A mixture of foreign and domestic policy issues dominated our most popular featured article this last week, with the top two dealing with Russia and Ukraine.  Pepe Escobar’s top-raking column discussed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s important annual address to the Russian Parliament, mostly focusing upon domestic issues, but containing serious warnings to the West if they continued their belligerant attitude towards his nation, let alone launched a new military attack in Ukraine.  This topic provoked over 300 comments totaling some 50,000 words.

Closely connected was the Saker’s second place column, analyzing the the Ukraine situation, in which the Putin’s rapid deployment of powerful military forces on the border apparently deterred the government from launching its attack on the breakaway Donbass region, as had been foreshadowed by its own military deployments in recent weeks.  Meanwhile, Israel Shamir’s own sixth-ranking column covered some of this same ground, also noting the importance of Russia’s recent strengthening of its relations with Iran, another major country constantly targeted by Western hostility, also arguing that the missile that recently hit Israeli territory in the general vicinity of the Dimona nuclear weapons site, may have been intended as a serious warning that Israel curb its Syrian attacks.

The top three spots were in a photo-finish, and third place was occupied by Robert Hampton’s very harsh analysis of the outcome of the George Floyd trial, claiming that the murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin was an extreme miscarriage of justice, and arguing that the extreme racial bias of our media and political system is putting most whites at random risk of suffering a similar fate.  This perspective quickly attracted an enormous outpouring of well over 400 comments, totaling nearly 50,000 words.

Our fourth most popular feature was Andrew Anglin’s analysis of the huge wave of random, violent attacks on Asians, overwhelmingly committed by blacks but strangely portrayed by the media as due to “white supremacy,” with a brutal near-fatal beating in NYC captured on video being merely the latest of these.  These attacks and their racial context quickly attracted over 375 comments totaling nearly 35,000 words.

Finally, rounding out our most popular articles was Thomas Dalton’s lengthy of controversies surrounding the fraught topic of the enormous political influence and power of Jews in America, and the stages individuals undergo as they first become aware of this important but hidden reality.