The strange death of imprisoned billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein dominated this week’s rankings, with three of the six most popular featured articles relating to that subject.  Most popular by a very wide margin was former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi’s piece initially discussing Epstein’s death and some of the suspicious circumstances of his demise, which attracted substantially more readership than the next two articles combined, along with almost 1,000 comments, totaling nearly 100,000 words.  The controversy revived the popularity of the same author’s previous article from a few weeks ago which suggested the reasonably likelihood that Epstein’s mysterious sources of funds and likely blackmailing activities over the years indicated that he had likely been operating in the service of the Israeli Mossad, gaining leverage over powerful political and financial figures on behalf of that organization.  Also gaining additional readership was my own article from three weeks ago, now placing fifth, which suggested that Epstein’s activities probably fit into a major pattern in which leading American political figures are controlled by hidden blackmail, often of a sexual nature, with the article now ranking as one of the most popular of the last year.

Racially-related topics dominated the remaining three spots of this week’s most popular features, with the third-ranking piece by Linh Dinh exploring the surprising popularity of whiteness and white people in the current consumer advertising of Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations.

Just below that was a personal account of Chilean immigrant Nicolás Palacios Navarro, who originally arrived in Los Angeles with his family as a young child, and soon experienced considerable disillusionment with the behavior of American blacks, which was considerably different than was suggested by the curriculum he had absorbed in American schools.

Finally, rounding out our most popular featured articles was C.J. Hopkins’ rather tongue-in-cheek discussion of how our ruling political and media elites have so seamlessly transitioned their narrative from the national threat of Russia to the sudden new national threat of White Supremacist Terror, raising doubts about whether the latter is any more real than the former had been.