The gigantic explosion in the port area of Beirut dominated our most popular featured articles this last week, capturing three of the top spots, including the first two.

Pepe Escobar focused upon who would most benefit from the terrible destruction, and noted that Israel had repeatedly warned it planned to attack such facilities as part of its actions against the Hezbollah military forces and attempts to pressure the Lebanese government, while opponents of the Chinese Belt and Road initiative considered the port as an important local node in that project.  A somewhat similar analysis was provided by Taxi, a local Lebanese analyst, who also pointed the likely finger of blame at Israel and the anti-Chinese leadership of the US.  The sixth place piece by former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi took a somewhat more cautious position, merely outlining the various scenarios and noting Israel’s possible involvement, while not dismissing the official narrative that the blast was merely an accident.

On a different note, our third most popular piece, coming up very fast after just a couple of days, was Paul Kersey’s focus on the horrifying case of a young five-year-old white child, shot and killed execution-style for seemingly no reason by a local black neighbor.  If the races had been reversed, this story would dominate the national and international headlines for weeks, but instead it has been almost entirely ignored by our mainstream media, receiving virtually no coverage at all, despite the strong possibility that it was connected with the endless media-demonization of whites as the victimizers of blacks.

Placing fourth was C.J. Hopkins’ discussion of the bizarre “new normal” accepted by our society, with the media hailing the sacrifice of our freedoms on the altar of Covid-19 control measures.

And rounding out our most popular pieces was my own column on the clear evidence that contrary to the recent sworn Congressional testimony of its CEO, Google is manipulating its search results for political and ideological reasons, with its complete purge of our website being merely one example.  For example, the remarkable expose of Sen. John McCain’s role in the POW Cover-Up by Sydney Schanberg, one of America’s most renowned mainstream journalists, ranks at or near the top of search results of Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex, but is nowhere to be found on Google.