Tag: Clarissa Schnabel

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Ysselsteyn War Cemetery. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

I have contemplated writing about this for a while now. “What’s the point?” I thought to myself. “We all know the drill.” But it continues to rankle. Which, I guess, was exactly the purpose. (more…)

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Perspectives change in the weirdest ways. Who would have thought a mere week ago that I would find myself defending Klaus Schwab? Certainly not me. (more…)

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Perhaps you know the saying: Pessimists always claim to be realists. Well, in my experience, pessimism more often than not is realism. (more…)

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Connor Boyack
The Tuttle Twins and the Days of Darkness
Libertas Press, 2023

The Tuttle Twins is a series for young readers that focuses on teaching kids civics, economics, and politics. In so doing, it also goes into theories and solutions outside the mainstream. (more…)

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Monika Schaefer

Monika Schaefer
Sorry Mom, I Was Wrong About the Holocaust
The Barnes Review, 2022

This is a book that probably needs no introduction; but as it is scheduled to be released in a German-language translation by publishing house Der Schelm in the fall/winter of 2024, I thought it was appropriate to write a review. (Der Schelm, by the way, has also published German versions of most of Savitri Devi’s books, complete with photographs of the persons and places she wrote about.) (more…)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Damsel of the Sanct Grael (1874)

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Clarissa Schnabel has been writing for Counter-Currents for over a year now on a wide range of subjects. I enjoy reading her articles and find them refreshing. In our interview we discussed topics such as German guilt; the New Right; her favorite writer, Savitri Devi; Architektur-Rebellion; activism; the New German Wave in film; nationalist literary fiction; spiritual experiences; prophecy; and many others.

Ondrej Mann: Could you introduce yourself?

Clarissa Schnabel: I’m originally from a small town called Uslar in the beautiful Solling region of Lower Saxony. (more…)

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Something that I see being referenced a lot on the dissident Right is the attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War in June 1967 as an ironic statement on the “greatest ally” myth. It’s usually merely a mention: the Liberty. Everybody is simply expected to know what it is all about.

I find that there are a number of misconceptions floating around, stemming from outdated information and speculation on the part of the survivors themselves. “Israel attacked our ship, and then Lyndon Johnson hushed it up.” Well, that’s the very basic of basics. (more…)

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For many years now I’ve been a member of a gaming group — the old-fashioned, offline kind. We started out with fantasy and horror role-playing games and have over time moved on to board and card games. The group itself has seen members come and go, but our hard core of five has persevered over the years. We mainly play cooperatively; that is, us against the game. (more…)

The CSU/CDU alliance, of which European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen is a prominent member, handily dominated the EU elections in Germany. (Image source: The European Parliament’s Flickr page.)

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As we use to say around here, after the famous book title: Im Westen nichts Neues. That’s “Nothing new to report from the West,” but you might know it as All Quiet on the Western Front. (Whoever thought that this was a fitting translation?)

It’s not that there’s nothing new to report, but it’s mainly unspectacular. Everything went exactly as expected with the European Union elections. The only big surprise was Macron’s decision to hold new national elections in France as a result of the voters’ obvious disapproval of the current government’s politics. You have to give it to the French: They don’t do anything by halves. (more…)

Congressman Francis Case (R-South Dakota), 1937-51. Later a US Senator. (Official portrait from Wikipedia)

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One of the most fascinating documents I’ve read in recent months is the proudly-titled “Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. Eighteenth Congress. First session on the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1947.”

The so-called Subcommittee on Deficiencies consisted of Chairman John Taber (New York), Clarence Cannon (Missouri), Francis Case (South Dakota), Albert J. Engel (Michigan), Frank B. Keefe (Wisconsin), John H. Kerr (North Carolina), George H. Mahon (Texas), Karl Stefan (Nebraska), and Richard B. Wigglesworth (Massachusetts), and it was tasked with the eternal job of governments everywhere: Finding out where the money went and how to get some more. (more…)

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

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Everybody has heard of the Oberammergau Passion Play that has been performed almost continuously every ten years since 1634. But there is a lesser-known, even older German folk play: the Drachenstich, or “spearing of the dragon,” in Furth im Wald, a small Bavarian town located near the Czech border. (more…)

Tereska Torrès, the actual author of Anne Frank’s diary? (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

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For [the Polish Jews], there is only one solution to the Jewish question in the world, and that is their own country. They don’t want a host country, however good it may be. They want to be a normal nation among the others, because up to now the world has not understood that there is “neither Greek nor Jew,” but only human beings, all equal in their misfortunes, their weaknesses, and greatnesses, all capable of the same horror as of the same heroic deeds, because up to now the world has entrenched itself behind numerous groups, which are becoming more and more numerous, each one enclosing itself twice over, living in mistrust and doubt against its neighbor. (more…)

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I made a resolution several months ago that I would, to the best of my abilities, write mostly about positive, constructive things. “Mostly,” because there will always be not-so-positive things worth writing about. But I would like my main focus to be on uplifting topics and ideas, not on those that drag us down. There’s plenty of that going around.

I believe in the power of thought, whether you understand it in a self-help sort of way (“manifest your intentions”), or, like me, in a spiritual sense. If you only ever define yourself by what you are against, not what you are for, you will never be able to create. (more…)