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Ian Campbell
Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy’s Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
London: C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2023 (more…)
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Tag: Samuel Huntington
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4,823 wordsScott Anderson
King of Kings—The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
New York: Doubleday, 2025The Iran Hostage Crisis in which Iranian students imprisoned the Americans on the staff of the US Embassy for 444 days after its start date of November 4, 1979 was part of the Iranian Revolution—a political convulsion which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s leader within the Iranian monarchical political order. Pahlavi was the king of Iran and in Iran’s vernacular Persian language “king” is rendered as “shah,” therefore Pahlavi was referred to as “the Shah.” His other titles were King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, and Shadow of God. (more…)
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1,946 wordsElaine Ellinger
A Civilizational Reckoning: Understanding the Threat Reclaiming the Future
USA: POI Books, 2025The current global geopolitical situation is the Clash of Civilizations. This clash is between groupings of nations whose people hold a similar worldview based on shared racial, cultural, and religious characteristics. America is in Western Civilization and Western Civilization’s most troublesome rival is the Civilization of Islam—whose individual members are called Muslims. (more…)
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3,364 wordsSamuel P. Huntington
The Clash of Civilizations & the Remaking of World Order
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996From 1994 to 1996, the Russians waged war against the Chechens. In 1999 the war resumed, ending in 2000 with the Russians firmly in control of the ruins of Chechen cities. In 2008, the Russians attacked Georgia and set up the independent state of Ossetia. Other than the warmongers and anti-Russians in the United States government, nobody in America or Western Europe really cared. (more…)
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Samuel Huntington
Samuel Huntington
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The decline of the West is still in the first slow phase, but at some point it might speed up dramatically. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations & the Remaking of World Order
In 1993, academic and White House strategist Samuel P. Huntington wrote a piece for the American geopolitical journal Foreign Affairs entitled “The Clash of Civilizations?” Three years later, Huntington dropped the “generally ignored question mark” and expanded his work into a book. (more…)
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Mexican Identity Politics during the Protest of California’s Proposition 187 in 1994
Mexican Identity Politics during the Protest of California’s Proposition 187 in 1994
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I was born in 1996. Despite my lack of memories of this decade, many readers of Counter-Currents undoubtedly have strong, perhaps viscerally negative impressions of the years 1990 to 2000, wherein optimism surrounding globalization made the Western intelligentsia confidently proclaim the last man and the end of history. Some of you might have positive memories of a simpler time before you were red pilled. (more…)
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pollice Verso (detail), 1872
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pollice Verso (detail), 1872
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Early on in Samuel Huntington’s classic political analysis, The Clash of Civilizations, he makes the following point: “For peoples seeking identity and reinventing ethnicity, enemies are essential, and the potentially most dangerous enmities occur across the fault lines between the world’s major civilizations.”
Well, that’s us, of course. If anything, the Alt Right is “seeking identity and reinventing ethnicity” for white people wherever they are. This is our driving force, and I don’t need to explain it further here. But is it true that we need enemies to do this? (more…)
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August 22, 2015 Greg Johnson
Trois questions sur l’Identitarisme
« La prochaine fois que nous combattrons, ce sera côte à côte. »
« La prochaine fois que nous combattrons, ce sera côte à côte. »
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English original here
Note de l’auteur
Les réponses suivantes ont été faites à au questionnaire d’un chercheur universitaire qui est en train d’écrire un livre sur le mouvement identitaire.
1. Voyez-vous Counter-Currents comme un éditeur identitaire ?
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March 29, 2015 Greg Johnson
Tres preguntas sobre el indetitarismo
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March 18, 2015 Greg Johnson
Tři otázky k tématu identitářství
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Jon McNaughton, “One Nation Under Socialism,” detail
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Jon McNaughton, “One Nation Under Socialism,” detail
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One of the more tragic figures of the recent past was Samuel Huntington, perhaps the most significant political scientist this country produced in the last century. Anyone who has gone to graduate school will study his books in several courses simultaneously, on subjects as diverse as democratization in Latin America to civil-military relations. (more…)
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686 wordsTranslated by Greg Johnson
History does not move like the course of a river, but like the invisible movement of a tide filled with eddies. We see the eddies, not the tide. (more…)
