Those Pesky Chinese Huawei Offers to Tie Both Arms Behind the Back – So the West Can Compete A generous offer that the surveillance state will never allow lest it legitimizes spying-free internet and communications Jeff J. Brown 30 Sep 19 765 2
War on Yemen Saudi Arabia Suffers Enormous Military Defeat on Yemen Border A brigade worth of mercenaries in Saudi service shattered and captured along with numerous weapons and armored vehicles Marko Marjanović 30 Sep 19 2422 7
Russian Aggression Russia, Belarus Reportedly Ink ‘Economic Confederacy’ Roadmap Lukashenko to accept further economic alignment to regain energy subsidies bne IntelliNews 30 Sep 19 556 2
Our Benevolent Empire Trump Triples Down on Venezuela Regime Change, Even as he Faces One Himself As Maduro is apparently so liberal that an ex-coup leader can walk freely Nebojša Malić 30 Sep 19 444 6
The Houthi Audition to Be America’s Next Quagmire You know they'd be good at it Paul J. OLeary 29 Sep 19 1227 9
Persia Under Siege Iran Notches Two Wins Against the Empire, But This Is Far from Over Imperial capital reduced to waging a pathetic "war of visas" in retaliation The Saker 29 Sep 19 963 5
Those Pesky Chinese China Just Launched Its Huge And Incredibly Quickly Built Amphibious Assault Ship "What may be most impressive about it is China's ability to proceed so fast with its construction" — far faster than the US Joseph Trevithick 29 Sep 19 1325 8
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 1735 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 1293 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 1838 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 1781 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 1446 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 1046 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 19 916 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 2381 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 1166 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 19 605 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