Boeing Will Have To Stop Its 737 MAX Production Line. China Raises “Important Concerns” About Proposed MAX Band Aids Even the new FAA head has had it with the aerospace-defense giant Bernhard 14 Dec 19 1192 3
Our Benevolent Empire Trump’s US Space Force Officially Launched in $738 Billion Defense Bill That's $120bn more than in the last Obama budget Tyler Durden 14 Dec 19 440 3
Trade War Joys US Claims China Pledged $40bn in “Phase One” Food Purchases, There’s Only One Problem With That China's agricultural exports never exceded $25bn even in the best of years Tyler Durden 14 Dec 19 1426 6
Trade War Joys Trump Had to Walk Back Existing Tariffs for “Phase One” Deal Just like China said he would need to Marko Marjanović 14 Dec 19 1173 3
Our Benevolent Empire Instead of Fixing Itself the US Seeks to Retain Supremacy by Tripping Up and Immobilizing China A good way of ensuring it does neither Chas Freeman 13 Dec 19 1033 10
Our Benevolent Empire Was Russia Barred From Olympics as Part of America’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign Against It? Or was it plain ol' racism? Robert Bridge 13 Dec 19 705 1
From the Archive NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia Taught North Korea It Needed Nukes and to Never Trust the US The current situation on the Korean Peninsula is a direct outgrowth of what Pyongyang observed in 1999 Samuel Ramani 13 Dec 19 2137 3
From the Archive Why Doesn’t the US Challenge Japan’s Absurdly Expansive Maritime Territorial Claims? No FONOPOS vs Japan which claims a huge exclusive economic zone based on the possession of a 10 square meter coral reef Wang Hanling 13 Dec 19 724 2
History Meet American Empire’s “Doctor Death”, the CIA’s Own Joseph Mengele "Sidney Gottlieb never became a household name, mostly because he never paid for his crimes" Kelley Vlahos 13 Dec 19 3797 9
Germany Tells US to ‘Mind Its Own Business’ as Congress Votes in Sanctions on Nord Stream Companies With friends like these... EurActiv 13 Dec 19 1717 9
FAA Calculated Boeing 737 MAX Could Crash 15 Times and Kill 3,000 People — But Allowed It to Keep Flying The chutzpah! If this is the level of Boeing-government corruption in the civilian sector imagine the shenanigans on defense deals Finance Twitter 13 Dec 19 1289 5
20 Persian Fast Attack Boats Escort US Carrier out of the Persian Gulf Apparently that's Farsi for "Sorry, we're not impressed" Defence Blog 12 Dec 19 4113 15
Our Benevolent Empire The Russians Did Try to Steal US Democracy. If by ‘Russians’ You Mean the FBI and the MI6 Inferfered with the election, been trying to overturn the voters' choice since Peter van Buren 12 Dec 19 653 1
Our Benevolent Empire The Most Significant Afghanistan Papers Revelation Is How Difficult They Were to Make Public It took a lawyer army which the pro-war, government-coddling WaPo would never had activated were it not looking to nail Trump Caitlin Johnstone 12 Dec 19 722 11
From the Archive Pence Urged Merkel to Send German Navy Into Russian Territorial Waters That time Pence casually suggested Germany starts WW3 with Russia and Berlin very nearly did it Marko Marjanović 12 Dec 19 2703 16
Russia Needs to Stop Wasting Time on Diplomacy With the USA, Focus All Energy on Beijing, Delhi and Others With Russia diplomacy criminalized in the US by the deranged "Resistance" what else is there to do? Paul Robinson 12 Dec 19 2232 11
Our Benevolent Empire US Senate to Consider Bill Designating Russia a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” This from people who have fought multiple wars on the side of al-Qaeda Teller Report 12 Dec 19 1634 24
Bolivia CoupOur Benevolent Empire Bolivia Coup Regime Asked Israel for Help in Fight Against the Pro-Morales Opposition “We’ve invited them to help us. They’re used to dealing with terrorists" Monica Machicao 12 Dec 19 416 4
Our Benevolent Empire After Helping to Starve 130,000 Yemenis to Death “to Fight Iran”, US Now Says Houthis Aren’t Iranian Proxies So what were all those deaths for? Matthew Petti 11 Dec 19 1363 7
Stay Classy MSM With People in the Streets Worldwide, Media Focus Uniquely on Hong Kong Unlike protests against US client states, the HK demonstrations are given the approving “pro-democracy” label Alan Macleod 11 Dec 19 813 5
Invincible Empire US Military Is Preparing for the War It Wishes to Fight — Not for the War Russia Is Actually Going to Deliver "We’re preparing to fight a war of neat columns of data, sophisticated user interfaces, systems of systems, and... spreadsheets" Navy Matters 11 Dec 19 2101 11
To Keep Growing China Must Continue Moving to Laissez Faire, Ditch Failed Interventionism Time to abandon the disastrous stimulus policies imported from the West Mihai Macovei 11 Dec 19 599 6
Empire vs the United States Trump Admin Is Going to Take Saudis at “Their Word” on Pensacola Terrorist Attack A treacherous attack on US officer candidates on US soil and Trump' first reaction is to run interference for the Saudis with the press Daniel Larison 11 Dec 19 271 4
Russian Aggression US Army Preparing Largest Exercise in Europe Against Russia in 25 Years 29,000 American and 8,000 other NATO troops to take part in a "force projection" stretching over 10 countries AFP 11 Dec 19 860 11
History Napalm: The Signature Weapon of the American Empire The single biggest one-night massacre of civilians in history was carried out at the fraction of the cost of an atomic bombing Robert Barsocchini 10 Dec 19 5783 30
Our Benevolent Empire Behind Ukrainegate Is the Conspiracy Theory That Russia Is at War With Ukraine Ukraine is at war with its own people Nicky Reid 10 Dec 19 878 1
Trade War Joys Trump’s Trade Policies Have Been All Pain, No Gain Think of them as self-sanctions Daniel Griswold 10 Dec 19 679 3
Our Benevolent Empire American Soldiers Are Bodyguards for Saudi Royals The Saudi royal court is a key institution of the Empire and is protected accordingly Doug Bandow 10 Dec 19 869 5
From the Archive When Russian Troops Were This Close to American Border the US Went Into a Meltdown Yet today US insists American troops on Russia's borders are no cause for concern and really none of Moscow's business Richard Purcell 10 Dec 19 2822 3
China Is an Education Superpower, Leaps and Bounds Ahead of the US And what is more has a far greater number of people capable of advancing science and research Godfree Roberts 10 Dec 19 1843 11