The death of George Floyd in police custody has become a historic event, inspiring protests, riots, and looting not merely in the US but in Europe as well, and roiling our entire political and social system.  But although a fully consistent narrative has been promoted by our entire media and political apparatus, Left and Right, our article by John-Paul Leonard takes a very different approach, and has consequently attracted more traffic in its first week than almost anything we have previously published, with greater readership than the next three most popular pieces this week combined.  Although the MSM has very grudgingly admitted that Floyd had a long history of violent crime and drug-dealing, no mention has been made of the fact that at the time of his death his blood showed lethal levels of Fentanyl and other illegal drugs.  Moreover, the knee-neck hold used to restrain him was a fully authorized Minneapolis police tactic and in recent years had been used thousands of times across the country, with virtually no fatalities.  If Floyd was nearly the only American to ever die from that hold, perhaps it is more than pure coincidental that he had lethal levels of illegal drugs in his system when he expired.  This and other issues were hotly debated in the nearly 500 comments, totaling almost 70,000 words.

Ranking second and coming up very fast, setting a near record for readership in its first 24 hours, was Fred Reed’s sad suggestion that America may no longer be salvageable as a country, with the destruction of so many of our historical monuments representing the final proof that more than two generations of efforts to incorporate and assimilate blacks in our society have simply failed, with the problems now extending to much of the younger white population as well.  Media and academic censorship may now produce an irreversible destruction of our traditional freedoms.  This bitter thesis quickly attracted over 300 comments totaling almost 35,000 words.

In most other weeks, several other articles would have easily placed first.  Ellen Brown dissected BlackRock, which has displaced Goldman Sachs as the “Great Vampire Squid.” Mike Whitney suggested that the huge wave of protests and riots may be a coordinated effort by the Deep State to destroy our freedoms, while Nicholas Stix focused on the DNC as the likely source.  And finally Larry Romanoff argued that the renewed cases of Covid-19 in China may represent an attack by American intelligence agencies.