Pentagon’s Map of Bases in Africa Contradicts Its Claim of ‘Light’ Footprint "As the US military footprint and military activities have increased, terrorist violence has grown and terrorist groups have proliferated" Nick Turse 4 Mar 20 822 8
Buying the Official Skripal Poisoning Story Requires Believing 40 Absurd or Implausible Claims…At the Same Time A riddle, wrapped in a cover up, inside a hoax Rob Slane 4 Mar 20 1730 3
God, Family and the Russian People Make It Into Russia’s New Constitution "They are to be put to a public vote on 22 April. No doubt they will pass by a large majority" Paul Robinson 4 Mar 20 1231 7
State Department Crosses Into AQ-Held Syria for a Photo-Op, Offers Turkey “Ammunition” for Syria Campaign As Lindsey Graham calls for a no-fly zone against Russia over Syria Marko Marjanović 3 Mar 20 1335 19
War in Syria Why Syrian Army Positions Really Collapsed on First Day of Erdogan’s All-Out Offensive Not true that Russians had left them out to dry — and now that they've recovered Erdogan is going to Moscow with a weak hand John Helmer 3 Mar 20 5253 16
China’s Handling of Covid-19 and America’s Handling of H1N1 Compared Side by Side (VIDEO) In 2009 swine flu infected 60 million Americans as US gov't and the corporate media underplayed its actual scale by a factor of one hundred Nathan Rich 3 Mar 20 967 7
Trade War Joys Huawei Is Developing Its Own Search App to Replace Google on Its Phones More blowback from the anti-Huawei crusade Zak Doffman 3 Mar 20 1149 6
‘Do You Want to Protect AQ or Defeat Them?’ — Watch Tulsi Be Great on Syria Anyone comparable on the right? Anti-Empire 3 Mar 20 658 7
US Tells 18 Year-Old Afghanistan War to Get off Couch, Find a Job Even Vietnam was out by this time, but not this lazy doofus Bull Winkle 3 Mar 20 440 2
Sergei and Yulia Skripal “Desperate” and “Under House Arrest” in Britain — The Sun Locking up the victim to cover up the real perpetrator (and the real crime) John Helmer 3 Mar 20 1991 14
War in Syria Anti-Empire Has Some of the Best Syria (Turkey vs Russia vs US) Coverage on the Internet Context and depth in a way that's decluttered and easy to get into Marko Marjanović 3 Mar 20 5114 15
Turkey Is Busing Migrants to Greek Border, Rejects EU’s €1 Billion Offer to Knock It Off It's military-political backing against Russia in Syria on al-Qaeda's behalf that Erdogan wants, not more monetary bribes Free West Media 3 Mar 20 1137 9
War in Syria Russia Deploys Military Police to Highway That Erdogan Demands Syrian Army Gives Back to Al-Qaeda The Russians are coming Marko Marjanović 2 Mar 20 3497 3
War in Syria Wounded and Shaken the Syrian Army Goes on the Counter-Offensive, Wins Erdogan has bloodied the Syrian army alright, but after initial shock the force has responded with tenacity rather than panic Marko Marjanović 2 Mar 20 4309 6
The US–Taliban Deal Is Not the Military Withdrawal It Should Be It's neither a peace deal, nor a US military withdrawal, but another Syria-like Trump U-turn in the making Adam Wunische 2 Mar 20 674 8
War in Syria Erdogan Gets His Putin Meeting, but It’s He Who’ll Have to Go to Russia Erdogan's idea of making Putin come to him to talk Syria doesn't pan out Marko Marjanović 2 Mar 20 1588 10
Pentagon Sees Taliban Deal as Allowing Fuller Focus on China There will be no "peace dividend", the warfare state marches on Robert Burns 2 Mar 20 420 2
Bolivia CoupOur Benevolent Empire MIT Study Finds No Evidence of Fraud in Bolivian Election That Resulted in a US-Backed Coup Morales had no reason to cheat to avoid a runoff he was sure to win Dave DeCamp 2 Mar 20 370 1
Our Benevolent Empire Commander of US Forces in Europe Tells Senate He Is “a Fan of Flexible First Strike” vs Russia The military commander of entire NATO doesn't mind lobbing nukes first Scott Ritter 2 Mar 20 2886 21
Tulsi Gabbard: Presidential Candidates Must Also Condemn Election Interference by US Intelligence Agencies "The corporate media will do everything they can to turn the general election into a contest of who is going to be "tougher" on Russia" Tulsi Gabbard 2 Mar 20 674 3
Those Pesky Chinese Can the US Afford an Arms Race With the World’s Biggest Economy? One race you may not want to get into Godfree Roberts 2 Mar 20 1815 7
Turkish-Syrian War Turks Shoot Down 2 Syrian Su-24s in One Day, Turkish-Qaeda Offensive in Full Swing, Taking Ground From Syrian Army A NATO military and al-Qaeda affiliate advancing shoulder to shoulder Marko Marjanović 1 Mar 20 3351 15
Israel Sends Condolences for Turkish “Martyrs”. Erdogan Expands War to Hezbollah, Iran Iran warns Turkey to knock it off or it will respond in kind, but that may be exactly what Erdogan wants Marko Marjanović 1 Mar 20 3055 24
Site Matters Author Name Is Finally Clickable on Anti-Empire Woohoo! Marko Marjanović 29 Feb 20 622 3
War in Syria Russians-Syrians Had to React to Turkey’s Strikes on Syrian Army or Throw in the Towel Turkey releases footage showing it had been inflicting staggering attrition on the Syrians over the past weeks Marko Marjanović 28 Feb 20 3499 18
War in Syria 33 KIA in Airstrike on Turkish HQ in Syria. Russia Denies Ankara’s Request to Evacuate the Wounded by Air Russia's reply to Turkey pushing the Syrian army from Syrian territory, severing the Damascus-Aleppo highway Marko Marjanović 28 Feb 20 5221 17
Those Pesky Russians Erdogan Has Been Telling Everyone and Their Mother He Is Meeting Putin on the 5th. Putin Says Has No Plans to Meet Him A Turkey-Russia-Germany-France summit on Idlib in Istanbul just another of Erdogan's pipedreams Marko Marjanović 27 Feb 20 1669 10
War in Syria Syrian Army Collapses a Chunk of Southern Idlib Pocket, but Turkish-Rebel Offensive Takes Back Critical Town Erdogan makes some gains, cuts the recently reopened Damascus-Aleppo highway Marko Marjanović 27 Feb 20 1833 1
War in Syria Erdogan Vows to Risk Everything to Save Idlib for al-Qaeda, Reiterates February-End Deadline for Syrian-Russian Retreat Whether it's a bluff or a threat — Erdogan is doubling down on it Ragip Soylu 27 Feb 20 1492 9
Our Benevolent Empire The Empire Accuses Iran of Smuggling Weapons Into the Warsaw Ghetto If Iran is indeed smuggling anti-aircraft missiles into the open-air prison that is Saudi-blockaded Yemen then that is a heroic act Marko Marjanović 27 Feb 20 720 6