Financial Fortress Russia Russia’s Reserves Hit $557 Billion, Surpass Pre-Sanctions Peak Just $11 billion of that is in dollars bne IntelliNews 24 Jan 20 2251 8
Trump Will One Day Soon Have to Explain to Americans Why US Soldiers Are Once Again Dying in Iraq For now Iraqis are asking nicely, that won't last forever Elijah J. Magnier 23 Jan 20 2047 6
For Pompeo a “Normal Nation” Is an Attack Dog of the Empire A tiny power of just 5 million nonetheless barely ever misses the chance to be sicced on Empire's enemies Marko Marjanović 23 Jan 20 1174 9
Our Benevolent Empire The Failure of Trump’s Pseudo-Engagement With North Korea Is Now Complete All because Trump isn't a member of the reality-based community Daniel Larison 23 Jan 20 821 16
Putin Has Deprived the Children of the Elite of Their Political Future Are those who have studied (and therefore resided) abroad now barred from top offices of the state? Aleksandr Rodionov 23 Jan 20 1603 16
Bubblegeddon The Great American Shale Oil Bust Has Already Wiped Out $200 Billion in Wealth And that's just debt accumulated by companies which already went belly up, not counting losses to stockholders, and inevitable future bankrupcies Wolf Richter 23 Jan 20 1625 8
In Africa the West Funds Extraction of Oil and Minerals, China Builds Infrastructure China which has itself emerged from the undeveloped world believes in Africa's potential in the way the US has long ceased to Lawrence Freeman 23 Jan 20 797 3
EU Declines to Recommend Members Ban Huawei’s 5G as Sought by US China's warning it may retaliate against their cars helps Europeans grow a backbone Bloomberg 23 Jan 20 1008 2
There Is Every Reason to Believe Iran’s Rejection of WMDs as Un-Islamic Is Sincere Khomeini repeatedly vetoed IRGC's moves to build WMDs in the 1980s even as Iraq was using them against Iranians with great effect Gareth Porter 23 Jan 20 454 2
Invincible Empire Laser Weapons Are Worthless, Another Costly Scam of the US Navy Brass Have an effective range of just one mile, worthless in rain or fog, and must maintain a precise spot on a moving target from a bouncing ship for several seconds Carlton Meyer 23 Jan 20 1566 1
Identity Politics: A Control Mechanism for the Ruling Elite Divide et impera Kurt Nimmo 23 Jan 20 569 1
Sanctioned Russia Grows at Twice the Rate of Germany 1.2 percent growth is nothing to write home about but still double than managed by unsanctioned Germany Tyler Durden 22 Jan 20 1425 6
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Trump Doubles Down on the Failed Coup in Venezuela Pompeo announces new sanctions and more support for Guaido Kyle Anzalone 22 Jan 20 220 0
Why Davos Elites Love Greta She is telling them to take more power for themselves and to coerce the rest of us even more Nikos Sotirakopoulos 22 Jan 20 621 4
Shoigu and Lavrov Retain Their Posts in the New Russian Government Along with virtually every other heavy-weight minister Bryan MacDonald 22 Jan 20 1046 1
Empire Woes Iran’s Pinpoint Missile Accuracy Scores a Direct Against Hit Against US Warplans With six direct hits Iran demonstrated if pushed it can hit back in ways Saddam could not The Economist 22 Jan 20 2814 1
Bolivia CoupOur Benevolent Empire Bolivia: As Elections Near, US-Backed Interim Gov’t Mobilizes Military, Arrests Opposition Leaders Freedom is ringing since the US-backed coup last November Alan Macleod 21 Jan 20 999 4
Iran Counters EU Threat of Snapback Sanctions Tehran isn't out of cards to play just yet Bernhard 21 Jan 20 1180 9
How Japan Achieves a Level of Nuclear Deterrence Even Without a Bomb This is why even just a civilian Iranian nuclear program is a threat to those who would wage war on it Robert Windrem 21 Jan 20 1153 2
Bubblegeddon The Federal Reserve Is Stuck in Quantitative-Easing Hell The Fed is now having to QE just to keep valuations where they already are, and this is just the beginning Howard Gold 21 Jan 20 1192 3
Trump Is Pulling the Wool Over Voters’ Eyes About What Is in the China Deal And Beijing is letting him get away with it out of its own calculation Tyler Durden 21 Jan 20 1111 4
Israel’s 2007 Strike Against a Syrian ‘Nuclear Reactor’ Was Nothing of the Sort Israel believed the site housed Hezbollah missiles (which was also not true), but sold it to the US as a North Korean-built nuclear reactor Gareth Porter 21 Jan 20 942 0
How Nobel ‘Peace Prizes’ Are Awarded in Support of Western Wars, Sanctions and Regime-Change Ops Just another battering ram of the Empire in the unrelenting war for your mind Terje Maloy 21 Jan 20 818 2
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Lies They Tell to Start Wars The war state wants conflict with Iran and North Korea Kyle Anzalone 20 Jan 20 302 3
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Threatens to Kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Put two and two together Kurt Nimmo 20 Jan 20 1749 22
VIDEO: Putin Flexes on Merkel, Macron. Brings Home the Point They Can’t Have a Libya Conference Without Him So much about 'isolated Russia' RT 20 Jan 20 935 8
Trump Murdered Soleimani Because He Was the Better Man Coward slew a hero Marko Marjanović 19 Jan 20 1009 13
Snowflake Trump Says Soleimani Was ‘Saying Bad Things’ Before He Had Him Murdered He was aggressing against the US by moving his mouth Tal Axelrod 19 Jan 20 451 7
US-Russia Road WarsWar in Syria VIDEO: Russian Airborne Army Column Passes Through US Checkpoint in Northern Syria Russian paras en route to back up the MPs on the Syrian-Turkish border Colonel Cassad 19 Jan 20 2475 10
Putin *Gives Up* Power and All MSM Sees Is “Power Grab” Actually he has now started the project of building the institutions that will outlast him and managing his departure Ben Aris 18 Jan 20 1971 8