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Greg Johnson and Joel Davis discussed the necessity and relevance of National Socialism in the current year. It is now available to download or listen to online. (more…)
Counter-Currents
Tag: Keith Woods
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I saw a series of Telegram posts by Australian nationalist Joel Davis recently that I feel the need to respond to. Joel argues that rehabilitating the image of German National Socialism and Adolf Hitler himself is essential for the success of a nationalist movement. For a time, Joel and I were very closely aligned ideologically and collaborated a lot together. Our paths diverged somewhat when Joel embraced, for want of a better word, Neo-Nazism. (more…)
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Keith Woods
Nationalism: The Politics of Identity
Colverhill House Publishing, 2024Late last year, Irish nationalist Keith Woods came out with an excellent new book of essays. In Nationalism: The Politics of Identity he covers some of the most important issues for the West today in an accessible and logical manner. (more…)
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The left is entering a time of realignment. Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris is a major alarm call that something is wrong with the formula progressive elites have used to reliably sell their package to voters for decades. And it’s not just the US. Throughout the Western world, there is a rising tide of populism. (more…)
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The theory of an ancient Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent was first proposed by William Jones, a British philologist in the 18th Century. At the time a stunning and original theory, Jones proposed a common root language to European languages and Sanskrit, writing that: (more…)
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In this final livestream of 2024, Greg Johnson was joined by several special guests who reflected on the biggest events of 2024, discussed their predictions for 2025, and shared their resolutions and plans for the New Year. It is now available to download or listen to online. (more…)
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In this episode, Angelo Plume and Irish author Keith Woods discuss the history of nationalism. Is it just an invention from the 19th century, or do its roots go much deeper? And what about the future of nationalism? What does it have to offer in this globalised world? (more…)
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Keith Woods was full of promise when he first emerged as a YouTube commentator in January of 2019. But in a few short years, he has gone from promising to delivering. From video documentaries to unscripted livestreams and interviews, from highly effective social media posting to live speaking and now to long-form essays, he has excelled at everything he touches. (more…)
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In a previous essay, I looked at the shaping of an Italian national identity within the early Roman Empire, and argued, contra modern scholars, that an ethnic Italian identity based on shared ancestry was well developed within the Roman Empire, and remained a source of pride throughout its existence.
The presence of this kind of primordial nationalism in pre-modern empires seriously undermines the claims made by the modernist school of thought in the sociology of nationalism, which is treated as orthodoxy in many sociological departments in the West. (more…)
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The hosts of Chapo Trap House in November 2017. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
The hosts of Chapo Trap House in November 2017. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
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The year was 2016. Donald Trump had just stunned the world by getting elected despite the entire media establishment being against him. The only support Trump had during his campaign was on the Internet, particularly the Alt Right, which was spreading across social media like a virus and pied-pipering the youth into White Nationalism. (more…)
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Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, the Irish writer who most explicitly linked Ireland’s struggle for independence to ethnonationalism.
Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, the Irish writer who most explicitly linked Ireland’s struggle for independence to ethnonationalism.
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Micheál Martin, the Irish Tánaiste and leader of Fianna Fáil, recently uploaded a speech delivered to the Dáil on his conception of Irish nationalism. Martin wrote that:
The people who fought for and founded our state saw it as a place with multiple identities, open to the world and embodying the most important republican principle of all, to reflect the diversity of its people. (more…)
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Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.
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I fought in the Optics War for six years. Then, last December I declared that the Optics War was over for several reasons. The Right Stuff closing down the National Justice Party project took the question of real-world activism off the table. Andrew Anglin and Nick Fuentes falling out over the Richard Spencer Question was a sign that old Optics War rules were no longer being adhered to by its most prominent figure. (more…)
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For how long will these people be our allies? (Photo courtesy of Flickr)
For how long will these people be our allies? (Photo courtesy of Flickr)
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about the “2016 energy” returning to Twitter/X. That was a magical time when all the factions of the non-establishment Right came together for a single purpose. The Alt Right, the Alt Lite, Right-wing libertarians, and millions of normie MAGA conservatives formed a unified front to get Trump elected. (more…)
