Adventures in Trumpia Fox in the Henhouse: Shanahan Is Industry’s Man in the Pentagon Bad news for the American taxpayer and actual military effectivness. Great news for the eventual bankruptcy of the Empire Kelley Vlahos 22 May 19 611 2
Our Benevolent Empire US Defense Industry Is Spending Millions on Lobbying so It Can Keep Helping Saudis Bomb Yemeni Civilians Reaps billions in return — apparently that's the value of 230,000 Yemeni lives these days Mashal Hashem 22 May 19 344 1
Russian Aggression US Economic War on China Is a Godsend for Russia Just like war on Russia was a godsend for Syria, Venezuela and Iran, and the coming trade war with EU will be a godsend for China Marko Marjanović 22 May 19 1859 15
Those Pesky Chinese Xi Was Ready for a Deal With Trump, But the Party and the Politburo Overruled Him They felt the US was trying to dictate Chinese law, and Xi is merely one vote out of seven in the Politburo Katsuji Nakazawa 22 May 19 1591 6
Those Pesky Chinese The Chinese Are Taking This Trade War Business a Lot More Seriously Than the Americans They've got a song for it and all Tyler Durden 22 May 19 815 5
US Companies Actually Sell $500 Billion in Goods and Services in China and US Gov’t Taxes All of It (VIDEO) $150 billion in direct exports, and $350 billion in goods they make in China and elsewhere outside the US CNBC 22 May 19 466 1
Trade War Joys China Banning US Purchases of Rare Earths Is a Realistic Retaliation Option That Would Sting Like Hell Yes, rare earths are not actually that rare. No, there won't be a rare-earths separation plant in the US any time soon Mike “Mish” Shedlock 21 May 19 1509 7
US Sanctions on Venezuelan Oil Result in the Tripling of Imports From Russia 2014-2015 the US did not import a drop of Russian oil Sheela Tobben 21 May 19 843 4
Trade War Joys Trump’s Huawei Ban Removes $11 Billion of US Exports to China at the Stroke of a Pen Trump has thrown a grenade at Huawei's supply chain, but only at the cost of launching a cruise missile salvo at American chip makers Marko Marjanović 21 May 19 1412 5
War on Yemen Italian Dockworkers Refuse to Load Saudi Ship Carrying Weapons for Yemen War Days after French workers had done the same RT 21 May 19 667 3
Pompeo’s Briefing on Iran “Threat” to NATO Europeans Went Over Like a Lead Balloon Pompeo thought they'll eat out of his hand like Congress and American media do Daniel Larison 21 May 19 1077 5
Trade War Joys Nothing Left for Huawei to Do but Roll Out Its Secret Weapon: OS and App Store It already has its own OS, now for its version of Google Play Kenneth Rapoza 21 May 19 1506 5
Indian Households Hold More Gold Than the World’s Top 10 Central Bank Holders Combined $1 trillion worth of gold in today's prices, ten times as much as the Russian central bank, three times as much as America's Banikinkar Pattanayak 21 May 19 730 1
Trade War Joys Xi Sounds ‘Long March’ Rallying Call From a Rare Earths Mine Xi didn't even mention the trade war. He didn't need to. The message could not have been clearer Zhou Xin 20 May 19 1270 6
Persia Under Siege That Time Pentagon Wargamed a War With Iran and the ‘Red Team’ Player Sent Its Carrier Group to the Bottom of the Sea Rather than learn from it the brass then stepped in and rewrote the rules of the exercise Tom O’Connor 20 May 19 1291 4
In Trade War, China Carpet Bombs Trump Supporters China has heartland swing states under de facto sanctions Kenneth Rapoza 20 May 19 677 7
Trump Takes His Bubble Economy Into Uncharted Waters "No one has ever bothered to even contemplate something as whacky as what the Donald has now unleashed upon the world" David Stockman 20 May 19 834 4
US Forces Google to Pull Huawei’s Android License No more US-made components OR software for 2nd largest smartphone maker in the world T.C. Sottek 20 May 19 760 9
US Diplomats Warn Airliners Risk Being ‘Misidentified’ in Persian Gulf US "misidentified" an Iranian airliner in 1988, killing 290 people Jason Ditz 20 May 19 374 10
Trade War Joys Trump to Turn EU, Japan Into China’s Trade War Allies Beijing was concerned EU and Japan would join the US offensive but Trump's multi-front war is poised to make them allies instead Chan Kai Yee 19 May 19 754 7
Russian Navy to Anchor Its Power on Missile Mosquito Boats They come in at under 1000 tons, but have the weapons range of an aircraft carrier Andrei Martyanov 19 May 19 3676 9
So-Called “Intellectual Property” Is a Mercantilist Scam Anathema to Actual Property and the Free Market China did nothing wrong. Russia should stop paying heed to US "intellectual property" claims as well Stephan Kinsella 19 May 19 1521 5
That Time North Korea Fought Israel A squadron of North Korean MiG-21 fought in the Yom Kippur war on the Arab side Marko Marjanović 19 May 19 1231 3
The Majority of the World’s Population Lives Inside This Circle The center of the world Tyler Durden 19 May 19 1733 0
Invincible Empire The US Military-Industrial Complex Is a Virus Eating Away at Actual American Military Power It's concerned only with self-preservation and expansion, and perfectly happy to do so at the expense of actual US military effectivness Andrew Cockburn 18 May 19 1252 6
Adventures in Trumpia I Am Not a Fan of America’s 46th President "Has there been another election. I thought it was every four years, but who knows?" Caitlin Johnstone 18 May 19 604 8
Stay Classy MSM Media Stenography Turns Beheaded Saudi Protesters Into ‘Terrorism’ That's not even the charge they were convicted of Esha Krishnaswamy 18 May 19 269 1
Today Iraq Votes on Bill to Expel US Troops Thee will be no using of Iraq as staging ground for war on Iran Jason Ditz 18 May 19 1439 8
Those Pesky Chinese Jimmy Carter: Trump Called Me, He’s Bothered That “China Is Getting Ahead of US” Carter confirms Trump's problem aren't trade imbalances as such but that China is set to eclipse the US David Brennan 18 May 19 1883 9
War in Syria CONFIRMED: Chemical Weapons Assessment Contradicting Official Syria Narrative Is Authentic OPCW confirms it buried report by its own top expert rubbishing its Empire-friendly "findings" Caitlin Johnstone 17 May 19 462 3