Tag: economic collapse

20/01/2026. Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds his weekly Cabinet meeting. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

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Something is Rotten in the Fourth Estate

What can I know? The question was famously posed by the 16th-century French essayist, Michel de Montaigne. But his was a metaphysical question, whereas if we bring the question into our own age, it has become more straightforwardly ontological. In fact, we can even say that it has become informational. In terms of the expanded info-world in which we now live, what we can know is what we are told, and the media is often the curator of that knowledge. (more…)

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Greg Johnson welcomed economics correspondent Karl Thorburn back to Counter-Currents Radio on its latest broadcast, where they discussed the recent bank crashes, current events, and as always answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

Ethan Liming, the 17-year-old who was recently beaten to death for the sin of shooting a water gun at a group of blacks playing basketball.

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White Teen Beaten to Death after Schoolyard Water-Gun Prank Goes Horribly Wrong

When an interracial murder occurs, why do so many people assume that race was a motivating factor? Isn’t it possible that race was simply incidental to the murder? After all, when someone from Kansas shoots and kills someone from Missouri, we don’t leap to the conclusion that it was because the victim was from Missouri. (more…)

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When I was but a wee beardless prepubescent male in the 1960s, there was to be no questioning of the immutable fact that not only was the USA the greatest country in the world at that time, it was the greatest country the world had ever seen. This was a truth that was held to be self-evident by nearly everyone, and if you dared to disagree, you risked a beating. (more…)

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Jim Cobb
Prepper’s Financial Guide
Berkeley: Ulysses Press, 2015

Disaster preparation is a difficult topic. There are some entry-level items, such as what outdoor survival supplies should go into a “bug-out bag” which might be needed in short notice for a long hike in very uncertain conditions. However, beyond the “101” level stuff, things get complicated pretty quickly. (more…)