The presidential election and its aftermath dominated our most popular featured articles this last week, led by Pepe Escobar’s discussion of the difficulties faced by an incoming Biden/Harris administration, ranging from a potential economic collapse to the bitter hostility of Trump partisans, convinced that the election was stolen, with well over 250 comments totaling nearly 40,000 words discussing and disputing various aspects of this issue.

Three pieces were in a near-photo finish for second, with two of them addressing closely-related themes.  In an interview with a European magazine, Paul Craig Roberts strongly argued that the Democrats had stolen the election, acting with the close collusion of our media and tech giants, citing various pieces of evidence to that effect, an provoking over 300 comments totaling some 35,000 words. Placing just below was a long article by Nick Griffin, former leader of the British National Party, arguing that Trump’s unwillingness to personally join his large crowd of strong supporters in DC, staging a demonstration against what they considered a stolen election, marked the death of America’s democratic political system, a position that drew over 300 comments totaling more than 30,000 words.  Meanwhile, fifth place was held by Brett Redmayne-Titley’s analysis of the details of the alleged fraud, related to the voting Dominion machines widely used in much of the U.S.

On a slightly different theme, Gregory Hood’s second place piece argued that although the controversial aspects of China’s “Social Credit System” aimed at directing the behavior of ordinary Chinese citizens has been widely discussed and criticized in the American media, our own society has implemented a similarly Orwellian Internet-based system via the Tech giants of the private sector, in many respects even harsher and more intrusive, and directed towards more negative ends, with widespread and growing Internet-censorship being only one aspect of these control-mechanisms.

Finally, rounding out our most popular featured articles was Robert Stark’s analysis of the severe economic difficulties based by white Millenials, who often suffer both from the circumstances of their age-group and their racial category.