Our Benevolent Empire US Plans to Conduct Cyberwar Against Russia in “Retaliation” for Made Up Election Meddling Cyberwar on Russia will substitute for the utterly absent evidence that "Russia did it" Scott Ritter 29 Dec 19 791 4
War Criminals With Staying Power Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese Soldier Who Gave Up the “Fight”…in 1974 Busied himself with hacking local peasants to death until found and formally ordered to stand down Rare Historical Photos 28 Dec 19 1842 16
Empire Woes US Air Force Explains Why the US Navy Will Lose on China’s Shore Every Time It's a salvo fired in the budget wars, which doesn't mean it's wrong David A. Deptula 28 Dec 19 2471 15
Philippines Sanctions US Senators, Threatens Harsher Entry Conditions for US Citizens Banned from entering, for working to sanction Duterte's underlings Neil Jerome Morales 28 Dec 19 1243 2
War in Syria Syria’s Idlib Offensive in Operational Pause as Weather Frustrates Air Support, 2nd Turkish Outpost Encircled AQ bought a respite by General Fog The Twisted Genius 28 Dec 19 776 0
Our Benevolent Empire Chinese Special Forces Soldier Pardoned by Xi Described by Colleagues as ‘Freaking Evil’ Oh wait, that's a US soldier pardoned by POTUS Dave Philipps 28 Dec 19 865 9
Goodbye Petrodollar China Must Urgently Move From Yuan to Goldyuan, Topple the Dollar Surviving the next crunch will require no less Alasdair Macleod 27 Dec 19 2804 5
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Trump’s Foreign Policy Failed in 2019 American First is making Americans less safe Kyle Anzalone 27 Dec 19 316 3
Here’s the Menagerie of Idiots, Fanatics and Hacks Competing to Take Over From Pompeo at State Cotton and Rubio in the mix, it could even go to trainwreck Ric Grenell, the shambolic ambassador in Berlin Daniel Larison 27 Dec 19 869 5
It’s Time for Russian Carrier Ambitions to Sail Into the Sunset If carriers are obsolete that goes double for Russia The Saker 27 Dec 19 1194 12
Donald Trump Somehow Manages to Become Stupider Hails Turkey protecting Al-Qaeda from Syria, Russia Janice Kortkamp 27 Dec 19 1384 7
Those Pesky Sino-Russians Russia, China and Iran Start Naval Drills off the Strait of Hormuz In the Gulf of Oman where a pair of tankers was hit in June The Moscow Times 27 Dec 19 699 3
NATO Squabbles Erdogan: Turkey Will Send Troops to Libya Next Month NATO vs NATO proxy war on the ruins of a state they destroyed to intensify Deutsche Welle 27 Dec 19 525 2
Bubblegeddon The Global Economy Is Sick and It Has Nothing to Do With the Trade War It's the dollar. and global trade is already shrinking as a result Jeffrey Snider 26 Dec 19 1516 3
Those Pesky Russians Europeans Stop Work on Nord Stream 2, It Will Be Finished by the Russians As in 1812 and 1941 the Russians again doing more for Europe than Europe does for itself Polina Nikolskaya 26 Dec 19 1649 2
You Don’t Want to Get Into a Missile Race With the Chinese — But That’s Exactly Where the US Is Headed The way they're laying down ships — missiles will be child's play Lyle J. Goldstein 26 Dec 19 1578 5
Nobody Is Touching US-Occupied Syrian Oil With a 6 Foot Pole — Saudi Aramco Denies Sending Experts There's even been reports of Saudi troops guarding the fields but I believe it's nonsense Marko Marjanović 26 Dec 19 1684 6
Our Benevolent Empire Esper Eyes Pulling Out of Africa…To Position More Forces Against Russia & China Could explain why AFRICOM has been so eager to see a Russian hand in Libya Helene Cooper 26 Dec 19 775 15
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Stuck Between Campaign Promise to End Wars and His Hawkish Megadonors The purchase price of the entire US democracy? A modest $250 million Eli Clifton 26 Dec 19 702 6
Al-Qaeda’s Jolani Sure Sounds a Lot Like American Neocons "We either achieve victory and we see it with our own eyes, or martyrdom in the way of Allah" Scott Horton 25 Dec 19 504 9
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast The Wars Rage On During Christmas Kyle covers news from around the world Kyle Anzalone 25 Dec 19 264 1
Bubblegeddon All I Want for Christmas Is an Unmanipulated Market "Everyone knows the price has lost connection with reality, and so every punter is one second away from hitting sell" Charles Hugh Smith 25 Dec 19 683 6
Bonesaw Saudis MBS Has Underlings He Had Kill Khashoggi for Him Sentenced to Death And you thought your boss was bad Marwa Rashad 24 Dec 19 1176 16
Our Benevolent Empire Operation Just Because: 30 Years Ago Panama Invasion Ushered in the Regime-Change Era A war against a CIA asset that packed thousands of civilians into mass graves Greg Grandin 24 Dec 19 1217 13
Empire Woes China, Japan and South Korea Are Working on a Trilateral Free-Trade Deal As Washington wages trade wars on clients and erects barriers to entry, China seeks to economically integrate them instead Orange Wang 23 Dec 19 1081 3
Russian Hackers May Have Interfered With Vote on Church Potluck, Local Man Suspects Putin “needs to keep his commie hands” off of the sovereign Independent Baptist church’s affairs The Babylon Bee 23 Dec 19 720 9
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: The Dark History of the ATF Sam Jacobs on 'Fast and Furious' and Ruby Ridge Kyle Anzalone 23 Dec 19 205 0
Russia Builds Nuclear-Powered Icebreakers the Size of WWII Battleships for $750M, Lockheed Needs $500M for a Frigate 8x the size of frigates in question Marko Marjanović 23 Dec 19 1189 8
India Set to Grow Old Before Getting Rich, Miss Out on Superpower Status Finds itself completely incapable of producing the sort of growth seen in China Vivek Kaul 23 Dec 19 926 9
Iran’s Rouhani Says He Talked Sanctions-Busting With Japan’s Abe Albeit knowing Abe talk is where it will stay at Reuters 23 Dec 19 270 11