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 19 840 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 1182 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 4785 16
Our Benevolent Empire US Troops Head to Saudi to Defend It From Houthi Retribution for Its Yemen Crimes And/or from the costs of Trump's "maximum pressure" war on Persia Jason Ditz 22 Sep 19 750 11
War on Yemen We Stop, You Stop! Houthis Offer Saudi Arabia Mutual Halt to Strikes in Wake of Crippling Oil-Plant Attack End of attacks on oil for end to attacks on civilians RT 21 Sep 19 483 1
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Who Attacked Saudi Oil Will Porter returns to the show to breakdown the attack Kyle Anzalone 20 Sep 19 660 1
Iran FM Javad Zarif: “No Such Thing as “Limited Strike”, Any Strike by US or Saudi Will Result in All out War” Zarif the superstar Nick Paton Walsh 20 Sep 19 1948 10
War in Syria Supposedly Syria Didn’t Have Russia’s Green Light to Use S-300s vs Israeli Jets…Until Now Then what was the point of delivering them? Fighter Jets World 20 Sep 19 4038 30
Invincible Empire Boeing’s Needlessly Complex Refueling Aircraft Is 5 Years Behind Schedule Preventing USAF From Retiring 1960s Planes Fix what isn't broken is MIC's motto Marcus Weisgerber 20 Sep 19 665 3
Russian Aggression Russia and Bulgaria Start Building “Balkan Stream” Pipeline to Carry Gas to Southern EU (VIDEO) Five years after US-directed cancelation the "South Stream" is back with a detour through Turkey Vesti TV 20 Sep 19 2556 6
Those Pesky Chinese The Quantum Revolution Is Coming, and Chinese Scientists Are at the Forefront China outpaces the US in some aspects of the field -- especially hacking-proof communications Jeanne Whalen 20 Sep 19 1764 11
Invincible Empire US Navy Corruption Levels Put the Third World to Shame Admirals are so beholden to defense contractors they will choreograph phony trials and accept broken ships anyway Navy Matters 19 Sep 19 18565 13
Bonesaw Saudis Middle East Paper Claims Saudi Jets Bombed Pro-Iranian Militias in Eastern Syria Which would make it an act of war vs Syria and Iraq both Al Arabiya 19 Sep 19 778 9
Junior Empire Woes Is EU’s Future as an Auxiliary Empire to the American Empire or an Independent Empire of Its Own? Trump's China cold war forcing Brussels to hurry up and make up its mind German Foreign Policy 19 Sep 19 708 3
Those Pesky Chinese How Dominant Are Chinese Companies Globally? Chinese companies on Fortune's Global 500 took in combined revenue of $7.9 trillion – nearly a quarter of the $32.7 trillion in revenue generated by all 500 companies on the list ChinaPower 19 Sep 19 735 1
The Black Swan Is a Drone What was "possible" yesterday is now a low-cost proven capability, and the consequences are far from predictable Charles Hugh Smith 19 Sep 19 944 4
Those Pesky Russians Russian Navy to Be First to Field Hypersonic Cruise Missiles on Submarines Testing starts next year H.I. Sutton 19 Sep 19 1692 1
Persia Under Siege Iran Teaches Empire That ‘Maximum Pressure’ Goes Both Ways This isn't how Trump’s war on Persia was supposed to go David C. Hendrickson 19 Sep 19 1295 7
I Need You, the Reader, to Come Through for This Site The bang-for-buck the greatest and most influential anti-Empire outlet in the world Marko Marjanović 18 Sep 19 860 1
Persia Under Siege Iran Was Poised to Strike US Bases If Trump Attacked to Avenge Downed Drone, IRGC General Says And is just as ready to strike back if attacked over the Saudi oil plant strike Nader Talebzadeh 18 Sep 19 1377 6
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Picks ‘Bolton Lite’ and GOP Establishment Darling for National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien is your run of the mill Republican hawk Graham, Rubio and Cruz are tripping themselves over to endorse Daniel Larison 18 Sep 19 312 2
Those Pesky Sino-Russians China, India and Pakistan Join Russia’s Massive Annual Military Drill Moscow demonstrates a knack for bringing Asian powers together Franz-Stefan Gady 18 Sep 19 935 4
Method to Madness: Cartoonish Houthi Contempt for US and Israel Is Actually Extremely Shrewd and Good for Peace The Houthi scapegoat the West for all of Yemen's ills as a way to keep the door for peace with Yemeni factions and the Saudis/UAE open Hannah Porter 18 Sep 19 688 2
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Growing Up During the Terror Wars Phil Gibson joins the show to help debunk the lies that led to war Kyle Anzalone 18 Sep 19 127 0
Invincible Empire Inexpensive Conventional Submarines Would Make a Lot of Sense for US Navy so Of Course They’re Not Going to Happen Russia and China love them but not shiny enough for US admirals or military-industrial complex James Holmes 18 Sep 19 1470 3
Canadian Ambassador and Military Honour Nazi Collaborators in Ukraine Hey, as long as they were anti-Russian... David Pugliese 18 Sep 19 672 6