Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: May 2012
Posted By Greg Johnson On In North American New Right | Comments DisabledDear Friends of Counter-Currents,
On June 11, Counter-Currents will celebrate our second anniversary of going online. We are also launching a major fundraising drive this month.
May was another lively month for Counter-Currents. Thank you for making that possible.
1. Our Readership and Web Traffic
If you visited our website in May, you were just one of 56,323 unique visitors. These visitors paid us 111,533 visits, our highest number ever. The pages you viewed were among the 400,243 pages viewed in last month.
Month | Unique Visitors | Number of Visits | Pages Viewed | “Hits” | Bandwidth |
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June 2010 | 6,145 | 10,328 | 70,732 | 200,824 | 6.08 GB |
July 2010 | 9,387 | 17,329 | 119,254 | 348,172 | 10.01 GB |
August 2010 | 12,174 | 22,348 | 93,379 | 333,614 | 10.17 GB |
September 2010 | 17,063 | 34,510 | 147,051 | 580,550 | 16.39 GB |
October 2010 | 17,848 | 35,921 | 140,365 | 611,367 | 17.93 GB |
November 2010 | 26,054 | 48,336 | 171,833 | 915,553 | 26.39 GB |
December 2010 | 26,161 | 50,975 | 192,905 | 1,101,829 | 27.79 GB |
January 2011 | 28,583 | 60,005 | 198,249 | 1,736,067 | 34.06 GB |
February 2011 | 29,737 | 61,519 | 213,121 | 2,081,558 | 40.13 GB |
March 2011 | 29,768 | 62,077 | 220,053 | 2,485,001 | 52.21 GB |
April 2011 | 20,091 | 58,037 | 223,291 | 2,729,449 | 54.65 GB |
May 2011 | 36,596 | 78,103 | 274,841 | 1,334,472 | 47.59 GB |
June 2011 | 28,629 | 57,920 | 264,928 | 1,004,128 | 22.78 GB |
July 2011 | 30,186 | 66,093 | 416,309 | 1,952,047 | 71.23 GB |
August 2011 | 40,002 | 81,012 | 502,282 | 2,083,593 | 53.18 GB |
September 2011 | 45,427 | 88,782 | 422,902 | 481,909 | 11.67 GB |
October 2011 | 45,590 | 90,444 | 337,137 | 468,197 | 17.78 GB |
November 2011 | 44,445 | 88,824 | 330,664 | 339,521 | 14.22 GB |
December 2011 | 49,845 | 97,223 | 337,881 | 344,210 | 13.65 GB |
January 2012 | 56,633 | 107,644 | 408,373 | 433,736 | 21.38 GB |
February 2012 | 53,345 | 99,607 | 376,288 | 411,915 | 14.43 GB |
March 2012 | 55,572 | 106,029 | 441,170 | 475,719 | 16.36 GB |
April 2012 | 56,772 | 110,029 | 421,446 | 428,678 | 16.08 GB |
May 2012 | 56,323 | 111,533 | 400,243 | 404,483 | 15.70 GB |
As you can see, our traffic has remained pretty much plateaued since January. This has been our pattern: growth spurts, followed by a few months plateaued.
2. Our Blog
In May, we added 78 posts to the website, for a total of 1,752 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 1,000 new comments.
3. May’s Top Twenty Articles (with date of publication and number of reads)
- Daniel W. Michaels, “Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe [2],” April 21, 2011: 4,318
- Gregory Hood, Review of Scarface [3], February 27, 2011: 3,346
- Christopher Pankhurst, “Civil War & The Big Lie [4],” March 29, 2012: 3,058
- Greg Johnson, “New Right vs. Old Right [5],” May 11, 2012: 2,839
- Trevor Lynch, Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [6], February 10, 2011: 2,799
- Greg Johnson, “Breivik: A Strange New Respect [7],” May 18, 2012: 2,662
- Jef Costello, “Fight Club as Holy Writ [8],” January 9, 2012: 2,033
- Alex Stark, “We Are Not Conservatives [9],” May 17, 2012: 1,724
- Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler [10],” April 20, 2011: 1,570
- Gregory Hood, Review of The Avengers [11], May 25, 2012: 1,522
- Jack Donovan, “Brave No More [12],” May 22, 2012: 1,426
- Jef Costello, “Why Dark Shadows Sucks [13],” May 21, 2012: 1,388
- Gregory Hood, Review of The Last Samurai [14], May 14, 2012: 1,388
- Ted Sallis, “Marvel Comics, Ethnizität und Rasse [15],” October 21, 2011: 1,365
- Andrew Hamilton, “Anders Breivik’s Opening Statement [16],” May 11, 2012: 1,300
- John Morgan: “God Bless America: The Anger of the Enfranchised [17],” May 9, 2012: 1,267
- William Pierce, “Destroying the Past [18],” February 3, 2011: 1,224
- Saint-Loup, Hitler or Judah: A Second Nuremberg Tribunal, chapter 1 [19], May 3, 2012: 1,203
- Jack Donovan, “Vote with Your Ass [20],” May 16, 2012: 1,166
- Jef Costello, “Breaking Bad: A Celebration [21],” April 3, 2012: 1,157
Our number one essay, Daniel Michaels on Stalin’s plan to conquer Europe, has been a perennial favorite since we first published it in April of 2011. Two other perennial favorites, Irmin Vinson on Hitler and Gregory Hood on Scarface, were in our top 10 yet again.
Gregory Hood and Jef Costello each had three top 20 pieces, Jack Donovan and Greg Johnson each had two.
Alex Stark’s first CC article made the top ten. It is the first, we hope, of many.
Eight of our top 20 articles are about movies and television: Gregory Hood on Scarface, The Avengers, and The Last Samurai, Jef Costello on Dark Shadows, Fight Club, and Breaking Bad, Trevor Lynch on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (which has been in the top ten for 6 months now), and John Morgan on God Bless America. Since Hollywood and the television industry are the primary media of anti-white propaganda, racially conscious analyses of movies and TV are highly effective at drawing traffic and combating enemy propaganda. (See Trevor Lynch, “Why I Write [22].”)
Two of our top ten articles were on comics and graphic novels: Christopher Pankhurst on “Civil War and The Big Lie” and Ted Sallis on “Marvel Comics, Ethnicity, and Race” (in German translation).
4. Where Our Readers Are: The top 20 Countries
Our web statistics program gives us a country-by-country breakdown of our readership. Here are the top 20 countries:
1. United States
2. Great Britain
3. Canada
4. Germany
5. Sweden
6. Australia
7. China
8. The Netherlands
9. France
10. Portugal
11. Finland
12. Japan
13. Brazil
14. Norway
15. Spain
16. Italy
17. Poland
18. Switzerland
19. Russian Federation
20. India
5. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities
1. London
2. New York City
3. San Francisco
4. Sydney
5. Melbourne
6. Stockholm
7. Chicago
8. Houston
9. Lisbon
10. Toronto
11. Los Angeles
12. Dublin
13. Berlin
14. Philadelphia
15. Seattle
16. Washington, D.C.
17. Mexico City
18. Vancouver, B.C.
19. Montreal
20. Athens
Eight of our top 20 cities are in the United States. Four are on the West Coast of North America: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, B.C.. Three are in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney. Eight of them are national capitals: Washington, D.C., London, Berlin, Stockholm, Lisbon, Mexico City, Athens, and Dublin.
6. Upcoming Book Projects
These are the titles that are at one stage or another in the editorial process. Beyond the first three titles, these are in only the roughest chronological order.
11. Savitri Devi, Forever & Ever (June)
12. Greg Johnson, ed., North American New Right, vol. 1 (June)
Forever and Ever and North American New Right have been delayed from May 30 to June 20 publication dates, NANR because of problems with the proofs, Forever and Ever because of issues with the cover/dust jacket.
13. Kerry Bolton, Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, ed. Greg Johnson (June)
14. Trevor Lynch, Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies (June)
15. Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof group” and Other Poems (June)
16. James J. O’Meara, The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Literature, Politics, and Popular Culture (June or July)
17. William Joyce, Twilight Over England, with an Introduction by Greg Johnson
18. Francis Parker Yockey, The World in Flames and Other Essays, ed. Kerry Bolton
19. Saint-Loup, Hitler or Juda? A Second Nuremberg Tribunal
20. Derek Hawthorne, Above the Clouds: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefesnstahl, and the Metaphysics of Sex (on the German mountain films)
21. Collin Cleary, L’appel aux dieux (French translation of Summoning the Gods)
Counter-Currents has now taken over the Savitri Devi Archive’s Centennial Edition of Savitri Devi’s Works. The next volumes will be a new edition of And Time Rolls On, followed by The Lightning in the Sun. Other longer term projects include Anthony M. Ludovici’s Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici, ed. John V. Day, Julius Evola’s East and West: Essays in Comparative Philosophy, a new edition of Brooks Adams’ The Law of Civilization and Decay with an Introduction by Greg Johnson, and a collection of Alain de Benoist’s essays on Ernst Jünger.
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Once again, I want to thank our writers, donors, and proofreaders; our webmaster/Managing Editor; and above all, you, our readers for being part of a growing intellectual and spiritual community.
Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd.
& North American New Right