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Australian nationalist activist Blair Cottrell was Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the most recent broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc where they discussed the phenomenon of pharmacology and its origins, as well as answer your questions, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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As a man who has far more historical perspective than most people merely by dint of the fact that I’m much older than most people, I’m startled by how drastically public attitudes have changed toward alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana since I was a beardless, clueless, and curious youth in the 1960s. (more…)
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The following essay originally appeared in the January 1992 issue of George P. Dietz’s Liberty Bell magazine, and is reprinted from the Revilo P. Oliver online archive. (more…)
Hunter passed out drunk while covering an event as a journalist circa 1960.
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Part 3 of 7 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)
3. Gonzo: What Happened? — Decline and Fall of Gonzo
As Thompson charts Hemingway’s road from literary brilliance to failure and suicide, he maps out his own path for the future. (more…)
A screen grab from one of Chinese filmmaker Lu Ke’s Jokes About Black People videos.
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I have seen the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by pills intended to cure their sadness. (more…)
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Frequent Counter-Currents writer Stephen Paul Foster was host Nick Jeelvy‘s honored guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where they discussed The Best Month Ever — a selection of particularly interesting Counter-Currents articles published in May 2022. (more…)
Seven Spotted Lady Bird Beetle by Robert N. Taylor
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The following is an excerpt from Robert N. Taylor’s upcoming book Psychonautica, as mentioned in the interview with him published at Counter-Currents last week.
“DOM appeared on the streets in the 1960s under the name of STP and it proved to be for quite a while my hair shirt or, as Albert Hofmann would say later about his discovery, LSD, my problem child.” — Alexander Shulgin, Pihkal, a Chemical Love Story (more…)
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Tucked away into a plandemic relief act, there was an appropriation included toward substance abuse harm reduction programs, with the modest title Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) No. SP-22-001. The total aid toward that was $30 million — not such a big deal in terms of major government programs, such as a typical spit-in-your-eye war. Given the number of American adults who pay income tax, this means the average working stiff will fork over about 20 cents for it. (more…)
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“I used to do drugs in a dumpster behind a pet supply store with my dog every single night, but I turned it all around, thanks to this book.” — Totally real testimonal
Owen Cyclops
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Owen Cyclops Illustration, 2021
Possibly the most prominent visual artist on the Dissident Right today is a young man who goes by the name of Owen Cyclops. (more…)
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Nick Jeelvy was joined by Counter-Currents writer Mark Gullick PhD, OMIC to discuss the United Kingdom in the 1970s and ’80s as he remembers it, with a special focus on music of that period, on the latest episode of The Writers’ Bloc, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Fishtown, Philadelphia in 2019.
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The corner of Kensington and Allegheny Avenues — known colloquially as “K&A” — is the Hollywood and Vine of poor-white Philadelphia. K&A is also a major subway stop on the Market-Frankford subway line that runs eastward from K&A all the way up into Northeast Philly, also known (for reasons that should be obvious) as “The Great White Northeast.” An elevated line throughout that part of town, the train runs westward and then tunnels underground into Center City — they don’t call it “Downtown” in Philly — and then back above ground out past mostly black West Philly. (more…)
Marcel Duchamp, Mona Lisa with Moustache, 1919.
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I’m a recent transplant in this city. And as far as cities go, this one isn’t terrible. We live just over the hill from Erie, one of those giant inland seas carved from North America’s heartland, and it’s like having our own, muted stretch of coast for the quiet. (more…)