Trade War Joys Trump Is Bluffing – He Will Not Let the Stock Market Collapse, and He Lied About Forcing China to Pay $100 Billion As soon as Dow Jones took a dive Trump started to reverse himself Finance Twitter 13 May 19 1170 4
Iran Delivers 1 Million Barrels of Oil to Fuel-Starved Syria in Defiance of Empire’s Sanctions First shipment after half a year Tyler Durden 13 May 19 1320 2
Adventures in Trumpia Pompeo to Meet Putin but Since the US Is No Longer Agreement Capable What Is Even the Point? Kremlin will politely hear Pompeo out but Moscow understands it's dealing with people with a faint touch with reality Andrei Martyanov 13 May 19 1534 13
Persia Under Siege Iran Crisis Exposes the EU as a Second-Rate Power in Thrall to Trump Trump is easily wielding the inflated power of the US Treasury against Iran and EU alike Patrick Cockburn 13 May 19 453 2
Our Benevolent Empire NATO Marks Victory Day by Swarming Russian-Majority Estonian Town, Climbing on Top of Memorial to WWII Fallen (VIDEO) NATO drills in urban combat — by overflowing a town populated by Estonia's Russian minority Daria Grigorova 13 May 19 461 3
Why Victory Day Is the Most Important Date on the Russian Calendar And why it took the fall of Soviet Union to make it so Gilbert Doctorow 13 May 19 279 0
China’s $700-Million Sci-Fi Blockbuster Is a Decent Summer Flick, and Now on Netflix Third highest grossing movie this year, every bit as good as Hollywood equivalents Marko Marjanović 12 May 19 3431 6
Stay Classy MSM ‘Russian Spy Whale’ Incident Highlights ‘Militarisation of the Arctic’ or the Instinctive Russia Alarmism of the MSM? It's a plot! ...to make the world die laughing Marko Marjanović 12 May 19 313 0
Those Pesky Chinese Huawei Overtakes Apple as 2nd Biggest Smartphone Brand in the World, Gaining on Samsung Huawei has taken over apple's market share in China, but that is just the beginning Kenneth Rapoza 12 May 19 2097 3
Forget the India/China Comparisons. China Gave Its People Economic Freedom, India Has Not Why India is not "the next China" Reshma Kapadia 12 May 19 726 1
Those Pesky Russians Russian Defense Spending Is Much Larger, and More Sustainable Than It Seems Converting the Russian defense spending to dollars at exchange rates is meaningless Michael Kofman 12 May 19 1699 2
EU Delayed Nord Stream 2 Completion so Come New Year’s 2020 Say Hello to Catastrophic Gas Shortages Russia is ending deliveries over Ukraine whether Nord Stream 2 is ready or not. This means shortages for EU and a total drought for Ukraine Ben Aris 11 May 19 3784 3
Russian Aggression Nigera Loves Its New De-Politicized Arms Supplier, Russia Obama cried crocodile tears over Boko Haram victims but had all kinds of conditions for Nigerians when they asked for weapons to fight them Andrew McGregor 11 May 19 558 8
China’s 3rd Carrier Is in Another Class From Everything It Has Built so Far At 85,000 tons it will be the largest carrier ever built outside the US Robert Farley 11 May 19 1443 3
Goodbye Petrodollar Russia Now Conducting 25% of Its Trade With BRICS Outside Dollar That's $32 billion worth of trade RT 11 May 19 1093 3
The Shale Boom Has Hit a Wall, Now Sentenced to Decline The industry has hit the limits of what is technically possible, improvements in drilling can no longer make up for declining geology Nick Cunningham 11 May 19 751 5
Empire's Golden Boys Guaido Would “Probably Accept” US Offer to Invade His Country I thought when somebody does that you're supposed to pick up a rifle and defend it Harriet Alexander 11 May 19 229 1
Trade War Joys Trump’s Base in Panic Over 25% Tariffs on China Goods If China is paying the tariffs, why is it that “over 50,000 US Companies have asked for exemptions from tariffs”? Kenneth Rapoza 10 May 19 1023 2
Stay Classy MSM Washington Post Begs Trump to Save al-Qaeda in Syria Before It’s Too Late "Time is running out" warns WaPo's star writer Marko Marjanović 10 May 19 1318 3
Invincible Empire F-35 Deja Vu: The US Air Force Promised the F-4 Would Never Dogfight USAF warplanners have been promising the era of beyond-visual kills since the 1960s David Axe 10 May 19 1152 2
Those Pesky Chinese China Running Out of Provincial Capitals to Name Its Warships For Problems of a fast-expanding naval power Liu Xuanzun 10 May 19 473 0
Ukraine Feverishly Buying up Russian Gas, Races to Build up Reserves Before Gazprom Cuts off Supplies Kiev falling over itself to fork over money to Moscow Hitler Ben Aris 10 May 19 1105 3
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Now Whining He Was “Mislead” How Easy It Would Be to Regime Change Venezuela Liked the policy fine before it blew up in his face, not that he's making any adjustments now either Daniel Larison 10 May 19 637 9
Idlib Offensive Russian Troops Taking Part in Idlib Offensive as Mortar Crews, Snipers Russian involvement goes right down to the tactical level on the ground same as American for the Kurds Muraselon 10 May 19 867 1
Idlib Offensive Another Day, Another Town Taken in Syria’s Russian-Backed Idlib Offensive This time without a fight Marko Marjanović 9 May 19 585 3
Our Benevolent Empire The US Is Now Using Sanctions Threat as a Weapon Against Compliance to Its Own Demands Psychotic Marko Marjanović 9 May 19 966 6
Our Benevolent Empire India Gives in to US Pressure, Fully Stops Import of Iran Oil Will need to eat some more baby food before it's a real independent power Nayanima Basu 9 May 19 934 5
Invincible Empire Classifying Defeat: Hiding Data on the Losing Afghan War "I kind of get it. The news out of Afghanistan is so awful, and 'progress' so fitful, that I wouldn’t want to report it either" Danny Sjursen (US Army major, retired) 9 May 19 749 6
Stay Classy MSM Russian ‘Spy Whale’ Actually Trained to Work With Children It's probably a former child therapy animal from a Russian diving center Deutsche Welle 9 May 19 519 1
Russian Air Defenses Are World’s Best, but Could the Americans Simply Overwhelm Them With Numbers? The US can afford to expend numerous missiles and converted decoy drones to saturate Russian defenses and deplete their ammunition Sergey Sukhankin 9 May 19 3606 11