As a holdover from late last week, Mike Whitney’s column ranked first for the second week in a row, now having accumulated as much traffic than the next four most popular features combined, and already easily ranking as our most popular article of the last six months.  This long and provocative analysis of Israel’s world-leading vaccination campaign notes that although a large fraction of that nation’s population has already been vaccinated, Covid-19 infections have also been rapidly rising, raising questions about the effectiveness of that crucial health measure.  The article goes on to speculate that widespread use of the vaccine may actually have serious negative consequences, possibly even leading to the appearance of more lethal forms of the disease.  All these matters were hotly debated in some 280 comments totaling more than 30,000 words.  A more recent column by Whitney hailing the anti-lockdown policies of South Dakota governor Kristi Noem placed sixth.

Ranking second was my own first anniversary overview of the Covid-19 outbreak, focusing especially on the impact and likely origins.  I began by noting that although the media headlines have almost invariably claimed that America’s total deaths recently broke 500,000, this seems to be a severe underc-estimate, and that the more reliable figure of “excess deaths” now probably easily exceeds 900,000 and may shortly break one million, a figure that would have seemed almost unimaginable a year ago.  Meanwhile, my detailed analysis suggested that there is strong, perhaps even overwhelming evidence that these million Americans probably died as the unintended blowback consequences of an American biowarfare attack on China (and Iran), most likely perpetrated by rogue elements associated with the Deep State Neocons in the Trump Administration.  These controversial theories were hotly debated in over 650 comments totaling nearly 100,000.

Third place was held by Philip Giraldi’s focus on the tremendous intellectual arrogance and incompetence of the overwhelmingly Jewish Neocons who have largely gained control of both our political parties, along with our academic and media institutions, and redirected American government policy toward their own ends.

Placing fourth and fifth were somewhat related articles by Max Parry and the Saker, sharply criticizing current American foreign policy actions directed against Russia and China, and strongly suggesting that our leadership has grown totally irresponsible and unable to recognize the tremendous decline of America’s strategic position under their actions.  Taken together, these two articles attracted over 500 comments totaling more than 60,000 words.