Russian Aggression US Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid — The New York Times Has been inserting "potentially devastating" cyber weapons into Russia since last summer Bob Wenzel 16 Jun 19 665 4
Lapdog ChroniclesThose Pesky Chinese Justin Trudeau Has Been Trying to Get the Chinese to Take His Call Since January China's Prime Minister can't understand why an American provincial governor keeps trying to reach him Marko Marjanović 15 Jun 19 2880 14
Chief of Naval Operations Lauds Return to Storied Tradition of ‘False Flag’ Operations Began when Yankee sailors dressed up like Indians at the Boston Tea Party in 1773 Duffel Blog 15 Jun 19 876 3
History 1854-1896: How Western Bullying Taught Peaceful Japan Imperialism (VIDEO) 40 years of humiliations led previously inward-looking Japan to set on a drive of militarization, modernization and expansion of its own Carlton Meyer 15 Jun 19 552 4
History Contrary to Modern Myth Britain Was a Major Cheerleader for US War in Vietnam and Even Sent Covert Troops Backed the war option, advised Diem on counterinsurgency, trained his men, flew in napalm for Americans, and sent covert SAS troops Mark Curtis 15 Jun 19 363 4
Putin Gives His Measure of Ukraine’s New President – Zelensky Doesn’t Inspire Confidence (VIDEO) But leaves the door open anyway Vesti TV 15 Jun 19 477 0
John Bolton: ‘When Has the Government Ever Lied About Attacks on Ships in a Gulf Somewhere Just to Provoke War?’ Or lied about anything? The Babylon Bee 15 Jun 19 1617 13
Libertarians Forged an Alliance With Brasil’s Bolsonaro. Will They Come to Regret It? Bolsonaro has nominally put them in charge of the economy, but he's shaping out to be too beholden to special interests to authorize deep reform Jim Epstein 15 Jun 19 357 1
Japanese Tanker Owner Disputes US Narrative, Says Crew Saw “Flying Objects” Before Attack Says crew witnessed "the second shot", calls reports of mine attack "false" Associated Press 14 Jun 19 2106 4
Ouch! ‘I Don’t Consider Trump a Person Worthy of Exchanging Messages With’ — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei sends Trump's messenger boy Shinzo Abe back without a message for Trump Daniel Larison 14 Jun 19 967 7
Invincible Empire F-35’s Logistics System Has No Way for Foreign F-35 Operators to Keep Their Secret Data from Being Sent to the US Pentagon says won't fix critical F-35 flaws before mass production because they have "acceptable workarounds" Marko Marjanović 14 Jun 19 712 7
Persia Under Siege US Video of Iranians Removing Explosives From Attacked Tanker Doesn’t Prove Anything Also it was likely neither a torpedo nor a mine but a demo charge, says US intel veteran of 36 years Marko Marjanović 14 Jun 19 676 3
Invincible Empire Navy and Marine F-35s Can’t Do Steep Climbs or Go Supersonic Without Burning Off Their Stealthy Coating and Tails More great features revealed David Axe 14 Jun 19 1342 6
NATO Squabbles Turkey Says Will Retaliate If US Introduces Sanctions Over S-400 Sanction the world! Especially allies! Sputnik 14 Jun 19 507 2
Checkpoint Asia’s Plan Is Taking Your Beer Money and Turning It Into Delicious Empire Hatred I know you love beer but you love Checkpoint Asia too Marko Marjanović 13 Jun 19 167 0
Did Iran Have a Motive to Strike the Tankers After All? If they can't export petrochemicals why should anyone else? Bernhard 13 Jun 19 1150 9
Targeted Tankers Were Only Miles From Key Iranian Naval Base Opened in 2008 to dominate and control the Strait of Hormuz Seth J Frantzman 13 Jun 19 551 9
Goodbye Petrodollar Russian MP Proposes a Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency, Central Bank Head Concurs Opposes nothing-cryptos, but will study the proposal for a gold-backed one RT 13 Jun 19 393 3
A Pair of Tankers ‘Struck’ and On Fire at Entrance to Strait of Hormuz Iranian FM: "Suspicious doesn't begin to describe what happened" RT 13 Jun 19 683 7
1854-1949 US Navy Patroled China’s Yangtze River as Enforcers for US Corporations (VIDEO) Luckily between the trade war and the naval provocations the US is doing everything it can to dredge up those awful memories Carlton Meyer 13 Jun 19 737 1
Team America US Troops Wipe Out a Contingent of Afghan Security Forces With an Airstrike for the Second Time in a Month Not The Onion Jason Ditz 13 Jun 19 1197 8
Goodbye Petrodollar China Seeks Indian and Russian Backing for ‘New’ Trading System Modi expected to join Xi and Putin at SCO summit to express support for the initiative Lee Jeong-ho 13 Jun 19 865 3
NATO Squabbles Erdogan Reiterates: “I’m Not Saying We’re Buying S-400s, I’m Saying We Bought Them” Spells it out for Washington. Ads that Turkey is a co-producer of F-35s, not just a purchaser Baris Gundogan 13 Jun 19 1733 6
Trade War Joys Huawei’s US Suppliers Want out of the Ban What do you know. US tech doesn't appreciate sanctions against it Zhang Qi 13 Jun 19 962 1
Bolton Says US Is Ramping Up ‘Offensive Cyber Measures’ vs China Has gone from cyber attacks on Russia over supposed election interference to attacking China over supposed business espionage Shannon Vavra 12 Jun 19 587 2
Invincible Empire Fewer Than 15 Percent of America’s B-1 Bombers Are Airworthy Just keep shoveling that money over to F-35s Kyle Mizokami 12 Jun 19 1652 1
Putin Sets the Table to Leave the Dollar Behind "No longer serves the interest of the future" The Daily Coin 12 Jun 19 1492 7
Our Benevolent Empire US Coast Guard Ships Sail for ‘Law Enforcement’ Duty…in the South China Sea Just 15,000 km from San Diego...clearly a US coastal matter Philip J. Heijmans 12 Jun 19 576 5
Our Benevolent Empire Russia Keeps Asking US to Agree to No Nuclear Weapons Use, but It’s Not Getting Any Answer Russia again urges the US to adopt a joint declaration that a nuclear war cannot be won Tom O’Connor 12 Jun 19 557 5
Trade War Joys Trump’s Huawei Crackdown Could Hit Trump Country Hardest It is precisely rural internet providers who built their infrastructure around cheaper Chinese gear — which they may now have to rip out John Hendel 12 Jun 19 642 3