Those eager for a brief stroll down memory lane of prior years can do so at their leisure, by going back in time to our top articles of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. For everyone else, without further ado, these are the articles that readers found to be the most popular posts of the past 365 days. In 25th place, with just over 100k reads, was the extended profile of the puppetmaster of the biggest geopolitical event of 2013, the false flag-driven Syran conflict which nearly escalated into the world's first YouTube "justified" world war pitching the US-led west against the Russia-led east, the Saudi intelligence chief: Prince Bandar, exposed in "Meet Saudi Arabia's Bandar bin Sultan: The Puppetmaster Behind The Syrian War."