The end of the Trump presidency dominated this last week’s most popular featured articles, holding five of the top six slots.  Ranking first by a wide margin was humorist C.J. Hopkins’ take on events, hoping the gleeful triumph of “GloboCap”—our reigning neoliberal elites—over the hated interloper who had occupied the White House for four years and inspired tens of millions of American voters with the now-exploded delusion that they had a right to select their own leadership.

Placing second was Israel Shamir’s perspective on Trump’s replacement by Biden, noting that the latter together with most of the other top Democratic Party leadership seems the same sort of elderly placeholders who had dominated the Soviet Union in the years leading up to its eventual collapse.  Moveover, the incoming administration is overwhelmingly Jewish and bitterly hostile to Russia, potentially leading to severe strains on the international stage.

A careful dissection of the widespread media reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been building himself a billion dollar palace was the subject of Anatoly Karlin’s third ranking column, noting the inevitable strains caused by the typical mismatch between financial wealth and political power, not just in Russia but in most countries around the world.

Our fourth most popular feature was Gregory Hood’s open letter to Trump supporters, a hold-over from the previous week, analyzing the tumultuous period and suggesting that his partisans take careful and candid stock of both the positives and negatives.  The resulting discussion is now approaching 400 comments and 50,000 words.

Fifth place was held by an article providing the perspective of Louis Farrakhan, with the longtime Nation of Islam leader highlighting the dangers that our society faces from ongoing bitter ideological and racial conflicts, made more dangerous by the enormous number of guns held in private hands.

Finally, rounding out our most popular features was Philip Giraldi’s extremely harsh appraisal of the basket of presidential pardons issued by Trump following his defeat, many of them going to wealthy and well-connected swindlers who bilked the American taxpayer and even to the American traitor and Israeli intelligence officer handler responsible for the most serious espionage breach in our nation’s history, while ignoring the totally legitimate cases for pardoning Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.