Our Benevolent Empire US Carries Out Strikes on Iraqi Paramilitary, Part of Iraqi Armed Forces The US graduates from facilitating Israeli strikes, to bombing the armed forces of its host nation itself Marko Marjanović 30 Dec 19 1267 9
Those Pesky Chinese China Nears Completion of Its GPS Alternative, Chinese-Made Phones Already Compatible The final two satellites are going up by June Shunsuke Tabeta 30 Dec 19 1308 8
Invincible Empire Imperial Navy Proposes Retiring the First 4 Littoral Combat Ships After Just 7 to 13 Years in Service That's how "useful" the $400 million boats are David B. Larter 29 Dec 19 1451 9
Erdogan Overstretching Himself to Libya Will Help Syria Finish Off AQ Rebels The sultan is already transferring some of the jihadis to his 2nd (3rd?) front in Libya Bernhard 29 Dec 19 896 1
Trump’s Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Backfire: Germans Urge European Firewall Against US Sanctions They're even talking of working with Russia and China to do it Bojan Pancevski 29 Dec 19 2121 7
Stay Classy MSM Media’s Deafening Silence on Wikileaks’ OPCW Drops Is Its Own Scandal The Trump-deranged media have the perfect opportunity to go after him for bombing an Arab country over fake WMDs, yet they won't come near it Caitlin Johnstone 29 Dec 19 526 0
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 19 778 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 1579 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 1177 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 1218 13