The political struggle between America’s elites and its populist forces is the underlying story of the efforts to remove Donald Trump from the White House, and this theme dominated our most widely read articles this last week, holding three of the top spots, including two by Mike Whitney.

Ranking first was Whitney’s suggestion that the widely-promoted Black Lives Matter movement actually amounts to a corporate front, given the enormous money being pledged to the effort by many of America’s wealthiest business enterprises.  In effect, the protests amount to a corporate public relations effort, aimed at destroying the power of the so-called “deplorables” by removing from office Donald Trump, their reigning tribune.  Following up this same line of argument, Whitney’s most recent piece already tied for second place after just a day of release condemns the Democratic Party establishment and its close allies in the permanent government bureaucracy for having spent four years promoting the ridiculous Russiagate Hoax in a blatantly illegal attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election.  Although Trump may be incompetent, rash, and impulsive, he was properly elected, and employing improper means to remove him undermines American democracy.  Taken together these two pieces drew nearly 500 comments, totaling over 50,000 words.  C.J. Hopkins’s sixth-ranking article took a similar stance, describing the current political struggle as a war on populism.

Currently tied for second was Linh Dinh’s exposition on the sights he has been encountering in his current visit to Serbia, with the gigantic and soulless Communist Era housing blocks that pervade the city being matched by equally soulless new shopping malls, copied directly from the West.  By contrast, many of the remaining buildings of the pre-World War II period possess the sort of humanity and scale that better suits inhabitants.

Our fourth most popular article was Fred Reed’s discussion of the bizarre unreality of our current media portrayal of China, which misleads so many Americans into regarding the country as a domestically-oppressive totalitarian cousin to the old vanished Soviet Union, when the actual reality is so extremely different, with ordinary Chinese enjoying much the same sort of life as their Western counterparts, and even better in some respects.  Similarly, the propaganda-created image of China’s military aggressiveness is entirely backwards, given the endless recent wars launched by the US.  This controversial thesis quickly provoked an outpouring of over 500 comments, totaling more than 80,000 words.

Fifth place was held by Michael Hoffman’s very lengthy analysis of the traditional Jewish religion, and the very harsh sentiments the Talmud expresses towards Gentiles, a fact little known to most present-day members of that group, with more than 200 comments totaling over 25,000 words discussing these issues.