Russia and Ukraine Agree Gas Transit Deal, Kiev’s Earnings to Nosedive From $3bn to just $1.4bn, courtesy of imminent Nord Stream 2 completion Ben Aris 23 Dec 19 906 4
China Says Trudeau Wasting Breath Asking for Trump’s Help on Canadian Detainees Beijing at least understand how an Empire-client relationship works if Trudeau doesn't Bloomberg 22 Dec 19 761 8
Is This Kim’s “Christmas Gift”? Satellite Images Suggest North Korea Readying ICBM Tests Tyler Durden 22 Dec 19 493 4
Lapdog Chronicles Trudeau Feeling Like a Used Tissue Right Now, Has Asked US Not to Sign China Trade Truce Trudeau made himself an instrument in America's economic war on China only to be hung out to dry The Canadian Press 22 Dec 19 1374 13
Second Idlib Offensive Is Underway, Al-Qaeda-Led Rebels Losing Ground to Syrian Army Marko Marjanović 22 Dec 19 982 1
Germany Warns It Wil Kneecap Sanctions on Russia If US Assault on Its Energy Supplies Continues German officials warn US efforts to block Nord Stream 2 could blow back on EU's Russia sanctions Betsy Swan 22 Dec 19 1200 6
WARNING! This Site Includes Satire If you do not like the odd laugh it may not be for you Marko Marjanović 22 Dec 19 637 4
Guess Hong Kong Rioters Won’t Be Holding Up British Flags Anymore UK has called on anti-government protesters in Hong Kong to “end the violence” Ng Kang-chung 22 Dec 19 727 3
“Who Has Given the Americans the Right to Be in Syria?” China Asks “Let’s think the other way around: will the US allow Syria to send troops to US territory to protect oil fields there?” Press TV 22 Dec 19 1070 9
2019 Has Been a Year of Defeats for Saudi Arabia & MBS Has failed to subdue Yemen or Qatar and will have to backpedal on both Thomas W. Lippman 20 Dec 19 921 3
This Is a Very Dark Day in American History "The Democrats got what they wanted, but in the process they have created deep political fissures that will never heal" Michael Snyder 20 Dec 19 1022 8
Stop Telling Veterans That They Are Heroes It's just suckering more impressionable young men to risk life — and take life — for the Empire Caitlin Johnstone 19 Dec 19 675 10
It’s Over. Zelensky Severs Donbass From Ukraine Forever Zelensky (Poroshenko 2.0) has buried the Minsk process extinguishing even the smallest chance Kiev's rule could return to rebel east The Saker 19 Dec 19 2008 8
Trump’s Gutting of the WTO a Boon to the Multipolar World An unforced error Leonid Savin 19 Dec 19 990 6
Better Take Erdogan’s Troops to Libya Threat Seriously Foreign adventurism is now his trademark Kirill Semenov 19 Dec 19 813 0
South Korea Rejects US Troop Cost Demands, Talks End Without Deal No more talks scheduled before deal expires Jason Ditz 19 Dec 19 807 19
“One Country, Two Systems” Has Worked Out Insanely Well for Macau In 20 years since 1999 reunification GDP rose from $6.5bn to $54bn, at an average growth of 13 percent. Its GDP per capita now 3rd highest in the world Shen Minghao | 19 Dec 19 644 2
Why OK Boomer Should Really Be OK Fed It's money inflation that is behind the ever-widening wealth gap between the generations Charles Hugh Smith 19 Dec 19 593 3
New Law Gives US Intelligence Chief 30 Days to State Who Ordered Khashoggi Murder Congress' revenge vs Trump for illegally vetoing their vote to end US role in the Saudi war on Yemen Ali Harb 19 Dec 19 349 3
History The 130,000 Syrians Israel Expelled From the Golan Heights in 1967 Have Been Completely Erased From History The 130,00 Sunni Muslims were expelled, and only 7,000 Druze allowed to remain Irit Gal 19 Dec 19 2727 45
Satire Trump Says There Were ‘Good People on Both Sides’ of Armenian Genocide Roger Pumper 19 Dec 19 172 1
Bolivia CoupOur Benevolent Empire VIDEO: Glenn Greenwald Interviews Bolivia’s Deposed and Exiled Evo Morales "Morales was incredibly thoughtful, reflective, insightful, and analytical about virtually everything we discussed" Glenn Greenwald 19 Dec 19 594 2
US, Japan and Europe Team Up Against China in the Quantum Race Is that what it takes to compete vs China now? Akira Oikawa 18 Dec 19 1092 5
US Coast Guard Warns of an “Unsafe” Russian Ship off East Coast A surveillance ship puts the shoe on the other foot Jason Ditz 18 Dec 19 1050 8
Russia to Invest $500 Million on Syrian Port, Build Grain Hub, Extend Railway and Deliver 100,000t of Wheat in Aid Will also help restore oil production, and the two just held the first joint naval exercise The Moscow Times 18 Dec 19 1344 10
If Erdogan Really Sends Troops to Libya That Means War With Egypt And Egypt has the home field advantage Bernhard 18 Dec 19 739 3
Trade War Joys Beijing’s Ambassador Warns Germany’s Car Exports to China at Risk If Huawei Frozen Out “There will be consequences. The Chinese government will not stand idly by.” Zak Doffman 18 Dec 19 913 3
China and Russia Try Lifting North Korea Sanctions They Helped Install, but It’s Already Too Late It was all too predictable the pair would come to regret facilitating the Empire Marko Marjanović 17 Dec 19 1662 14