This past week saw one of our closest photo-finishes, with two articles either of which would have easily ranked first in a typical week.  The top spot went to Laurent Guyénot’s major review and discussion of Prof. Sean McMeekin’s very important new book about Stalin’s role in World War II, focusing upon his substantial endorsement and incorporation of the long-controversial Suvorov Hypothesis, which argued that the Soviet Union was at the very point of invading and conquering all of Europe with its gigantic military forces in 1941 when Hitler suddenly forestalled those plans by his Barbarossa attack.  Suvorov’s seminal work was published over thirty years ago and completely overturned our understanding of that global conflict, while establishing him as probably the best-selling military historian in the human history, but although widely discussed everywhere else, it has been almost entirely blacklisted in the English-speaking world.  McMeekin has now finally broken the embargo, and brought the theory into the mainstream, with the heated resulting discussion already reaching nearly 500 comments, totaling over 90,000 words.

Just below, with readership 99% as large, was my own new piece discussing the true origins of the Covid-19 epidemic and incorporating the important new article by distinguished science journalist Nicholas Wade, who had spent more than four decades at the New York Times and other top publications.  Wade’s 11,000 word analysis strongly argues that Covid-19 was probably the product of a human laboratory then accidentally leaked, a suggestion long stigmatized as a “conspiracy theory” but now increasingly accepted by the mainstream, having also been advocated a few months ago in a 12,000 word New York cover-story by Nicholson Baker.  The obvious lab candidate is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but I strongly point towards a third, even more remarkable possibility, namely that the outbreak represented an American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), a scenario far more likely than the now increasingly-accepted hypothetical lab-leak.  This extremely controversial analysis quickly attracted nearly 750 comments, totaling more than 110,000 words.

Considerably below and rounding out our most popular articles were four pieces on a variety of different subjects. Still holding third place in its second week, was Mike Whitney’s extremely popular article about the terrible dangers of Covid-19 vaccines, and just below in fourth place was Kenn Gividen’s summary of last month’s long list of black-on-white killings in America, all of which were almost entirely ignored by the media, but which might easily have reached national headlines if the races were reversed, attracting over 350 comments totaling more than 40,000 words.  Next came Fred Reed’s comparison of a rapidly-rising China that makes things with a declining America that merely manipulates its currency and threatens countries and companies that want to do business with China, with some 300 comments totaling 30,000 words, followed by Philip Giraldi’s discussion of the prospects of a new military conflict in the Middle East with Iran.