Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: October 2012

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Dear 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
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