Inside the Global Times, China’s Combative State Tabloid Editor-in-chief is an ex-Tiananmen protestor whose world-view shifted as he covered the Empire in action in 1990s Yugoslavia Zheping Huang 26 Feb 20 1362 16
Russia Is Working on a Successor to the World’s Largest Cargo Plane The Soviet-era Antonov's were built in what is now Ukraine so Russia is plotting a brand new heavy airlifter Tyler Rogoway 31 Mar 19 2088 2
Turkish Army Brass at Odds Over Syria Invasion Two key commnaders have been busted down to desk jobs for opposing Erdogan's invasion plans Fehim Tastekin 10 Jan 19 218 0
Is Saudi Arabia the Middle East’s Next Failed State? A decadent regime led by a hyperactive fool Daniel Lazare 16 Oct 18 667 0
Why the First F-35 Combat Mission Proves Nothing Dropping a bomb on Afghan shepherds isn't why you build a $100 million plane for Michael Peck 15 Oct 18 608 0
Now Even US Allies Are Pushing for De-Dollarization of World Payment System Germany has called for a EU payment system without US to save Iran deal Peter Schiff 24 Aug 18 744 0
Putin Orders a New Vertical Take-Off Fighter Be Built. That Can Only Mean a Light Aircraft Carrier Is Next Russia will be building carriers -- light, cheap ones, for limited objectives -- not the massive, and massively expensive, US Navy-style 'supercarriers' Andrei Martyanov 23 Aug 18 989 0
Watch: Reporters Slam US for Refusing to Condemn Saudi-US Massacre of Yemen Schoolchildren Shameful. 50 people killed in a Saudi strike on a school bus Tyler Durden 14 Aug 18 312 0
China Tries to Correct Demographic Course but It May Already Be Too Late The One-child policy was a huge mistake, robbed China of priceless human capital Anatoly Karlin 11 Aug 18 780 0
Global Population Growth Ceased in 1988…Population Has Only Grown Older Since There are no more births now per year than there were 30 years ago. Human population growth will stabilize and decline sooner than everyone thinks Chris Hamilton 11 Aug 18 1003 0
Forget Super-Carriers. At Most Russia Could Do With a Light Carrier for the Mediterranean A former Soviet officer weighs in on the Russian carrier debate saga Andrei Martyanov 2 Aug 18 909 0
America’s New Ford-Class Is a Study in How NOT to Build a Carrier It's an 'aircraft carrier' that can not launch aircraft Dan Grazier 29 Jul 18 2040 1
Ayatollah Khamenei: If Iran Can’t Export Oil, Nobody Else Will Either US announces intention to bring Iranian oil exports down to zero, Iran's Supreme Leader threatens to blockade the Strait of Hormuz if that happens Reuters 23 Jul 18 793 0
Russia Has Dumped Its Entire US Bonds Portfolio — $100 Billion in Two Months A dress rehearsal to see what would happen when/if China does the same? Tyler Durden 19 Jul 18 3114 0
The Pentagon Just Got an $82bn Boost. That’s More Money Than Russia’s Entire Defense Budget Good news. Every billion spent merely brings the day of Empire's financial reckoning closer Eric Boehm 30 Jun 18 417 1
Iraq’s Anti-ISIS Fight Relied More on Its Converted Soviet Cargo Planes Than Its F-16s Iraq's converted An-32s flied twice as many strike missions as its modern US-made fighters Joseph Trevithick 25 Apr 18 617 0
The US-Russian-Chinese Hypersonic Arms Race Is Now On Lockheed-Martin awarded $1bn to start developing the US hypersonic cruise missile Aaron Mehta 25 Apr 18 604 2
Fallen Empire Nurtures Delusions of Grandeur, Announces ‘Permanent Persian Gulf Presence’ The British navy has opened a military base in Bahrain Military Watch Magazine 25 Apr 18 614 2
Beijing Mirrors Pyongyang’s Pacific Deterrence Strategy; Builds More DF-26 ‘Guam Killer’ Missiles China and North Korea both seek to turn US forward bases in the Pacific from assets into liabilities Military Watch Magazine 24 Apr 18 659 2
Russia-Iran Ties Surge Under US Pressure Call it the anti-sanctions club MK Bhadrakumar 24 Apr 18 542 0
Trump’s Syria Missile Strike May Set Back Israel’s Strategic Position Syria's skies could become better defended as a result of strikes Israel lobbied for Military Watch Magazine 21 Apr 18 1409 1
Nikki Haley Seems to Be Saying America Will Occupy Syria as Long as Iran Exists The people who rule America have no intention of ever letting Syria go. Or Iran, or Russia. Caitlin Johnstone 16 Apr 18 656 1
The West Is Playing at War, Russia Will Win in Syria The net result of the latest assault will be to reinforce Russian perception that it can and must see the war in Syria through to a successful conclusion Paul Robinson 16 Apr 18 1054 1
Venezuelan Air Force Seeks Training From Russia’s Syrian War Veteran Pilots Venezuela's airspace is heavily defended — wise for a country the US has threatened with military intervention Military Watch Magazine 14 Apr 18 1275 1
Policy of Sanctioning S-400 Purchases Puts US on Collision Course With India A souring of relations is inevitable should the US remain consistent in imposing CAATSA sanctions Military Watch Magazine 14 Apr 18 1023 0
As Trump Talks up Withdrawal Pentagon Plans Boosting Syria Troop Levels Instead Trump can talk about a withdrawal all he wants but until he grows the backbone to order one nothing is changed Barbara Starr 5 Apr 18 293 0
China’s First Home-Built Carrier Starts Sea Trials This Month A big day for the PLA Navy Minnie Chan 3 Apr 18 432 0
China’s Retaliatory Tariffs Are a Minimal Symbolic Warning Shows China wants anything but fuel Trump's trade war, remains committed to freedom to trade David Fickling 3 Apr 18 282 0
China Is Taking Over as World’s Foremost Champion of Freedom to Trade the US took over from Britain in the 1940s, now China is taking over from the US David Fickling 21 Mar 18 361 0
To Secure Rise to Power, Saudi Crown Prince Locked up His Own Mother MBS kept his mother under house arrest for two years, told the senile king — his father — his wife was away for medical treatment Finance Twitter 21 Mar 18 1783 0
