Trade War Joys One Year Into Trade War, China Has Given Up Nothing "Trade wars are easy to win" Kenneth Rapoza 11 Oct 19 870 4
If Putin Is Netanyahu’s “Puppet” Why Isn’t He Championing the Kurds? In fact he may find it useful that Turks are taking them down a peg The Saker 11 Oct 19 1176 8
Russia, Turkey Agree on Using Rouble, Lira in Mutual Settlements $25 billion in trade to start moving away from the dollar Daily Sabah 11 Oct 19 2114 2
US Tells Kurds It’s Just Going out for a Pack of Cigarettes “The U.S. mentioned something about it not being our fault and that we didn’t do anything wrong. It’s funny though, I’ve never seen it smoke.” Whiskey Fueled Tirade 10 Oct 19 791 3
War in Syria Before Green-Lighting Erdogan’s Offensive Against Them Trump Got Kurds to Dismantle Their Fortifications SOB par excellence Marko Marjanović 10 Oct 19 1491 11
Our Benevolent Empire Trump’s “Maximum Pressure” on Iran Is Hammering South Korea Hard Its giant export-oriented refineries find themselves underfed and having to pay through the nose for less suitable US alternatives Keun Wook Paik 10 Oct 19 540 5
Goodbye Petrodollar Why the Dollar Hegemony Has Much More Gas in the Tank Left Than Anyone Appreciates The catch is that markets aren't governed by fundamentals but by "what average opinion expects the average opinion to be" Thorstein Polleit 10 Oct 19 756 8
Those Pesky Sino-Russians As Much as the Western Political Class Is Loathe to Admit It Russia-China Is an Alliance, and an Alliance of Equals In fact so far it is Russia which has been dramatically boosting China's power than the other way around Andrei Martyanov 10 Oct 19 1450 6
Al Gore Predicts Massive Apocalypse If Billions Are Not Spent on His Books, Films Time for countries and communities to urgently drop all other priorities and redirect all spending to the purchase of Al Gore’s books and movies The Babylon Bee 10 Oct 19 710 10
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Running Out of Money The US deficit is nearly $1 trillion in 2019 Kyle Anzalone 9 Oct 19 389 1
War in Syria Kurds Begging the Empire for a No-Fly Zone as Erdogan Says Onslaught Has Begun SDF says it trusted the US which is what got it in this position Marko Marjanović 9 Oct 19 876 3
War in Syria Turks and Kurds Amassing on Their Sides of the Border, ISIS Takes Advantage in Raqqa, Russia Trying to Broker Peace Turkey has started airstrikes on YPG/US held NE Syria but no ground invasion yet Marko Marjanović 9 Oct 19 554 2
China Just Announced the End of US Primacy in the Pacific In one fell swoop China nullified America’s strategic nuclear deterrent, the US Pacific Fleet, and US missile defense capability Scott Ritter 9 Oct 19 6295 12
Senator Graham Threatens Turkey With Sanctions He Failed to Enact on MBS When have we heard Lindsey Graham thunder like this before? Marko Marjanović 9 Oct 19 462 14
There Is an Intense Diplomatic Dance Going on Between Paris, Moscow, Kiev and Berlin We’re Not Being Told About A secret, but all the signs are there Ben Aris 9 Oct 19 1075 2
Extinction Rebellion: A Well-To-Do Millenarian Death Cult Beloved of the Powers That Be Inane, superstitious loonies beloved of the elites that share their contempt for the common man Brendan O’Neill 9 Oct 19 1297 3
Invincible Empire How an Ever Sanctioning Superpower Is Losing Its Status Russia helps extinguish any dreams DC may have of first-striking China with nukes Bernhard 9 Oct 19 1298 4
Even China Isn’t Able to Make Solar & Wind Work Expensive, land-hungry, inconstant, and still more polluting than either gas or atomic Irina Slav 9 Oct 19 997 9
Our Benevolent Empire Empire Screwing Over the Syrian Kurds Is Bad, Using Them as Pretext to Stay Is Worse However they deserved a fair warning rather than to be served to Erdogan on a silver platter Benjamin H. Friedman 9 Oct 19 520 7
Invincible Empire Washington Imagines Itself the Master of the Globe but Its Military Is a Tiny Colonial Police Force As with Britain in the 1920s America's global hegemony is resting on feet of glass Will Collins 8 Oct 19 1392 6
Our Benevolent Empire Donald J. Trump Is Full of It on Syria — It Was Him Who Used Kurds for Raqqa and the Oil Fields Kurds now protected where they are occupiers, but Empire invites their mortal enemies into their actual home Brett McGurk 8 Oct 19 843 8
Facebook Can’t Keep Story Straight on Why It Killed Viral Checkpoint Asia Article Story on Churchill's WWII man-made famine in India read by 130,000 people in under two days predictably killed because reasons Marko Marjanović 8 Oct 19 1248 8
Russian Aggression Putin: Stalin’s Repressions Is a Black Page in Our History but Blaming Him for WWII Is Utter Cynicism (VIDEO) "As if it was the Soviet Union that attacked Germany at 4 am on June 22" Russia Insight 7 Oct 19 566 4
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Peace Talks With North Korea, Taliban and in Ukraine, Protests in Hong Kong, Egypt, Ecuador "The US talks with North Korea fell apart. According to the North Koreans, it is because the US isn't offering anything new" Kyle Anzalone 7 Oct 19 210 2
War in Syria Americans Withdrawing From Northern Syria to Clear Way for Turkish Invasion of Kurdish-Held Border The Empire is going to stab the Kurds in the back once again after all Eric Schmitt 7 Oct 19 673 9
Those Pesky Sino-Russians Putin Drops a Bombshell: Russia Is Helping China Build a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Tell me more about how Moscow and Beijing aren't really allies Minnie Chan 5 Oct 19 1923 15
Erodgan Knew MBS Was Planning Khashoggi’s Murder, Let It Happen Anyway One chopped up WaPo write later he found himself in possession of a great deal of leverage on Saudis and Trump alike Andrew Cockburn 5 Oct 19 545 4
Invincible Empire Whistleblower Accuses Largest US Military Shipbuilder of Falsifying Tests on Submarine Stealth Coating Far cheaper to bribe admirals into accepting broken ships than building them properly James Clark 5 Oct 19 816 6
Those Pesky Chinese China’s High-Speed Drone Is Rocket-Powered and All About Doing What Satellites Can’t China suspects that in the next great power war it's lights out for satellites Tyler Rogoway 5 Oct 19 2116 2
Those Pesky Chinese China’s Share of Global Exports Has Increased Since Trade War Start When what you produce are actual things, not mere paper, there will always be a demand for your produce Yusuf Khan 5 Oct 19 822 3