Today’s we have an open thread: comment away about geopolitics! Plus a list of the top hits on the FM website

Summary: There are several powerful posts in the pipeline for the FM website, but none ready to go. So it’s an open thread day!  Post your comments and questions about geopolitics — and the FM website, too.   Als0, here are the posts that readers voted the best (ie, got the most hits):  all-time (since tracking started in November 2007) and during the past 12 months.

Since November 2007: the FM website has had 3.5 million page views on 2,126 posts. These received 22 thousand comments.   This does not include hits from RSS feeds (roughly another thousand per day), nor hits from September 2003 – October 2007 to the articles published at Defense and the National Interest (which have been re-posted here).

(1)  What I consider my best work

• Forecast: Death of the American Constitution, 4 July 2006

(2)  All-time hits

Title	Views
Financial crisis – what’s happening? how will this end?	27,478
Obama makes his first major policy error	22,564
A solution to our financial crisis	22,075
Peak Oil Doomsters debunked, end of civilization called off	20,693
Women dominate the ranks of college graduates. What’s the effect on America?	20,618
An article giving strong evidence of global warming	19,955
“Some people just want to see the world burn”	17,601
What will America look like after this recession?	14,437
The Titanic’s lessons for us about the coming economic crisis	13,571
Everything written about the economic crisis overlooks its true nature	13,264
A major leak of government secrets – read all about it!	11,958
More about pirates: why we no longer “hang them high”	11,090
Good news about global warming!	11,048
A picture of the post-WWII debt supercycle	10,167

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(3)  Top hits of the past year

Title	Views
The Titanic’s lessons for us about the coming economic crisis	13,573
Will China become a superpower?	7,698
Women dominating the ranks of college graduates – What’s the effect on America?	7,306
RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died this week. Of course, we don’t care (that’s why it died).	7,040
Financial crisis – what’s happening? how will this end?	5,415
The global economy is sitting on a volcano. What happens next?	4,023

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