Trade War Joys Trump Overplayed His Hand With China BIG TIME, There’s NO WAY He’s Coming Out of This One a Winner What an incredibly arrogant miscalculation from the know-nothing this was Andrew J. Nathan 28 Jun 19 4452 8
Somebody Blew Up the Pipeline to Syria’s Main Oil Terminal Oil embargo of the country now backed by sabotage of key oil infrastructure SMMS 28 Jun 19 2110 7
After Russia Fails to Sell Out Iran to Bolton and Bibi Israel Discovers “GPS Disruptions” Over Israel “by Russia” Right on cue Yaniv Kubovich 28 Jun 19 2261 7
Those Pesky Russians Russia’s Big Bet on Gold Is Paying Off This is just the beginning; sky is the limit for gold when dollar pops Leonid Bershidsky 28 Jun 19 793 3
Our Benevolent Empire Bolton Gets Ready to Kill the Last Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia Hello a costly and unwinnable arms race in world-destroying weapons Daniel Larison 28 Jun 19 629 8
Justin Raimondo — Antiwar.com Founder, Director and Columnist Dead at 67. RIP We lost a good man Antiwar.com 28 Jun 19 443 2
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast An End to the Afghan War? (AUDIO PODCAST) Can talks with the Taliban lead to a peace deal? Kyle Anzalone 28 Jun 19 154 0
Tulsi Crushes the First Democrat Debate, The Most Googled Candidate, Landslide Winner in a Bunch of Polls The fool who dared go against her was scorched, isn't even on the radar Checkpoint Asia 27 Jun 19 1506 7
Invincible Empire If US Military Knew How to Do Anything It Was How to Land Troops — No More Lessons of Anzio, Salerno, Overlord, Inchon and of a hundred Pacific islands have all been unlearned Navy Matters 27 Jun 19 993 10
Bonesaw Saudis Saudi Arabia Just Bought $300 Million Worth of Spyware From Israel Israeli friends kindly helping affable Prince Bonesaw track future troublesome Khashoggis Middle East Monitor 27 Jun 19 970 2
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 3494 18
Our Benevolent Empire Iranian FM Reminds Trump Threat of War Is Illegal Asks if "obliteration" means nuclear weapons RT 27 Jun 19 545 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 2135 6
Foreign Policy Focus Podcast John Bolton and Iran Escalation With Guest Joanne Leon Podcast goodness Kyle Anzalone 27 Jun 19 441 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 2111 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 2692 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 1008 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 19 433 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 19 890 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 19 580 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 19 377 0