Those Pesky Russians Russia Launches World’s Longest Submarine That Will Carry Its Nuclear Doomsday Torpedo A third strike "revenge" weapon to dissuade Washington warplanners from the notion a nuclear war on Russia could ever be won Joseph Trevithick 29 Apr 19 11124 7
War in Syria Al-Qaeda Sneaks Over Erdogan’s “Buffer Zone”, Kills 22 Syrian Army Soldiers Turkish military is preventing the Syrian army from dealing with al-Qaeda on its territory Marko Marjanović 29 Apr 19 450 6
Adventures in Trumpia Is the Trump Administration Helping the Saudis Build a Bomb? The crown prince can't be trusted with a bone saw, let alone nuclear weapons Doug Bandow 29 Apr 19 305 3
Our Benevolent Empire A Summer of Confrontation Looms in the South China Sea The US Navy, Air Force, Marines, even the Army all want in on it Brian Cloughley 29 Apr 19 863 8
Adventures in Trumpia Trump’s Envoy to Ukraine Is Paid by None Other Than Poroshenko Himself Rather than being paid by taxpayers, Kurt Volker is paid by the McCain Institute, which is funded in part by a registered agent of Petro Poroshenko Nebojša Malić 29 Apr 19 689 1
Those Pesky Chinese China Cuts $40 Billion Worth of Taxes in 6 Months The number of people required to pay the income tax has gone down from 200 million to just 110 million Chen Yikan 29 Apr 19 420 2
War on Yemen Yemen Death Toll to Surpass 230,000 by End of 2019: UN Report 140,000 of the deaths so far are of children James Reinl 28 Apr 19 812 4
Empire's Headchoppers Saudi Kingdom Beheads 16-Year-Old for Sending Whatsapp Message Sent a message about an anti-government protest. Tortured, executed Tyler Durden 28 Apr 19 3200 3
Traitors to Empire US Veterans and Military Families Overwhelmingly Support Withdrawing From Afghanistan As well as oppose further increases in military spending, are more concerned about the growing national debt Leo Shane III 28 Apr 19 425 5
Those Pesky Chinese China Declares Its Soviet-Built Carrier a ‘Combat Ship’ After another retrofit it's no longer a training vessel Sputnik 28 Apr 19 1454 1
Those Pesky Russians Putin: Russia May Offer Fast-Track Citizenship Scheme to All Ukrainians Do it! Marko Marjanović 27 Apr 19 1289 6
War on Yemen Four Years of Hell: To Crush Yemen’s Independence, US-Saudi War Created World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis 4 years of invasion, 20,000 air raids. One-third of them vs civilians. Hunger, blockade, cholera Ben Norton 27 Apr 19 718 2
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 19 471 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 19 541 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 1445 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 19 242 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 1515 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 4370 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 19 638 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 19 431 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 4680 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 2778 13