War on Yemen Yemen’s Houthis Shot Down Saudi Apache Attack Helicopter — VIDEO US-made Press TV 30 Nov 19 2085 8
NATO Squabbles “Are You Brain Dead?” Erdogan Asks Macron Ahead of NATO Summit Wonderful Ezgi Erkoyun 30 Nov 19 872 7
Those Pesky RussiansVenezuela Under Siege This Is How Russia Keeps Venezuela Exporting Oil Despite US Sanctions With a little help from Rosneft under-siege Venezuela still manages to sell 500,000 bpd monthly Marko Marjanović 29 Nov 19 1679 11
Goodbye Petrodollar America’s Trade Policies Will End Up Destroying the Dollar Beijing believes the US has stirred up Hong Kong to prevent global portfolio flows being invested in China, because America is desperate to have them instead Alasdair Macleod 29 Nov 19 1998 10
The Defining Event of the 21st Century: Underpopulation Drastic global population shrinkage, not eco fairy tales, is the pressing problem for humanity in our century Bill Sardi 29 Nov 19 924 5
Goodbye Petrodollar Central Banks Are Now Buying Up 20 Percent of All the Gold Mined in the World The Russian central bank buys out the entire Russian domestic gold production Marko Marjanović 29 Nov 19 1373 5
Those Pesky Chinese China Completes an Experimental ‘Nuclear Fusion’ Reactor 13-Times Hotter Than the Sun Will start operating in 2020 Masha Borak 29 Nov 19 1425 1
Euro-Poodles Macron Strongly Denies Having a Backbone: “Absolutely Not Accepted” Vehemently denies reports he accepted proposal that US and Russian intermediate missiles not be deployed to European continent Maria Kiselyova 29 Nov 19 375 5
Those Pesky Chinese Chinese Middle Class Could Reach 550 Million in Three Years — Every American Corporation Wants in on This Boom Wrong timing for a trade war Evelyn Cheng 28 Nov 19 1075
History The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-1973: The Soviet Struggle vs Israel in the War of Attrition The Soviets played a far more direct, long-lived and impactful role in the notionally Egyptian-Israeli struggle than is generally understood Michael Weaver 28 Nov 19 1512 1
Our Benevolent Empire Mission Update: NATO’s New Enemy Is “Chinese Communist Party”, Pompeo Tells Alliance RT 28 Nov 19 808 14
Those Pesky Russians Ukraine Has 16 Days Left to Do a Gas Transit Deal With Russia The Russian side is happy to run down the clock but Kiev is hoping for an intervention from Merkel Ben Aris 28 Nov 19 1387 5
Trade War Joys How Will the World Look After the US-China Trade War? Even a full decoupling from China would merely shift the trade deficit to other countries Stephen S. Roach 28 Nov 19 839 2
Persia Under Siege Iran Gives Up on Euro-Poodles, Enriches More Uranian, Starts Building 2nd Reactor Unit Since nobody else is honoring the JCPOA Persia switches from "strategic patience" to "active resistance" Alireza Noori 28 Nov 19 628 1
Our Benevolent Empire Trump Adviser Who Wanted to Nuke Afghanistan Now Works on Arms Control at State Department The perfect pick to nuke New START RT 28 Nov 19 324 2
Empire Woes: Chopstick Wars Empire Forces South Korea Back Into Intelligence Sharing With Japan — For Now $5bn for US troops and continuing to give Japan a free pass for WWII crimes — Empire's bargain for Seoul is looking less appealing by the day Ben McGrath 28 Nov 19 320 3
Trade War Joys No Can Do: China Tells Trump He Can’t Have “Phase Two” Deal in Time for Election “It’s Trump who wants to sign these deals, not us. We can wait" Heather Timmons 27 Nov 19 947 6
Those Pesky Russians US Inspectors Have Examined Russia’s Imminently Operational Hypersonic Missile Under the New START treaty which the Trump administration is about to bury Joseph Trevithick 27 Nov 19 1382 2
Russian Aggression Could Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plants Revolutionize Developing Economies? Affordable, factory-made, pocket-sized, portable nuclear power plants soon for sale in Russia F. William Engdahl 27 Nov 19 925 1
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: What’s Wrong with ‘Détente’ Anyway? Oliver Stone asks why US/Russian relations are so bad Kyle Anzalone 27 Nov 19 137 2
Is Macron Right? Is NATO at 70 Brain Dead? The US has been handing out war guarantees like candy. One day one of them is going to be called upon Pat Buchanan 27 Nov 19 390 4
Goodbye Petrodollar Poland Brings Gold Home; Calls It a Symbol of Strength Not comfortable holding its growing reserves in London Schiff Gold 27 Nov 19 883 11
Our Benevolent Empire Amnesty International Toes US Gov’t Line in Urging Unrest in Iran Alleged 'human rights' outfit enlists in the Empire's regime change effort in Persia Alan Macleod 27 Nov 19 239 7
NATO Squabbles Turkey Tests F-16s and F-4s Against S-400 Radars in Defiance of US Sanctions Threats Washington had optimistically called on Ankara not to "activate" the radars and to send them back Joseph Trevithick 27 Nov 19 1583 6
Our Benevolent Empire Empire’s Tone-Dead Ambassador Hits Out at Germany Over Huawei, Accuses Berlin of Insulting US Troops Insists observation US companies pose a similar security threat to Chinese is ingratitude toward US troops in Germany Guy Chazan 26 Nov 19 1370 17
Pro-Beijing Parties Won 41 Percent of the Vote in Hong Kong It's not unanimous support, but a first-past-the-post electoral system which brought anti-Beijing parties a sweeping victory with 55 percent of the vote Gary Cheung 26 Nov 19 551 2
America Loves Excusing Its War Criminals Public opinion backed Nixon in siding with perpetrators of My Lai rape-massacre 75 to 17 James Palmer 26 Nov 19 458 9
Those Pesky Russians Russia’s $175bn Infrastructure Building Program Gets Underway Adjusted for purchasing power parity that amounts closer to $500bn in infrastructure Ben Aris 26 Nov 19 1024 1
China Dials Back Its Wind and Solar Obsession, Cuts Subsidies Ugly, nature-killing wind and solar will soon be expected to compete on price — if they can Irina Slav 26 Nov 19 449 4
Empire Woes America’s Economy Isn’t as Free and Competitive as You Think — No More Than EU’s, Possibly Less So Has in the past 20 years become heavily crippled by politicians protecting big business from competition Martin Wolf 25 Nov 19 620 3