Goodbye Petrodollar UK’s Chief Central Banker Calls for a “Multi-Polar” Reserve Currency to Replace “Destabilizing” Dollar As a way to prevent China's yuan from taking that role from the US currency anyway Brian Swint 26 Aug 19 892 2
Stay Classy MSM Demented Guardian Says Trump’s Greenland Ambition Proves He’s Putin’s Puppet Apparently the Kremlin is desperate for the US to radically expand its foothold in the Arctic Paul Robinson 26 Aug 19 590 6
Persia Under Siege Iranian Oil Tanker Pursued by Bolton Changes Listed Destination to Turkey Estimated to arrive on August 31st Deutsche Welle 26 Aug 19 544 4
Trade War Joys US Supply Chain Ban to Hurt Huawei’s Phone Sales Much Less Than Originally Thought Damage in 2019 will be closer to $10 billion rather than the $30 billion originally feared Alan Friedman 26 Aug 19 577 0
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Doesn’t Know the First Thing About Negotiating The result is that all of his foreign policy initiatives are failing or have already failed Daniel Larison 26 Aug 19 657 3
NATO Squabbles How NATO Turkey Thwarted NATO France in Libya Aid from Islamist-run Turkey halted the offensive of Paris-backed Haftar including a Turkish-organized transfer of jihadis from Syria's Idlib to Libya Giorgio Cafiero 26 Aug 19 595 0
51st State Adventures Netanyahu Hits Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon in Desperate Reelection Bid One member of the Iraqi armed forces killed by an Israeli suicide drone in Anbar Jason Ditz 26 Aug 19 467 5
War in Syria End Game Looms for Turkey in Idlib, as Russia Reacts to Its Planned Joint Operation Room With the US "Despite the high-pitched rhetoric, Turkey is in a tight spot, with little room to maneuver" Fehim Tastekin 24 Aug 19 2600 11
51st State Adventures Report: Israel Plans to Attack the Houthis in Yemen Because “Iran” US sources just revealed that Israel has been bombing Iraq so why not expand it to Yemen as well Jason Ditz 24 Aug 19 5253 18
Idlib Offensive Turkey Vows Not to Quit Army Post Surrounded by Syria’s Army The Foreign Minister did not specify what they intend for the troops to eat AFP 24 Aug 19 734 3
Our Benevolent Empire SOCOM Chief Says Imperial Navy Ready to Move Against Venezuela Admiral Craig Faller: "we remain on the balls of our feet", ready to "do what needs to be done" Jason Ditz 24 Aug 19 953 8
South Korea Ends Intelligence-Sharing With Japan as Dispute Over WWII Crimes Intensifies Headache for Empire Kim Jaewon 24 Aug 19 282 4
51st State Adventures Israel Has Been Bombing Iraq — The New York Times At least two attacks on government paramilitaries, one just days ago, confirmed to be Israel's work Alissa J. Rubin 23 Aug 19 497 5
Reality Criticized For Not More Clearly Distinguishing Itself From Satire "The problem with all these real news sites is they're reporting things that would have been satirical just six months ago" The Babylon Bee 23 Aug 19 465 0
Hong Kong Protests Fueled by Resentment That Mainlanders Are Catching Up in Consumption and Status No longer may Hong Kongers cross into Shenzen and feel like demi-gods Israel Shamir 23 Aug 19 2005 10
Idlib Offensive Rebel Pocket Folds, Syrian Army Surrounds Turkish Military Outpost 1 Turkish base neutralized. 11 more to go Marko Marjanović 23 Aug 19 1157 9
Empire Woes German-US Ties Are Breaking Down, Virtual Radio Silence Between Merkel and Trump Worst relations since 1949, even business elites ready to turn their back on the US, and a quasi-colonial US Ambassador making it all worse Matthias Gebauer 23 Aug 19 1204 15
Idlib Offensive Al-Qaeda’s Defiance of Turkey Leads to Syrian Control of Khan Shaykhun Elijah J. Magnier makes the case the ongoing Syrian-Russian offensive has the tacit approval of Turkey Elijah J. Magnier 23 Aug 19 819 0
Empire Woes Iran Unveils New Locally Built ‘S-300 Analogue’ Air Defence System Development started in 2010 when Dmitry Medvedev called off S-300 sale to please Barack Obama Sputnik 23 Aug 19 1040 3
Our Benevolent Empire Anti-China Cult Gets US Government Money — Runs Large Pro-Trump Ad Campaign Turns out the biggest advertiser for Trump on Facebook by far is Falun Gong Bernhard 23 Aug 19 549 0
Eritas New US Army Chief of Staff Introduces #TryWinning Campaign Thinks it might be fun to actually win once in a while and not just participate Duffel Blog 22 Aug 19 712 6
Idlib Offensive Putin Brushes Off Turkish Protests, Reiterates Support for Syrian Army Offensive on Al-Qaeda Rebels Russian leader points out before the deescalation freeze al-Qaeda held 50 percent of rebel Idlib and now it's 90 Maxim A. Suchkov 22 Aug 19 970 6
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: US Drone Downed Over Yemen, What Was It Doing There Anyway?? The important questions the MSM never asks Kyle Anzalone 22 Aug 19 610 1
Empire Woes Pentagon Admits Defeat, Cancels Billion-Dollar Contract for Anti-Missile Missile After spending $1.2bn US military realized what Raytheon and Boeing were building was never going to realistically knock down a missile Ellen Mitchell 22 Aug 19 9983 9
Video: Actual Footage From Jeffrey Epstein’s Autopsy "The result of the autopsy was that Epstein committed suicide by hanging from toilet paper" Exavier Saskagoochie 22 Aug 19 906 7
Idlib Offensive Syrian Army Pours Into Key Town of Khan Shaykhoun, Encircles Large Rebel Salient After failed bailout attempt Sultan Papa Jihadi left with egg on his face Marko Marjanović 22 Aug 19 694 6
Adventures in Trumpia Trump: “Nasty”, “Not Nice”, “Inappropriate” of Denmark to Trash My Greenland Proposal Crybaby shit-for-brains whines about being told just a fraction of the truth of just how idiotic, entitled, tone-deaf, absurd and insulting he was Tyler Durden 22 Aug 19 738 15
Trade War Joys Manufacturers Want to Quit China for Vietnam. They’re Finding It Impossible Nobody has China's scale, infrastructure, experience, and supply chains Niharika Mandhana 22 Aug 19 1936 10
Our Whiny Empire US Reaper Drone Shot Down Over Yemen, Empire Blames Iran Houthis inherited the larger part of Saleh's old army and air defenses, and have been taking drones down for years Jason Ditz 22 Aug 19 1801 9
China Wants to Build an Argentine Soybeans Superhighway Wants to deepen Argentina's Parana river that carries 80% of its farm exports Hugh Bronstein 21 Aug 19 3234 4