Our Benevolent Empire US Coast Guard to Get First New Icebreaker in Decades Years of talking up the "icebreaker gap" with Russia finally pays off for the Coast Guard Joseph Trevithick 26 Apr 19 468 2
Kim Meets Putin: Nice Optics in a Historic Meeting That Sadly Changes Nothing This is out of Russia's hands. By now Putin can do very little. Meeting was 99 percent symbolic Marko Marjanović 26 Apr 19 540 3
Iran Didn’t Blow up the Saudi Khobar Towers. It Was a Frame Up Al-Qaeda blew them up and claimed responsibility, but it was more advantageous for the US and the Saudis to claim it had been Iran Gareth Porter 26 Apr 19 623 3
Russian Navy to Cut Up the Pair of Nuclear-Powered Battlecruisers It Has in Storage After years of alternatively talking of reactivating and scraping them, the trigger has finally been pulled and money allocated for the latter Marko Marjanović 26 Apr 19 1501 1
Saudi Bootlickers Trump Has Taken Saudi Bootlicking to Another Level Previous administrations indulged the Saudis, but Trump has made them into a tail that wags the dog Daniel Larison 26 Apr 19 444 3
Modi Caves to US Diktat on Iran Oil Iran was selling at a discount. Modi accepted a higher oil bill for the Indian economy without so much as a word in protest MK Bhadrakumar 26 Apr 19 732 5
Rebel Donbass So It Begins: Moscow to Grant Russian Citizenship to Inhabitants of East Ukraine Rebel Republics It is now likelier that Donbass will eventually be incorporated into Russia, than that it will return under Ukrainian rule Marko Marjanović 25 Apr 19 1443 11
NATO Provocations UK Deploys 5 Helicopters to Counter “Very Credible Threat” From Russia It's a threat so "credible" it can be deterred by 5 helicopters Tyler Durden 25 Apr 19 1092 10
War in Libya Trump Greenlighted Haftar’s Attack on US-Backed Libyan Government Turns out Trump didn't just praise Haftar as the securer or Libya's oil, he literally endorsed his offensive against the government the US had been backing until that second Daniel Larison 25 Apr 19 241 1
Ex-ISIS Commanders Rehabilitated as Traffic Police in US-Occupied East Syria Meet the new boss, same as the old boss Alexander Rubinstein 25 Apr 19 272 3
US Sanctions on Russia’s Civil Aviation Are Laughable and Destined to Fail Only a matter of time until Russia, which produces enormously sophisticated avionics and engines for its military aviation, develops simpler counterparts for the civilian sector as well Andrei Martyanov 25 Apr 19 1511 2
Death Traps A Carrier Costs $5 Billion. It Could Be Taken Out by This $40 Million Plane Russia's naval bomber hauling supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles The National Interest 25 Apr 19 4367 6
Trump’s Tariffs on Chinese Washing Machines Created 1800 Jobs, While Costing American Consumers $1.5 Billion Domestic producers took the opportunity to raise prices same as tarrif-hit importers Jim Tankersley 24 Apr 19 635 0
Financial Fortress Russia Russia’s Stock Market up 100% Since Sanctions Declared 5 Years Ago Keeps breaking records anyway Kenneth Rapoza 24 Apr 19 985 1
Wealthier Countries Have a Bigger Middle Class… Except the US Share of middle-income class in the US no greater than in Russia, China Constantin Gurdgiev 24 Apr 19 425 1
SEALs Kept Reporting Their Chief for War Crimes. Officers Told Them to Shut Up, Threatened Their Careers Sniped a child, sprayed neighborhoods with machinegun fire for fun, executed a captured ISIS child soldier with a hunting knife... Dave Philipps 24 Apr 19 4679 16
Trump to Get a Settlement in the Ethnically-Cleansed Golan Named After Him Wonder what the 130,000 Syrians expelled from there in 1967 think about that Checkpoint Asia 24 Apr 19 250 4
US Ambassador to Russia: Each of Our Carriers “Represents 100,000 Tons of Diplomacy” America's chief diplomat/psychopath to Russia hails a US suppercarrier drill in the Med as "200,000 tons of diplomacy" arrayed behind him Marko Marjanović 24 Apr 19 2775 13
China and Turkey Defiant on US Sanctions, Say Will Continue Iran Oil Imports But India folds to Washington Arthur Villasanta 24 Apr 19 1456 4
Our Benevolent Empire The F-35 Program Just Became $100 Billion Costlier The world’s costliest weapons program, just went from $1.5 trillion to $1.6 trillion Anthony Capaccio 24 Apr 19 1228 6
South Korea Says Will Take “Military Measures” Against Japanese Planes Within 3nm of SK Warships South Korea intends to keep painting "threatening" Japanese aircraft with illumination radar Yoo Kang-moon 23 Apr 19 519 4
Our Benevolent Empire Turkey Working Overtime to Find Compromise With US on S-400, but Congress May Have Tied Trump’s Hands Neither wants a definite US-Turkish split that would deliver Ankara to Moscow, but is the Empire still capable of compromise? MK Bhadrakumar 23 Apr 19 463 3
Those Pesky Chinese China’s Grand Naval Parade Marred by Heavy Smog US was helpless to ruin the parade but the weather was not Ben Kwok 23 Apr 19 393 0
Trump Backs Libya’s Haftar so He Can Escalate War on Iranian Oil Set on driving Iranian and Venezuelan oil exports to zero Trump doesn't care who rules in Tripoli as long as they keep pumping to the max Marko Marjanović 23 Apr 19 431 0
Empire's Headchoppers Sri Lanka Easter Attacks: Saudi State-Sponsored Extremism Strikes Again Bombings were likely carried out by a local salafist group which had sent fighters to Syria to fight on the Saudi/US-backed side Ali A. Taj 23 Apr 19 523 0
Russian Aggression The Russian Air Force Is Short on Tanker Aircraft and That’s a Huge Weakness Could not quickly redeploy air combat fleet from one edge of the huge country to the other when needed Russian Defense Policy 23 Apr 19 1894 1
US Maximum Pressure on Iran Is Still Floundering Trump administration can point to economic damage inflicted, but not to any policy change in Tehran Paul R. Pillar 23 Apr 19 322 4
US Reluctantly Admits Russia and China Aren’t Looking for the Lost F-35 The spectacle of self-delusion comes to an end Hana Kusumoto 22 Apr 19 6034 6
US “Applauds” Malta’s Airspace Denial to Russian Planes. Russia: Keep Applauding, It Keeps Your Hands off the Trigger If you're applauding you're not starting new wars Marko Marjanović 22 Apr 19 1546 3
Those Pesky Chinese Indian, Australian and Japanese Warships Arrive in China for Beijing’s Naval Parade US declined participation but its allies aren't following suit Ben Blanchard 22 Apr 19 519 1