Ranking first by a wide margin was my own analysis of the conflicting American and Chinese claims regarding the catastrophic Coronavirus epidemic, which top Trump Administration officials are now increasingly claiming may been the product of a Chinese laboratory, leading to demands for trillions of dollars in financial compensation.  I note that in the past, our government and its subservient media have regularly promoted notorious hoaxes like the alleged 1989 “Tiananmen Square Massacre,” suggesting the greater credibility of China in this matter.  Moreover, the pattern of the outbreak and other evidence strongly suggests that it was actually the result of a biowarfare attack against China (and Iran) by elements of the American national security establishment, the exact opposite of the the claims being made.  Given its explosive claims and timeliness, the piece came close to setting an all-time early record for any of my articles, while took only three days to attract over 750 comments totaling 100,000 words, along with 2K Facebook Likes.

Almost any other week, Mike Whitney’s second-ranking piece would have easily topped our charts, and his analysis of the positive evidence of Sweden’s unusually restrained public response to the disease outbreak drew a remarkable 8K Facebook likes and over 300 contentious comments.

Two other very popular non-Coronavirus pieces came next, which also might have normally led our rankings, with Paul Kersey discussing the brutal slaying of a white teenage girl in Florida by two black men, a totally ignored incident that would have reached the international headlines if the races had been reversed.  And the redoubtable Paul Craig Roberts discussed the astonishing revelations of the true history of World War II and Winston Churchill published by famed British historian David Irving over the decades at the cost of the destruction of his towering personal career and financial well-being, provoking nearly 600 comments totaling over 80,000 words.

Finally rounding out our most popular featured articles were two separate pieces by the Saker on the geopolitical aspects of the Coronavirus outbreak.  His most recent piece focused on the American use of the epidemic as a propaganda weapon against China, while the second, a carry-over from the previous week, discussed the devastating impact the disease is having on the American carrier fleet, perfect hotbeds for local outbreaks.