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 2161 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
War in Syria Erdogan Raises Stakes in Syria, Launches Offensive vs Syrian Army, Russians Intervene on Opposite Side Russian strikes save the day, force the Turkish-rebel force back, kill 2 Turkish tankmen Marko Marjanović 21 Feb 20 2418 13
Macron’s France — Europe’s Best Destination for Illegal Police Violence and Repression Civil liberties? Not under the boy wonder Emma Justum 20 Feb 20 596 15
Empire Woes Baghdad Is Blocking US Deployment of Patriot Air Defense Systems to Iraq The Pentagon is trying to move one battery from Saudi Arabia but it's stuck in Kuwait as Iraqis won't let it in Joseph Trevithick 20 Feb 20 2365 16
US-Russia Road WarsWar in Syria US Armored Truck Tries to Ram a Russian Armored Car in Northern Syria, Nearly Gets a Civilian Killed The US has graduated from "merely" blocking to trying to ram the Russians in Syria Marko Marjanović 20 Feb 20 3112 33
Site Stuff 2nd Jackass Removed From Thriving and Pleasant Anti-Empire Commenting Community Gotta separate the wheat and the chaff Marko Marjanović 20 Feb 20 1131 44
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Are Taliban and Trump Agreement-Capable? They're soon to put pen to paper on a violence-reduction pact Kyle Anzalone 20 Feb 20 148 3
Economic Warfare Joys Trump’s War on Huawei Devolves to a Cringeworthy Embarrassment for the US And the danger of serious economic disruption David Goldman 19 Feb 20 2054 12
Trump Is Right: The US Does Indeed Need a Space Force "Do you want your kids to have to speak Martian? Thought not" Walter Block 19 Feb 20 549 9
Our Benevolent Empire US Sanctions Russia’s Rosneft for Interfering With Its Economic War on Venezuela Sanctioned Rosneft for working with Venezuela, next is sanctioning those who work with Rosneft Katrina Manson 19 Feb 20 897 19
Empire Woes The F-35 Can’t Fire Its Cannon Without Committing Suicide Good thing then the cannon can't fire straight anyway so there's no reason to fire it Michael Peck 19 Feb 20 2375 18
The US Has Negotiated a Deal With Taliban to Go From 13,000 Troops to 8,600 in 4 Months Signing expected at month-end if a test truce succeeds Josh Rogin 19 Feb 20 583 9
Empire Woes US-Europe Conflict Erupts at Munich Europeans who are themselves targets of tarrifs and sanctions are failing to fall in line on China Andre Damon 19 Feb 20 1347 7
Our Benevolent Empire USA Is the World Spying Champion, That’s Why It’s Fighting the Simple Fix to China Spying Fears Encryption would thwart Chinese data collection, but no one has been more active in fighting it than the US Christian Stöcker 18 Feb 20 1358 12
Stay Classy MSM Widely Parroted Claim That a New Cambodian Airfield Is Really a Chinese Airbase Is Wrong, Ignorant and Stupid More China-themed fake news from the MSM Tyler Rogoway 18 Feb 20 697 4
Our Benevolent Empire US Told Mexico Adding to Its Fleet of Russian Helicopters Could Mean Sanctions What a great neighbor to have Mexico News Daily 18 Feb 20 1217 27
Our Benevolent Empire Sanders Says He Would Consider a Preemptive Strike on Iran and North Korea To prevent not even a threatened strike on the US, but a mere weapons test Jacob Crosse 18 Feb 20 1997 60
Empire Woes US Upset Its Spy Satellite Is Itself Being Stalked. Allegedly All of fifteen minutes old the US Space Force is already fearmongering about Russia and fighting the budget wars Chelsea Gohd 18 Feb 20 699 6
Belarus’ Lukashenko Threatens to Ape Ukraine, Siphon Off Oil Russia Sends to West Pompeo has offered to sell all the oil Belarus might need but guess siphoning off Russian is cheaper bne IntelliNews 18 Feb 20 1143 7
War in Syria NATO Has No Plans to Provide Military Support to Turkey in Syria’s Idlib Even the Trump admin is offering rhetorical and political support only (albeit that's bad enough) TASS 18 Feb 20 764 4
War in Syria Erdogan Escalates Threats, Syria Ignores Him, Scores Massive Gains Aleppo celebrates, but Erdogan has 7000 troops in Idlib, unquestioned US support, and a penchant for occupying pieces of Syria Marko Marjanović 17 Feb 20 2756 27
Japan GDP Shrinks a Massive 6.3% Annualized in Q4 (Without Even Being a Target of Sanctions) Meaning 2019 was a contraction year, as is likely for 2020 Akane Okutsu 17 Feb 20 727 7
The Battle to Feed All of Humanity Is Over. Humanity Has Won Famines today are man-made, like the Empire's famine in Yemen Marian L. Tupy 17 Feb 20 738 16
Russia Eyes Cleaning Up Its Arctic Waters of Radioactive Risks, Raise 2 Nuclear Submarines and 1000 Other Relics Hazardous legacy of the Cold War and the 1990s to be cleaned up Charles Digges 17 Feb 20 794 2
Those Pesky Russians Pipeline Built to Help Squeeze Russia out of European Gas Market May End Up Shipping Russian Gas Even at a tiny capacity of just 16 billion cubic metres per year TANAP still needs Russian gas to be utilized fully Azad Garibov 17 Feb 20 1416 5
Trump Supporters Are George W. Bush Supporters LARP-ing as Ron Paul Supporters They're backing the Ron Paulian in the White House that only exists in their heads Caitlin Johnstone 17 Feb 20 364 18
“Publish It, Let the World See It,” Says Huawei on US Evidence of Alleged Crimes Trump loves China so much he's holding back evidence that would bring Huawei down /s C. Scott Brown 17 Feb 20 828 4
Our Benevolent Empire Comedian Mike Pompeo Says “West Is Winning” Against Russia, China, and It’s Because It Respects Sovereignty So Much Pompeo mistakes the Munich Security Conference for an improv comedy club Daniel Larison 16 Feb 20 1907 17