History Iran Has Its Own 9/11. It Was Carried out by the Pentagon 300 civilians were killed by a US Navy cruiser firing from inside Iranian waters Tom O’Connor 5 Jul 19 1369 3
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast US Economic Wars Exposed by Russian Puppet Guests Mike Maharrey & Will Porter LP chair complains Mike used RT to spread message Kyle Anzalone 4 Jul 19 616 0
Our Benevolent Empire UK Now Enforcing a Naval Blockade of Syria to Starve It of Oil Panama-flagged vessel boarded and seized by Royal Marines for the "crime" of carrying Iranian crude to Syria Brian Reyes 4 Jul 19 1712 24
Suddenly Jingoistic Military Fetishization Isn’t “American”? Who Knew Is Putin behind the central plank of America's civil religion? Caitlin Johnstone 4 Jul 19 661 2
Our Benevolent Empire North Korea: Trump Undermining Peace Efforts With Hostile Acts US seeks talks, but keeps seeking more UN sanctions Jason Ditz 4 Jul 19 280 3
Lapdog ChroniclesThose Pesky Chinese China to Trudeau: You Made Your Own Bed, Now Lie in It Beijing foreign ministry tells him he was "naive" to think Trump would bail him out CGTN 4 Jul 19 3086 9
Those Pesky Russians Lavrov: US Doesn’t Get to Cry Over Iran Stockpiling Uranium Not when it has violated a UN resolution to make it impossible for Iran to sell it Vesti TV 4 Jul 19 1101 6
Persia Under Siege Trump’s “Maximum Pressure” Blows Up in His Droopy Face If Iranians are ever going to talk to the US again they have to restore their leverage first Daniel Larison 3 Jul 19 1015 11
Trade War Joys China Getting Around Tariffs by Slapping “Made in Vietnam” Stickers on Its Goods How much of the business China supposedly lost to Vietnam due to tariffs is just repacked Chinese goods? Damir Kaletović 3 Jul 19 669 2
Those Pesky Chinese Billions of Dollars Later, China Chipmakers Gain Ground but Still Trail Global Leaders 3 to 5 years behind Doug Young 3 Jul 19 963 4
Stay Classy MSM Every Major MSM Paper Declined to Run This Piece on UK Treatment of Assange by UN Rapporteur on Torture Offered to 11 major papers in US, UK and Australia. They all declined Nils Melzer 3 Jul 19 630 4
Empire Woes US Swing States Are Against More Military Strikes Abroad Veterans groups commission a poll to make sure Trump and the Democrats know it Elena Schneider 3 Jul 19 279 3
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: Iran Did NOT Break the Nuke Deal Trump abandoned and then sanctioned the JCPOA Kyle Anzalone 3 Jul 19 179 1
Adventures in Trumpia US Lowers Demands for North Korea First-Phase Nuclear Deal Trump admin again balks again at putting any sanctions relief on the table, but at least also lowers its own demands as well Marko Marjanović 3 Jul 19 253 1
From the ArchiveHistory That Time Nixon Sent the US Navy to Confront the Soviets to Back Atrocities in Bangladesh and Suck Up to Mao Shining city on a hill Sebastien Roblin 3 Jul 19 700 3
Trade War Joys Trump’s Trade War Cease-Fire With China the Result of His Weakness He's playing a weak hand — badly Finance Twitter 2 Jul 19 1342 6
War in Syria Israeli Attack on Syria Was a Message for Russia Since Jerusalem summit went nowhere Israel interrupts post-Osaka tranquility with a negative ad for S-300 MK Bhadrakumar 2 Jul 19 2202 9
Adventures in Trumpia The Welcome Humiliation of John Bolton NYT: 'Discredited warmonger is the latest to lose his dignity to Donald Trump' Michelle Goldberg 2 Jul 19 1248 8
Our Benevolent Empire NATO Poll Finds Public Opinion in Western Countries Holds That US Is a Threat to Democracy Beacon of democracy? More like the waterhose to its fires Leonid Bershidsky 2 Jul 19 840 3
War in Syria Syrian Anti-Aircraft Missile Lands in Cyprus During Israeli Airstrikes Four Syrian civilians were killed in Israeli attacks including a baby according to Syrian reports Dave DeCamp 2 Jul 19 396 1
Our Benevolent Empire Bolton Rejects ‘Nuclear Freeze’ With North Korea Says suggestion of compromise is 'reprehensible' Jason Ditz 2 Jul 19 507 3
Russian Aggression With a New Look Russia’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant Ready to Heat up the Arctic Has received operating licence and will start supplying the isolated Chukotka region with power by year end RT 2 Jul 19 566 1
Our Benevolent Empire US Accuses Iran of Violating Nuclear Deal Before Agreement Even Existed The White House gives clutching at straws a whole new meaning Kathryn Krawczyk 2 Jul 19 277 8
Empire Woes US Shipyards Point Out Major Flaw in Trump’s 350-Ship Navy Plan It would require massive investments into shipyards, supply chain and workforce first Mike Stone 1 Jul 19 883 5
Trade War Joys The US-China Trade War ‘Truce’ Merely Postpones the Next Escalation There is less going on here than is being touted Kenneth Rapoza 1 Jul 19 580 2
Was South Korea’s Moon the Real Architect of the Historic Trump-Kim DMZ Meeting? Trump extends White House invitation to Kim, US and North Korea to reopen stalled nuclear talks Hankyoreh 1 Jul 19 387 3
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast Podcast: DNC Debate Breakdown Joanne Leon returns to talk about the candidates positions on wars Kyle Anzalone 1 Jul 19 175 1
Malignant Plutocrats New Soros/Koch-Funded Think Tank Claims to Oppose US Forever War Brought to you by boosters of war on Syria and Venezuela Caitlin Johnstone 1 Jul 19 316 5
Russian Aggression Russia Withdraws Military Specialists From Venezuela They arrived in March, at height of crisis which has now past AFP 1 Jul 19 771 1
China Has Rid Its Military of 100,000 For-Profit Ventures Ranging From Catering to Agriculture to Hotels Much-needed reform started in 2016 is just about done Han Wei 29 Jun 19 1086 0