Our Benevolent Empire When Did Joe Biden Start Believing He Had Opposed the Iraq War? And how could he have been surprised that authorizing the use of military force meant Bush would use military force? Ben Mathis-Lilley 9 Sep 19 281 5
Report Claims China Plans to Invest $400bn in Sanctioned Iran Over the Next 25 Years — It Probably Ain’t True Supposedly China would develop oil infrastructure to be guarded by 5,000 "Chinese security personnel" Simon Watkins 9 Sep 19 778 2
Trade War Joys Why Trump Can’t End the Trade War and Is Only Going to Keep Intensifying It Trump needs the war to blame the recession on if the bubble bursts before November 2020 Marko Marjanović 9 Sep 19 734 3
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Pamela Anderson Takes Down Meghan McCain The former-Playmate debunks lies about Wikileaks Kyle Anzalone 9 Sep 19 347 2
China Containment US Sanctions Chinese Nuclear Power Plants Handing Their Business to France and Russia They join Huawei on the "entity list" Haley Zaremba 9 Sep 19 1262 5
Empire Woes Trump Complains That Taliban Fight the American Way, Pretends to Tear Up Deal in Righteous Anger Taliban bad for not granting the US a ceasefire during talks -- something the US never does for its foes Marko Marjanović 9 Sep 19 522 7
Top Navy SEAL Admiral Fires Entire Leadership of Eddie Gallagher’s SEAL Team 7 For "breakdown of good order and discipline" Paul Szoldra 9 Sep 19 25906 55
Trade War Joys Trump Can’t Win the Trade War With China Because He’s Issuing Contradictory Demands Beijing couldn't give him what he wants even if it tried Linette Lopez 9 Sep 19 585 3
Those Pesky Russians Putin Shrugs Off Potential Return to G7, Says Not Interested If It Doesn’t Include India and China Trump and Conte raised the possibility at the last G7 summit but it finds Moscow disinterested Sarah Zheng 9 Sep 19 1817 4
Checkpoint Asia What Would You Do for an Opportunity to Be Able to Push Back Against the Empire Just a Little? This is that opportunity Marko Marjanović 8 Sep 19 1917 4
Adventures in Trumpia Trump’s Bogus Israel-Palestine Peace Plan Now in the Hands of Jared Kushner’s 29-Year Old Friend Dont worry, he graduated from Law School in 2016! Jonathan Chait 8 Sep 19 552 2
Invincible Empire When US Navy and Marine F-35 Pilots Most Need Performance, the Aircraft Becomes Erratic “Fleet pilots agreed it is very difficult to max perform the aircraft” David B. Larter 8 Sep 19 6427 11
Goodbye Petrodollar Russia to Issue First Yuan-Denominated Bond by Year End Moscow and Beijing keep taking steps to reduce reliance on US dollar Amanda Lee 8 Sep 19 1903 0
German-Made Leopard 2 Tanks Were Mauled Badly in Syria Battles Armed with a mixture of western and Russian missiles ISIS took out eight and captured another two Sebastien Roblin 8 Sep 19 4736 5
Stay Classy MSM New York Times’ 1619: A Racialist and Reactionary Falsification of American and World History The Democratic Party continues its fine tradition of pitching white vs black to avoid the poor vs rich struggle the establishment fears Niles Niemuth 8 Sep 19 686 3
51st State Adventures Why Everything You Think You Know About Christian Zionism Is Wrong A movement helped created and shaped by Israel that liberal Jews are embarrassed to have the support of Raphael Magarik 8 Sep 19 674 5
US Is the Single Biggest Foreign Investor in Russia’s Economy The West as a whole has much more money riding on Russia's economy than anyone appreciates Ben Aris 7 Sep 19 1077 2
Persia Under Siege Bolton Defeated and Fuming: The Captured & Released Iranian Supertanker Casually Unloads Enough Crude to Run Syria for 3 Months State Department "swagger" comes to nothing Sputnik 7 Sep 19 16144 21
Cold Hard Truths China Doesn’t Depend on the US Consumer and Manufacturing Jobs Are Not Coming Back Nor will the rest of the world turn its back on China's cheap export market for America's taped out consumer Brandon Smith 6 Sep 19 1615 12
Trade War Joys EU Car Manufacturers Caught in Crossfire of Trump’s Trade War Producing cars in the US for export to China turns out not be the greatest plan ever Mike “Mish” Shedlock 6 Sep 19 650 2
Persia Under Siege Iran Mocks US After It Failed to Pay Off Oil Tanker The Indian captain took US sanctions instead of 15 million dollars Tom O’Connor 6 Sep 19 1509 23
Those Pesky Chinese It’s American Hegemony That’s Being Backed Into a Corner – The Dollar Is More at Risk Than the Yuan China has made some silly errors in its conflict with the US, but it's long game remains unaffected Alasdair Macleod 6 Sep 19 1161 8
Invincible Empire US Navy Sings Praises to a Norwegian Anti-Ship Missile as It Deploys It to China’s Backyard If this is such a great threa to China's Navy, what to say of China's own missiles with three times the range? David B. Larter 6 Sep 19 979 2
Those Pesky Russians Fixation on A2/AD Totally Misunderstands Russian Military Strategy for Conflict With NATO Russia won't passively sit behind an unlikely defensive bubble, which is a recipe for defeat, but will strike out to nip US operations in the bud Michael Kofman 5 Sep 19 1994 4
Our Benevolent Empire As US-Taliban Peace Deal Nears, Opponents Are Out in Force. Bolton and Reportedly Pompeo Among Them Because what makes more sense than keep a 19-year war going? Jason Ditz 5 Sep 19 515 3
Our Benevolent Empire US Now Trying to Subvert Deal to Allow South Korea Take Control of Its Military by 2025 Since headship of combined command is moving to South Korea the US now trying to ressurect role of anachronistic body from the 1950s Hankyoreh 5 Sep 19 621 5
Should America Be One Country? Local city government declares 5 million of its co-nationals to be members of a terrorist organization ABC News 5 Sep 19 692 6
NATO Runaways Turkey Confirms Early Talks on Potential Su-35 Purchase From Russia Already Exist Turkey's Undersecretary for Defense Industries told Turkish TV TASS 5 Sep 19 870 5
Persia Under Siege US Now Offering $15 Million to Captains of Iranian Tankers If They Sail Them Into Ports Where the US Can Seize Them Why didn't Blackbeard think of that? Thomas L. Knapp 5 Sep 19 2054 7
RuSsIa DoEsN'T MaKe AnYtHiNg $14.5 Billion in Weapons India Has on Order From Russia Could Be Just the Start For one thing its $8 billion order for 36 French Rafale fighters doesn't make sense when China could have 24 Su-35s for $2.5 billion Andrei Martyanov 5 Sep 19 1687 1