Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: NATO Is a Mess. It’s Time to End This Outdated “Alliance” Kyle highlights the recent inter-member issues Kyle Anzalone 5 Dec 19 192 1
Trade War Joys China Told Trump He Can’t Even Have “Phase One” Deal Without Tariffs Removal In case you were wondering why Trump changed the record again Marko Marjanović 4 Dec 19 1930 6
NATO Squabbles Trump Unloads on “Very Nasty” Macron; Macron Hits Back, Questions Trump: How Can Turkey Remain in NATO? The clown show that is NATO summit does not disappoint Tyler Durden 4 Dec 19 970 5
Bubblegeddon 47 Percent of GDP – This Is Definitely the Scariest Corporate Debt Bubble in US History Corporate America has $10 trillion (!) in debt and a bust is coming Michael Snyder 4 Dec 19 798 7
Goodbye Petrodollar Trump Admin Considered Nuclear Option in Banning Huawei from US Dollar, May Still Do So Too bad. Would have supercharged Huawei's and then China's de-dollarization drive Alexandra Alper 4 Dec 19 739 2
War in Syria NATO Document Leak Confirms Erdogan Personally Ordered the Shooting Down of Russian Su-24 in 2015 US out to frustrate Russian-Turkish relations, Putin continues to play dumb Nordic Monitor 4 Dec 19 1012 7
Majority of Germans Wants Less Reliance on US, More Engagement With Russia Backing self-reliance and Russia cooperation 2 to 1 Deutsche Welle 4 Dec 19 892 6
Our Benevolent Empire Was Sheldon Adelson Acting as Bag Man for the CIA? It looks like illegal surveillance of Assange was being hand-delivered to US agency via Adelson's Sands casino Kelley Vlahos 4 Dec 19 424 2
UAE Now Officially Backs Assad to Win the War in Syria Once a major backer of the rebels and foreign jihadis the Emirates has admited defeat and switched sides Tom O’Connor 4 Dec 19 1932 0
NATO Squabbles May the Circus Begin! NATO Bitterly Divided as London Summit Starts "Increasingly, Trump is not seen as the only head of state whose remarks could provoke a major diplomatic crisis" Alex Lantier 3 Dec 19 826 5
Tulsi Gabbard Indicted for Murdering Kamala Harris’s Presidential Campaign Exavier Saskagoochie 3 Dec 19 2127 2
From the Archive The Russian-Chinese ‘Power of Siberia’ Pipeline Has Killed the Prospects for the Alaska Gas Pipeline Alaskan hopes the Chinese would finance a $45bn (!) pipeline needed to export LNG to China are now dead and buried Irina Slav 3 Dec 19 2953 6
Russian Aggression There Is No Such Thing as Russophobia It doesn't exist Paul Robinson 3 Dec 19 514 0
Ukrainian Neo-Nazis Help Out at Hong Kong Riots, Pan-Democrats Defend Them Free Hong Kong Center tries to pass them off as "Slavic pagans" when their neo-Nazism is a matter of public record as even Bellingcat concurs Insomniac Resurrected 3 Dec 19 2247 10
Those Pesky Sino-Russians Russia and China Launch the 4,000-km Power of Siberia Natural Gas Pipeline, Putin and Xi Tune In Another step on the goal of $200bn bilateral trade by 2024 Tom O’Connor 3 Dec 19 750 1
New SEAL Emblem Will Depict an Eagle Taking a Selfie With Corpse An updated design that better reflects the current organizational culture Whiskey Fueled Tirade 3 Dec 19 1401 6
Trade War Joys Shunned in the US, Huawei Looks to Russia to Invent an AI Future America's loss, Russia's gain Simone McCarthy 3 Dec 19 1079 6
Adventures in Trumpia Donald the Meek: Three Times Trump Announced a Syria Withdrawal and Three Times He Broke Under Pressure What a wimp Daniel L. Davis 3 Dec 19 980 16
Those Pesky Chinese Taiwan Loses 3,000 Chip Engineers to ‘Made in China 2025’ US targeted China's reliance on import chips — China strikes back Kensaku Ihara 3 Dec 19 2092 6
Those Pesky Chinese The Most Deadly Aircraft on Chinese Carriers Will Be Their Unarmed Stealth Drones Providing targeting data for land-based anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles Tyler Rogoway 2 Dec 19 2496 7
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: The US Empowered Iran and Created a Failing Government in Iraq Scott Horton on the PM's resignation Kyle Anzalone 2 Dec 19 247 0
Our Benevolent Empire 25 Times Trump Has Been Dangerously Hawkish On Russia "The only reason anyone still believes Trump is anything other than insanely hawkish toward Russia is because it doesn’t benefit anyone’s partisanship" Caitlin Johnstone 2 Dec 19 339 0
Our Benevolent Empire Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of ‘Made in the USA’ Corruption Protesters are demanding the overthrow of the political class brought in in 2003 on US tanks Nicolas J. S. Davies 2 Dec 19 766 3
Trade War Joys China No Longer Needs US Parts in Its Phones US tech companies are getting the go-ahead to resume business with Huawei, but it's already too late Mike “Mish” Shedlock 2 Dec 19 2587 5
China Is Now #2 in Production of Elite Science Has leapfrogged the UK to become home to the 2nd largest number of highly cited researchers Jamie Durrani 2 Dec 19 1070 2
RuSsIa DoEsN'T MaKe AnYtHiNg NASA to Purchase More Seats on Soyuz Launches From Nigeria With Snow to Keep Americans Going to Space Was supposed to develop US spacegoing capability by fall 2020 but delays mean it may have to keep paying the Russians Jeff Foust 2 Dec 19 618 4
Have We Hit Peak Gold? After 50 years of constant increases production has now plateaued Schiff Gold 1 Dec 19 615 13
Our Benevolent Empire Americans Live Under a Dictatorship as Much as the Chinese and the Europeans Do not confuse how an elected ruler gets into power with the powers he wields afterwards Jacob G. Hornberger 1 Dec 19 1384 12
From the Archive China Is Terraforming the Gobi Desert Each year area the size of Ireland is forrested to push back against the once expanding desert Vince Beiser 1 Dec 19 6363 11
From the Archive For 4 Years Mullah Omar Hid Right Next to a 1000-Man US Military Base in Afghanistan All the while the Americans claimed the ex-Taliban leader, whom they had a $10 million reward out on, was in Pakistan Bette Dam 1 Dec 19 1337 3