The Counter-Currents Newsletter, October 2020

Phil Eiger Newmann, Ezra Pound, 2020.

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

One year ago today, I was arrested in Norway to prevent me from speaking at the Scandza Forum. You can read about the whole Oslo Incident here. The legal appeal continues. One of my colleagues asked me if I would do it again. Obviously, I am not going to try to get arrested. But neither am I going to stop speaking the truth, and if persecution is the price, then so be it.

A lot of good things came out of the Oslo Incident, though, including October’s biggest news. After I was released, I struck up a conversation with Jim Goad, which led eventually to him writing two features a week for Counter-Currents. He started in October.

1. Our Webzine and Traffic

October was a very strong month in terms of traffic, with more than 287,000 unique visitors, which is down a bit from our peak, due probably to increased attempts by tech oligarchs to throttle the free flow of information in the runup to the US presidential election. Of course, they are doing nothing to stop the ongoing disasters caused by the Great Replacement. So people will still have questions that only we can answer. Eventually, they find their way here.

In October, we added 94 pieces to our webzine, including five podcasts. Our Top 20 articles and full stats are below.

2. Top 20 Pieces (with Number of Reads): 

1. Jef Costello, “Yes, We are Headed Toward Violent Civil War,” 65,552
2. Jef Costello, “A Greater Gift than Fight Club? Chuck Palaniuk’s Adjustment Day,” 41,316
3. Jim Goad, “A Nation Can’t Live on Basketball and Rape Alone,” 35,404
4. Jim Goad, “White Nationalism: What Was the Question Again?,” 33,788
5. Saint-Loup, “Quotations from Saint-Loup,” 25,600
6. Jim Goad, “The Worst Week Yet (#1),” 21,748
7. Jim Goad, “The Worst Week Yet (#2),” 21,064
8. Jim Goad, “City of Brotherly Death,” 18,288
9. Robert Hampton, “A Low Point for Democracy?,” 16,172
10. Rich Houck, “The War Against Whites in Advertising,” 15,584
11. Alain de Benoist, “Trump, for Lack of Something Better,” 14,860
12. Kathryn S., “The Public Library,” 14,724
13. Spencer Quinn, “Michael Hoffmann’s They Were White and They Were Slaves,” 14,320
14. Giles Corey, “The Specter of Saint-Domingue, Part I: White Genocide,” 14,024
15. Spencer Quinn, “Jake Gardner and the Dissident’s Dilemma,” 13,776
16. Robert Hampton, “Eisenhower: American Simpleton,” 13,340
17. Nicholas Jeelvy, “In Defense of Dysfunction,” 12,872
18. Trevor Lynch, “The First Dune Trailer,” 12,628
19. Nicholas Jeelvy, “Event Horizon,” 12,372
20. Greg Johnson, “Three Pillars of White Identity Politics, Part 1: Kinship,” 12,320

It comes as little surprise that five of the top eight articles in October are by Jim Goad. The top two are by Jef Costello. Three older articles have gone viral and ended up in the top ten: Jef Costello’s review of Adjustment Day, a collection of quotes from Saint-Loup, and Rich Houck’s perennial favorite “The War Against Whites in Advertising.” Robert Hampton, Spencer Quinn, and Nicholas Jeelvy each have two Top Twenty articles. The rest are by established authors: Alain de Benoist, Kathryn S., Giles Corey, Trevor Lynch, and Greg Johnson. Congratulations everyone, and thank you!

3. Our Top 20 Countries

Here are the top 20 countries from which we received visits:

1. United States
2. France
3. United Kingdom
4. Canada
5. Bulgaria
6. Netherlands
7. Germany
8. Czech Republic
9. Sweden
10. Japan
11. Denmark
12. Australia
13. Spain
14. Brazil
15. Ukraine
16. Poland
17. Croatia
18. Ireland
19. New Zealand
20. South Africa

4. Our Readership and Web Traffic

5. How You Can Help Counter-Currents

Counter-Currents, like most promoters of dissident ideas, depends upon the generosity of our donors. In 2019, around 500 donors made it possible for nearly two million unique visitors to find their way to Counter-Currents. If you want to join the people who make Counter-Currents possible — or renew your support — there are several ways you can help out.

Credit Cards

In 2019, Counter-Currents was de-platformed from five credit card processors. We applied to a couple of other processors but were turned down. In the process of applying, we discovered that Counter-Currents has been put on the so-called MATCH list, a credit card industry blacklist reserved for vendors with high rates of chargebacks and fraudulent transactions. This is completely inapplicable to Counter-Currents. Thus our placement on this list is simply a lie — a financially damaging lie — that is obviously political in motivation.

In March of 2020 we again lost a credit card processor. We are looking for new ones and will keep you informed.

Entropy

Currently, the only way you can donate via credit card is through Entropy. Just go to our Entropy page and select “send paid chat.” Entropy allows you to donate any amount from $3 and up. If you include a comment or question, it will be read and discussed in the next episode of Counter-Currents Radio, which airs every Friday.

Money Transfers

If your bank does free money transfers to other banks in the US, please contact me at [email protected].

Gift Cards

Gift cards are a useful way to make donations. Gift cards are available with all the major credit cards as well as from major retailers. You can either send gift cards as donations (either electronically or through the mail) or you can use them to make donations. Simply buy a prepaid credit card and click here to use it. If you can find a place that sells gift cards for cash, they are as anonymous as sending cash and much safer.

Checks and Money Orders

Sometimes the old ways are best. The least “de-platformable” way to send donations to Counter-Currents is to put a check or money order in the mail. Simply print and complete the Word or PDF donation form and mail it to:

Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd.
P.O. Box 22638
San Francisco, CA 94122
USA
[email protected]

Thank you, Boomers, for keeping your checkbooks, envelopes, and stamps. There are youngsters reading this site who have never written a check or put a letter in the mail.

Bill Payment Services

If you wish to make monthly donations by mail, see if your bank has a bill payment service. Then all you need to do is set up a monthly check to be dispatched by mail to our PO box. This check can be made out to Counter-Currents or to Greg Johnson. After the initial bother of setting it up, you never have to think about it again.

Crypto-Currencies

In addition to old-fashioned paper donations, those new-fangled crypto-currencies are a good way to circumvent censorious credit card corporations.

• Click here to go to our crypto donation page.
• Click here for a basic primer on how to get started using crypto. Do not, however, use COINBASE. COINBASE will not allow you to send money to Counter-Currents. (Yes, it is that bad.)

The Counter-Currents Foundation

Note: Donations to Counter-Currents Publishing are not tax-deductible. We do, however, have a 501c3 tax-exempt educational corporation called The Counter-Currents Foundation. If you want to make a tax-deductible gift, please email me at [email protected]. You can send donations by mail to:

The Counter-Currents Foundation
P.O. Box 22638
San Francisco, CA 94122
USA

Remember Us in Your Will

Finally, we would like to broach a very delicate topic: your will. If you are planning your estate, please think about how you can continue helping the cause even after you are gone. The essay “Majority Estate Planning” contains many helpful suggestions.

Remember: those who fight for the Golden Age live in it today.

Thank you again for your loyal readership and generous support.

Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd.