Russia Profits as US Takes Venezuelan Oil off the Market in Europe The kind of sour, heavy oil Russia has now sells at a premium Irina Slav 13 Apr 19 574 0
Diego Garcia: The ‘Unsinkable Carrier’ Springs a Leak The Hague-based International Court of Justice has ruled the Empire is occupying Diego Garcia illegally Conn Hallinan 13 Apr 19 2222 7
When Netanyahu Finally Exits the Scene It Will Be a Big Loss for Israel’s Influence in the Imperial Capital Uniquely in Israel he is almost as much an American politician as an Israeli one Patrick Cockburn 13 Apr 19 214 0
Russian Media Has Some Very Good Insight, Commentary on the Military Deployment to Venezuela The Russians are on a military mission Sergey Sukhankin 13 Apr 19 2383 2
Empire’s Navy Wants to Go From 300 to 355 Ships in Just 15 Years At which point it would be spending $40-55 billion a year just to keep them sailing Joseph Trevithick 12 Apr 19 713 4
The Top American General in Vietnam Considered Using Nukes During the Siege of Khe Sanh, New Documents Reveal Westmoreland would have used tactical nukes before he admitted defeat. LBJ shut him down David E. Sanger 12 Apr 19 511 3
Moscow Delivers Deadly Rocket Artillery to Wrong Side of the Saudi War in Yemen Saudi Arabia takes delivery of Russian thermobaric missiles launcher. Inevitably they will end up used in Yemen where Saudis are the aggressor Marko Marjanović 12 Apr 19 2231 8
US Praises the Hell Out of Sisi, Cairo Torpedoes the Anti-Iranian “Arab NATO” Anyway Trump’s flattery gained him nothing Daniel Larison 12 Apr 19 564 0
IMF Deal for Ecuador Paved Way for Assange’s Arrest Judas was given real silver, Moreno merely got a loan Whitney Webb 12 Apr 19 1376 1
General Who Deposed Sudan’s Bashir Is Also Himself on US Sanctions List Washington was thinking about bringing Bashir in from the cold, normalization talks now suspended Jason Ditz 12 Apr 19 313 0
Trade Deal Follies: Trump Has Embraced the World’s Worst Negotiating Tactics By touting US stock market gains that are based on his promise of the deal being imminent he's made it impossible for himself to walk away Charles Hugh Smith 11 Apr 19 359 2
Turkey Confirms Interest in Russian Su-34, Su-57 If US Denies It the F-35 If this is trolling it's world-class Andrei Martyanov 11 Apr 19 813 1
Bolton: No ‘Foreign Powers’ in Venezuela, Except US Bolton says determined not to allow Venezuela to fall under sway of foreign powers Tom O’Connor 11 Apr 19 395 2
US Fantasizes About Replacing Russian Pipeline Gas to Europe But Can’t Even Defeat Russian LNG Even when it comes to LNG alone Europe still buys more from Russia RT 11 Apr 19 704 2
Don’t Forget, Iran Has Its Finger on the Oil Doomsday Machine Never mind blocking the Strait of Hormuz, if attacked Iran could outright set oil wells in Saudi, UAE and Kuwait alight with missiles Pepe Escobar 11 Apr 19 1042 0
REMINDER: Why Did NATO Bomb Libya? Corruption Case Against Sarkozy Sheds New Light on Ousting of Gaddafi Sarkozy put himself at the forefront of the regime-change to get revenge on Gaddafi and to cover his tracks Joe Penney 11 Apr 19 938 2
What Bolton-Trump Demanded from Kim in Hanoi Is Impossible. He Can’t Insta-Denuclearize Even If He Wanted To That's a good recipe for him to end up in a shallow grave Ken E. Gause 10 Apr 19 568 2
If Germans Ever Spend 2% GDP on Military Like Trump Wants You Can Kiss NATO Goodbye At that point what do they need the US for anymore? Marko Marjanović 10 Apr 19 774 2
Libya Is a Proxy War Between Italy and France Once Gaddafi fell France moved to contain the jihadist blowback, and Italy the migrant blowback, leading them to partner up with different factions Marko Marjanović 10 Apr 19 1017 5
Last Election Shows the “Russian Vote” in Israel No Longer Exists The 1990s newcommers from Russia and the former Soviet Union have assimilated politically, are no longer a single voting block Ksenia Svetlova 10 Apr 19 382 1
After Decades of Refusing Egypt the F-15, US Demands Cairo Terminates Plans to Acquire Russia’s Su-35 Israel and the Saudis could buy F-15s, but not the Egyptians Military Watch 10 Apr 19 18117 5
If Amphetamine-Popping Losers in Nevada Weren’t Bad Enough Pentagon Works to Unleash Artificial Intelligence Drones 3rd world peasants can now look to the future where they are hunted down by killer robots Dave Foster 10 Apr 19 273 1
In 2018 Russia Bought Nearly as Much Gold as All the Rest of the World Combined And the spree continues Marko Marjanović 9 Apr 19 1518 5
US, EU to Hit Each Other With More Tariffs Over Boeing-Airbus Rivalry Bad news for world economy and global commerce. Good news for a multipolar world Tyler Durden 9 Apr 19 547 1
Tehran Plays Chess, Trump Admin Plays Checkers Why US declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a "terrorist organization", and why it will fail to have the desired effect Mohammad Ali Shabani 9 Apr 19 813 5
Flood Disaster Shows US Makes No Distinction Between Iranian People and State Trump admin feigns concern for the Iranians then throws them an anchor as they're drowning Daniel Larison 9 Apr 19 194 1
If US Goes Ahead With Threat to Sanction Shia, Christian Leaders It May Be Kicked out From Lebanon At a dinner they organized for him Pompeo threatened Lebanon's Christian President and Shia Parliament Speaker with sanctions Elijah J. Magnier 9 Apr 19 1171 1
The US Is Betting the Farm on Stealth, How Smart Is That? Stealth demands huge tradeoffs, is being countered, and has failed to revolutionize air combat despite being around since the 1980s Stephen Bryen 9 Apr 19 914 1
In 1961, India Finally Kicked NATO Portugal off the Subcontinent, to Soviet Applause, American Condemnations 400-year Portugese colonial presence in India was ended in a two-day war with 160 casualties on both sides Christopher Miskimon 9 Apr 19 1343 1
South Korea, Japan to Take Part in China’s Naval Parade, US to Stay at Home US thinks this is a "snub" to China, but the optics for China are actually pretty great Marko Marjanović 8 Apr 19 1076 3
