How to Create an Occupy Tribe

By John Robb Hat tip to NATA-NY. There’s no question that the Occupy groups have done a great job with constructing the outlines ofresilient communities in the heart of many of our most dense urban areas. People pitch in to do work. They are considerate despite the difficulty of […]

My 10 Favorite Hate-Crime Hoaxes

The boys (and girls) who cried Wolfsangel…. From Taki Mag… _______________ by Gavin McInnes It was a tough week for racial witch hunters. In fact, it’s been a tough quarter-century for them. Reality keeps knocking the liberal media off its high horse. When they picked up the Trayvon […]

America’s 23-Year War

By Anthony Gregory If President Obama has his way, the last U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan could be Americans born five years after 9/11. The administration has signed a pact to maintain a military presence there until 2024. After initially claiming the rumors of such a deal were false, the administration […]

Is Modern Conservatism a Mental Illness?

By Paul Gottfried Jonah Goldberg in his new collection of meditations, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas and Andrew Ferguson in his latest Weekly Standard opinion piece “The New Phrenology” complain how the other side gets nasty when depicting its well-meaning opponents. This bothers our “conservative” […]

Brave New World, Brave New Majority

By Alexander Cockburn The news is in. White births are no longer a majority in the United States. The Bureau of the Census confirms that non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 of all births  in the year ending July,  2011, while minorities including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of […]

American Empire and the Future

By Paul Atwood The Great Recession is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and, like the aftermath of Katrina, or the BP calamity, or the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, is a man-made disaster. Many signs point to worse tidings. Many of us who live in this […]

Bet on Collapse

By Paul Craig Roberts The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose. In the US the police have proven themselves to be a greater threat to public safety than private sector criminals.  I just googled […]

Occupy: Nucleus of the New Society?

By Kevin Carson Many Occupy supporters on the Left express concern that it could be coopted by the mainstream institutional Left and harnessed to a political agenda of NPR liberalism. The recent prominence of Van Johnson’s Rebuild the Dream and MoveOn.org seems to provide at least superficial justification […]

The State and Capital: A Love Affair

By David D’Amato “President Barack Obama,” Fox News reports, “says the big trading loss at JPMorgan Chase shows the need for Congress to put more teeth into Wall Street reforms.” Touting the new rules, the President stated that the goal is to “discourage big banks and financial institutions from […]

Rob Reiner: Funny as Ever

By Kevin Carson Rob Reiner, in a recent interview with Chris Matthews, showed that while he may have moved on to directing and producing, he’s still a comedic actor at heart. Reiner, best known as Archie’s son-in-law “Meathead” on “All in the Family,” told Matthews — with a […]

ORG: Mobile filters censor innocent content

From BBC News. Don’t “think of the children” too much, lest you lose valuable freedoms (and IQ points) in the process! ____________ Pornography filters on mobile phones are “censoring” normal web content, according to the Open Rights Group. Its report found that 60 websites were incorrectly blocked by […]

Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban

From Buzzfeed.com An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according […]

What Does Ron Paul Want?

By Justin Raimondo This is the question puzzling Paul’s friends, as well as his enemies. A recentannouncement by the campaign that the anti-interventionist Congressman andpresidential candidate is not spending money in the remaining primary states provoked a Drudge headline: “Paul Out.” That is the GOP Establishment’s fondest wish, but the reality is that Paul is far […]

The Antietam of the Culture War

Note: Any serious anarchist and libertarian strategy needs to recognize that the culture wars are primarily a conflict with the upper middle class with the Left being the overall winner, and  with the rest of U.S. society divided on predictable socio-economic (i.e. class) lines. By Pat Buchanan It […]

Occupy: Nucleus of the New Society?

By Kevin Carson Many Occupy supporters on the Left express concern that it could be coopted by the mainstream institutional Left and harnessed to a political agenda of NPR liberalism. The recent prominence of Van Johnson’s Rebuild the Dream and MoveOn.org seems to provide at least superficial justification […]

American Terrorist’s Mom Wants Him Back Home

abcnews.go.com BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and LEE FERRAN American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, speaks during a news conference held by the militant group al-Shabab at a farm in southern Mogadishu’s Afgoye district in Somalia, May 11, 2011. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo) An Alabama […]

Marriage: the Health of the State?

Thaddeus Russell makes his case. Not that I think homosexuals should have to fit anyone’s Ideal Procrustean Queer mould, but do they not signal their social conservatism to the degree that they embrace this ritual? __________________________ Back in the days when there was an identifiable counter-cultural movement in […]

Federal Judge Cockblocks NDAA

So says Glenn Greenwald. Nice job, Miss Forrest! __________________________ A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by […]

Half Say View of Obama Not Affected by Gay Marriage Decision

Obama’s proclamation of support for same sex marriage solidified his support among Democrats, young people and college graduates. In general, Republicans, older people and less educated people responded unfavorably to the President. In comparison, the opinion of blacks remains relatively unchanged. The White House likely did not make […]

“The Policeman is Your Friend”? Psh!

Article by Kevin Carson. I rather like Sean Gabb’s offshoot from it… American pigs, so far as I can tell, have always been more piggish than the English pigs. But our own have become much more brutal and trigger-happy over the past few decades. For example, Mark Duggan […]

Revisionism: Left & Right, Hard & Soft

By Jonathan Bowden Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript by D. E. C. of Jonathan Bowden’s speech at the 12th meeting of the New Right in London on November 3, 2007. The audio is available on YouTube here. If you have any corrections, please contact me at editor@counter-currents.com or simply […]

Why America is Doomed to One Disaster After Another

By Gabriel Kolko Both Europe and the United States confront great crises; while they are different in certain regards they have important similarities too.  America’s crisis is both military and economic; they are interrelated because America has a huge deficit, in large part because it has the chimerical ambition to be the world’s dominating military power, which costs […]

The Life of Julia Under Anarchy

By Kevin Carson As a toddler Julia will begin a twenty-odd-year sentence in institutions designed to process her into a “human resource”: Someone encultured to view the existing institutional framework and power structure as natural and inevitable, who trusts and obeys the state and takes its self-justifications at face value. […]