Those Pesky Chinese Trump’s “Trade War” Is Morphing Into an Outright Economic War on China, A War the US Can’t Win Attack on Huawei shows this isn't about trade imbalances but about China pulling ahead of the US — but it's already too late Marko Marjanović 17 May 19 1422 5
Trade War Joys Huawei Stockpiles 12 Months of Parts Ahead of US Ban Trump admin has just made it known it will likely ban Huawei from acquiring US-made semiconductors Cheng Ting-Fang 17 May 19 828 5
A Trending Item in China Right Now: Donald Trump Toilet Brushes Just 20 yuan on Taobao Tracy You 17 May 19 1204 3
Those Pesky Russians Russian Media Reports Moscow Will Get 5th Gen Su-57 Fighters at Just $35 Million a Piece The comparable "flyaway" price of an F-22 is $150 million Marko Marjanović 17 May 19 2004 10
Persia Under Siege Saudi Paper, Owned by Crown Prince’s Brother, Urges US ‘Surgical Strikes’ on Iran Saudis say Trump already established the precedent when he cruise missiled Syria twice Jason Ditz 17 May 19 349 4
Invincible Empire Watch as US Now Tries to Reign in Russia’s Game-Changing Strategic Weapons With Arms Control Treaties Why is the treaty-ending Trump admin suddenly talking up arms control? Take a lucky guess Andrei Martyanov 16 May 19 2045 11
Those Pesky Russians Putin Announces Contract to Build 76 5th Gen Su-57 Fighters By comparison, the US has 187 F-22 Marko Marjanović 16 May 19 1293 2
Trade War Joys Trump’s Tariffs Are Pushing Manufacturing to Vietnam, Not the US Vietnam follows China's model, but is 20 years behind in living standards and labor costs Daniel Moss 16 May 19 549 5
In Brazen Act of Aggression, Iran Deploys Its Country Right Next to US Aircraft Carrier The USS Abraham Lincoln was just minding its own business in the Persian Gulf when Iran sailed up to it Babylonbee 16 May 19 4018 10
Idlib Offensive No More Turkish Veto on Idlib Offensive? The Syrian-Russian campaign aims to take the southern half of the jihadi enclave, has good reasons to leave the north alone for now Fabrice Balanche 16 May 19 926 2
Adventures in Trumpia War With Iran Is Endgame for America as a Republic That is how it would be reported on by a truly adversarial media Danny Sjursen (US Army may., ret.) 16 May 19 1091 8
Stay Classy MSM MSM Claim Russia the Big Winner of Trump’s Trade War on Account of Soybeans Couldn’t Be More Ridiculous Soybeans? Really?? At 1% Russia barely registers as a source of Chinese soybeans and volumes are actually decreasing Constantin Gurdgiev 16 May 19 571 4
Persia Under Siege Empire’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Provokes Iran’s Unyielding Resistance US is the stronger party on paper but helpless to prevail when defiance and survival are victory enough for Tehran Daniel Larison 16 May 19 268 0
Those Pesky Chinese Chinese Moon Rover Finds Strange Rocks That May Solve the Mystery of Moon’s Mantle Humanity's first mission to the Far Side of the Moon paying off Robin George Andrews 16 May 19 446 2
Are Trump Tariffs the Wake Up Call China Needs to Stop Subsidizing the US, Unchain the Yuan, and Bury the Dollar? Imagine a world where the Empire can't make the rest of the world pay for its living standards, endless deficits and sanctions Marko Marjanović 15 May 19 912 8
Trade War Joys Trump Describes Country $22 Trillion in Debt as World’s “Piggy Bank” Those are some powerful mushrooms POTUS is smoking Marko Marjanović 15 May 19 856 12
India’s Betrayal of Iran Is Only the Beginning Having established Modi is a pushoever the Empire is back with more demands: drop protective tarrifs and the S-400 purchase MK Bhadrakumar 15 May 19 1889 5
Contrary to Appearances Russia Doesn’t Much Like Libya’s Shifty General Haftar Russia likes the Libyan National Army, the Tobruk government, and Gaddafi loyalists who have lined up behind Haftar, but not the man himself Yury Barmin 15 May 19 633 1
RuSsIa DoEsN'T MaKe AnYtHiNg Russia on Track for 3rd Straight Year as World’s Biggest Grain Exporter On track for another year in which grain exports bring in more monies than weapons sales bne IntelliNews 15 May 19 1783 1
Persia Under Siege British General in Baghdad Says No Truth to US Claims Iran Is Mobilizing to Attack American Forces Bolton wants a war, the Brits do not Kattie Bo Williams 15 May 19 524 5
History In 1988 the US Sank or Disabled Half of Iran’s Operational Navy That time the Empire intervened in the Iraqi-Iranian Tanker War on the side of Saddam Hussein Barrett Tillman 15 May 19 1071 4
Trade War Joys Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy to Protect Farmers from His Own Trade War Will China trade war fallout become the quagmire that defines Trump's presidency? Mary Papenfuss 14 May 19 424 8
Has Trump Ever Heard of the Opium Wars? Apparently Not Not having their laws dictated to by a foreign power is a matter of principle for the Chinese, Trump's insistence that they do couldn't be more offensive Tim Daiss 14 May 19 871 4
YOLO Lavrov Russia’s Lavrov Shuts Up Pompeo: What’s USA Doing in the Eastern Hemisphere? (VIDEO) Pompeo had nothing to say after that Denis Davydov 14 May 19 4667 2
Did a Third Party Hit Saudi Tankers to Push America to War With Iran? Al-Qaeda has attacked ships in those waters before — and despises the US and Iran both Joseph Trevithick 14 May 19 517 4
Magnier: Iran Sabotaged Saudi Tankers to Send US a Message — Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew By sending it the Iranians have just put an end to the prospects of a US war on them this summer, says a veteran Middle East reporter Elijah J Magnier 14 May 19 1041 11
A Persian Gulf of Tonkin? Saudi tankers conveniently get hit just as Trump admin ratchets up Iran war scare Liz Sly 14 May 19 838 3
S-300 Spotted on US Soil, But Is That a Big Deal? It's a 1982 model that Russians retired a decade ago Military Watch 14 May 19 1733 1
Adventures in Trumpia Dear President Trump: Stop the Damn Trade Lies The US did not "lose $500bn". The US received $500bn of goods and services it didn't pay for with goods or services in the other direction Mike “Mish” Shedlock 13 May 19 734 1
Idlib Offensive Magnier: Syria Idlib Offensive Just a Limited Operation to Enhance Security of Russia’s Khmeimim Airbase Erdogan is too important for Moscow and even Tehran to lose with an all-out Idlib assault Marko Marjanović 13 May 19 550 4