Propelled by an enormous volume of Facebook traffic with some 16K Likes, our top-ranking featured article this last week was Paul Kersey’s story of a 16-year-old white girl brutally murdered by five black teenagers  during an attempted robbery in Biloxi, MS.  If the races had been reversed, this story would surely have competed with the coronavirus outbreak in dominating the international headlines, spent years or even decades in political speeches, and probably become the subject of more than one Hollywood film.  But since the victim was white and the killers black, it rated not even a single tiny AP wire story in the national media, and would have vanished entirely without a trace prior to the establishment of the Internet.

The coronavirus was the subject of our next two leading articles, including a column by Anatoly Karlin and the continuing very lengthy analysis of American ex-pat “Metallicman.”  The former noted that the likely impact worldwide would be enormous, including quite possibly millions of deaths, while the latter, produced by an eccentric American ex-pat living in China, noted the extremely suspicious circumstances of the Chinese outbreak, which together with the previous waves of strange viral diseases in that country, led to considerable suspicion that the PRC was the victim of biowarfare, aimed at damaging its enormous and rapidly-growing economic and political position in the world, an obvious possibility totally ignored by the Western MSM.  Together these two articles attracted over 1,300 comments, totaling well over 150,000 words.

Fourth place was held by Israel Shamir’s on the sad decline of quality of life and prosperity throughout the West for the “post boomer” generations, one of the factors behind the harsh critique of those individuals found these days in many angry members of more youthful cohorts.

And rounding out our most popular featured articles this last week was the Saker’s focus on the controversial Russian historical narratives of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Viktor Suvorov, economist Michael Hudson’s discussion of the ongoing battle within the Democratic Party between the forces of democracy and oligarchy, and Pat Buchanan’s analysis of whether billionaire candidate Michael Bloomberg can recover from his disastrous first debate performance.