The Counter-Currents Newsletter, August 2021

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Dear Friends of Counter-Currents,

1. Our Webzine and Traffic

In August, Counter-Currents added 99 pieces to our webzine, including six podcasts. Our Top 20 articles and full stats are below. We also enjoyed a healthy increase in traffic, despite ongoing DDOS attacks. The main way to stop such attacks is to ban certain IP addresses, which also, unfortunately, affects legitimate traffic. If your IP address is banned, please send an email to [email protected]. 

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

1. Trevor Lynch reviews The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 22,137
2. Jim Goad, “Hey, Where Are the White Women At?,” 22,100
3. Jim Goad, “The Worst Week Yet, #42,” 20,274
4. Jim Goad, “The Optics War is Over, and Both Sides Lost,” 17,433
5. Travis LeBlanc, “Revisiting the Charlottesville-Las Vegas Conspiracy Theory,” 17,310
6. Nicholas Jeelvy, “Our Disdain for the Normie,” 16,725
7. Richard Houck, “Anarcho-Tyranny 2020 and Beyond,” Part 2, 15,120
8. Richard Houck, “Anarcho-Tyranny 2020 and Beyond,” Part 1, 14,688
9. Jim Goad, “The Worst Week Yet, #43,” 13,848
10. Instauration, “Majority Estate Planning,” 12,414
11. Spencer Quinn, “The Great Shekel Shakedown,” 11,958
12. Jim Goad, “The Worst Week Yet, #44,” 11,325
13. Mark Gullick, “The Enemy in the House,” 11,094
14. Travis LeBlanc reviews The Day After, 10,986
15. Jim Goad, “The Unfathomable Sadness of Keyboard Sadism,” 10,810
16. Lipton Matthews, “The Tameness of Charles Murray,” 10,798
17. Jim Goad, “Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You,” 10,732
18. Thomas Steuben, “Austerity not Autism,” 10,590
19. Jim Goad, “Defund the World Police,” 10,545
20. Robert Hampton, “Conservatives Can’t Give Up on Team USA,” 10,464

Eight of July’s Top 20 articles are by Jim Goad. Richard Houck and Travis LeBlanc have two each. Trevor Lynch, Nicholas Jeelvy, Instauration, Mark Gullick, Lipton Matthews, Thomas Steuben, and Robert Hampton each have one. Congratulations, gentlemen, and thank you!

3. Our Top 20 Countries

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

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Hungary
4. Netherlands
5. Canada
6. Australia
7. Germany
8. Bulgaria
9. Sweden
10. France
11. Croatia
12. Romania
13. Norway
14. South Africa
15. Italy
16. Ireland
17. Spain
18. Czech Republic
19. Denmark
20. Russian Federation

4. Our Readership and Web Traffic

5. Our Paywall

Counter-Currents adopted a paywall as a way of encouraging new donors and thanking those who already support us. We now have more than 200 people behind the paywall, and the number continues to grow. Many paywall members do not take advantage of the ability to leave unmoderated comments. But as the number grows, I expect a critical mass of commenters will be reached, allowing for lively real-time back-and-forth discussion and debate. Click here for information on how to join.

6. How You Can Help Counter-Currents

Counter-Currents, like most promoters of dissident ideas, depends upon the generosity of our donors. In 2020, fewer than 1,000 donors made it possible for nearly four 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.

E-Checks

If you are in the United States, the easiest way to send money to Counter-Currents is by e-check. It is as secure, fast, and convenient as a credit card. All you need is your checkbook.

Credit Cards

In 2020, Counter-Currents was de-platformed from five credit card processors. In March of 2020, antifa actually put our last processor out of business. 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.

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 Sunday.

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. 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.