With an Unstable Ally in Trump, Britain Is Making Itself a Target in the Gulf Singing up without knowing what for — the lapdog way Patrick Cockburn 16 Jul 19 601 4
Sanction the World! US Officials Pushing for Sanctions on China Over Iranian Oil Imports, Trade Talks Be Damned Parts of Trump admin determined to have the Empire bite off more than it can chew Eliana Johnson 16 Jul 19 823 9
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: WIll Trump Sanction Turkey? Russia begins delivery of the S-400 Kyle Anzalone 15 Jul 19 266 2
Empire’s Sanctions Are Now Driving Venezuela Toward Famine The country grows only a third of its food, and oil sanctions will cost it 94 percent of what it spent on imports last year Daniel Larison 15 Jul 19 491 6
Ukraine’s Zelensky Calls Putin to Talk Peace as Electorate Demands, But Will the West and Nationalists Let Him? A call to Moscow would have been unimaginable under late-era Poroshenko MK Bhadrakumar 15 Jul 19 686 4
BRICS Now a Larger Share of World Economy Than G7 In 2020 it will surpass the US and the entire EU combined — when adjusted for PPP as it should be Constantin Grudgiev 15 Jul 19 2433 5
Turkey Announces the Target of Its New Air Defense Missiles and It’s Uncle Sam A little added anti-coup insurance for the Sultan Bernhard 15 Jul 19 1277 5
Are ‘Rogue Nation’ Nukes Good for Peace? Hell yes they are. Also good for getting kids with leukemia medicine Nicky Reid 15 Jul 19 408 1
Here Is What Is Really Going on in Hong Kong The idea that the proposed extradition bill could have been useful to China to stiffle speech and dissent in Hong Kong is very, very shaky Reese Erlich 15 Jul 19 776 3
More German Capital Now Flowing Into Russia Than Before Sanctions Imagine the volume of investments by now if sanctions never happened RT 15 Jul 19 850 2
Pirate Who Would Be PM Says Will Release Captured Tanker If Iran Pinky Swears It’s Not Headed to Syria Jeremy Hunt gets to snatch non-British ships if they're headed for the wrong country? BBC 15 Jul 19 413 5
NATO Squabbles US Silent as Turkey Begins Taking Delivery of Russian Missiles Sanction the Turks and make them buy Sukhois on top? Jason Ditz 15 Jul 19 381 1
US Can’t Let S-400 Armed Turkey Have F-35s Because It Would Expose How Easy They Are to Kill The only 'security concern' of the US in Turkey having S-400 and F-35 both was in that it would expose how easily the former detects and tracks the latter Andrei Martyanov 13 Jul 19 1830 7
Bill Clinton Lies About His ‘Lolita Express’ Flights — Will He Get Away With It (Again)? "Clinton is either incredibly desperate or incredibly stupid, because all of the evidence indicates that he is lying" Michael Snyder 12 Jul 19 1265 6
Goodbye Petrodollar Russia Has Stopped Accepting Dollars for Its Weapons Exports Buyers now have to get rubles South Front 12 Jul 19 1730 8
Turkey Has Stockpiled F-16 Parts, Anticipating Sanctions by Its Cuddly NATO Ally Was last placed under a US weapons embargo in the 1970s over the Cyprus war with NATO Greece Selcan Hacaoglu 12 Jul 19 603 3
‘Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy,’ US State Dept Boasted in 2017, With Appointment of FM Chrystia Freeland It was not wrong Ben Norton 12 Jul 19 702 7
Goodbye Petrodollar Poland Gobbles up Gold, Plans to Bring It Home Doubles its gold reserves in just over six months, wants to repatriate it from London Schiff Gold 12 Jul 19 836 4
Persia Under Siege Iran Won’t Let China’s Petroleum Giant Off The Hook Easy 'No can do' says Iran to CNPC's request to suspend work on an Iranian mega gas field due to sanctions Tsvetana Paraskova 12 Jul 19 816 1
Trump Balked at Selling Taipei F-16s Lest It Ruined China Trade Talks At least for now RoC won't be getting what it wanted the most Joseph Trevithick 12 Jul 19 422 1
Done Deal: Russian S-400s Begin Arriving in Turkey Erdogan didn't flinch — now it's up to Washington to CAATSA sanction a NATO ally as threatened Tyler Durden 12 Jul 19 488 4
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast The Syrian War Drags On Foreign powers impede a conclusion to the conflict Kyle Anzalone 12 Jul 19 315 3
UAE Withdraws From Yemen in Failure and Defeat Major setback for the Saudis who now find themselves alone James M. Dorsey 11 Jul 19 1176 3
The EU Is a Zombified Japan-Style Economy and Lagarde Is Going to Make It Worse Her job is to tack on more debt by leveraging the only unencumbered asset the EU still has: surplus countries' bonds Constantin Grudgiev 11 Jul 19 851 3
Your Reptilian Masters Jeffrey Epstein Was an Intelligence Asset — But of Which Agency? Alexander Acosta — now Trump's Labor Secretary, then a prosecutor — was told to cut Epstein a wildly generous plea deal becase he "belonged to intelligence" Vicky Ward 11 Jul 19 2356 3
Putin Says US Under Obama Was Not Agreement-Capable Doesn't mean it's any better now The Moscow Times 11 Jul 19 510 17
Iranian Boats Accused of Trying to Seize British Oil Tanker The tanker waited in Saudi waters for two days for a British escort warship to arrive Jason Ditz 11 Jul 19 312 6
Arctic LNG Revolution Is Russia’s Answer to US Shale Boom So lucrative the Japanese have joined in on the action despite sanctions as Russia's gas giant Novatek considers sales to China in renminbi Simon Watkins 11 Jul 19 1196 1
Philippine President Assures the Empire He’s Ready to Fight for the South China Sea — To the Last American He'll be right behind the 7th Fleet Ryan Pickrell 11 Jul 19 787 4
Zero New Orders for 737 MAX – Airbus to Overtake Boeing as World’s Biggest Plane Maker Can't say it's undeserved Mark Sweney 11 Jul 19 667 2