It ought to be mighty difficult to make a bad production — be it documentary, fictionalized, semi-fictionalized — out of the career of master spy Kim Philby. Yet, somehow the makers of the six-part mini-series A Spy Among Friends have succeeded in that grim task. (First broadcast a year ago in England on ITVX; in America it’s streaming on MGM+.) This is not from lack of talent or production values. Rather, the problem appears to be poor knowledge of the subject and lack of respect for the available material, most notably the wonderful Ben Macintyre book of the same title, which inspired the TV series but did not inform it to any great extent — alas! (more…)
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Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)
Resident Bidet has said on at least two occasions that you need planes and tanks to fight the government. These remarks didn’t age so well; the Commander-in-Cheat had his ass handed to him by cave-dwelling Afghan zealots with room-temperature IQs. For the most part, they were armed with AK-47s manufactured back when disco was still a thing. (more…)
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Guest host Pox Populi (Telegram, YouTube) was joined by The Ayatollah (Odysee, Telegram), Greg Johnson, Fróði Midjord (website, Telegram, Twitter), and Gearoid Murphy (Telegram) for a very special Counter-Currents Christmas on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the situation in Ireland as well as other issues. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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December 26, 2023 Greg Johnson
Nueva Derecha vs. Vieja Derecha
Capítulo 11: Lidiando con el Holocausto5.634 palabras
English original here, Polish translation here
Capítulo 1 aquí, Capítulo 10 aquí, Capítulo 12 aquí
INTRODUCCIÓN
Los Nacionalistas Blancos necesitamos abordar el Holocausto, como también necesitamos abordar la Cuestión Judía en general.
Es inútil enfocarse únicamente en la defensa de los Blancos e ignorar a los Judíos, sencillamente porque los Judíos no nos devolverán el favor. (more…)
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Before black Little Mermaid, there was The Wiz.
The Wiz was an infamous 1978 remake of The Wizard of Oz featuring an all-black cast which included Diana Ross, a teenaged Michael Jackson, and Richard Pryor as The Wiz himself. The movie was based on an outrageously successful 1974 Broadway musical that was the Hamilton of the 1970s. (more…)
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All the things that they’re saying and doing
When they pass me by,
It just fills me up with noise.
It overloads me.
I wanna disconnect myself.
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December 19, 2023 Counter-Currents Radio
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 563
Introducing the White-Papers Policy InstituteGreg Johnson and David Zsutty were joined by James Karlsson and Cyan Quinn of the White-Papers Policy Institute (Telegram, Substack). The Institute is a small, professional team of pro-white advocates centered on a single mission: bringing a pro-white perspective to the analysis of both foreign and domestic policy. The recording is now available for download and online listening.
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Taylor Caldwell
The Strong City
Originally published in 1942; republished by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (New York: 2018)This has taken me much longer to write than originally planned. I blame annoying love stories for the delay.
The way I find new books to read is sometimes convoluted. This time, it was via Doenitz at Nuremberg: A Re-Appraisal (1983), a collection of statements by high-ranking officers, politicians, diplomats, and other public persons on the 1946 trial that condemned Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, the Reich’s last head of state, to ten years in prison. (more…)
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We do not regard any of the senses as wisdom, yet surely these give the most authoritative knowledge of particulars. — Aristotle, Metaphysics
And it’s 1-2-3-4-5
Senses working overtime.
— XTC, “Senses Working Overtime”The philosopher has a defining trait which, although he shares it with other disciplines, was the first to show the centrality of the self in asking questions of the world. He is thus his own object of study. (more…)
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December 14, 2023 Morris van de Camp
Ba’athism & Saddam Hussein
A System that Worked, Part 2Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
The Rise of Saddam Hussein
In 1968, the Ba’athists returned to power in Iraq after a relatively bloodless coup. President Arif was deposed and exiled along with his family to London. The fact that the coup was bloodless shows that Ba’athism had won Iraqi hearts and minds and was widely seen as legitimate. Saddam Hussein was still in the background at this time, and like Stalin, he focused on creating a security and intelligence service that was loyal to him. (more…)
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Greg Johnson was joined by accomplished authors John Derbyshire (website), Jim Goad, James J. O’Meara, Fred Reed, and Kathryn S. on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio in order to share their advice for aspiring writers. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)