this election cycle is the fact that Trump received wide support from American conservatives despite taking a surprisingly “liberal” stance on a wide range of economic issues. While many of Trump’s economic policies come from the Republican playbook, here are a few of the stereotypically “liberal” economic policies Trump has claimed to support: (more…)
Just your ordinary family pizzeria owner James Alefantis (right) of Comet Ping Pong
Just your ordinary family pizzeria owner James Alefantis (right) of Comet Ping Pong
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Any discussion of the plausibility of conspiracies has to start with MK Ultra—one of the most bizarre “conspiracy theories” that turned out, by all official accounts, to be completely and entirely true. MK Ultra was a CIA program that began in the early 1950s and operated at full scale from then until around 1964. The program was reduced in scope in 1964 and then again in 1967 and wasn’t officially put to an end until 1973 [1]—although 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti claimed in 1977 that the CIA’s assurances that it had stopped the program were nothing more than a “cover story.”
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A swell of articles has been released recently informing us that Trump’s list of possible Secretary of State picks keeps growing and changing. Some top names the list has now or previously included: John Bolton, Bush’s Ambassador to the UN and prominent neocon, described by Reason Magazine as “addicted to regime change” (more…)
Heap big hokum at Standing Rock
Heap big hokum at Standing Rock
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, leftists were given the perfect opportunity to up their “tying white guilt narratives to celebration of Thanksgiving” game: Native Americans are getting shot down in the streets because the white man is ruining their water and taking their land again! Yes, I am talking about the Standing Rock Sioux’s protests over the North Dakota Access Pipeline. To be clear, I think it’s entirely legitimate for us to have disagreements about energy policy, the relative environmental safety of the various methods of extracting and transporting oil, and so on and so forth. (more…)
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Just in the last week, we’ve seen two major incidents of “faked” hate crimes make their way into the national media. First, police confirmed that the woman who claimed to have been attacked and to have had her hijab torn off and wallet stolen by white men wearing Trump hats invented the whole account. Second, a Jewish and “white Hispanic” student duo were confirmed to have been behind the spray-painting of racist and homophobic slurs along with the word “Trump” inside their campus chapel. (more…)
Leonardo Da Vinci, Vitruvian Man
Leonardo Da Vinci, Vitruvian Man
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This essay begins my introduction to one of the single most treacherous topics in modern political life.
That topic is essentially a scientific one, rather than a political one—although in order to see this we may have to put some very prevalent philosophical and political misconceptions aside. As such, this series is going to be somewhat more dry in tone than some of my other writing—certainly much more than many of the other essays collected at Counter-Currents. (more…)
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The notion that the Alt-Right is full of hatred and bigotry against Jews is one complaint that is echoed almost equally across both the Left and Right. Even many mainstream conservatives who oppose the Alt-Right but would never agree that the Alt-Right is racist because of its perspectives on race still accuse the Alt-Right of being anti-Semitic because of its perspectives on Jews.
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In recent days, I’ve been hearing an abnormal amount of criticism of Donald Trump for “policies on race relations that basically amount to ‘reinstitute stop and frisk.’” As usual, the statements are being made in a tone that makes it obvious that the speaker considers it simply beyond the pale to question whether or not those stop and frisk policies were doing anything right. (more…)
