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[Without cotton] . . . Old England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her . . . No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on Earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king. — Senator James Hammond of South Carolina (more…)
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline: the actual ruler of Europe.
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You have to have a party
When you’re in a state like this.
You can really move it all . . .
— “President Gas,” The Psychedelic Furs (more…)
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán set himself a very high rhetorical bar with his speech in Transylvania in July. In one sense it could be seen as a sort of “coming attractions” for his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech in Texas, which he gave less than two weeks later. (more…)
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On August 20th, Darya Dugina, the daughter of Russian geopolitical thinker Alexander Dugin, was killed when her vehicle exploded as she was leaving a festival where her father spoke. (more…)
If you’re a dissident, you shouldn’t act surprised when these guys show up at your door.
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A Trumpeter, prisoner made,
Hoped his life would be spared when he said
He’d no part in the fight,
But they answered him “Right,
But what of the music you made? (more…)
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Greg Johnson did a solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
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The following is the text of the speech that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered at the 31st Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in Tusványos (Băile Tuşnad in Romanian), Transylvania, Romania last Saturday, July 23. The text is reprinted, with some added annotations, from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s official website. The title is editorial. A video including the English text in subtitles is also linked below. (more…)
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Journalist Riley Waggaman, formerly of Press TV and Russia Today and now of the Edward Slavsquat blog, was host Greg Johnson’s guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed the two faces of Russian COVID journalism, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Brad Schneider, US Representative for Illinois, who appears to have part of his face around the bridge of his nose and near his eyeballs crudely stitched onto his head Frankenstein-style.
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In late 2020, when news broke about a laptop with incriminating evidence that Hunter Biden had carelessly dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop, the story was viciously suppressed by the mainstream media, a collective act of censorship that may have had an influence on the presidential election.
Last weekend, hackers from 4chan claimed to have wormed their way into Biden’s iCloud account and began posting images and video footage from what they’d found. (more…)
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On Monday, New York City’s Emergency Management agency released a short video (linked below) intended to advise residents on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. The video rattled some, who questioned why it was being released now. While I think the reason for that is obvious, for me the video is more interesting in its utter ridiculousness, which I will detail here, as well as for what it says about how our rulers view themselves. (more…)
