When Elon Musk announced that Twitter would allow free speech, the ADL led the way in bullying Musk to maintain Left-wing censorship. Until Musk screws up the courage to give the ADL a hard no, the best we can hope for on Twitter is basically the New York deli model: you can choose anything you like, as long as it is kosher.

https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/deplatforming-is-back/

Stephen Paul Foster imagines how history might have gone if Hillary had won the 2016 presidential election. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/if-hillary-had-won/

Dionýz Sokol's essay "A Return to the Essence of the Right" is now in Czech. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/navrat-k-esenci-pravice/

Richard Knight's examination of the statements of some of the most prominent women philosophers to see if they really measure up to their male colleagues, or if they're only being appointed because of their sex, has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/women-philosophers/

Recently I had a channel to channel debate with Eric Striker of The Right Stuff. As a result, a number of TRS paypigs joined my chat to espouse their pro-Kremlin nonsense. After having to speak to these people for the first time in a while, there's something that I would like to talk about; their lack of understanding of the concept of Blood and Soil.

The paypigs would claim that Ukrainian Nationalists "are dying for a Jewish President/NATO etc. etc." Vladimir Putin's speech on February 22nd, 2022 as well as Kremlin propaganda since then has made a few things the Kremlin believes abundantly clear; Ukrainian culture/identity is some mixture of fake, inauthentic, and created by Communists. The Russian language is oppressed in Ukraine and must be given at least equal standing with the Ukrainian language. There is no such thing as a Ukrainian identity separated from Russian identity and frankly, Russian rule. This is the worldview that the invading foreign armies seek to implement on Ukrainian land by force. I would like to point out that I made a series of posts exposing these Kremlin lies and talking about Ukrainian identity and tradition of independence statehood beginning here.

So, picture this, you're a Nationalist. You live on the same land where your ancestors for thousands of years have lived. Their blood, sweat, tears, and bones are part of the soil you walk and have been for time immemorial. A foreign army invades YOUR land, and their propaganda claims that your culture is fake, your identity is fake, you don't deserve independence, your language is fake/must be replaced, and these goals will be achieved by force of arms delivered by a people who speak a different language, a people who by and large come from outside your territory. So you take up arms, and in the heroic struggle to defend your ancient culture and language from a foreign army, you die, and join the same soil your ancestors have returned to for thousands of years.

Did you die for a politician? Did you die for factors outside your country like a military alliance your country is not even a part of? Did you die for a government even? No, you died for your unique identity, independence, language, culture, and ancestral land.

This is even leaving aside the fact that the Russian Federation is a multiracial, multireligious, multicultural empire which would inevitably cause Slavic, Orthodox Ukraine to become the same thing via sharing a passport with tens of millions of Asians and Muslims who would now have the ability to freely travel to and settle in Ukraine, whereas previously they did not.

When ziggers claim that a Ukrainian Nationalist who died defending his land, culture, identity, from a foreign army which explicitly seeks to undermine those things, died for a politician who is here today gone tomorrow, they expose what should be an embarrassing lack of understanding of what Blood and Soil really means, and a heartfelt connection to that concept, which if they had they would understand the Ukrainian Nationalists resisting Russian invasion.

There is more to this topic that I will cover in a future post: the lack of ability to understand complex situations, and a fundamental lack of courage and manly spirit, two other things that the ziggers exhibited in spades when they joined my chat to argue on behalf of a government that organizes antifa conferences.

Kathryn S. concludes her examination of the desert in the Western imagination by looking at British adventures in Afghanistan in the nineteenth century, and the army of Persian King Cambyses II's ill-fated foray into the Sahara in the sixth century BC. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/sojourners-in-the-desert-part-iiii/

Spencer J. Quinn reviews the Mike Leigh film Happy-Go-Lucky, finding it to be a veritable catalog of dysgenic tropes aimed at gentiles by Jews. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/happy-go-lucky/

The complete PDF of Bowden’s book of plays, Lilith Before Eve, has been added to The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2009_Lilith-before-Eve.pdf

James J. O'Meara on The Rebel Set, one of those so-bad-it's-good movies from the 1950s that's supposedly about Beatniks, and which was later mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/breaking-beat-reflections-on-the-rebel-set-a-masterpiece-that-never-was/

The fifth and final issue of The Revolutionary Conservative, which was produced by Bowden and others for the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus in the early 1990s, is now available at The Jonathan Bowden Archive. https://jonathanbowden.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Revolutionary-Conservative-5-Winter-1994-95.pdf

Folks, we are over a third of the way there and just three days left to go! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far.

https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/promote-your-heritage/

Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay on what we know about the circumstances surrounding Tucker Carlson’s unceremonious firing from FOX News and his future prospects. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/tuck-around-and-find-out/

Coming at the top of the hour:

Greg Johnson invites Jim Goad & Thomas Steuben to talk about the Tucker Carlson firing and the recent wave of censorship on Twitter

Noon PST, 3 pm EST, 8 pm UK time, 9 pm CET
https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/this-weekends-livestream-whats-next-for-tucker-carlson/

The legendary paleoconservative journalist and political thinker Sam Francis, who helped to develop the ideas which eventually coalesced as the Dissident Right, was born on this day in 1947. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/remembering-sam-francis/

The Counter-Currents Radio broadcast where Greg Johnson and economics correspondent Karl Thorburn discussed the recent bank crashes has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-528-karl-thorburn-on-the-bank-crashes/

Coming at the top of the hour:

Greg Johnson invites Jim Goad & Thomas Steuben to talk about the Tucker Carlson firing and the recent wave of censorship on Twitter

Noon PST, 3 pm EST, 8 pm UK time, 9 pm CET
https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/this-weekends-livestream-whats-next-for-tucker-carlson/

Margot Metroland's review of Michael Malice's The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil, about good and bad guys on either side of Communism during the Cold War in the West — including Ayn Rand — has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/the-white-pill/

Beau Albrecht's review of Jim Goad's Trucker Fags in Denial has been paroled from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2023/03/jim-goads-trucker-fags-in-denial/

Beau Albrecht on a new "diversity tax" that is being surreptitiously introduced for American homeowners starting today. https://counter-currents.com/2023/04/a-new-diversity-tax-arrives-today-for-american-homebuyers/

Jef Costello on his chance meeting with Tucker Carlson, and on why reports of his demise as a major media figure are greatly exaggerated. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/see-you-soon-tucker/

Jim Goad on Ron DeSantis making trips to Israel to talk about laws he's signing to protect Jews in Florida from anti-Semitism, a Connecticut town that held a march against "white supremacy" after four blacks assaulted a white man while trying to steal his car, an Italian minister under fire for suggesting that Italians need to have more children, and more. https://counter-currents.com/2023/05/the-worst-week-yet-125/