Ranking first by a wide margin this last week was Nick Kollerstrom’s article arguing that the supposed worldwide Covid-19 epidemic was largely a hoax, with the large reported spikes of “excess deaths” in Britain and various other afflicted countries much more likely due to the impact of the associated lockdowns rather than the virus itself.  This controversial thesis naturally provoked a large outpouring of more than 500 contentious comments, totaling nearly 65,000 words.

Placing second was Dr. Alan Sobrosky’s piece focusing on the political aftermath of the storming of the Capitol by angry Trump supporters, with America’s politically-dominant Democratic party undertaking a harsh crackdown against the half of the population that supported Trump, including severe suppression of free speech on social media platforms and the effective militarization of DC, with thousands of troops being stationed there on a longterm basis.  In his opinion, we are likely to enter a period of “Blue Terror” not necessarily so different from the “Red Terror” imposed by the Bolsheviks after their 1917 coup in Russia.  These issues were discussed in more than 250 comments totaling over 30,000 words.  Gregory Hood’s sixth place article focused on some of these same issues, and the tremendous legal attacks against “white advocates.”

Our third most popular featured article was Karl Thorburn’s analysis of the Reddit-based “short squeeze” on GameStop stock, that seems to have cost short-selling hedge funds many billions or even tens of billions of dollars, representing a populist, grass-roots attack on Wall Street.

Ranking fourth was Trevor Lynch’s discussion of the famous Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry, which appeared almost exactly a half-century ago and quickly inspired a major wave of anti-criminal vigilante films of the 1970s, reflecting a popular backlash against the huge wave of crime that had swept through so many major American cities from the mid-1960s onward, provoking a discussion of over 250 comments totaling more than 35,000 words.

And rounding out our most popular featured articles of the week was Philip Giraldi’s discussion of the likely capitulation of the new Biden Administration to Israeli demands regarding Iran and other Middle Eastern policies.