Our Benevolent Empire US DoJ Drooling Over Likely Assange Extradition No justice where poodles reign Kelley Vlahos 26 Feb 20 266 6
Those Pesky Russians Erdogan Calls Kremlin to Bail Him From His Idlib Fiasco, Pitiless Putin Lines Up Behind His Military Erdogan's incursion and appeals for US help have set back the pro-Turkish current in Moscow, consolidated Russia's position around the military view John Helmer 25 Feb 20 5047 14
Our Benevolent Empire Trump Bent on Redoubling Venezuela Regime-Change Op, Considering “Military Options”, Naval Blockade Humiliated by the failure of ill-advised economic warfare and coup attempts Josh Wingrove 25 Feb 20 929 38
Bubblegeddon Draconian COVID-19 Countermeasures Have Brought China to an Economic Standstill. The Entire World Will Be Affected The pin that bursts the global bubble economy that is already at its weakest since 2009? Stephen S. Roach 25 Feb 20 1027 2
Pete Buttigieg Daydreams About the First LGBTQ-Ordered Drone Strike "Buttigieg was last seen staring off into space, wearing headphones and making explosion sounds softly to himself" Mark Bouchard 25 Feb 20 362 6
Our Benevolent Empire US Dug Up 130 Tons of Irradiated Soil From Nevada and Dumped It on the Marshall Islands Now the protective dome is failing, but the US is refusing to help saying its their problem now Susanne Rust 25 Feb 20 1817 7
Adventures in Trumpia Trump’s Betrayal of Julian Assange From Wikileaks' biggest fan to seeking a Stalinist show trial against Assange Ron Paul 25 Feb 20 574 13
‘I Wrote so Many Ridiculous Cases’ – Asylum Mills Invent Lurid Tales of Chinese Gov’t Oppression This is also how the political anti-China propaganda gets made Jeremy Beck 24 Feb 20 1187 5
Socialism Without Anti-Imperialism: A Different Flavor of Tyranny "...has coincided ominously with a wave of open liberal imperialism defined by...militarist creep-a-zoids like Adam Schiff" Nicky Reid 24 Feb 20 681 10
Godfathers of Jihad Turkish Secular Opposition Tells Erdogan to Contain the Refugee Crisis by Working With Assad, Against al-Qaeda The obvious solution if refugees and not Islamist cred was actually his main concern Sibel Hurta 24 Feb 20 1002 3
Our Benevolent Empire Will Turkey Drag America Into a ‘World War III Scenario’ With Russia? Yes, if State Department has its way Matthew Petti 24 Feb 20 1390 25
War in Syria (Russian?) Warplanes Drop Bombs Next to Turkish Column in Syria, Force It to Halt Advance Turkey tried sending troops to get in the way of renewed Syrian offensive against the southern tip of Idlib pocket. Didn't work. Marko Marjanović 24 Feb 20 3186 8
Over $12bn Has Been Transacted on China’s Yuan Blockchain in the One Year Since Launch Banks adopting the blockchain for bank-to-bank transactions Lujan Odera 24 Feb 20 465 0
Wuhan Used to Be Very Well Known in the West as a Massive Industrial, Trading and Political Hub The West had a great commercial and diplomatic presence in this globally-significant city until the Communists pulled down the "bamboo curtain" Paul French 24 Feb 20 924 4
The Pentagon Is a Mean, Lean, Triumphant, Fighting Machine. It’s Just Not Fighting the War You Think It Is Its real war — the one it really cares about and is winning handily — is on the homefront Fred Reed 23 Feb 20 1781 27
Russia’s Defense Minister Hosts Libya’s Haftar in Moscow to Mess With Erdogan A reminder to Erdogan of another reason not to go too far in Syria's Idlib Maxim A. Suchkov 23 Feb 20 1542 10
Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled So They’re Pilling Up in Landfills "In the US alone, about 8,000 will be removed in each of the next four years" Kalina Oroschakoff 23 Feb 20 1921 7
Intelligence Sources: All Candidates Are Russian Agents but Pete Buttigieg Vote CIA Pete! Caitlin Johnstone 23 Feb 20 1069 5
War in Syria ‘Syrian’ Footage of Deadly Airstrikes on Turkish Military Shows They Were Actually Russian Strikes Moscow and Ankara are both happy to let the Syrians claim them to avoid a worse falling out neither wants Marko Marjanović 22 Feb 20 3822 10
War in Syria VIDEO: Turkish Troops Fire Missile at Russian Strike Aircraft Video evidence of Turkish-Russian acts of war in Syria Marko Marjanović 22 Feb 20 3265 18
Imperial Dilemmas The Taliban Are Offering the US a Fig Leaf to Withdraw. The US Should Take It Or do this for 10 years more and then take it Patrick Lang 22 Feb 20 848 14
Stay Classy MSM Regime Media This Week: More Power to Elites, Russia Invading Ireland, Putin Fears Bernie, Regime-Change Iraq Again How do they squeeze so much crap into a single week? Paul Robinson 22 Feb 20 615 3
51st State Adventures The State of Israel Has a Very Serious Antisemitism Problem Tramples over the rights of a minority religious sect — the Jews Miko Peled 22 Feb 20 1155 33
Stay Classy MSM CIA Says It Has Found No Link Between Itself and Crack Trade A 1997 The New York Times classic Tim Weiner 22 Feb 20 677 6
Russiagate Chickens Come Home to Roost for Sanders Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas Marko Marjanović 22 Feb 20 558 11
Stay Classy MSM Wuhan Virus Recoveries Have Been Exceeding New Cases for 3 Straight Days Over 20,000 have already recovered Marko Marjanović 22 Feb 20 846 1
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: The Senate Stands Up to Trump on Iran A War Powers bill could constrain the president's war-making Kyle Anzalone 21 Feb 20 191 0
Trump Picks Fool Who Blew Up US-German Relations to Head US Intelligence Agencies Absurdly Grenell gets to also stay on as Ambassador to Berlin Daniel Larison 21 Feb 20 1188 31
War in Syria US Military Spokesman Says Idlib Is a Magnet for Terrorist Groups Who Are a “Menace and a Threat” to Its Civilians Read this in the context of Turkey asking for US air defenses and fighters to back its Idlib campaign Marko Marjanović 21 Feb 20 2160 3
War in Syria Turkey Seeks US Military Backing for an Air Offensive in Syria Has asked for a deployment of Patriot missiles and USAF fighters to guard the rear of a Turkish push for skies over Idlib Marko Marjanović 21 Feb 20 1776 21