Russia Says Keep Politics Out of COVID as Biden Picks Up Accusations Concocted by Steve Bannon and the Falun Gong

Too useful to the Empire to stay a conspiracy theory

Tom O’Connor 5 Jun 21 1020 7

Israel Still Does Not Recognize Armenian Genocide

Genocide non-recognition not that big a deal when it's in Israel's national interest

Tom O’Connor 8 May 21 316 3

Our Benevolent EmpireThose Pesky Chinese

China ‘Ready’ to Help India Amid US Vaccine Materials Ban

Offers to export precursors its Quad partner refuses to

Tom O’Connor 27 Apr 21 618 2

China Calls US ‘Biggest Empire of Hacking’ After Being Accused of Cyber Spying

Still unrivaled global at cyber attacks and espionage in Chinese opinion

Tom O’Connor 26 Apr 21 468 0

War in Syria

An Unintended Syria Air Clash Could Pull Biden Into Conflict Involving Russia, Israel

Tom O’Connor 11 Feb 21 1425 16

Our Benevolent Empire

Syria Sends First Message to President Biden: Withdraw Troops, Stop Stealing Oil

Tom O’Connor 22 Jan 21 1457 11

US Vassals Hurry With Condemnation of People Power on Display in the Imperial Capital

Now it's a "disgraceful" parliament-storming

Tom O’Connor 7 Jan 21 748 6

Moscow Salvages START Nuke Control Extension by Accepting Additional Terms

For one year the countries will cap deployed and non-deployed warheads both — the latter have never been part of a deal because they're impossible to verify

Tom O’Connor 21 Oct 20 675 8

CLEVER: Turkey Bombs Iraq, Syria, Says Targeting Antifa Trainers

Has killed 20 civilians according to Kurdish reports

Tom O’Connor 21 Jun 20 449 1

UAE Now Officially Backs Assad to Win the War in Syria

Once a major backer of the rebels and foreign jihadis the Emirates has admited defeat and switched sides

Tom O’Connor 4 Dec 19 1787 0

Those Pesky Sino-Russians

Russia and China Launch the 4,000-km Power of Siberia Natural Gas Pipeline, Putin and Xi Tune In

Another step on the goal of $200bn bilateral trade by 2024

Tom O’Connor 3 Dec 19 705 1

Bashar al-Assad: Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself

Even down in the Levant they know what's what

Tom O’Connor 15 Nov 19 637 2

North Korea Mocks Japan for Rocket Artillery Test Reaction: ‘As If a Nuclear Bomb Was Dropped’ on You

Abe tried demonizing North Korea for what is no more than a large caliber artillery test

Tom O’Connor 9 Nov 19 476 0

Empire Woes: Chopstick Wars

South Koreans Would Back North Korea in a War With Japan 3 to 1

45 percent would want Seoul to aid the North, just 15 percent would want to back Japan

Tom O’Connor 7 Nov 19 444 2

War in Syria

US Special Forces Come Under Fire by Turkish Artillery in Syria Causing Them to Fall Back From Outpost

Pentagon says Turks are aware of US positions "down to the grid"

Tom O’Connor 12 Oct 19 817 2

Russia Tells Pentagon Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Nose After Boast It Could Shut Down Kaliningrad

US jets "only invisible to US Taxpayers" -- the Russian military

Tom O’Connor 22 Sep 19 4584 16

Persia Under Siege

Iran Mocks US After It Failed to Pay Off Oil Tanker

The Indian captain took US sanctions instead of 15 million dollars

Tom O’Connor 6 Sep 19 1444 23

Those Pesky Russians

Russia Signs Deal to Send Navy to Venezuela After ‘Unacceptable’ US Moves

Venezuelan military looking forward to more "exchange in education, training and combined exercises on land, water and air"

Tom O’Connor 16 Aug 19 1646 7

Our Benevolent Empire

US Navy Tries to Visit Hong Kong in Midst of Violent Pro-US Protests

How friendly of the US military!

Tom O’Connor 15 Aug 19 697 7

North Korean Defector and Son Found 2 Months After Starvation Deaths in Seoul Apartment

Having withdrawn their last 3 dollars

Tom O’Connor 14 Aug 19 878 10

UAE Coast Guard in Tehran to Talk Cooperation in the Strait of Hormuz

Things have gone far enough for the UAE which is now de-escalating the crisis

Tom O’Connor 31 Jul 19 546 4

Iran to Hold Naval Drills With Russia, Signed ‘Unprecedented’ Agreement to Expand Military Ties — Iranian Admiral

Drills to be held soon in the Indian Ocean at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz

Tom O’Connor 30 Jul 19 1510 4

South Korea Claims It Fired 100s of Warning Shots at First Ever Joint Russia-China Air Patrol

Moscow says it never happened as it would have triggered an "immediate response"

Tom O’Connor 24 Jul 19 921 5

History

Iran Has Its Own 9/11. It Was Carried out by the Pentagon

300 civilians were killed by a US Navy cruiser firing from inside Iranian waters

Tom O’Connor 5 Jul 19 1280 3