51st State Adventures Russia Says Airliner Was Forced to Land After Israelis Were Using It as a Shield in Syria Strikes (VIDEO) An A320 with 172 passengers on board had to abort its descent to Damascus, flee, and land at a Russian military airbase RIA Novosti 7 Feb 20 6844 52
Coronavirus Mortality May Be as Low as 0.16% Data from provinces where they're not as swamped and probably have better numbers indicates Marko Marjanović 7 Feb 20 843 13
Empire Woes Who Is Going to Risk a $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier in Combat? The pricetag makes the carrier useless in peer-to-peer combat Joseph McGraw 7 Feb 20 4025 32
Trade War Joys Trump’s Steel Tariffs Start Cascade of Downstream Pain Have backfired in a spectacular way Mike “Mish” Shedlock 7 Feb 20 1174 3
Our Benevolent Empire MSM Covers Up That Trump Palestine Plan Would Strip 350,000 Arabs of Israeli Citizenship They would become citizens of the new victimized and squeezed Palestinian bantustan under Israeli overlordship James North 7 Feb 20 612 7
Goodbye Petrodollar Whether You Call It QE or Not the Fed Is Monetizing US Debt Its hoard of treasuries it has taken off the market with newly-created currency just keeps growing and growing SchiffGold 7 Feb 20 945 12
Our Benevolent Empire The US to Stop Helping Turkey Kill Its Rebel Kurds We now learn that since distant 2007 the Empire had been secretly helping Turkey target its left-wing Kurdish nationalist rebels Humeyra Pamuk 7 Feb 20 350 3
Our Benevolent Empire 2019 Saw a Record Number of Imperial Navy “FONOPs” Provocations in the South China Sea US claims to be sailing to defend the UNCLOS convention it has not itself ratified and does not subject itself to David B. Larter 7 Feb 20 567 4
Our Benevolent Empire Iraqis Question US Claim Iran-Friendly Paramilitaries Were Behind Attack on US Base Attack which killed US contractor and Trump used as excuse to bomb Iraqi paramilitary troops took place in area known for ISIS activity Alissa J. Rubin 6 Feb 20 700 2
War in Syria Military Genius Erdogan Gets Hundreds More of His Troops Encircled in Syria As Sergei Lavrov explains to him this is a Russian as well as a Syrian operation Marko Marjanović 6 Feb 20 3544 14
Trade War Joys Trump’s Trade War Has Cut Trade Deficit With China — And Blown It Up With Everyone Else The total trade deficit has barely budged Wolf Richter 6 Feb 20 900 5
Our Benevolent Empire Ingenious: Threatened by Esper’s Proposed Drawdown AFRICOM Makes Up Iranian African Threat AFRICOM claims Iran will seek to attack them so of course they can't retreat now Jason Ditz 6 Feb 20 689 7
Bubblegeddon The Future of What’s Called “Capitalism” Whatever definition of capitalism you use, the current system isn't it Charles Hugh Smith 6 Feb 20 679 6
Those Pesky Chinese China Is Figuring Out How to Build a Modern Nuclear Attack Sub, the Last Step to a Truly World-Class Navy The Russians could help Lyle J. Goldstein 6 Feb 20 1606 14
Adventures in Trumpia Trump’s Neocon State of the Union Address Foreign policy part of the speech that could have been writen by Paul Wolfowitz Daniel Larison 5 Feb 20 1348 11
Our Benevolent Empire Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ Won’t Bring Peace – That Was the Plan "That is why the plan includes a host of unrealisable preconditions before what remains of Palestine can be recognised" Jonathan Cook 5 Feb 20 454 2
Our Benevolent Empire Top Navy SEAL Commander to Resign Early After Clashing With Trump Had tried to reform the unit and restore discipline Matthew Cole 5 Feb 20 1606 6
War in Syria Erdogan Says He Issued Ultimatum to Putin for Syria to Relinquish Gains or He’s Joining the War on AQ’s Side Has given Syria until month-end to retreat from Syrian territory it has just retaken from AQ or he's invading Marko Marjanović 5 Feb 20 3546 26
Persia Under Siege Iranian Strike on US Base Was Modeled After Trump’s Syria Strikes Trump had shown the Iranians how to carry out a mostly harmless strike for the cameras Paul Iddon 5 Feb 20 981 6
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Limiting Presidential War Making with the Constitution Michael Maharrey on the War Powers Act Kyle Anzalone 5 Feb 20 66 1
Our Benevolent Empire Dunford Joins Ex-Boss Mattis on Lockheed Martin Board Until a few months ago the commander of the entire United States Armed Forces joins the ex-Secretary of Defense Tom Engelhardt 5 Feb 20 448 2
War in Syria Undeterred by Arrival of Turkish Military the Syrian Army Continues Advance, Cuts Key Highway, Reaches Edge of Saraqib Is now less than 10 kilometers from Idlib city Marko Marjanović 4 Feb 20 1646 5
Our Benevolent EmpireUS-Russia Road Wars Americans Keep Trying to Roadblock Russian Troops in Syria. The Russians Just Go Around Them Marko Marjanović 4 Feb 20 3500 12
Persia Under Siege How Iran Decided to Bomb US Bases and What Else It Had Planned If US Hit Back Iran hit the base Trump had previously visited, with missiles prepared intentionally in full view of US satellites Elijah J. Magnier 4 Feb 20 3000 13
Trade War Joys Trump’s Threatened 100% Tarrifs on EU Wines Would Be Devastating for US Producers Wines aren't interchangeable and protecting California wines with tarriffs will be horrible for their prestige Constantin Grudgiev 4 Feb 20 787 5
Those Pesky Russians Russia’s National Mission: To Forge a More Congenial World Order Russia is that part of the West which does not seek to remake the world in its image, but wants room for everyone to develop as they see fit Nicolai N. Petro 4 Feb 20 1020 17
Stay Classy MSM As Media Fans Coronavirus Fears the Flu Has Already Killed 10,000 This Season in the US Alone Let's keep some perspective, eh? Jessica Bursztynsky 4 Feb 20 1814 8
Adventures in Trumpia Trump’s Palestine Plan Is a Calculated Effort to Strip Pro-Israel Jews From Democrats Especially with Trump the simplest and the most self-interested explanation is usually correct Philip Weiss 4 Feb 20 516 6
Our Benevolent Empire America’s New Low-Yield (More Usable) Nuclear Warhead Project Actually Has Its Own Logo What other country on earth would have a special logo for something like this? John Chuckman 4 Feb 20 379 7