Introduction here, Chapter 3 here, Chapter 4 Part 2 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Illusion, threat, wrong turn, and temptation are some of the words that recur most frequently nowadays in public discourse regarding populism. (more…)
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Janez Janša has been one of the main figures in Central European politics since the fall of Communism in the region. He played an active role in winning Slovenia’s independence from Yugoslavia, and has been Prime Minister on three occasions (2004-2008, 2012-2013, and 2020-2022). (more…)
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Mark Gullick is a rarity for Counter-Currents. He is a professional writer and an expert on the English cultural milieu. Mark is mainly interested in current politics, but his interests also include bars, travel, funny stories, philosophy, Tarot, adventure, and professional literature. Let’s get to know him better. (more…)
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Chapter 1 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
In September 2016, a poll revealed that for 85% of Frenchmen the presidential election of May 2017 would be “disappointing” no matter what the result. That figure says it all. The extraordinary distrust of ever larger layers of the population toward the “government parties” and the political class in general, to the benefit of movements of a new type called “populist,” is undoubtedly the most striking fact about the changing political landscape of at least the past two decades. (more…)
Host Greg Johnson welcomed British activist Kate Fanning, a.k.a. Bubba Kate Paris, back to the show to discuss the state of nationalism in the United Kingdom, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Host Greg Johnson welcomed the British activist Kate Fanning, a.k.a. Bubba Kate Paris, on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio for an interview and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Steve Laws, a Briton and a citizen journalist who was arrested by the UK’s Border Force for documenting the ongoing migrant crisis along Britain’s Channel coast.
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It is a political axiom in contemporary Britain that there is no problem that Boris Johnson’s government can’t make worse. The supplementary lemma is: How much of it is intentional? Last week’s farcical events involving supposed flights of illegal immigrants from Britain to Rwanda for asylum application processing look at first glance like government idiocy. I suspect not. (more…)
Peter Zeihan
Dis-United Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2020
About a year ago I ran into one of my old Army buddies. He’d been working a job that dealt with “foreign military sales.” That’s the tricky business of selling the export model of American-made military equipment to an ally without giving away some super-secret hardware, while not allowing said ally to use the equipment against another American ally. (more…)
Beloved British cartoon character Peppa Pig has been unmasked as a horrible racist after being shown doing such unconscionable things as buying fiddles and attending an Irish dancing festival during a trip to Ireland.
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Late to the party
There seems to be a political axiom whereby it is clear that a party or its leaders are in trouble when they start doing things, or at least start talking about doing things, which the majority of people actually want done. Thus, we see Angela Rayner, the blowsy Deputy Shadow Prime Minister, “talking tough” (translated from politico, that means horse-shitting) on crime. Ms. Rayner recently called Tories “scum” on social media. I don’t know where she thinks these mythical Tories are, but they certainly aren’t in the Conservative Party. (more…)
English original here
La révolte contre le mondialisme
D’après la gauche, les peuples du monde sont sur le point de se donner la main et d’entrer ensemble dans un nouvel âge de gouvernement mondial et d’harmonie multiculturelle sous le règne d’élites cosmopolites bienveillantes. Mais il y a eu un petit problème sur la route de l’utopie, c’est-à-dire la montée du national-populisme : le Brexit, Trump, Orbán, Salvini, les Gilets Jaunes, etc. (more…)
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Recently I had dinner with an Englishman who could have stood in as “a good man from the Shire” sort of character on an episode of PBS’ Masterpiece Theater. I raised the question of Brexit: good or bad? His response was very negative. He then went on to describe the many problems of Britain’s exit from the European Union. (more…)
Tamás Fricz is a political scientist and research consultant at Hungary’s Center for Fundamental Rights, which is an institution of Hungary’s ruling party, Fidesz.
I know it is taboo, but somebody has to write down the term (and not necessarily as a deterrent): Huxit. (more…)