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

Posted By Greg Johnson On In North American New Right
Elihu Vedder, "The Questioner of the Sphinx," 1863, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Elihu Vedder, “The Questioner of the Sphinx,” 1863, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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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, November set new records. Our unique visitors went from 81,739 to 110,851 — a jump of 35.6%. Our visits went from 157,152 to 241,552 — a jump of 53.7%. Our pages viewed went from 410,096 to 1,044,628 — a jump of 154.7%.

 

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
November 2012 110,851 241,552 1,044,628 1,214,237 47.95 GB

 

2. Our Webzine

In November, we added 88 posts to the website, for a total of 2,231 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added over 500 new comments.

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

1. Gregory Hood, “A White Nationalist Memo to White Male Republicans [1],” November 9, 2012: 21,602
2. Greg Johnson, “The Republican Party Must Perish [2],” November 6, 2012: 5,028
3. Gregory Hood, Review of Scarface [3], February 27, 2011: 4,996
4. Jack Donovan, “‘I’m sorry, I just don’t keep with with the ladies’ gossip magazines [4],'” November 19, 2012: 4,922
5. Trevor Lynch, Review of Pulp Fiction [5], June 29, 2011: 4,743
6. Jef Costello, “The Importance of James Bond [6],” November 8, 2012: 4,516
7. Dan Michaels, “Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe [7],” April 21, 2011: 4,251
8. Gregory Hood, “Why Romney Must Lose [8],” November 5, 2012: 3,624
9. Greg Johnson, “Introduction to Aristotle’s Politics [9],” Part 1, June 21, 2012:  3,482
10. Mark Dyal and Nick Fiorello, “Overcoming the Bourgeois Mind and Body [10],” November 11, 2012: 3,358
11. Jonathan Bowden, “Frank Frazetta: The New Arno Breker [11],” November 19, 2010: 3,065
12. John Morgan, Review of Last Resort [12], September 28, 2012: 2,902
13. Andrew Hamilton, “The Racial Makeup of the Turks [13],” March 25, 2011: 2,800
14. Andrew Hamilton, “Flawed Racism [14],” November 19, 2012: 2,765
15. Ted Sallis, “Balkanizing America [15],” November 7, 2012: 2,755
16. Jeff Hilson, “Auguste Rodin [16],” September 10, 2010: 2,515
17. Matt Parrott, “Our Little Secret About the Hispanic Panic [17],” November 12, 2012: 2,450
18. Sir Oswald Mosley, “The Extension of Patriotism [18],” November 16, 2012: 2,301
19. Matt Parrott, “Déjà Vu: Justin Raimondo’s Attack on the Golden Dawn [19],” November 6, 2012: 2,270
20. Gregory Hood, “What Makes Republicans Tick? [20]” November 2, 2012: 2,266

First of all, special congratulations are due Gregory Hood, who not only had three of the top 10 articles (and a 4th in the top 20), but whose #1 article went viral. It was read more than 21,000 times on Counter-Currents alone in less than a month, and there is no telling how many other times it was read elsewhere.

Andrew Hamilton, Greg Johnson, and Matt Parrott all had two articles each in the top 20.

November’s top articles are a remarkable blend of political commentary, history (Stalin’s plans to conquer Europe), high culture (Aristotle, Rodin), and popular culture (Scarface, Pulp Fiction, James Bond, Frank Frazetta, Hugo Schwyzer, and Last Resort). Thirteen of our top 20 articles were published in November, and the rest were older articles that people are finding through web searches.

4. Our Top Ten Podcasts

Counter-Currents is launching a new project, the Counter-Currents Radio Network. You can learn more details here [21]. In December 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 560 to 626 during November.) The average number of listens is up significantly over last month:

1. Greg Johnson, Kevin MacDonald, and Matt Parrott, Round-Table on Secession [22], November 15, 2012: 8,624
2. Greg Johnson, Matt Parrott, and Robert Stark, Post-Election Roundtable [23], November 8, 2012: 5,940
3. Robert Stark, Interview with Ramzpaul [24], November 9, 2012: 5,804
4. Robert Stark, Interview with Kevin MacDonald [25], November 11, 2012: 4,068
5. Matt Heimbach, “Thoughts and Observations [26],” November 12, 2012: 3,936
6. Robert Stark, Interview with James J. O’Meara [27], November 27, 2012: 3,684
7. Attack the System, Interview with Robert N. Taylor [28], November 11, 2012: 3,514
8. The Fighting Side of Me, “Pastor Terry Jones and Terry Tremaine [29],” November 11, 2012: 3,012
9. Eur Hour, “Communicating with Whites [30],” November 12, 2012: 3,004
10. Robert Stark, Interview with Dan Canuckistan [31], November 12, 2012: 2,996

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. Australia
5. Germany
6. Sweden
7. France
8. Brazil
9. The Netherlands
10. Finland
11. Norway
12. India
13. Spain
14. Poland
15. Ireland
16. Denmark
17. Czech Republic
18. Greece
19. Croatia
20. Italy

6. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities

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

Eight of our top 20 cities are in the United States. Three are on the West Coast of North America: San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney.  One is in Canada: Toronto.  Ten are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Athens, Washington, D.C., Dublin, Helsinki, Zagreb, Copenhagen, and Paris.

7. New Books

In November, Counter-Currents published two titles: Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence [32] and James J. O’Meara’s The Homo and the Negro: Masculinist Meditations on Politics and Popular Culture [33]. Kindle versions will be available within a week.

8. Upcoming Book Projects

In December, we are working to get three books to the printers: Savitri Devi’s And Time Rolls On, Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies (with a Foreword by Kevin MacDonald), and Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof group” and Other Poems.

The other titles listed below are in rough chronological order:

18. Savitri Devi, The Lightning and the Sun (January)
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, our readers, for making Counter-Currents possible.

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