For the second straight week, our most popular article by a wide margin was my highly controversial analysis of the likely origins of the worldwide Coronavirus epidemic that has already killed more than two hundred thousand people, including many tens of thousands of Americans, and devastated our economy, inflicting Great Depression levels of unemployment and costing us trillions of dollars.  A careful examination of the evidence strongly suggests that this outbreak was the result of an American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), which has resulted in devastating blowback for our own country and those of our European allies.  This thesis has already attracted nearly 200,000 words of contentious comments, and two or three times more Facebook Likes than anything I had previously published. These latter all disappeared when Facebook summarily purged our website on Thursday and banned all links to its content, an unexpected and sudden development that may or may not be purely coincidental.

Ranking third after just a couple of days and now about to reach the top spot was my closely-connected 2012 article discussing the relative strengths and prospects of China and America, with the events of recent years and especially recent weeks seeming to strongly confirm my somber judgment of eight years ago.  Although I had never imagined that American society would be brought low by a massive disease outbreak, the extreme ineffectiveness of our response to this crisis would not have surprised any past reader of that article.

Second place was held by Guillaume Durocher’s discussion of the ideological and social aspects of the numerous Star Trek series over the last half-century, and the way that changes in that very popular science fiction show provide considerable insight into the corresponding changes in our society.

The fourth and sixth spots were held by two additional Coronavirus-related articles, with Gilad Atzmon providing a speculative theory about the strangely variable magnitude of the outbreaks in various countries and Mike Whitney suggesting that although lifting the American lockdown was important, that would be accomplished in slow and careful steps.

Finally, rounding out our most popular featured articles and rising rapidly was another Guillaume Durocher piece, discussing the doubtful aspects of the conventional World War II narrative, and the importance of often going back to the primary sources in that area.