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If I had to recommend one book on politics, it would be James Burnham’s The Machiavellians. If I had to recommend one pamphlet, it would be an overlooked gem of American political discourse, Sam Francis’s The Other Side of Modernism: James Burnham and His Legacy. There is no white identitarian, racially aware conservative, American nationalist, or any other member of the Dissident Right who does not owe a massive debt to this towering genius. (more…)

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On this episode of Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson is joined by Gregory Hood to discuss the upcoming presidential election and its significance to the Dissident Right and important issues facing white people, as well as your questions. (more…)

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Sunday, November 1, at noon PST, 3 pm EST, 20:00 UK time, Greg Johnson will be joined by special guests Kevin MacDonald and Gregory Hood on the Counter-Currents DLive channel to discuss the US Presidential election and your questions.

Our Sunday livestreams are not just to inform and entertain. They are also fundraisers. (more…)

Gregory Hood
Waking Up from the American Dream
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2016
180 pages

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About Waking Up from the American Dream

It’s a time of transition for the American Right. The old ideas are failing. The conservative movement is disintegrating. And the European Americans who defined and created the United States are rising in defense of their own identity and interests.

Gregory Hood is one of the most eloquent and insightful of the writers defining and promoting this transition. Waking Up from the American Dream, his first book, collects some of his most important work, including the legendary “A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans,” and a new essay, “Trump: The Last American,” on the meaning of Donald Trump’s nationalist-populist insurgency.

The target of Hood’s withering critique is “Americanism” itself, the classical liberal ideology that is dissolving America’s white ethnic and cultural core. Hood explains his intellectual path from conservatism to White Nationalism—and why you should follow. For those seeking to understand the emerging White Right, Gregory Hood is one voice you can’t afford to ignore.

Contents

Foreword
Kevin MacDonald

Author’s Preface

Introduction
1. An American Son

White Nationalism
2. Waking Up from the American Dream
3. For Others & Their Prosperity
4. Dinesh D’Souza’s America
5. Race: The First Principle

The Failure of Conservatism
6. What Makes Republicans Tick?
7. Why Romney Must Lose
8. A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans
9. How to Destroy the Republican Party

Religion & Guns
10. Why Christianity Can’t Save Us
11. No Separate Peace
12. Why Liberals Hate Guns
13. Beltway Rambos

Afterword
14. Trump: The Last American

Index (print edition only)

About the Author

Praise for Waking Up from the American Dream

“In our movement, Gregory Hood is unquestionably the best writer of his generation. Heck, he could be the best writer in the entire movement.”

—Jared Taylor, author of White Identity

“Gregory Hood is a brilliant stylist with a great sense of humor as well as a firm grasp of the issues facing white America. I found these essays a pleasure to read, and I was impressed again and again by the depth of his insight into complex issues.”

—Kevin MacDonald, author of The Culture of Critique

“Political theater in America is usually insufferably boring and smarmy, if occasionally comical and sometimes absurd. But when Gregory Hood weighs in, I pay attention. He has an insider’s grasp of the political scene and a talent for teasing the farce out of the most dismal current affairs. But he’s no mere heckler. He’s got a dream for America and the West, too, and he employs humor and insight to reveal what is wrong and what could very well be the New Right.”

—Jack Donovan, author of Becoming a Barbarian

“Gregory Hood is quite simply the best political columnist to have emerged on the authentic Right since the death of Sam Francis. He is free of illusions concerning not only the regime under which we live but also the confidence tricksters of the ‘conservative movement’ who makes such a comfortable living shadow-boxing with it. For countless European-descended Americans gradually coming to realize they have been lied to since birth, but unsure what to do next, Hood will be an invaluable guide.”

—F. Roger Devlin, author of Sexual Utopia in Power

“Reading Gregory Hood’s Waking Up from the American Dream has reawakened the pain of an old wound. For I am old enough to remember the old America. The America that sent a man to the Moon. The America of endless possibilities. And, yes, the America that was 90% white. And that America is gone. The new America is based on anti-white envy and sexual degeneracy pushed on our smallest children. The flag may still be the same, but the old America, the Dream, is dead. Gregory Hood has written a powerful and poignant book about what we have lost. I highly recommend this book.”

—Ramzpaul

“Calling Mr. Hood’s work ‘must read’ doesn’t quite do it justice. Perhaps no voice has been as prescient in detailing the crisis unfolding in America for its historic majority population, and in noting the proposition nation is irredeemable. This is the seminal political work for understanding the situation white people face in America.”

—Paul Kersey, author of Escape from Detroit

“Prolific. Punchy. Powerful. Gregory Hood is one of the most insightful and entertaining writers in the Alt Right.”

—Richard Spencer, National Policy Institute

About the Author

Gregory Hood is a San Francisco-based writer on politics, religion, and culture. His essays and reviews have been published at Counter-Currents Publishing/North American New Right, Alternative Right, Radix Journal, and American Renaissance. This is his first book.

 

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Counter-Currents has been publishing books and articles for over a decade now. Sometimes, an article will find legs on the internet and spread virally, leading to thousands of views. For our tenth anniversary, we compiled a list of the 12 most-viewed articles on Counter-Currents, and are now happy to announce that each of these articles has been given an excellent reading (more…)

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White Nationalists spend a lot of time analyzing the themes in movies and the impact they have on our people. However, we often ignore what lessons non-whites take. Consider the one movie that has had a greater impact on hip-hop culture (which is to say, the dominant culture of this country’s youth and underclass) (more…)

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Lords of Chaos (2018)
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund
Starring Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, & Sky Ferreira
Written by Dennis Magnusson & Jonas Åkerlund, based on the book by Michael Moynihan & Didrik Søderlind

The book Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind, and published by Feral House, is a masterpiece that everyone should read. The film, unfortunately, is not something everyone should see.

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I wasn’t going to watch Borderless, Lauren Southern’s latest documentary. I thought Farmlands, her film on South Africa, was important. Yet I knew enough about Europe. (more…)

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The final episode of Game of Thrones had an important message about the nature of modern politics. It was almost surely unintended.

The writing of the final episode, of the final season in general, was atrocious. Balerion the Black Dread could fly through the plot holes showrunners David Beinoff and D.B. Weiss created. (more…)

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Everyone felt it. The 2019 American Renaissance Conference had a palpable sense of forward movement. (more…)

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In modern America, image is everything. Even war. Therefore, the United States Army is rolling out new uniforms reminiscent of something old—the iconic “pinks and greens” of the World War II “Greatest Generation.”

Probably not by coincidence,” The New York Times explained, “that’s what the Army was wearing the last time the nation celebrated total victory in a major war.” (more…)

Part I of III (Part II here)

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My last article received some critical feedback from a rather dedicated individual commenter. From what I could tell, his key concern was that any Right-wing intellectual movement was not worth the label if it could not normatively recognize that the intellectual work of postmodernist and critical theorists is lazy, unidimensional, and degenerate. (more…)

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In theory, democracy is government by the people. But as most people believe simply whatever the System media tells them to believe, democracy is really just government via the media. Politicians and statesman are essentially interchangeable. Culture, tradition, and kinship are far less significant in the calculations of power than who controls the television networks, the major Internet providers, and the key online institutions such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and PayPal. (more…)

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There’s not going to be a “civil war” on November 4th. Let’s get that straight right off the bat. The excitable predictions of an Antifa “uprising,” the foolish claims “Antifa supersoldiers” will be “beheading” people credulously published by sites like Gateway Pundit, the shadowy “sources” claiming President Trump is preparing for martial law and the chest beating predictions about conservatives ready to gun down Leftists in the street is all nonsense. (more…)

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Since our last update, we have had 5 donations ranging from $5 to $1,000 dollars, totaling $1,140.  That brings our grand total to $43,713.94. This means that we are only $6,286.06 away from our goal of $50,000. Thank you!

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Conservatism, said Russell Kirk, is “neither a religion nor an ideology.” Today, its most stalwart defenders believe it is both. “True conservatism,” we are told, is under attack from the Alt Right, a shadowy group which encompasses everyone from the CEO of Donald Trump’s campaign to anonymous Twitter accounts who worship a cartoon frog. Because they do not agree with conservative “principles,” the so-called “true conservatives” are already fantasizing about another Beltway Right “purge” of the unbelievers.  (more…)

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Kek is a generous god. As Hillary Clinton collapsed on the street and the media was finally forced to cover what only Alt Right shitposters have been discussing for weeks, it was hard not to believe the ancient lord of chaos was smiling upon us. Some of us have always believed. And even as this is written, stern faced reporters on MSNBC are discussing an official statement from the Hillary Clinton campaign denouncing “Pepe,” because “that cartoon frog is more sinister than you may realize.”  (more…)

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Editor’s Note:

If you want to know why White Nationalism is spreading like wildfire among white Republicans, especially men, this article is where it usually starts. First published November 9, 2012, after the defeat of Mitt Romney, it is also available in Hood’s book Waking up from the American Dream. 

Do you get it yet?

Look, I know you probably despise us. You’ve been told your entire life—by your schools, your churches, and your heroes of sport, screen, and stage—that there is no greater sin than racism. You wanted to be a good person. Heck, you are a good person.  (more…)

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“We are, in a way, breaking a glass ceiling this year,” says Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee William Weld. It’s appropriate Weld uses a feminist metaphor. Like feminists and other Cultural Marxists, the Libertarians are masquerading as opposition to the System while functioning as an indispensable support. (more…)

Gregory Hood
Waking Up from the American Dream
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2016
180 pages

There are three formats for Waking Up from the American Dream:

1. Hardcover: $30 (add $5 for postage, $10 for postage to Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
2. Paperback: $15 (add $5 for postage, $10 for postage to Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East)
3. E-book: $5

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The hostile aliens in Independence Day view the planets they conquer simply as repositories for resources. They move to a planet, crush the resistance, then drill to the planet’s core to suck up what’s available and move on, leaving a hollow husk floating in space.

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Gregory Hood
Waking Up from the American Dream
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2016

A friend of mine and fellow traveler of ours can trace his ancestry in America all the way back to the colonial period. His ancestors’ bones are interred in a old neighborhood in one of our oldest cities. Undoubtedly, they were laid to rest by a community that was very much like themselves, a European one. (more…)

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When the West was great, our children were raised with stories and sagas, folk tales and common prayer. Today, they are raised by corporate franchises, worship SJW superheroes, and experience reality through a screen. (more…)

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Conservatism’s League of Stupidity

The egalitarian Left isn’t just evil — it’s boring. Unfortunately, the conservative “Right” doesn’t have anything better to offer. (more…)

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Michael Collins is a must see for any revolutionary, especially those who feel all hope is lost. The film begins with defeat for the revolutionaries, and the survivors hiding like rats in underground tunnels. By the end, they are dictating policy in councils of state. For a White Nationalist, the rise of the eponymous hero is consistently inspiring.

But there is also the fall. Michael Collins shows the petty rivalries, greed, and political miscalculations that can destroy any movement from within.  (more…)

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It’s tempting to say Donald Trump is just making it up as he goes along. But according to Rush Limbaugh, Trump has been planning this for years.

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In April, Counter-Currents will publish Gregory Hood’s long-awaited first book, Waking Up from the American Dream. We want this book to have a striking and memorable cover that suggests America’s decline, so we are running a contest.

The person who provides us with the winning image/design concept will receive $100 and free copies of the hardcover and paperback editions. (more…)

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According to its leaders, the American people doesn’t really exist. There’s something called the United States, a landmass filled with citizens (and uniformly virtuous immigrants) who are hard-working and industrious. This geographic entity is “exceptional” and uniquely blessed by God, as are its swelling numbers of random inhabitants. But there’s no nation. Instead, there’s a collection of individuals, all “free,” united only by certain “principles” and “ideals.” (more…)

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Tony: The morning of the day I got sick, I been thinking. It’s good to be in something from the ground floor. I came in too late for that, I know. But lately, I’m getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.

Dr. Melfi: Many Americans, I think, feel that way.

Tony: I think about my father. He never reached the heights like me. But in a lotta ways he had it better. He had his people. They had their standards. They had pride. Today, whadda we got?

—The Sopranos, Episode 1, “Pilot”  (more…)

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The story is clichéd. A teenager discovers a book. It challenges his religion. It rips apart his morality. He radically changes his behavior within days. The path of his life is forever altered. As Jerome Tuccille titled his book about the libertarian movement, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand.

Even a casual glance at the American scene shows Rand’s influence is growing. Sales of Atlas Shrugged are brisk, (more…)