Counter-Currents/North American New Right Newsletter: July 2013

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

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1. The Big News

Michael Polignano, the co-founder, Managing Editor, and Webmaster of Counter-Currents left Counter-Currents at the end of July. Mike is relocating to Rome, to reconnect with his family and heritage. Italy, of course, has a thriving Right-wing culture, so Mike’s energies and talents will not be lost to our larger cause. We wish him the best and hope that he will report on the Italian scene for Counter-Currents.

2. Our Readership and Web Traffic

If you visited Counter-Currents in July, you were one of 82,106 unique visitors. 

Our web traffic remains plateaued, even though in July we had some downtime due to switching webhosts and we had fewer posts than in June.

3. Our Webzine

In July, we added 54 posts to the website (down from 70 in June), for a total of 2,810 posts since going online on June 11, 2010. We also added more than 500 comments.

4. Our Anniversary and Fundraising Efforts

Counter-Currents marked our third anniversary on June 11, 2013. Since Counter-Currents, like all journals that go against the current of time, needs the support of donors to thrive and grow, we kicked off our annual Summer Fundraiser on our birthday. The fundraiser will run until Halloween, October 31. Our goal is $50,000, and we have raised $12,771.50 so far, which means we have $37,228.50 to go. Thank you again to all our donors.

Our financial situation, and what you can do to help out, are outlined in my article “Movement or ‘Stuckment.’” Please consider making a donation today.

5. July’s Top 20 Articles (with date of publication and number of reads)

1. Gregory Hood, Review of The Lone Ranger, July 9, 2013: 5,660
2. Greg Johnson, “The Psychology of Apostasy,” July 23, 2013: 5,452
3. John Morgan, “Identity vs. Globalism in Stockholm,” July 5, 2013: 4,480
4. Andrew Hamilton, “Reading is Racist,” July 12, 2013: 4,022
5. Andrew Hamilton, “The Triumph of Communism,” July 9, 2013: 4012
6. Gregory Hood, Review of Markus Willinger, Generation Identity, July 8, 2013: 3,616
7. Gregory Hood, Review of White House Down, July 2, 2013: 3,576
8. Greg Johnson, “The ‘Gay Marriage’ Controversy,” June 28, 2013: 3,555
9. Matt Parrott, “Island of Misfit Goys,” July 8, 2013: 3,481
10. Greg Johnson, “Marriage: First and Second Class,” July 3, 2013: 3,479
11. Matt Parrott, “Warlords with Wifi,” July 15, 2013: 3,102
12. Trevor Lynch, Review of Man of Steel, June 21, 2013: 3,019
13. Andrew Hamilton, “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Burden of Jerusalem,’” July 26, 2013: 3,009
14. Greg Johnson, “The Nigger Word,” July 29, 2013: 3,008
15. Gregory Hood, “The Fall of the Southern Avenger,” July 29, 2013: 3,001
16. Greg Johnson, “Homosexuality and White Nationalism,” October 4, 2010: 2,946
17. Greg Johnson, “Mircea Eliade, Carl Schmitt, and René Guénon,” July 15, 2013: 2,882
18. Irmin Vinson, “Some Thoughts on Hitler,” April 20, 2011: 2,832
19. Savitri Devi, “Akhnaton on Racial Diversity,” July 16, 2013: 2,811
20. Collin Cleary, “All or Nothing: The Prisoner and Ibsen’s Brand,” July 12, 2013: 2,807

Most of our top 20 writers are familiar names: Greg Johnson accounted for 6 pieces; Gregory Hood had 4; Andrew Hamilton had 3; Matt Parrott had 2; Savitri Devi is the only new author on the top 20 list.

Unlike in June, when most of our top 20 were older pieces that people were reading due to search-engine traffic, in July most of our top 20 were recently published.

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, unchanged from June:

1. United States
2. Germany
3. France
4. United Kingdom
5. Canada
6. China
7. Sweden
8. Australia
9. Switzerland
10. Japan
11. Italy
12. Russia
13. Spain
14. Switzerland
15. Portugal
16. Czech Republic
17. Poland
18. Norway
19. Finland
20. Romania

7. Where Our Readers Are: The Top 20 Cities

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

Nine of our top 20 are in the United States. Four are on the west coast of North America: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Vancouver. Three are in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Two are in Australia: Melbourne and Sydney. Seven are national capitals: London, Berlin, Stockholm, Washington, D.C., Athens, Helsinki, and Paris.

8. Book Projects

In July, we published Jonathan Bowden’s Pulp Fascism. Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s “I do not belong to the Baader-Meinhof Group” and Other Poems will be out on August 7th. Savitri Devi’s The Lightning and the Sun will appear in late September. Julius Evola’s East and West, Leo Yankevich’s Journey Late at Night: Poems and Translations, and Greg Johnson’s New Right vs. Old Right and North American New Right, vol. 2, will appear in September and October.

The other titles listed below are in rough chronological order:

24. Francis Parker Yockey, The World in Flames and Other Essays, ed. Kerry Bolton
25. Savitri Devi, Pilgrimage
26. James J. O’Meara, The Eldritch Evola . . . and Others: Traditionalist Meditations on Literature, Art, and Culture
27. Trevor Lynch, Bride of Trevor Lynch’s White Nationalist Guide to the Movies
28. Saint-Loup, Hitler or Judah? A Second Nuremberg Tribunal
29. Anthony M. Ludovici, Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici
30. Derek Hawthorne, Above the Clouds: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl, and the Metaphysics of Sex (on the German mountain films)
31. Collin Cleary, L’appel aux dieux (French translation of Summoning the Gods)
32. Andy Nowicki, Lost Violent Souls (short stories)
33. Mark Turley, From Nuremberg to Nineveh: War, Peace, and the Making of Modernity
34. Collin Cleary, What is a Rune? and Other Essays

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None of this would be possible without our writers, donors, proofreaders, and above all, you, our readers. Thank you!

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