Counter-Currents
Author: Morris van de Camp
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4,924 wordsThe lighted pixels never go dark on John Wayne in the TV sphere. In the four decades since his passing, one can turn on a TV set at any time of day or night and there will be a John Wayne film being played on some channel.
When looking at John Wayne’s performances, many critics point out that John Wayne always plays John Wayne. However, he himself said, “That guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. (more…)
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2,005 wordsV. S. Naipaul
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981The further to the political Right one gets, the easier it is to connect with the mentality and ideas of those of a Hindu background while becoming increasingly alienated from the Bible’s Old Testament and its vicious cast of desert-dwelling thieves, murderers, perverts, and swindlers. (more…)
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2,874 wordsIn this dark Kali Yuga, we can take comfort in that we have entered into a Golden Age of the documentary. The four documentaries below do a great deal to explain our modern circumstances, and are worth watching on their own merits.
King Corn
Produced by Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, & Curtis Ellis
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3,033 wordsMadeline Albright
Fascism: A Warning
New York: Harper Collins Publishing, 2018Although many on the Right saw Bill Clinton as the devil incarnate, I’d like to first point out that the Clinton Administration was not entirely evil. Clinton’s first crisis was the Haitian refugee swarm, which he turned back. Clinton also attempted the sort of immigration reform we could get behind[1] (more…)
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Garry Trudeau’s character “Megaphone” Mark Slackmeyer
Garry Trudeau’s character “Megaphone” Mark Slackmeyer
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Mark Rudd
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
New York: HarperCollins e-books, 2009Fans of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury will recognize Mark Rudd as the inspiration behind the character “Megaphone” Mark Slackmeyer. Rudd is a Jewish radical from an upper-middle class background who was one of the founders of a Jewish-led, New Left terrorist group that came to be called The Weather Underground.[1] (more…)
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2,402 wordsJohn Carreyrou
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018White advocates should take a look at a sordid tale that played out in Silicon Valley from 2006 until 2015. The mess centers around a start-up company called Theranos and its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes. Since a main goal of Counter-Currents is to impart wisdom to younger white men, this author felt it was important to write a review on Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou’s book about the matter. (more…)
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3,548 wordsThe Looming Tower (2018)
Produced by Hulu
Based on the 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Creators: Dan Futterman & Alex Gibney
Starring Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard, & Eisa Davis (more…) -
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Spencer J. Quinn
White Like You
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2018James A. Michener, a popular writer of my grandparents’ generation, didn’t publish his first book until he was 39, and this was after he had served as an officer in the US Navy in the Second World War. It seems one needs about four decades of life experience in order to write a decent book. (more…)
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Waco
Developed by John Erick Dowdle & Drew Dowdle
Directed by John Erick Dowdle & Dennie Gordon
Starring Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Sparkes, Rory Culkin, Shea Wigham, Melissa Benoist, John Leguizamo, & Julia Garner
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2,520 wordsThomas P. M. Barnett
The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2004There has never been intellectual output from the America’s political establishment quite as ill-conceived as what we experienced between September 12, 2001, and March 20, 2003; (more…)
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2,304 wordsBlood in the Face (1991)
Anne Bohlen, Kevin Rafferty, James RidgewayThe year 1991 was a turning point in history. The Soviet Union collapsed, and Middle Eastern problems came to the forefront of American consciousness. Most importantly, the ideas of the racially aware political right had become mature and properly positioned to grow. (more…)
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Eli Mosley, caught in the act
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Eli Mosley, caught in the act
Recently, the New York Times claimed to have exposed the exaggerations of military valor of Eli Mosley, an Alt-Right “leader.”[1] Before proceeding further, this author must question exactly how a living military veteran’s record was acquired by a newspaper. According to the website of the National Archives, “Authorized Third Party Requesters, e.g., lawyers, doctors, historians, etc., may submit requests for information from individual records with the veteran’s, or next-of-kin’s, signed and dated authorization. (more…)
