Print September 3, 2012

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

Pieter Claesz, “Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill,” 1628

1,168 words

Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

There is a lot of news from Counter-Currents this month.

1. Our Readership and Web Traffic

Our web traffic steeply declined in August. Our unique visitors went from 52,306 to 41,616, a drop of 20%. Our visits went down from 108,340 to 96,314, a drop of 11%. Our pages viewed declined from 367,589 to 305,729, a drop of 16.8%.

The focus of our site and the quality and quantity of our offerings have not changed. Indeed, we published more in August than in July. So we must look elsewhere for explanations.

We know of two new factors that explain these drops. First and foremost, Google has altered the search rankings of a number of our most popular articles, pushing them off the first pages of results, which makes it less likely that people will read them. Other racialist sites have experienced similar dramatic changes in their Google rankings. We believe this is a deliberate attempt at ideological censorship. Second, we have learned that the French internet provider free.fr has begun to block our site. This is also deliberate ideological censorship.

This is bad news, of course, because fewer people are hearing our message. Of course the majority of people who come through Google searches bug out of here very quickly. But some stay around long enough to learn something. We will have to work harder to attract their attention.

But there is good news here too. First, this kind of censorship is an acknowledgement that we exist and are regarded as a threat to the powers that be. Second, traffic is beginning to climb again, so in the end, we have been just slowed down, not stopped.

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

2. Our Webzine

In August, we added 92 posts to the website, for a total of 1,993 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 500 new comments.

3. August’s Top 20 Articles (with date of publication and number of reads)

Trevor Lynch, Review of The Dark Knight Rises, July 31, 2012: 3,979
Matt Parrott, “Do Nothing,” August 7, 2012: 2,570
Andrew Hamilton, “White Spree Killers,” August 10, 2012: 2,490
Matt Parrott, “Tempest in a Sex Pot,” August 22, 2012: 2,289
Greg Johnson, “Understanding the Sikh Temple Massacre,” August 7, 2012: 2,116
Jef Costello, “You Must Change Your Life,” August 10, 2012: 2,074
Andrew Hamilton, “Jews and Slavery,” August 24, 2012: 1,744
Gregory Hood, “No Separate Peace,” August 23, 2012: 1,594
Jef Costello, “Why I Live in the Past,” August 2, 2012: 1,557
Ace of Swords, “To All Europeans,” August 16, 2012: 1,458
Patrick LeBrun, “Who are the Sikhs?,” August 7, 2012: 1,455
Mark Dyal, “Epistemology and the New Right,” August 21, 2012: 1,440
Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “Woman Being,” July 31, 2012: 1,297
Andrew Hamilton, “Anders Breivik’s Closing Statement,” July 6, 2012: 1,201
Matt Parrott, “Epistemology, Race, and the Bazaar,” August 29, 2012: 1,181
Patrick LeBrun, “Demographics and Jewish Destiny,” Part 1, August 9, 2012: 1,180
Patrick LeBrun, “Demographics and Jewish Destiny,” Part 3, August 15, 2012: 1,138
Greg Johnson, “The Costs and Benefits of Controversy,” August 10, 2012: 1,114
Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler,” April 20, 2011: 1,103
Greg Johnson, “Dead Can Dance, Berkeley, August 12, 2012,” August 13, 2012: 1,082

One of the consequences of Google’s actions is that our perennial favorites, Daniel Michaels on Stalin’s plan to conquer Europe and Gregory Hood on Scarface, have been driven from our top 20 entirely (indeed, from our top 50). Another perennial favorite, Irmin Vinson on Hitler, has been driven down to number 19.

Andrew Hamilton, Patrick LeBrun, Matt Parrott, and Greg Johnson each have three articles in our top 20. Jef Costello has two articles.

Patrick LeBrun and Mark Dyal make their first appearances in our top 20. Congratulations, gentlemen! We look forward to your future writings.

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. Sweden
5. Germany
6. Australia
7. France
8. Portugal
9. Japan
10. The Netherlands
11. Finland
12. China
13. Brazil
14. Poland
15. Russian Federation
16. Ireland
17. Norway
18. Mexico
19. Czech Republic
20. Switzerland

5. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities

1. San Francisco
2. London
3. New York City
4. Melbourne
5. Stockholm
6. Sydney
7. Chicago
8. Washington, D.C.
9. Houston
10. Philadelphia
11. Seattle
12. Los Angeles
13. Mexico City
14. Berlin
15. Toronto
16. Dublin
17. Lisbon
18. Winnipeg
19. Vancouver, B.C.
20. Helsinki

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. Eight of them are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Lisbon, Mexico City, Washington, D.C., Dublin, and Helsinki.

6. The Counter-Currents Radio Network

By far the biggest news item is that Counter-Currents is launching our own podcasting network. We will give homes to several of the hosts from the Voice of Reason network, which has disappeared, and we will be developing new shows. New developments will be announced on our front page.

7. 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 (September)
14. James J. O’Meara, The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Literature, Politics, and Popular Culture (September)
15. Juleigh Howard-Hobson, “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof group” and Other Poems
16. Trevor Lynch, Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
17. Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun
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.

8. Our Summer Fundraiser

On June 11, our second anniversary, Counter-Currents launched a new fundraising campaign. Our aim is to raise $25,000. For the latest update, click here. 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, dear reader, for making Counter-Currents possible.

Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd.
& North American New Right