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

Joseph Wright, “A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary,” 1766

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

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

1. Our Readership and Web Traffic

In terms of web traffic, September was our best month ever. After being plateaued for seven straight months, and falling back in August, we broke new records. Our unique visitors went from 41,616 to 63,812, an increase of more than 53%. Our visits went from 96,314 to 124,978, an increase of more than 29%. Our pages viewed went from 305,729 to 429,378, a jump of 40%. It seems that sometimes you need to take a step back to make a leap forward.

Last month, our traffic was affected by Google changing its search engine algorithms, which pushed a number of our most popular articles far down in our rankings. But quality has won out, and some of those articles are again rising to the top.

Our August traffic was also affected by French internet provider free.fr, which was blocking our site. Our French readers report that this censorship has been lifted. In September, we also received reports from Norway that we were being blocked, but for mysterious reasons, that seems to have passed as well.

2. Our Webzine

In September, we added 72 posts to the website, for a total of 2,065 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 500 new comments.

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

1. Jonathan Bowden, “Judge Dredd,” July 7, 2011: 4,012
2. Andrew Hamilton, “Romney Handler Dan Senor,” August 31, 2012: 2,686
3. Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler,” April 20, 2011: 2,628
4. Kerry Bolton, “Karma 9/11,” September 9, 2011: 2,223
5. Andrew Hamilton, “30 to Watch, they Say,” September 14, 2012: 2,093
6. Jack Donovan, “A Church Full of Whores,” September 21, 2012: 2,003
7. Counter-Currents Radio, Greg Johnson Interviews Mark Dyal, Part 1, September 19, 2012: 1,945
8. Greg Johnson, “Notes on Populism, Elitism, and Democracy,” September 4, 2012: 1,931
9. James J. O’Meara, “Wild Boys vs. ‘Hard Men’,” September 20, 2012: 1,916
10. Alexander Jacob, “The Origins of European Religion,” September 7, 2012: 1,858
11. Matt Parrott, “Vote for Romney? I Can’t do That to Myself,” September 5, 2012: 1,782
12. Kerry Bolton, “Innocence of Muslims: Another Zionist Provocation,” September 19, 2012: 1,778
13. Greg Johnson, “The 2012 US Presidential Election,” September 10, 2011: 1,774
14. Patrick LeBrun, “Phases of Resistance, Part 1: How 9/11 Truth and Other Conspiracy Theories Prepare the Terrain for Resistance,” September 12, 2012: 1,743
15. Alex Kurtagić, “Unthinking Liberalism: Alexander Dugin’s The Fourth Political Theory,” September 17, 2012: 1,740
16. Greg Johnson, “The Voice of Reason Archive Project,” August 30, 2012: 1,638
17. Andrew Hamilton, “Whiteness is More than Anti-Blackness,” September 7, 2012: 1,614
18. Michael O’Meara, “American Supremacism,” September 13, 2012: 1,575
19. Vic Olvir, “Sylvia Plath: Stasis in Darkness,” November 9, 2010: 1,397
20. Counter-Currents Radio, Keith Preston Interviews Tia Foster, September 18, 2012: 1,390

4. Our Top Ten Podcasts

Counter-Currents is launching a new project, the Counter-Currents Radio Network. You can learn more details here. Later this month, 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 50 to more than 450 during September.)

1. Greg Johnson Interviews Mark Dyal, Part 1, September 19, 2012: 4,430
2. Keith Preston Interviews Tia Foster, September 18, 2012: 2,932
3. Greg Johnson Interviews Mark Dyal, Part 2, September 28, 2012: 2,058
4. Tomislav Sunić, “Ethnic Identity versus White Identity: Differences Between the US, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe,” September 4, 2012: 1,874
5. Robert Stark Interviews Pete Papaherakles, September 24, 2012: 1,858
6. Robert Stark Interviews Congressman Pete McCloskey, September 3, 2012: 1,764
7. Robert Stark Interviews Dr. Alexander Jacob, September 11, 2012: 1,644
8. Robert Stark Interviews Alexey Dzermant, September 17, 2012: 1,526
9. Jonathan Bowden, “Robinson Jeffers and the Other America,” September 27, 2012: 1,182
10. Robert Stark Interviews Merlin Miller, September 22, 2012: 1,078

5. 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. France
8. The Netherlands
9. Portugal
10. Finland
11. China
12. Poland
13. Japan
14. Ireland
15. Russian Federation
16. Czech Republic
17. Brazil
18. Spain
19. Norway
20. New Zealand

6. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities

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

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. Two are in Canada: Toronto and Vancouver. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney. Nine of them are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Lisbon, Athens, Washington, D.C., Dublin, Helsinki, and Copenhagen.

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 (in press)
14. James J. O’Meara, The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Politics, and Popular Culture (October)
15. Savitri Devi, And Time Rolls On: The Savitri Devi Interviews, 2nd edition (November)
16. Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun (November)
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, White Extinction and Other Essays (December)
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.

8. Our Summer Fundraiser Ends on October 31st

On June 11, our second anniversary, Counter-Currents launched a new fundraising campaign. For the latest update, click here. If you have not yet contributed, now is a good time, as we have been offered a $10,000 matching grant, and most of it has not yet been used up. 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