The Great Oil War of 2020 Saudi-Russian War on Shale Forces Trump Into Emergency Purchases in Desperate Bid to Shore Up Price The bailout of the oil bubble has begun Steven Mufson 16 Mar 20 1540 15
America Has a Long Tradition of Phony Peace Deals, Trump’s With the Taliban Is Just the Latest Just the latest practitioner of the art of the phony peace deal Nicky Reid 16 Mar 20 441 6
Russia to Form Gun Truck Battalions Russia's experiment with 'technicals' continues Russian Military Policy 16 Mar 20 2190 2
Supporters Crowdfund Manning’s Quarter Million Fine in a Blink Heartwarming Caitlin Johnstone 16 Mar 20 1535 12
War in Syria Turkey Is Already in Breach of the Putin-Erdogan Truce on Syria South Front 16 Mar 20 1066 8
Disaster at Rally as Biden Smudges Note on Hand Reading, ‘You Are Joe Biden and You Are Running for President’ The Babylon Bee 14 Mar 20 1480 18
US-Iraq War III The Second US Occupation of Iraq Is Underway Imagine if Chinese troops in Texas were disregarding the wishes of Congress & President, bombing US National Guardsmen, and reserving the right to kill a certain "low" number of civilians Marko Marjanović 14 Mar 20 1115 23
US-Iraq War III So Much for ‘Restoring Deterrence’: Rockets Slam US Base After ‘Retaliatory’ Strikes, 2 US Wounded US supposedly in Iraq to combat ISIS on behalf of Iraqi state, now in a war of exhaustion with part of the Iraqi state Marko Marjanović 14 Mar 20 1196 14
Putin Should Quitely Instruct Supreme Court to Declare Possibility of His Staying in Power After 2024 Invalid Staying on would fly in the face of everything he has been saying for years Gilbert Doctorow 14 Mar 20 1045 70
The Great Hysteria Pandemic Coronavirus: Why You Should Definitely Panic More (VIDEO) Given that media and government have never ever exaggarated a threat you should definitely believe them 100 percent Awaken With JP 14 Mar 20 1402 9
The Great Oil War of 2020 Russia Enters Oil Price War to Teach MBS a Lesson on Limits of US Support for Saudi A cash-strapped MBS may find the US isn't nearly as helpful when he doesn't have billions in bribes ready Nikolas K. Gvosdev 12 Mar 20 2261 25
Europoodles Shocked, Unhappy With Trump’s Surprise Kick in the Teeth Once again Trump sets back the relations between the Empire and its European auxiliaries — great! James McAuley 12 Mar 20 844 9
Trump Admin Unenthusiastic About Another War With Iran, Iraq After 2 US Soldiers Killed in Iraq Rocket Attack Well, well, well...it's the perfect pretext, so why not so belligerent this time? Marko Marjanović 12 Mar 20 1239 4
MIC Joys Boeing Crashes: $43 Billion in Share Buybacks Turn Into Existential Threat The "masters" of financial engineering have maneuvered the company into a 50% share crash Wolf Richter 12 Mar 20 947 7
The Great Hysteria Pandemic Panicked Politicians Who Want to Be Seen to Be Acting Are the Real Danger of the Coronavirus Outbreak Get a grip! Frank Furedi 12 Mar 20 568 3
Bubblegeddon The Fed Hit the Panic Button and It’s Making Things Worse Instead of helping matters the panicked rate cut to "fight" corona is threatening to burst the bubble Daniel Lacalle 12 Mar 20 500 7
This Isn’t a “Saudi-Russian” Oil War. It’s a Saudi & Russian War on Shale MBS couldn't get Russia to join him in aggressive cuts, so he forced it to join him in aggressive pumping — but Russia is not his target Marko Marjanović 12 Mar 20 2524 8
China Closes All Temporary Hospitals in Wuhan as Active Covid-19 Cases Plunge 1297 recoveries to just 19 new cases Monday Alba Ciudad 12 Mar 20 813 2
Pentagon Claims It Provided “Limited Support” to Taliban Crushing of ISIS They're far better at it than either the US or the US-founded Kabul army Richard Sisk 12 Mar 20 313 6
Did Putin Get Tereshkova to Clear a Path for Him to Stand for Reelection in 2024? Or was he as blindsided as the rest of us? Paul Robinson 11 Mar 20 1262 46
MIC Joys US Air Force Won’t Use Its Brand New Boeing Tanker Planes Except in an Emergency. A Fix Expected by 2023 or 2024 USAF has already accepted 30 and continues to accept more Joseph Trevithick 11 Mar 20 1121 8
$30 Oil Is a Whopping $20 Below Cost of Production for US Shale The average fracking operation needs $50 oil to break even Mike “Mish” Shedlock 11 Mar 20 1232 8
Belarus’ Lukashenko Can’t Get Anyone to Sell Him Oil at Anywhere Close to Prices He Rejected From Russia Nobody is interested in granting him even the 17 percent subsidy that he started a dispute over with Moscow Rauf Mammadov 11 Mar 20 1483 12
Bubblegeddon They Can’t See the Bubble for the Pin — It’s Not the Virus (or the Oil), It’s the Debt The coronavirus/oil market is just the blasting cap detonating the credit bubble implosion Schiff Gold 10 Mar 20 2210 22
US Army Scraps Plan to Sink $1 Billion Into Israeli Iron Dome Air Defenses Over Performance Limitations They're built to counter home-made rockets and contraptions but can't take down cruise missiles as Israelis claim Military Watch 10 Mar 20 958 6
Opinion It’s Not Covid-19 That Kills but Overwhelmed Health Care Systems With countermeasures you spread the eruption over a longer timeframe so victims get better care and fewer die Bernhard 10 Mar 20 928 3
Bonesaw Saudis Saudi Arabia’s Can Ill Afford the Oil-Price War It Started Need $84 to balance its budget, it has only two-thirds of the reserves it had in 2014, and was already on track for a 15% GDP deficit Abeer Abu Omar 10 Mar 20 1635 12