If Putin Tries to Hang On Until 2036 It Could Undue His Entire Legacy Know when to say goodbye, retire at the top Gilbert Doctorow 20 Mar 20 831 17
The Great Hysteria Pandemic Handing Over Policy to Medical Professionals Is as Stupid as Handing It Over to Generals They aren't qualified to weigh the non-medical costs of their total war proposals Marko Marjanović 20 Mar 20 859 3
The Great Hysteria Pandemic This Year’s Influenza-Pneumonia-Corona Virus Cocktail Hit No Worse Than Any Other Year Why such attention on just this one virus out of a mix of 100 that hit us each and every winter? Marko Marjanović 20 Mar 20 2961 12
The Great Hysteria Pandemic What an Incredibly Useful Little Virus This Has Been for the Power Elite Instead of taking the blame for the global economic crash they get to play martial law Marko Marjanović 20 Mar 20 4318 42
The Great Hysteria Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 Is an Extraordinarily Mild Virus, No More Deadly Than the Score of Coronaviruses We Don’t Make a Fuss About The level of media hysteria, social panic and government repression totally unwarranted Marko Marjanović 20 Mar 20 1825 9
‘Joe Biden Is The Best Choice For Our Nation,’ Chants Tulsi Gabbard After DNC Completes Assimilation Process The Babylon Bee 19 Mar 20 767 12
Our Benevolent Empire Pompeo Confirms He’s Salty He Didn’t Get to Fight Russia to the Last Turk Points out Russia killed 34 Turkey's NATO troops in Syria Marko Marjanović 19 Mar 20 1525 13
From the Archive China’s Vast Fleet Is Tipping the Balance in the Pacific: A US Carrier Hasn’t Sailed the Taiwan Strait in 11 Years US used to sail carrier groups through the Strait of Taiwan, now it's down to destroyer pairs David Lague 19 Mar 20 3682 17
This Glorified Bug Absolutely Warrants Whatever “Emergency Measures” Our Regimes Want to Impose on Us. OBEY Or you're selfish!! CJ Hopkins 19 Mar 20 1849 9
Financial Fortress Russia Russia Says the Oil & Gas Price Crash Will Cost It Only $40bn (It’s Budget Surplus Last Year Was $30bn) The US was meanwhile is readying a $1.5 trillion bailout and was on track for a greater than $1 trillion deficit even before the crash Tsvetana Paraskova 19 Mar 20 1226 4
Iraq’s Kurdish President Taps a US-Iraqi Double Citizen for PM Iraq’s new PM-designate is drawn from the 2003 exiles (later death squad leaders) brought in on US tanks Khaled Yacoub Oweis 19 Mar 20 647 9
The Great Hysteria Pandemic Under the Tinpot Tyrant Macron It’s Now a Crime to Talk to Your Neighbour What we are really facing is hysteria pandemic and the disease of authoritarianism Josie Appleton 19 Mar 20 1159 6
Empire Woes US-Taliban Peace Deal Was Secured With a Last-Minute Concession That Pompeo Told Congress Would Never Happen Goes to show who really holds the strong cards here Michael Hirsh 19 Mar 20 982 3
The Great Hysteria Pandemic 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says. 50% Had 3 or More Of the 2500+ victims just 17 were under 50. All U-40 victims were males with serious preconditions Tommaso Ebhardt 18 Mar 20 2902 14
Goodbye Petrodollar The US Bond Bubble Is Showing Signs of Bursting. This Could Be the Beginning of the End for the Empire Unprecedented Fed measures not working David Haggith 18 Mar 20 2634 5
Invincible Empire USAF Aviators Get so Little Flight Time They Are Only Able to Retain the Most Basic Skills The Pentagon is now so proficient at shoveling billions to Lockheed there isn't enough money left over to keep the pilots sharp Marko Marjanović 18 Mar 20 1553 18
From the Archive Pence a Christian? POMPEO? "Christians? These Christians support a war on Yemen in which huge numbers of people are dying of mutilation, cholera, and starvation, a war they could stop with a telephone call" Fred Reed 18 Mar 20 1609 20
History How Moscow Did Everything It Could to Spare America Its Vietnam Quagmire Soviets only got involved after the US had done so first, and after years of trying to hold the Vietnamese back, even at the cost of losing nearly all influence in Hanoi to China Marko Marjanović 18 Mar 20 1935 16
The Great Hysteria Pandemic Chances Are War on Corona Is a Fiasco in the Making. Politicians Are Rushing to Drastic Measures Without Reliable Data "If we had not known about a new virus out there the number of total deaths due to 'influenza-like illness' would not seem unusual this year" Dr. John Ioannidis 18 Mar 20 2918 34
Junior Empire’s Balkan Poodle Gets Kicked in the Teeth, Suddenly Discovers Love for ‘Brotherly’ China Serbia's President is an opportunistic self-interested snake, Beijing should trust him only as far as they can throw him Exit.al 18 Mar 20 1488 12
Our Benevolent Empire Speaking of Contagions: US-Saudi Blockade Causes 750,000 Cholera (!) Cases in Yemen Per Annum 2.25 million since 2017 after Saudis droped US bombs on water treatment infrastructure Dave DeCamp 18 Mar 20 1048 4
The Great Oil War of 2020 Bad News for US Energy-Debt Miracle: Oil Plunges to 17-Year Low Hit $26 — the level it was at before Bush drove up the price by invading Iraq and printing up monies Tyler Durden 18 Mar 20 1147 4
Pakistan Calls on US to End Iran Sanctions to Confront Virus Virus is all the MSM still talks about but they're not interested in this part Kathy Gannon 18 Mar 20 814 6
US-Iraq War III US Withdrawing From Some Iraq Bases After Rocket Attacks Leaving the smaller, more exposed ones Courtney Kube 17 Mar 20 1026 14
Maduro Says It Costs Venezuela Triple to Buy Virus Test Kits Due to US Sanctions Calls on Washington to drop sanction so they can go and buy what's needed Alba Ciudad 17 Mar 20 675 17
As Coronvirus Grips the US, Americans Get a Taste of Life Under Sanctions Crippling shortages, travel restrictions and overwhelmed medical services is what it's like for the millions under US sanctions Alan Macleod 17 Mar 20 1613 20
Bonesaw Saudis Geopolitical Genius Donald J. Has Backed Saudi Arabia’s MBS to the Hilt Only to Get a Price War on US Shale in Return Trump has nothing to show for his Saudi First policy except betrayal Jackson Diehl 17 Mar 20 1646 12
Our Benevolent Empire US Soldiers in Europe for NATO’s Massive Drill Simulating War With Russia to Return Home Amid Pandemic America's largest planned deployment to Europe in 25 years fizzles out Kyle Rempfer 17 Mar 20 2567 11
Bubblegeddon Covid-19 Tips the Dominios: The World Is Insolvent "Subtract their immense debts and they have negative net worth, and therefore the market value of their stock is zero" Charles Hugh Smith 17 Mar 20 1559 7
Site Stuff Friday Downtime Nobody was banned, nothing was paywalled Marko Marjanović 16 Mar 20 559 14