Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: October 2012
Posted By Greg Johnson On In North American New Right | Comments DisabledDear Friends of Counter-Currents,
There is a lot of good news from Counter-Currents this month.
1. Our Summer Fundraiser
Our Summer Fundraiser ended on October 31 with a grand total of $40,325. We wish to thank all of our donors, particularly the anonymous benefactor who offered us a $10,000 matching grant, which we received in full thanks to the generosity of our other donors.
2. Our Readership and Web Traffic
In terms of web traffic, October was our best month ever. Our unique visitors went from 66,719 to 81,739 — a jump of 22.5%. Our visits went from 132,503 to 157,152 — a jump of 18.6%.
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 |
June 2012 | 55,112 | 110,246 | 400,141 | 404,162 | 13.66 GB |
July 2012 | 52,304 | 108,340 | 367,589 | 373,470 | 12.52 GB |
August 2012 | 41,616 | 96,314 | 305,729 | 329,353 | 12.23 GB |
September 2012 | 66,719 | 132,503 | 455,938 | 493,856 | 17.73 GB |
October 2012 | 81,739 | 157,152 | 410,096 | 416,362 | 16.36 GB |
3. Our Webzine
In October, we added 78 posts to the website, for a total of 2,143 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 500 new comments.
4. October’s Top 20 Articles (with date of publication and number of reads)
1. Gregory Hood, Review of Scarface [2], February 27, 2011: 4,683
2. Dan Michaels, “Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe [3],” April 21, 2011: 3,357
3. Matt Parrott, “Atheism Plus and the New Culture of Critique [4],” October 15, 2012: 3,233
4. Matt Parrott, “Dugin’s America [5],” October 11, 2012: 3,007
5. Jonathan Bowden, “Frank Frazetta: The New Arno Breker [6],” November 19, 2010: 2,954
6. Greg Johnson, “Innocence of Muslims, Guilt of Jews, Interests of Whites [7],” October 1, 2012: 2,606
7. Trainspotter, “Battered White Nationalist Syndrome [8],” October 6, 2012: 2,579
8. Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler [9],” April 20, 2011: 2,487
9. Kevin Beary, “Life Styles: Native and Imposed [10],” October 8, 2012: 2,479
10. Trevor Lynch, Review of Pulp Fiction [11], June 29, 2011: 2,381
11. Collin Cleary, “Ásatrú and the Political [12],” October 12, 2012: 2,317
12. Matt Parrott, “Lawrence of Suburbia: Coping with White Pathology [13],” October 19, 2012: 2,310
13. Mark Dyal, “Mussolini’s New Fascist Man [14],” October 16, 2012: 2,284
14. Greg Johnson, “Remembering J. Philippe Rushton [15],” October 5, 2012: 2,098
15. Jack Donovan, “The Manly Barbarian [16],” October 9, 2012: 2,044
16. Matt Parrott, “Tempest in a Sex Pot [17],” August 22, 2012: 1,969
17. Vic Olvir, “Sylvia Plath: Stasis in Darkness [18],” November 9, 2010: 1,902
18. Jonathan Bowden, “Judge Dredd [19],” July 7, 2011: 1,879
19. Trevor Lynch, Review of [20] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [20], February 10, 2011: 1,860
20. Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson Interviews Matt Heimbach [21], October 8, 2012: 1,804
5. Our Top Ten Podcasts
Counter-Currents is launching a new project, the Counter-Currents Radio Network. You can learn more details here [22]. In November we will be rolling out a new website for the CCRN. In the meantime, we are posting podcasts on our front page. (Pardon the clutter!)
Here are our top ten podcasts with their air date and the number of downloads and listens. (This does not include downloads through iTunes. Our iTunes subscribers jumped from around 450 to 560 during October.)
1. Greg Johnson Interviews Matthew Heimbach, October 8, 2012: 4,039
2. Keith Preston, Political Predictions, October 15, 2012: 3,130
3. Paul Fromm, Interview with Lady Michèle Renouf, October 12, 2012: 2,660
4. Robert Stark Interviews Siryako Akda, October 13, 2012: 2,656
5. Stan Hess, “The White Student Union and Politically Correct Hate Speech,” October 21, 2012: 2,488
6. Keith Preston Interviews Craig Fitzgerald, October 3, 2012: 2,146
7. Robert Stark Interviews William Van Nostrand, October 19, 2012: 2,086
8. Keith Preston Interviews Welf Herfurth, October 22, 2012: 2,076
9. Robert Stark Interviews Mark Weber About His Trip to Iran, October 9, 2012: 2,062
10. Tom Sunić, “Racialism or Nationalism: Which Identity for Europe?” October 3, 2012: 1,994
6. 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. Australia
6. Sweden
7. France
8. Brazil
9. The Netherlands
10. Spain
11. India
12. Poland
13. Ireland
14. Norway
15. Czech Republic
16. Italy
17. Greece
18. Finland
19. Portugal
20. Denmark
7. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities
1. London
2. New York City
3. San Francisco
4. Sydney
5. Melbourne
6. Toronto
7. Los Angeles
8. Houston
9. Stockholm
10. Washington, D.C.
11. Chicago
12. Dublin
13. Seattle
14. Berlin
15. Athens
16. Winnipeg
17. Vancouver, B.C.
18. Philadelphia
19. Zagreb
20. Edinburgh
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, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney. Seven of them are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Athens, Washington, D.C., Dublin, and Zagreb.
8. 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. Everything has been pushed back a month in order to devote time to launching the C-C Radio Network.
13. Kerry Bolton, Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, ed. Greg Johnson (published)
14. James J. O’Meara, The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Politics, and Popular Culture (published)
15. Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews, 2nd edition (December)
16. Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun (December)
17. Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof group” and Other Poems (December)
18. Trevor Lynch, Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies (December)
19. Greg Johnson, New Right vs. Old Right and Other Essays (January)
20. Savitri Devi, Pilgrimage
21. William Joyce, Twilight Over England, with an Introduction by Greg Johnson
22. Francis Parker Yockey, The World in Flames and Other Essays, ed. Kerry Bolton
23. Saint-Loup, Hitler or Judah? A Second Nuremberg Tribunal
24. Derek Hawthorne, Above the Clouds: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, and the Metaphysics of Sex (on the German mountain films)
25. Collin Cleary, L’appel aux dieux (French translation of Summoning the Gods)
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, dear reader, for making Counter-Currents possible.
Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd.
& North American New Right