Greg Johnson, The Counter-Currents/North American New RightNewsletter: June 2012

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Editor’s Note:

Due to travel to deal with a family medical emergency, our June newsletter has been delayed. To save time, I have decided to post it on our front page rather than send it to our mailing list.

Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

On June 11, Counter-Currents celebrated our second anniversary of going online. We are also launching a major fundraising drive.

In June of 2010, we had 6,145 unique visitors. In June of 2011, we had 28,629 unique visitors. In June of 2012, we had 55,112 unique visitors. This is real growth in readership and impact. Thank you, our readers, writers, and donors, for making this possible.

1. Our Readership and Web Traffic

If you visited us in June, you were one of 55,112 unique visitors. These visitors paid us 110,246 visits. The pages you viewed were among the 400,141 pages viewed in last month.

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

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 June, we added 78 posts to the website, for a total of 1,830 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 600 new comments.

3. June’s Top Twenty Articles (with date of publication and number of reads)

Ava Moretti, “Pick-Up Artists,” June 18, 2012, 3,252
Gregory Hood, Review of Scarface, February 27, 2011: 3,248
Daniel W. Michaels, “Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe,” April 21, 2011: 2,746
Andrew Hamilton, “White Survival and its Enemies,” June 8, 2012, 2,541
Greg Johnson, Frequently-Asked Questions, Part 2, June 8, 2012, 2,478
Trevor Lynch, Review of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, June 9, 2012, 2,330
Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler,” April 20, 2011: 2,245
George Hocking, “Is Darwin the Enemy?,” April 26, 2012, 2,236
Andrew Hamilton, “Batman Returns: An Anti-Semitic Allegory?,” June 22, 2012, 2,054
Trevor Lynch, Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, February 10, 2011: 1,560
Jef Costello, “Fight Club as Holy Writ,” January 9, 2012: 1,472
Edgar Lowe, “Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee,” June 1, 2012, 1,291
Greg Johnson, “Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics,” Part 1, June 21, 2012, 1,247
Greg Johnson, Frequently-Asked Questions, Part 1, June 5, 2012, 1,179
Collin Cleary, “Heidegger: An Introduction for Anti-Moderns,” Part 1, June 4, 2012, 1,178
Andrew Hamilton, “Hitler’s Speeches,” May 30, 2012, 1,167
Jef Costello, “Breaking Bad: A Celebration,” April 3, 2012: 1,103
Patrick Lebrun, “The Front Nationale’s Tactical Winning Streak Continues,” June 22, 2012, 1,075
John Morgan, “Ray Bradbury: R.I.P.,” June 6, 2012, 1,069
Andrew Hamilton, “The Sense and Nonsense of War,” June 15, 2012, 1,052

Congratulations to Patrick Lebrun for his first Counter-Currents article, which made our top 20. Congratulations also to Ava Moretti and George Hocking for their first top 10 articles.

Congratulations to Andrew Hamilton for four top 20 articles in June. Greg Johnson had three, Trevor Lynch and Jef Costello both had two.

Our perennial favorites, Daniel Michaels on Stalin’s plan to conquer Europe, Irmin Vinson on Hitler, and Gregory Hood on Scarface, were in our top 10 yet again.

Six of our top 20 articles are about movies and television: Gregory Hood on Scarface, Jef Costello on Fight Club and Breaking Bad, Trevor Lynch on Prometheus and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (which has been in the top ten for 7 months now), and Andrew Hamilton on Batman Returns.

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.”)

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. The Netherlands
8. France
9. Italy
10. Poland
11. Portugal
12. China
13. Finland
14. India
15. Norway
16. Brazil
17. Japan
18. Russian Federation
19. Mexico
20. Spain

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. Los Angeles
9. Houston
10. Philadelphia
11. Lisbon
12. Toronto
13. Mexico City
14. Seattle
15. Dublin
16. Berlin
17. Vancouver, B.C.
18. Vienna
19. Athens
20. Edinburgh

Seven 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. Two are in Canada: Toronto and Vancouver. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney. Eight of them are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Lisbon, Mexico City, Athens, Dublin, and Vienna (which is making its first appearance) — nine if you count Edinburgh.

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.

13. Kerry Bolton, Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, ed. Greg Johnson (July)
14. James J. O’Meara, The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Literature, Politics, and Popular Culture (July)
15. Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof group” and Other Poems (August)
16. Trevor Lynch, Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies (August)
17. Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun (September)
18. William Joyce, Twilight Over England, with an Introduction by Greg Johnson
19. Francis Parker Yockey, The World in Flames and Other Essays, ed. Kerry Bolton
20. Saint-Loup, Hitler or Judah? A Second Nuremberg Tribunal
21. Derek Hawthorne, Above the Clouds: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, and the Metaphysics of Sex (on the German mountain films)
22. 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 new editions of And Time Rolls On and The Lightning and 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.

7. Our Summer Fundraiser

On June 11, our second anniversary, Counter-Currents launched a new fundraising campaign. Our aim is to raise $25,000. We have raised just over $4,000 and have a long way to go. If you have not yet contributed, now is a good time. Please visit our donation page here.

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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