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I am surprised at how sad I am to learn that Dolly Parton is dead. I was a fan. She was a paradox: so genuine despite all the trappings of fakery. She wrote some beautiful songs, "Down from Dover" being the best. Her variety show in the late 80s was also great.
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Paul Bianco on how Greek life is rebelling against the joyless tyranny of the woke.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/helen-of-troy-has-returned-and-shes-a-smoke-show/
The most interesting thing about videos of all the burning Russian infrastructure is that you often barely see any Russians. Whether it's burning Wildberries or refineries, it's always brown skinned people.
Guess the real Russians are all busy dying in Ukraine.
With the anniversary of Nietzsche's death approaching, Mark Gullick examines what Nietzsche's final book Ecce Homo says about his life and work.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/behold-the-man-nietzsches-ecce-homo/
The most powerful empires in history weren't formed through military might alone. They also incentivized subjects accept their rule. The United States was able to become so powerful geopolitically after WWII because countries were heavily incentivized to join its sphere of influence.
The second Trump admin is doing the opposite. Their schizophrenic trade policies, erratic approach to defense agreements, and reckless war in the Middle East have made America extremely unreliable. The incentive given to Canada, European countries, and the Gulf States is now to split off from America.
It might be for the best that America's global influence is on the decline. However, it terms of statecraft, MAGA 2.0 is moronically incompetent.
Nick Bougas, the creator of the most famous cartoon since Mickey Mouse, is dead.
Greg Johnson pays tribute to the creator of the Happy Merchant.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/salute-to-nick-bougas/
Greg Johnson salutes his friend, cartoonist Nick Bougas, creator of the Happy Merchant, who died on Saturday at the age of 71.
https://thenewnationalism.com/p/salute-to-nick-bougas
Edward Dutton on why Leftist academics are persecuting Nathan Cofnas.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/why-are-leftist-academics-persecuting-nathan-cofnas/
🇷🇺 - 15 hours ago, Alexander Dugin, a so-called Russian 'philosopher', spammed on X calling for the destruction of the entire White people.
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Michael Walker reviews Jan van Helsing's book Secret Societies and their Power in the 21st Century, Part 1.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/a-ride-through-the-plot-part-1/
In Nationalism this Week, David Zsutty covers the August 18 elections in which dissidents and the DSA advanced while MAGA stumbled.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/dissidents-and-dsa-advance-while-maga-stumbles/
Edward Dutton reviews Mark Brahmin's and Richard Spencer's book Myth to Power, and wonders whether it is more likely to be satire or grift.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/myth-to-power-satire-or-grift/
Morris van de Camp on the 2026 elections and the paperwork-American issue.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/the-election-of-2026-and-the-paperwork-american-issue/
Kerry Bolton on Britain, Israel, and Zionist terrorism.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/britain-israel-and-zionist-terrorism/
Trevor Lynch argues that the new Masters of the Universe film (streaming now on Amazon Prime) is a subversive masterpiece of Right-wing cinema:
"Masters of the Universe is for manliness and power. It is against liberalism, wokeness, feminism, and weakness. Moreover, although this movie has many genuinely comic scenes, it does not poke fun at good things. It saves mockery for the evil and stupid; it attacks cynicism and irony directed at the good. These are very healthy messages."
". . . this reboot is politically interesting, because at Amazon (of all places), wokeness didn’t parody Masters of the Universe. Indeed, the new Masters of the Universe parodies wokeness."
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/masters-of-the-universe-2/
B'nai Brith are trying to shut down nationalist voices in Canada while practicing ethnic segregation for their own group (and supporting Israel's genocide).
Their ethnocentrism is what gives them power. That's why they wish to deny white people the ability to engage in the same.
Lipton Matthews on the moral and practical case for genetic enhancement.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/the-moral-and-practical-case-for-genetic-enhancement/
📝 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Hasan Piker said that Charlie Kirk’s legacy would have been better honored if the Trump administration had arrested leftists like himself, but that Candace Owens helped frustrate right-wing animosity toward the left by redirecting blame toward Israel.
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Russians can gaslight themselves and others as much as they want. In the end, every sane person knows that if the situation was reversed they'd not call any of this winning.
Does anyone other than Trump and his most delusional fans think they're winning in Iran? Sure, they caused Iran significant damage and might keep doing so. But what's the payoff? And at what cost? To name just one example, America is now in a significantly weaker position relative to its main adversary China.
Imagine in 2022 if Germany had invaded Poland with the preposterous goal of removing the Nazi regime there and capturing part of the former German empire. After failing to capture Warsaw and 1.5 million casualties, there are now daily videos of Polish drones hitting German infrastructure while crowds of migrants can be seen running from the explosions.
Nobody would consider "but we're still marching forward capturing small Polish ghost towns" as anything other than a bad case of sunk cost fallacy.
Nobody would think feeling smug about destroying the Polish economy at no benefit to Germany itself could be considered winning or honorable.
The best case scenario Germany could paint would be an eventual Pyrrhic victory where Germany would have to pump hundreds billions into securing ravaged lands full of people who hate them.
Jayant Bhandari on how the primitive mind can not simply be reformed.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/why-the-primitive-mind-cannot-simply-be-reformed/
Today is the birthday of Arthur Jensen, a pioneer of human biological diversity at UC Berkeley. You can learn more about his life and legacy here:
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/remembering-arthur-jensen-3/
One of the metaphysical axioms of paranoids is that everything in real life is as intentional as the elements of a work of fiction. The world is "just like a movie." It is a construct. The Brahmin/Spencer book's plausibility rests on offering interpretations of movies (none too plausible interpretations, but leave that aside), then applying the same approach to myth and religion. It is assumed, without argument, that myths and religions are simply "made up" by authors in order to achieve their goals in the same way as movies are. But myths don't have authors, and although myths are untrue, they are not just "made up" like movies. Instead, it is more likely that human beings (and even protohumans) believed in gods before they were able to consciously create fictions as tools to manipulate others.
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https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/editors-update-113/
Collin Cleary on the William H. Sheldon's theory of somatypes, Part 2.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/somatypes-and-civilization-part-2/
Keith Woods on how Mark Brahmin and Richard Spencer explain how everything is Jewish in their book Myth to Power.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/mark-brahmin-and-richard-spencer-explain-why-everything-is-jewish/
Mark Gullick on how the Fabian Socialists might be nearing the end of their long march.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/the-end-of-the-long-march/
David Zsutty on what Jason Arday's death says about liberal fragility and cancel culture.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/jason-arday-liberal-fragility-and-cancel-culture/
In the August 2026 edition of The Union Jackal, Mark Gullick covers the fight between Restore UK and Reform UK, plus Andy Burnham's dismissive rhetoric towards the small hamlet of Piddington's concerns about a migrant camp.
https://counter-currents.com/2026/08/the-union-jackal-august-2026/
Make war profiteering a serious crime again.
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