Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Tulsi Gabbard Votes Against BDS One Day, Co-Sponsors a Pro-BDS Bill the Next A little bit of inconsistency there on a mixed-bag movement Kyle Anzalone 6 Aug 19 850 5
Persia Under Siege Hormuz Tanker War Lays Bare the Limits of US Power The US doesn't want to be anywhere near the Hormuz kill zone, doesn't have the ships if it did, and can't find allies to do it instead Marko Marjanović 6 Aug 19 1918 3
Adventures in Trumpia Retardometer Goes to 11 as Trump Goes After China for What He Claims Is Sparing Americans From Paying for His Tariffs Somehow China's "currency manipulation" is both nefarious and the best thing after sliced bread Marko Marjanović 6 Aug 19 797 15
Our Benevolent Empire US Wants Intermediate Missiles in Asia Pronto so It Can Hit China From Closer Ranges China tells neighbors to think twice before hosting them Jesse Johnson 6 Aug 19 1302 11
Our Classy Empire CLASSY: Iran’s FM Was Sanctioned AFTER He Turned Down Invitation to Meet Trump in the Oval Office Trump's own fault for launching "maximum pressure" without an exit plan Robin Wright 6 Aug 19 551 3
Persia Under Siege Each US Military Threat Against Iran This Year Has Been Matched by a Russian General Staff Response Iran is adding Russian defensive weapons and technology but the FSB won't allow Russian experts to talk about it John Helmer 5 Aug 19 2931 2
North Korea Has Converted a Conventional Submarine to Fire Its Nuclear Missiles Now has at least some sea-based deterrence Kyle Mizokami 5 Aug 19 842 1
Our Benevolent Empire Trump Says May Impose a Naval Blockade on Venezuela "Military blockades are recognized as acts of war under the Declaration of Paris of 1856 and the Declaration of London of 1909" Kurt Nimmo 5 Aug 19 885 6
Our Benevolent Empire Lindsey Graham Is Sponsoring a US-Israeli Defense Treaty That Would Shield Israel From Consequences of Striking Iran Trump presents a golden opportunity for an agreement that any other President would reject Mitchell Plitnick 5 Aug 19 3523 13
Empire Woes South Korea Accuses Japan of Working Against Peace Between Koreas Let's just say South Korea really, really doesn't like Japan these days Lee Wan 5 Aug 19 442 1
Empire Woes Senate Armed Service Committee Chair Accuses Navy of “Arrogance” on Its New $13bn Carrier That “Oughta Be Criminal” Just because it can't run, launch aircraft, or get them to its deck everyone is getting on USS Gerald R. Ford's case Paul McLeary 5 Aug 19 776 7
Those Pesky Russians Since 2017 Russians Have Been Killing Themselves at Lower Levels Than Americans Russia's suicide rate has been falling since 2001, America's has been rising since 2000 Genby 5 Aug 19 404 0
Those Pesky Russians End of INF Treaty Will Not Lead to a New Arms Race With Russia the US Wants Russia's new generation of nuclear delivery weapons already have US' MAD-busting attempts checkmated Bernhard 5 Aug 19 912 3
Russian Aggression More Sanctions on Russians for Refusing to Say If They Have Stopped Beating Their Wives America asked Russia to please promise to stop poisoning people for the love of God and Kremlin wouldn't even do that Jason Ditz 4 Aug 19 1165 15
Empire Woes B-1 Bombers Would Make One Hell of a Maritime Strike Aircraft for the Empire, But Just 6 Are Combatworthy Good. Takes the danger of war with China down a notch Will Spears 3 Aug 19 6845 7
NATO Squabbles It Is in the Russian Interest That the NATO Squabble Over Eastern Med Oil Should Continue The Turks may not be in the right, but if a little support keeps the rift between them and the US, EU, Israel and NATO Greece going... MK Bhadrakumar 3 Aug 19 1020 4
Persia Under Siege As Iran Was Seizing ‘Stena Impero’ Its Missiles Were Trained on HMS Montrose The British and the Iranian accounts of why the Royal Navy did not intervene to prevent the seizure couldn't be more different Elijah J. Maginer 3 Aug 19 2754 10
Empire Woes “We Will Never Lose to Japan Again. We Can Beat Japan!” Proclaims South Korea’s Moon as Tokyo Hikes Up Trade Restrictions Japan erects more trade barriers over compensation demands for WWII victims Mitsuru Obe 3 Aug 19 736 4
Africa Violence Has Spiked Since AFRICOM Founding, Pentagon Study Finds The US military's make-work program in Africa is a stellar success, will be providing jobs for years to come Nick Turse 3 Aug 19 395 4
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Will Trump’s Pick for Top Spy Be a Russiagate Hero? Will Porter profiles the DNI nominee Kyle Anzalone 2 Aug 19 276 2
Will Boris Johnson Defy Washington on Iran? Britain's new PM opposed Trump on the Iran deal in the past, but he is also a famous flip-flopper Barbara Boland 2 Aug 19 561 3
Trade War Joys ‘Losin Spectacularly’: US Net Exports Are in a Tailspin Under Trump Trade deficit at record highs and growing Constantin Grudgiev 2 Aug 19 1656 17
The Empire Has No Class: Iran’s Chief Diplomat Sanctioned…for Representing the Iranian Government And for running circles around the braindead Pompeo MK Bhadrakumar 1 Aug 19 1003 7
NATO Squabbles EU Sanctions Turkey for Illegal Oil Drilling Around Cyprus, Ankara Fires Back by Tearing Up Anti-Migrant Agreement As Greece accepts to become an American anti-Russian satrapy in return for support vs Turkey John Helmer 1 Aug 19 1394 12
Our Benevolent Empire Trump’s Actions on Iran Are Constrained by What Saudi and Israeli Leaders Are Willing to Tolerate Riyadh and Tel Aviv are as much a decision-making center of the Empire as are the White House, Congress, Pentagon, or the think-tanks Andrew Bacevich 1 Aug 19 676 6
History The Bolshevik War on Russia’s Best and Brightest Robbed It of 80 Percent of Its Cognitive Elites 80 percent of its people in high technologies of the time were killed, repressed or exiled to its enemies Anatoly Karlin 1 Aug 19 1392 4
Invincible Empire Just 6 of Empire’s 61 B-1 Bombers Are Combatworthy Blowing up Afghan shepherds for twenty years has taken its toll Dario Leone 1 Aug 19 1361 17
Russia to Build the Tallest Residential Building in Europe At 405 meters will be the tallest building in Moscow and the 2nd talles building in Russia and Europe The Moscow Times 1 Aug 19 683 2
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast House Passes Attack on the First Amendment New anti-BDS bill targets Americans' free speech Kyle Anzalone 31 Jul 19 418 0