War in Syria An Unintended Syria Air Clash Could Pull Biden Into Conflict Involving Russia, Israel Tom O’Connor 11 Feb 21 1291 16
Our Benevolent Empire Syria Sends First Message to President Biden: Withdraw Troops, Stop Stealing Oil Tom O’Connor 22 Jan 21 1431 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 21 731 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 20 659 8
CLEVER: Turkey Bombs Iraq, Syria, Says Targeting Antifa Trainers Has killed 20 civilians according to Kurdish reports Tom O’Connor 21 Jun 20 441 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 1778 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 19 699 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 19 632 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 19 460 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 19 438 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 19 802 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 4567 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 1441 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 1631 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 19 695 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 19 875 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 19 544 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 1496 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 19 919 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 1275 3
Adventures in Trumpia Iran’s Rouhani Says Trump’s White House ‘Afflicted by Mental Problems’, Trump Threatens ‘Force’, ‘Obliteration’ Says "Iran's use of IEDs killed 2000 Americans" Tom O’Connor 26 Jun 19 429 1
One-Third of US Backs Nuclear War on North Korea, Killing One Million Study finds the US public "exhibits only limited aversion to nuclear weapons use and a shocking willingness to support the killing of enemy civilians" Tom O’Connor 25 Jun 19 395 18
Our Benevolent Empire Russia Keeps Asking US to Agree to No Nuclear Weapons Use, but It’s Not Getting Any Answer Russia again urges the US to adopt a joint declaration that a nuclear war cannot be won Tom O’Connor 12 Jun 19 527 5
Persia Under Siege That Time Pentagon Wargamed a War With Iran and the ‘Red Team’ Player Sent Its Carrier Group to the Bottom of the Sea Rather than learn from it the brass then stepped in and rewrote the rules of the exercise Tom O’Connor 20 May 19 1181 4
