Persia Under Siege Iran ‘Won’t Be Alone’ If US Attacks, Russian Envoy Says Whether Russia would provide material support is up to the President the diplomat said The Moscow Times 27 Jun 19 3493 18
Our Benevolent Empire Iranian FM Reminds Trump Threat of War Is Illegal Asks if "obliteration" means nuclear weapons RT 27 Jun 19 542 4
Trade War Joys Western Chipmakers Fear Huawei Ban Could Lose Them $200 Billion Chinese Market to Homegrown Rivals China is roughly one half of the global $400 billion semiconductor pie Kensaku Ihara 27 Jun 19 2134 6
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast John Bolton and Iran Escalation With Guest Joanne Leon Podcast goodness Kyle Anzalone 27 Jun 19 440 1
Goodbye Petrodollar Could Facebook’s Libra Threaten State Control of Money? Congress Sure Is Acting Like It Could Congress hates the idea so violently it is even feigning citizen "privacy" concerns Mike “Mish” Shedlock 26 Jun 19 327 4
Empire Woes American Empire Is a Desperate and Weak Power With Crumbling Credibility and Elites Incapable of Adapting to 21st Century Sure it has might at its disposal, but when has it last attained the outcome it wanted? Patrick Lawrence 26 Jun 19 2105 18
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Pronounces Sanctions on Ayatollah Khomeini Who Has Been Dead Since 1989 Hopefully sanctions will convince the ayatollah to release American hostages from the Tehran Embassy Checkpoint Asia 26 Jun 19 1496 6
Russia Tells Bolton Iran Is Russia’s Ally, Unacceptable to Compare It to Terrorists Patrushev did not meet with Americans and the Israelis to 'sell out' Iran but to warn hands off Andrei Martyanov 26 Jun 19 2691 6
Adventures in Trumpia Iran’s Rouhani Says Trump’s White House ‘Afflicted by Mental Problems’, Trump Threatens ‘Force’, ‘Obliteration’ Says "Iran's use of IEDs killed 2000 Americans" Tom O’Connor 26 Jun 19 463 1
Iran Worried US Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon Increasingly worried about the United States of America's uranium-enrichment program The Onion 26 Jun 19 979 2
Those Pesky Russians Russia in Jerusalem: US Drone Was Shot Down Over Iran, US Case vs Iran on Tankers Is ‘Unprofessional’ Russia's Security Council Secretary has met with Bolton and the Israeli counterpart but all he has been doing is sticking up for Iran Sputnik 25 Jun 19 1044 4
Helmer: Russia Has Bolstered Iran’s Air Defenses With Technical Advisers To help speed up Iranian reaction times John Helmer 25 Jun 19 5536 8
Germany Has Concluded That Huawei’s 5G Is Safer Than NSA’s 4G It's America's Verizon that Berlin is apprehensive about, but the US has nothing on Huawei despite reading its emails German Foreign Policy 25 Jun 19 11573 2
Those Pesky Persians Iranians Meet Trump’s New Sanctions With Mockery and Derision Trump merely proves that short of hot war he has no bullets left to fire Daniel Larison 25 Jun 19 641 2
Stay Classy MSM New York Times Admits It Sends Stories to US Government for Approval Before Publication Casually acknowledges that it first sends major scoops to “national security officials” to make sure they have “no concerns" Ben Norton 25 Jun 19 1006 7
No US War on Iran for Now — but Mike Pompeo and John Bolton Still Really, Really Want One War crises are bound to continue until either war comes or Trump breaks their hold on US policy Gareth Porter 25 Jun 19 331 1
One-Third of US Backs Nuclear War on North Korea, Killing One Million Study finds the US public "exhibits only limited aversion to nuclear weapons use and a shocking willingness to support the killing of enemy civilians" Tom O’Connor 25 Jun 19 432 18
Our Benevolent Empire Are US and Russia Already in a Cyber War? This could be a second MAD situation only more unstable as both sides are continuously maneuvering for a better strike position Philip Giraldi 24 Jun 19 889 1
Our Benevolent Empire Iran *Was* Chummy With Al-Qaeda — Back When Both Were on America’s Side in Bosnia and Afghanistan Unofortunately for Pompeo Marko Marjanović 24 Jun 19 577 0
Bubblegeddon The Fed’s Casino Is Giving Away Free Gambling Chips (But Only to the Super-Rich) Don't worry, they'll be bailed out with your money when the bubble pops Charles Hugh Smith 24 Jun 19 375 0
Bonesaw Saudis Saudi ‘Anti-Extremism’ Campaign Prince Bonesaw Declared to MSM Fanfare Is Actually Cracking Down on Moderates You didn't think he'd actually go for the radical clerics did you? Ola Salem & Abdullah Alaoudh 24 Jun 19 300 3
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Has a $259 Million Reason to Bomb Iran Trump may not need Adelson, but the GOP does, and he needs the GOP Eli Clifton 24 Jun 19 693 4
34 Percent of China’s 5G Contract Goes to Ericsson. 10 Percent Goes to Nokia China practicing what it preaches, westerners welcome to help build its telecom infrastructure Li Tao 24 Jun 19 668 0
Those Pesky Persians Magnier: Iran Rejected US Offer of Face-Saving Strikes Supposedly the US asked Tehran to pick Iran targets for symbolic strikes to avenge the drone Elijah J Magnier 24 Jun 19 2766 6
Persia Under Siege Trump Credits Iran With Not Shooting Down US Surveillance Plane With 38 on Board Comes after White House told NYT the drone and the P-8 plane may both have violated Iranian airspace Tal Axelrod 24 Jun 19 1057 1
Yellow Peril The US Is Purging Chinese Americans From Top Cancer Research Dangerous criminals guilty of researching while Asian Peter Waldman 23 Jun 19 924 7
Trade War Joys US to Add AMD’s China Joint Venture to Entity List Along With Huawei Trump now sanctioning US companies directly Paul Alcorn 23 Jun 19 899 4
Lapdog Chronicles Trudeau Sails a Warship Through Taiwan Strait While Begging Xi to Meet With Him at G20 Trudeau demonstrates again precisely the behaviour that has caused the Chinese to decline communication with his government Sputnik 22 Jun 19 1587 5
Those Pesky Chinese Chinese Importers Are Defying US Sanctions, Still Buying Iranian Hydrocarbons But they've switched to doing so clandestinely Saket Sundria 22 Jun 19 1276 2
The Fake News of D-Day Trump and the usually hostile media join forces to falsify history Andrew Bacevich 22 Jun 19 2350 21