Comedy Gold The White House Wanted the USS John Mccain “Out of Sight” for Trump’s Visit to Japan A tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of the trip, and sailors—who wear caps bearing the ship’s name—were given the day off Rebecca Ballhaus 30 May 19 317 4
Our Benevolent Empire Japan Then, China Now: US Has a History of Scapegoating Others for Its Own Economic Self-Destruction Americans are no longer competitive because they do not save — And that's no fault of the Chinese Stephen S. Roach 29 May 19 1167 4
Su-57s Aren’t as Stealthy as F-22s — They’re Not Trying to Be. Russia Has a Totally Different Design Philosophy US is betting the farm on stealth — for Russia it's just one of a number of considerations Michael Kofman 29 May 19 7654 9
Our Benevolent Empire Pence Tells Soldiers: Some of You Will Die for the Empire VP predicts perpetual war at West Point graduation Danny Sjursen 29 May 19 569 9
Invincible Empire Privately the US Navy Knows Its Miracle Littoral Combat Ships Are Useless in a Fight That's why it has them chasing drug smugglers rather than training for war Navy Matters 29 May 19 1869 4
Military Genius Mohammad Bin Salman Assures the US War on Iran Will Be Brief and Victorious The bonesaw prince is the leading voice calling for an American war on the Persians Bruce Reidel 29 May 19 12482 9
Invincible Empire Pentagon Can Only Buy American so Defense Contractor Ordered “Made in America” Uniforms From China Defense contractors — pillars of integrity Mark Bain 29 May 19 574 4
Stay Classy MSM Putin Saved the Amur Leopard. Now Brace Yourself for MSM Headlines of ‘Putin’s Leopards’ Going on ‘Killing Sprees’ and ‘Invading’ China Just about extinct 20 years ago Russia's leopards are making a comeback Marko Marjanović 29 May 19 915 2
Those Pesky Chinese Introducing China’s Other Carrier Program The PLA Navy's very first large helicopter carrier will further tilt an already starkly lopsided imbalance across the Taiwan Strait Lyle J. Goldstein 28 May 19 1381 0
NATO Squabbles NATO Turkey Beefs Up Libya’s Islamists so They Can Better Resist NATO France Armored cars, weapons to Islamists militias so they can better resist French-backed Haftar Lamine Ghanmi 28 May 19 693 6
US Rails Against Chinese Corporate Subsidies but Spends $100 Billion on Corporate Welfare Itself The US simply does it differently CATO Institute 28 May 19 487 3
Abe Thinks He Has Trump Figured Out. He Flatters Him Endlessly to Stave Off a Trade War on Japan Automakers But it's making the Japanese people uncomfortable to see their leader prostrate himself before the US President to such an extent Katie Rogers 28 May 19 530 7
Those Pesky Chinese Through History China Has Almost Always Been the World’s Top Economic Power China's riches and advancement aren't new. The place is merely reclaiming its traditional spot at the top after a few bad centuries Elena Holodny 28 May 19 1271 2
Our Benevolent Empire Lindsey Graham Tells Trump to Invade Venezuela: “Do Exactly What Reagan Did” in Grenada Venezuela is 2500-times the size of Grenada, and has 300-times the population Tyler Durden 28 May 19 707 7
Those Classy Chinese Huawei Chief Would Be ‘the First to Protest’ China’s Retaliatory Ban on Apple Apple serves Chinese consumers and employs Chinese labor and parts, why should China ban it? Marko Marjanović 27 May 19 443 1
A Show on the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Is Now the Highest Rated in IMDB’s History 9.7/10 Paul Tassi 27 May 19 578 3
Liberate Syria’s Idlib, Precisely for the Civilians That America Fakes Concern Over The Empire would rather have a couple of million keep living under al-Qaeda than have Russia liberate them Eva Bartlett 27 May 19 363 3
Why the West Doesn’t Understand China and How It Gets It Wrong The Huawei debacle shows how prejudice still shapes Westerners’ view of the People’s Republic Bill Durodié 27 May 19 1039 1
Idlib Offensive Syrian Army Retakes Town Lost to Jihadi Counter-Attack, Russian Spetsnaz Filmed on the Front As rebels conference with AQ leader the US has a $10 million reward out on — yet the US is telling Russia to stop the offensive Marko Marjanović 27 May 19 1198 1
Trade War Joys US Huawei Ban May Force It to Challenge Google’s Control of the Android Universe Huawei should roll out a Google-free Android fork the EU is hoping for Leonid Bershidsky 27 May 19 1432 2
Those Pesky Chinese Beijing Is Building Hundreds of Airports as Millions of Chinese Take to the Skies By 2035 China will be handling a quarter of all global air passengers, in 3 years it will be handling more than the US Matt Falcus 27 May 19 532 0
RuSsIa DoEsN'T MaKe AnYtHiNg Russia Launches Third Massive Nuclear Icebreaker in Four Years All told five 33,000 ton vessels will allow year-round Russian LNG exports to Asia Thomas Nilsen 27 May 19 718 1
History Stalin Forcefully Deported 6 Million Soviet Citizens ― Russian Peasants and Entire “Enemy” Nationalities. One Million Perished About half of them Slavs, the rest minorities Marko Marjanović 26 May 19 889 10
Idlib Offensive Putin’s Buddy Erdogan Is Waging a Proxy War Against Him in Syria, Has Amped Up Weapons to Rebels — Reuters Turkey has reportedly sent weapons to al-Qaeda-allied rebels to try and blunt Syrian-Russian Idlib offensive Suleiman Al-Khalidi 26 May 19 1098 14
Those Pesky Chinese China Responds to Huawei US Parts Ban With Tax Breaks for Those Who’ll Take Their Place Let capitalism ring Zhang Shidong 26 May 19 1463 4
Post-Maidan Bliss Oligarch Who Bankrolled Ukraine’s New President Calls for Kiev to Default on IMF Debt “This is your game, your geopolitics. You [the west] don’t care about Ukraine. You want to hurt Russia, and Ukraine is just an excuse.” Max Seddon 26 May 19 1244 6
Trade War Joys If Huawei Ban Was Supposed to Stop Spying It’s Seriously Miguided That's not how you do it Mike “Mish” Shedlock 26 May 19 539 6
New Ukraine President Proposes to Put Peace With Rebel Donbass to a Referendum Zelensky knows the war is not popular, referendum would outmaneuver the right-wing bne IntelliNews 26 May 19 663 2
Our Benevolent Empire Huawei Now Barred From Making Phones Able to Run microSD Cards US government weaponizing American-held IP "rights" to the full Chaim Gartenberg 25 May 19 1692 10
Our Benevolent Empire Will the US Sanction Europeans Over Nord Stream 2? There is a growing push connected to need to prop up shale, and export terminals in Texas finished just before LNG price collapsed Nick Cunningham 25 May 19 1490 8