Bonesaw Saudis Why The Saudis Are Lying About Their Oil Production “I used to think the Saudis thought all of us were idiots..but recently it’s occurred to me that they genuinely don’t know anything about the oil industry" Simon Watkins 28 Sep 19 1734 8
US Sanctions Chinese Shipping Firms, Including a Division of State-Owned Giant COSCO The sanctioned firms will now orient to hauling Iranian oil exclusively, and Beijing will grow more convinced the US is a hostile power Bloomberg 28 Sep 19 1292 14
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: It’s Not About Osama bin Laden The Terror Wars are not about stopping terrorists Kyle Anzalone 27 Sep 19 368 4
Those Pesky Chinese By Year End the US Will Have 10,000 5G Base Stations. China Will Have 150,000 It's been centuries since somebody held a technological edge over the West like this Finance Twitter 27 Sep 19 1883 5
Those Pesky Chinese Trade War Hasn’t Stopped Wall Street’s $9 Billion China Rush As China opens up its financial sector US giants are lining up to get a piece Bloomberg 27 Sep 19 674 2
Financial Fortress Russia With Global Recession Looming, Unleveraged and Debt-Free Russia Looks Strong Russia is among the world’s countries best placed to cope with the coming bust Jon Hellevig 27 Sep 19 1836 2
Nobel Peace Prize Committee Informs Trump He Has Not Launched Enough Drone Strikes to Qualify Has been informed will be considered again next year, provided he starts a war with Iran The Babylon Bee 27 Sep 19 1297 5
Our Benevolent Empire Lavrov Says Moscow Will Raise Issue of UN Location After Russian Delegates Denied Visas Geneva makes far more sense than Empire's bosom Sputnik 27 Sep 19 939 10
Trump Pushed Ukraine’s President to Investigate Issues of US Public Interest Investigating Trump by investigating Democratic candidate probably best placed to defeat him... Bernhard 27 Sep 19 267 2
Bonesaw Saudis US Military Knew the Saudi Invasion Would Fail and the Houthi Were a Valuable Anti-Al-Qaeda Force The result is that Saudi Arabia finds itself weakened internally, and surrounded by Iran — which is ramping up the pressure — externally Mark Perry 27 Sep 19 1779 7
Invincible Empire Escalating Costs Are Decimating the Empire’s Carrier Fleet Think of it this way, in 50 years the number of carriers the US operates has gone from 20 to 10 Navy Matters 26 Sep 19 1349 7
A Precision Strike on US Credibility – Shattering a US Paradigm The illusion that the US is, or can be, a protector of the Gulf has been shattered Alastair Crooke 25 Sep 19 1445 5
The US Just Blew Up 30 Innocent People in a London Restaurant, $500 Per Head Compensation Offered It was actually in Afghanistan but let's pretend the victims were people whose lives actually held some value Christian Christensen 25 Sep 19 1045 3
Russian Aggression Russia Is the World’s Preeminent Defender of the Classically Liberal International Order Under assault by the Empire and its minions and their exceptionalist ways Paul Robinson 25 Sep 19 761 2
The Forever War The Real Reason the US Is Staying in Afghanistan and a Peace Deal With the Taliban Is Impossible The War State was never going to voluntarily relinquish the Great Game chessboard prize that is Bagram Airbase Ronald Enzweiler 25 Sep 19 1284 4
China Containment Rejected US Trade Proposal Sought Bilateral Office to Debate Beijing’s Economic Policies — Chinese Official Would have given Washington the right to impose sanctions if China didn't dance to its tune in key industries Amanda Lee 25 Sep 19 915 6
US Massacres 32 Afghan Pine Nut Harvesters Then Kills Another 40 at a Wedding Reception Time for gun control on the occupiers? Jason Ditz 25 Sep 19 2380 11
The Decline of Western Civilization The Disturbing Cult of Greta Thunberg "We are periliously close to becoming a society entirely governed by emotion over reason" Rob Slane 24 Sep 19 3311 20
Junior Empire Naughtiness Germany Is Advancing the Partition of Britain Now that the UK is threatening to leave the EU the latter is working toward its break up as it did with Yugoslavia German Foreign Policy 24 Sep 19 1005 2
Persia Under Siege Saudi Arabia Won’t Attack Iran. But It May Pay Someone Else To What do American Hessians cost these days? Nesrine Malik 24 Sep 19 1164 4
Aramco’s Repairs Could Take Months Longer Than Company Anticipates, Contractors Say The Saudis (and the global energy consumer) get the bill for Trump's war on Persia's economy Summer Said 24 Sep 19 604 2
History The British-American Coup That Ended Australian Independence In 1975 PM Gough Whitlam dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price John Pilger 24 Sep 19 1459 3
The Crisis Over Strike on Saudi Oil Is Over – We Now Wait for the Next One "Iran, with the help of its friends, can play this game again and again and it will do so until the US gives up" Bernhard 24 Sep 19 824 4
Goodbye Petrodollar Europe Joins the De-Dollarization Party 36% of global payments are already made in the euro which accounts for 20% of global currency reserves Ronald-Peter Stöferle 23 Sep 19 1271 3
Our Benevolent Empire Novelty Joke PM From Fake Country Meets With Trump, Silent on Assange “Were Assange imprisoned by the Chinese, Russian or Iranian regimes, the response would doubtless be very different” Caitlin Johnstone 23 Sep 19 839 1
Persia Under Siege If Iran Is Responsible for Saudi Attack, So What? US Is Waging Undeclared War It would have been entirely justified Gareth Porter 23 Sep 19 1181 6
‘We Don’t Need Aircraft Carriers, We Need Weapons to Sink Them With’ – Russian Defense Minister Not bankrupting your country...what a novel idea RT 22 Sep 19 7515 20
Our Benevolent Empire Why Should the US Wage War on Iran? "There are so many answers to that question, it’s difficult to know where to begin" John Rachel 22 Sep 19 853 5
War on Yemen US Air Defenses en Route to Saudi Aren’t Up to the Job Patriot and THAAD may have some ability vs jets and missiles (or not) but they have none vs small low-flying drones Bernhard 22 Sep 19 903 7
Russia Tells Pentagon Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Nose After Boast It Could Shut Down Kaliningrad US jets "only invisible to US Taxpayers" -- the Russian military Tom O’Connor 22 Sep 19 4784 16