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 19 622 3
Putin Says Humanity Will End Up in Caves If It Abandons Oil and Nuclear Which is exactly what some would welcome (for the rest of us) bne IntelliNews 25 Nov 19 804 8
Made to Order “Russian Spying” Affair Rocks Serbia, Courtesy of Bellingcat, Radio Free Europe and Who Else? Take a lucky guess? Stephen Karganović 25 Nov 19 595 0
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: The Deep State Is Exploiting Impeachment to Advance the Cold War 2.0 Against Russia Joanne Leon breaks down Fiona Hill's bizarre and Russophobic testimony Kyle Anzalone 25 Nov 19 202 1
Stay Classy MSM Advancing Propaganda for Evil Agendas Is the Same as Perpetrating Them Yourself "Before they launch missiles, they launch narratives. Before they invade, they propagandize. Before the killing, there is manipulation" Caitlin Johnstone 25 Nov 19 486 0
Those Pesky Russians Putin: Scientists Killed in Mysterious Radioactive Blast Were Developing “Unparalleled” Weapon Commends them for doing their part to keep Russia a truly sovereign and independent nation Tyler Durden 25 Nov 19 781 1
Those Pesky Chinese China Conducts Economic Census, Finds Its Economy Is 2% Bigger Than It Knew Growth since the last census in 2013 had actually been underreported Guo Yingzhe 25 Nov 19 457 1
Our Benevolent Empire Britain Refuses to Return Its Last African Colony — On Orders of Washington UN ruled UK must return Diego Garcia to its people, but that would interefere with a key military base of the Empire Jason Ditz 25 Nov 19 1531 3
Those Pesky Chinese West Tore Ukraine From Russia, but It Is China Which Is Taking Its Place US/EU started Cold War 2.0 to do it — but it is China which is reaping the benefits Fred Weir 24 Nov 19 1649 12
Our Benevolent Empire Attorney General Ends All Conspiracy Theories Forever by Saying Epstein Died via a Series of Unfortunate Oopsies "I for one have no more questions. Checkmate, conspiracy theorists." Caitlin Johnstone 24 Nov 19 1039 5
Goodbye Petrodollar Putin Tells China He’d Love to Use More Yuan but Beijing Must First Allow It to Float Must ditch the Communist capital controls holding it back Kenneth Rapoza 24 Nov 19 1250 2
Russia Dials Back Peace Talks With Japan Tokyo feigns friendship as it prepares to accept US missiles MK Bhadrakumar 24 Nov 19 911 5
History North Korea Fought Americans With Russian Biplanes From the 1920s And with considerable success as well Sebastien Roblin 23 Nov 19 1056 1
Empire Woes The US Hasn’t Seen a Manufacturing Slowdown Like This Since the Last Financial Crisis The crisis that so many have been anticipating is starting to play out Michael Snyder 23 Nov 19 1215 7
Post-Maidan Bliss ISIS’ ‘Deputy Minister of War’ Presumed Dead Emerges in Ukraine, Ran Things Unmolested From Kiev for Past 2 Years Was deputy to the US-trained, fellow Chechen, Abu Omar al-Shishani Oliver Carroll 23 Nov 19 996 1
Germany’s Solar and Wind Is Triple the Cost of France’s Nuclear and Will Last Half as Long Nuclear is the obvious fix to the issues posed by environmentalists but they want a moral crusade not a solution Brian Wang 23 Nov 19 664 20
Those Pesky Sino-Russians Russian and Chinese A2/AD Has Forced US Navy to Move Naval Strike Underwater but Even That May No Longer Work Missile strike on peers can now only come from subs, but even these may not survive long after David B. Larter 22 Nov 19 2214 16
The UK’s Secret Military Unit That Answers to Saudi Arabian Commanders Saudi royals' have British Praetorians training their "internal security" paramilitary Matt Kennard 22 Nov 19 671 2
How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet? One more excuse in the making for Western elites to wield extraordinary power over the rest of the world James R. Harrigan 22 Nov 19 772 21
North Korea Is Calling, But Trump’s Too Busy to Answer — Expect Missile Test Restart Before Year End Kim Jong-un is agitated and waiting for a deal, while the White House remains distracted by impeachment Harry J. Kazianis 22 Nov 19 289 1
Hong Kong Mob Protesters Rule the Streets Few dare speak up against their violence for fear of reprisals they have been very willing to dish out Hedley Thomas 22 Nov 19 734 5
Now That Assange Is Safely Locked Up, Sweden Drops Its “Investigation” "Continues to be detained in a high security prison, having completed an extreme sentence for not meeting the bail conditions for a charge that wasn’t and won’t be made" Caitlin Johnstone 21 Nov 19 423 3
Killing New START Is Crazy so of Course the Trump Admin Is Doing It And saying it has to be killed because China is not in it is the dumbest thing yet Daniel Larison 21 Nov 19 486 7
US-China Relations Have Just Been Destroyed, and Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again "US and China are now enemies, and ultimately that is going to result in a tremendous amount of pain for the entire planet" Michael Snyder 21 Nov 19 3548 19
Iran Loses Patience With India’s Hide And Seek India is the kind of friend that is never there when you need it MK Bhadrakumar 21 Nov 19 986 7
Bolivia CoupOur Benevolent Empire Elizabeth Warren’s Support for Bolivia Coup Consistent With Other Pro-Empire Positions Hell, she's a booster of the siege of Venezuela for clinging to the 'wrong' leader Alan Macleod 21 Nov 19 583 10
US-South Korea Talks on Trump’s $5bn Troop Payment Demand Collapse After Just 80 Minutes $5bn is politically impossible for Seoul as South Koreans understand the US is on the peninsula for its own reasons Joyce Lee 20 Nov 19 1277 27
Things That Make Sense Russia Framed Itself for Russiagate — Former “Top Russia Expert” at the White House That makes sense Chuck Ross 20 Nov 19 710 9
Bonesaw Saudis Saudi Arabia’s Aramco IPO Is a Bad Buy Who wants to be on the hook to finance the Saudi budget? Finance Twitter 20 Nov 19 565 4