UAE Signs Up to Develop Russia’s Arctic Maritime Route The Emirates' state-owned global ports operator, DP World, is partnering with Moscow to build ports along the way the ships will need James M. Dorsey 30 Jul 19 545 1
As US Beefs Up Military Presence in the Gulf, Yemen’s Houthis Turn to Russia for Support The Houthis want Russia to step in where the UN has failed Ahmed Abdulkareem 30 Jul 19 727 4
Those Pesky Sino-Russians China and India Took Part in Russia’s Navy Day Parade China with a destroyer and India with a frigate Xinhua 30 Jul 19 489 2
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: North Korea Tests New Missiles How Trump's economic war pushed Kim Kyle Anzalone 29 Jul 19 193 1
Those Pesky Russians Quietly, Russia Is Inaugurating a New Economic Order to Transform Where Its Wealth Comes From The third economic transformation since 1991 is quietly underway in Russia Chris Weafer 29 Jul 19 1785 2
Those Pesky Chinese First Private Chinese Company Launches Rocket Into Orbit The third Chinese company to try makes it a success Matthew Walsh 29 Jul 19 288 0
NATO Squabbles Turkey Is Already Lost to NATO, Time for Washington to Make It Official Instead of sanctioning Turkey it would make more sense to revoke its NATO membership Doug Bandow 29 Jul 19 1510 12
Empire Woes US Navy Would Love to Do a ‘Freedom of Navigation Operation’ in Russia’s Arctic, But Doesn’t Have the Capability It is aware such a voyage may end with having to call the Russians for help, or being rebuffed Malte Humpert 29 Jul 19 1252 10
737 MAX Ruder Control Does Not Meet Safety Guidelines – FAA Certified It Anyway Instead of flying again in October the whole certification of the MAX is now in question Bernhard 29 Jul 19 964 2
The UAE Will Stay in Yemen, But Won’t Follow the Saudis Into a War With Iran Already seriously at odds with Saudi "allies" in Yemen, the UAE has drawn a line over war with Iran Randi Nord 29 Jul 19 685 1
In a Naval Confrontation With Iran, Great Britain Can Find Neither Ships nor Friends With a navy built to support the US the Brits are in trouble after the former, itself overstretched, declines to back the UK in the same way David B. Larter 28 Jul 19 1243 8
Invincible Empire Empire’s Navy Has Nearly No Minesweeping or Minelaying Capability Probably not enough money to be made for the military-industrial-congressional complex in a weapon so simple and effective Navy Matters 28 Jul 19 844 3
Our Benevolent Empire 80 Years of Injustice: The Joint, Serial, and Ongoing Betrayal of Korea by the United States and Japan To fast-track Japan's rehabilitation as an ally vs Communism the US threw its weight around to deny Korea justice for 1940s war crimes Peter Lee 28 Jul 19 1184 6
American Politicians Use Jews as Pawns To Excuse Their Meddling in Israeli Elections Washington is going out of its way to boost Netanyahu and Likud ahead of Israel's upcoming election Thomas L. Knapp 28 Jul 19 327 9
Goodbye Petrodollar JP Morgan: Is the Dollar’s “Exorbitant Privilege” Coming to an End? JP Morgan recommends diversifying away from the dollar as it warns its dominant status is weakening Craig Cohen 28 Jul 19 1384 2
Bubblegeddon Once “Prosperity” Falters, the Legitimacy of the Status Quo Evaporates "All we're doing is waiting for the fake 'prosperity' to crumble, and the resulting loss of credibility will follow like night follows day" Charles Hugh Smith 28 Jul 19 709 10
Maritime Tensions With Iran Highlight Decrepit State of British Royal Navy Persia isn't exactly shaking in its boots here Military Watch 27 Jul 19 2211 7
CDC: People With Dirt on Clintons Have 843% Greater Risk of Suicide "We’ve never seen a single risk factor cause a spike of this magnitude" The Babylon Bee 27 Jul 19 4758 5
Those Pesky Chinese Huawei Set to Beat Apple With World’s Top Chip Despite US Ban Sanctions-hit Huawei to premier smarthpone chips based on a new technology a year ahead of US and Korean competitors Lauly Li 27 Jul 19 1757 6
Those Pesky Chinese South Korea Struggling to Pick Between US and China US and South Korea are aligned vis-a-vis North Korea, but in relation to China the latter is being Finlandized Uri Friedman 27 Jul 19 495 8
Trade War Joys China Readiess $29 Billion to Fuel Rise of Chip Industry Trump showed the US may move to threaten China's chip imports worth $312 billion in 2018 — better be able to make your own Sarah Dai 27 Jul 19 1335 1
Those Pesky Russians Russia Performed a ‘Freedom of Navigation Operation’ Against South Korea and Japan Not only did Russia and China perform their first joint military air patrol, but the Russian military seems to have had another present for China Marko Marjanović 27 Jul 19 1283 1
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast PODCAST: Mueller Flops in Congress as Western Powers Make War in Persian Gulf More Likely Mueller appeared unknowledgeable about his report and disappointed many Russiagaters Kyle Anzalone 26 Jul 19 349 0
Persia Under Siege It Is Easy to See With Which Side Reason Is to Be Found in the Anglo-Iranian Confrontation Britain dispatching a nuclear submarine to the Persian Gulf, Iran proposing a tanker-for-tanker trade John Chuckman 26 Jul 19 975 7
Hillary Clinton Devastated After Hearing of Jeffrey Epstein’s Failed Suicide Attempt She knows he will be succcessful eventually Exavier Saskagoochie 26 Jul 19 1623 7
US Forces in Korea Only Made It a Month Without a Curfew Before a Soldier Got Drunk and Hijacked a Taxi Tasered in a brawl with South Korean police after hitting a driver and stealing his taxi Haley Britzky 26 Jul 19 702 6
Now Ukraine Seizes a Russian Tanker in Black Sea Port Kiev says tanker was used to seal off the Kerch Strait after a shooting incident between the Russian and Ukrainian navies last year RT 25 Jul 19 1188 7
Our Benevolent Empire Gibraltar Changed Its Sanctions Laws to Seize Iranian Ship Laws changed just 36 hours before to enable the seizure Bolton requested Richard Spencer 25 Jul 19 897 5
Peace in Ukraine Could Extinguish the New Cold War, But Will Washington Let It Happen? Not if Biden wins 2020 that's for sure Stephen F. Cohen 25 Jul 19 492 4
Boris Johnson “Enthusiastic” About Belt and Road, Vows to Run a Very “Pro-China” Government Boris Johnson says a lot of things Joel Gehrke 25 Jul 19 698 6