If Sanders Wins the Democratic Nomination Will CNN Start Boosting Trump? The network can't conceal its extreme bias against the one major candidate that's marginally less bad on Empire Jim Naureckas 16 Jan 20 439 2
Trump Assassinated Soleimani Because He Was Terrified of Looking Like Jimmy Carter Made sense in his media-conscious, cowardly, facts-light mind Emily Blout 16 Jan 20 521 3
America’s Misunderstanding of the 1979-81 Hostage Crisis Still Poisons US-Iran Relations The Iranians were terrified the US, which had accepted the shah, was going to reimpose him as it had in 1953 Stephen Kinzer 16 Jan 20 567 5
Putin Proposes for Constitution to Bar Russians Who Have Residency Permits Abroad From Becoming Top Officials Bad news for oligarchs and Atlanticists Anatoly Karlin 16 Jan 20 2231 15
Russia’s Entire Government Resigns, Putin Picks Chief Taxman to Replace Medvedev at PM Putin starts the management of what comes after him Bryan MacDonald 16 Jan 20 868 0
Euro-Poodles Trump Threatened Euro-Poodles With 25% Car Tarrifs If They Didn’t Blow Up the Iran Nuclear Treaty So now UN sanctions will snap back on Iran, albeit it was the US which tore up the deal, and the EU which did not honor it John Hudson 16 Jan 20 821 3
German Parliament Office Reports No Russian Invasion of Eastern Ukraine, Rejects Media and Government Propaganda Takes a look and finds no reliable information to support the claim John Helmer 15 Jan 20 1812 2
The Euro-Poodles Follow Trump’s Lead to Kill the Iran Nuclear Deal Just like its master the Euro-poodles are not agreement capable Bernhard 15 Jan 20 516 2
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: The Fallout and Lies of the Soleimani Assassination Pompeo says the new policy is 'real deterrence' Kyle Anzalone 15 Jan 20 247 0
Trade War Joys “Tariff Man” Is Presiding Over the Biggest Contraction in US Manufacturing in 10 Years What do you know, trade wars are bad for manufacturers Frank E. Holmes 15 Jan 20 1001 2
Those Pesky Russians Bad News for “Molecules of Freedom”: Russia to Ramp Up Orders for Icebreaking LNG Tankers Already operates 15, has 15 more on order, and now wants another 10 Business Korea 15 Jan 20 1509 1
Orders at Boeing Drop to a 16-Year Low, Making a Trump War on Airbus That Much More Likely Another excuse for Trump to expand economic conflict onto Euro-poodle "allies" Mike “Mish” Shedlock 15 Jan 20 650 2
Putin Explains the Obvious, Russian Mercenaries in Libya Aren’t Working for Him They follow the money, not diktat of the Russian state Pravda.ru 15 Jan 20 981 2
How the Night When Flight 752 Was Downed Would Have Looked to the Iranian Crew That Pulled the Trigger "Their radar, blazing like a bright flashlight in a dark room, was literally telling hostile forces where their location is" Tyler Rogoway 14 Jan 20 776 1
Invented by USSR to Counter US Hedgehog-Like “Bastions” Are Back, Proliferating Fast, and More Effective Than Ever 21st century tech makes them more effective than ever James Lacey 14 Jan 20 2430 7
Please Stop With the Idiotic Nonsense That Iraqi Vote to Expel US Troops Was “Non-Binding” Gullible media falls for Pompeo's obvious lie Juan Cole 14 Jan 20 1327 3
WW3 Flickers Out After Terroristy Terrorists Inflict Mass Non-Casualties Despite the best efforts of an emotionally-challenged street-corner drunk CJ Hopkins 14 Jan 20 723 3
US Sanctions Venezuelan Opposition Leader for Beating Guaido in National Assembly President Vote Elected with 81 votes in a 167-seat assembly with 150 of the members present Sputnik 14 Jan 20 1529 1
Trump Brags About Renting Out Troops to Saudi Arabia for $1 Billion Donald J, Prince of Hesse The Mind Unleashed 14 Jan 20 601 2
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Maximum Pressure, Maximum Failure Will Porter on Trump's failed strategy Kyle Anzalone 13 Jan 20 309 0
British Ambassador to Iran Arrested at Protest in Tehran, Sparks a Counter-Protest at the Embassy It is not known if he was carrying a bag of cookies Lucy Middleton 13 Jan 20 385 3
What Went Wrong for Iran Air Defenses to Shoot Down a Civilian Airliner Over Tehran? An old missile system that can't be integrated and with only a short-range radar had been brought to Tehran only recently Moon of Alabama 13 Jan 20 916 3
Pentagon Claims US Destroyer “Aggressively Approached” by Russian Warship in Arabian Sea Vessels came within 180 feet of each other before the Russians altered course Tyler Durden 13 Jan 20 409 5
Our Benevolent Empire US Tells Iraq Not Willing to Talk US Troop Withdrawal, Threatens to Cut Country From Key Bank Account Instead The Empire thinks it's up to it Jason Ditz 13 Jan 20 394 4
Greece to Seek F-35 and F-16V Purchases — Turkey Expected to Respond With Orders for Russian Fighters Military Watch 13 Jan 20 1316 4
Instagram Says Is Removing Posts “Supporting Soleimani” to Comply With US Iran Sanctions US sanctions now determine what somebody may say on social media FOX 12 Jan 20 892 11
Military.com: “Iran May Have a Fleet of Communist Killer Dolphins” Marxist studies discovered among dolphins Blake Stillwell 12 Jan 20 789 6
Iran Admits It Accidentally Shot Down Civilian Airliner, Orders Investigation, Change in Procedures, Offers Apologies At the height of a US-Iran war scare Trump has been ratcheting up since 2018 Press TV 11 Jan 20 465 7
Tragic: Footage of Epstein Suicide Found Hanging in Cell "The footage reportedly strung itself up with a strip of cloth, hanged itself from the ceiling, and then shot itself three times in the back of the cassette" The Babylon Bee 11 Jan 20 1629 4