It Will Take More Than One B-1 Bomber Run From South Dakota to Faze Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Cute but you can't sustain a campaign from South Dakota James Holmes 20 Jun 20 1369 11
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Says Should Have Fired Bolton for Botching NK Talks, but Bolton Had Already Sabotaged Talks Under Bush So why was he ever allowed anywhere near them? Marko Marjanović 19 Jun 20 831 15
US Wants to Surround China With Missiles, but Its Asian Clients Don’t Want to Host Them What the US left the INF Treaty with Russia to do David S. Cloud 19 Jun 20 1306 24
Lockdown Cost Economic Ministry Forecasts Russia Won’t Climb Back to Pre-Lockdown Levels Until Late 2022 GDP will be 5% lower in 2020 Ben Aris 19 Jun 20 623 2
Empire Woes US Navy Lacks ‘Clear Theory of Victory’ Needed to Build New Fleet “We don’t really have that clear theory of victory or operational concept today” Sam LaGrone 19 Jun 20 668 5
Empire's HeadchoppersOur Benevolent Empire How the Saudis and the Qataris Duked It out in Washington, and Took Over the Imperial City in the Process Which Islamist Gulf Monarchy is the US foreign policy going to serve? Moran Palumbo 19 Jun 20 457 2
Our Benevolent Empire Floundering NATO Tries to Surface by Confronting China Stoltenberg: “The rise of China is...multiplying the threats to open societies and individual freedoms and increasing the competition over our values and our way of life.” Brian Cloughley 19 Jun 20 516 3
Biden VP Front Runner Susan Rice Has a History of Criticizing Israel…While Also Letting Its Government Do Whatever It Wants If Biden wins the uber-militarist and uber-imperialist would be the Democratic nominee in 2024 Miachael Arria 19 Jun 20 548 1
After Spending $1 Billion Japan Gives Up on Installing a Costly (and Unproven) US Missile Shield Sam LaGrone 19 Jun 20 538 4
Russian Deputies Introduce Bill to Un-Ban the Excellent Telegram Messaging App Russians love it because creators refused to compromise with any government spying on their users — including by their own gov't bne IntelliNews 19 Jun 20 499 2
Yeah, the Russians Have Carrier-Killing Missiles, but Can They Actually Hit the Ships? (Answer: Yes) Turns out the Russians did not just build missiles and forgot about targeting Andrei Martyanov 18 Jun 20 2125 5
Warren, Harris, Rice? Which Horrible Woman Will Be Empire’s Helmsman If Democrats Win? Biden is narrowing the search for the half of the ticket that can actually string a sentence together Bill Barrow 18 Jun 20 630 4
Military COIN Experts Claim They Can End US Unrest in Just 17 Years “The American protestors have nowhere near the military capabilities we do, so we’ll be sure to end up in a quagmire, give up, and claim victory in 15 to 20 years” Red Friday 18 Jun 20 897 3
EU’s Debt Slave? Thanks to Lockdown Italy’s Debt-to-GDP to Hit a Fantastic 160% Italy has been pilling on debt without growing as it was, now it went and shot its foot off -- the price of Euro bailout will be its remaining independence Nick Corbishley 18 Jun 20 456 3
Kim Jong Un’s Well-Timed ‘Surprise’ Portends Another Nuke Crisis "Welcome to the North Korea crisis of 2020. North Korea warned us it was coming" Marko Marjanović 18 Jun 20 728 7
Cops of the WorldOur Benevolent Empire Planet Earth Police Department Blew Up Seven Innocent Black People in Somalia, Including a Child Black Lives Matter? Al Jazeera 18 Jun 20 681 5
Our Benevolent EmpireSyria Under Siege The Empire Declares a “Maximum Pressure” War of Economic Strangulation on Devastated Syria Having seen the defeat of its Al-Qaeda & co battering ram on the battlefield the Empire elects to torture the country by keeping its people in ruins Sheren Khalel 18 Jun 20 787 4
Our Benevolent Empire America: Too Weak to Rein in Its Own Empire Which has long stopped being a net positive for it Matt Purple 18 Jun 20 1028 3
Goodbye Petrodollar Walking on Thin Ice: Can America’s “Exorbitant Privilege” and King Dollar Survive a 17.9% Budget Deficit? Unless the world is willing to fund a $4 trillion deficit (it isn't) it portends a crash in dollar's value that may pull the rug under from its hegemony Stephen S. Roach 18 Jun 20 870 2
Those Pesky Chinese China Claims Quantum Supremacy With Satellite Test, Sends Secure Message Over 1200 Kilometers 'This would achieve the Holy Grail that all cryptographers have been dreaming of for thousands of years' Dave Makichuk 17 Jun 20 1545 2
Covid Stone AgeThe Flat Curve Society COVID Lockdowns Have Sped Up the Spread of Other Diseases, a Measles Explosion Feared 140,000 died of measles in 2018 but this year an additional 178 million (!) are at risk of missing their immunization Jan Hoffman 17 Jun 20 578 3
A Big Oopsie in the US Unemployment Numbers — Convenient Error Hid True Depth of Lockdown Joblessness The Feds "misclassified" 5 million unemployed, a big shock coming in October Michael Maharrey 17 Jun 20 681 10
US Leads a Coalition of One Against China Pompeo can't even get the Europeans, Koreans and Japanese to sign onto symbolic statements Ted Galen Carpenter 17 Jun 20 1278 7
Iran Announces Its Support for the Turkish-Backed Libyan Government, Moves Closer to Turkey-Qatar MB Axis Ironically this means Iran is rooting for the same side AFRICOM is, but the key to understanding is Saudi Arabia Middle East Monitor 17 Jun 20 886 5
North Korea Blows Up Joint Liaison Office Building With South Korea After Announcing End of Interest in US Relations South Korea's unification minister offers to resign Kim Hjelmgaard 17 Jun 20 939 6
The Covid RougeThe Flat Curve Society After the Lockdowns, a Global Hunger Crisis (And the Mother of All Migrant Crises) Another 130 million to be pushed into a state of acute hunger — by the biggest man-made disaster since the Great Leap Forward Arif Husain 17 Jun 20 3685 12
India Confirms 20 Soldiers Killed in Border Clash With Chinese Forces Indian media claims up to 43 Chinese casualties Tyler Durden 16 Jun 20 946 7
Bubblegeddon The Fed’s Grand Bargain Has Finally Imploded "It's a long way to the bottom of the canyon, and the impact will be devastating" Charles Hugh Smith 16 Jun 20 1067 7
Our Benevolent Empire Crushing US Sanctions to Take Effect on Syria This Week Regime-change war was defeated so here is Empire's revenge Dave DeCamp 16 Jun 20 1224 46