Japan’s Five F-35s Made Seven Emergency Landings Leading up to Crash in the Pacific 5 planes made 7 emergency landings since mid 2017, the crashed plane itself made 2 David Choi 22 Apr 19 1177 4
Russia Easily Sells $2 Billion of RUBLE-Denominated Debt Russia's monetary policy is now so hawkish the country is able to sell debt in rubles, including to foreign investors bne IntelliNews 21 Apr 19 3063 3
China to Become Largest LNG Buyer in the World, but Trade War Hinders US Imports Share of US imports has declined from 10% to just 2% of the total Ariel Cohen 21 Apr 19 3285 2
Iran Didn’t Do the Buenos Aires Bombing. It Was a Frame Up How do Washington's constant accusations that Iran is conducting terrorism actually stack up? Gareth Porter 21 Apr 19 733 2
Trump Was Handed the Perfect Out From Yemen War, and He Chose to Make It His Own Instead This was such a bad move. Trump hurt himself for Saudi sake Ishaan Tharoor 21 Apr 19 360 7
Reuters: Russia’s Oil Giant Rosneft Is Helping Venezuela to Keep Exporting Oil Despite US Sanctions Afraid of doing business with PDVSA, India and others now buy Venezuelan oil from Rosneft Marianna Parraga 21 Apr 19 1109 2
Taiwan Asked for Partners to Help It Develop Its Own Submarines. North Korea Applied North Koreans are actually ahead of Taiwan in submarine tech, but were turned down do to sanctions Sophia Yang 21 Apr 19 739 1
Lesson Learned: Russia Has Now Done in Venezuela What It Failed to Do in Yugoslavia, Syria Rubicon crossed: this time around Russia moved in first, before the Americans did — and without illusions about why its there Marko Marjanović 20 Apr 19 1289 2
Haftar’s Gamble Pays Off, Trump Hitches US Cart to His Haftar's Tripoli offensive and a well-placed Emirati phone call have caused Trump to defect from the pro-government camp in Libya Marko Marjanović 20 Apr 19 473 5
How Wartime Washington Lives in Luxury Meet the class profiting from the growth of the US national-security state — and displacing modest communities around DC to cover them with their McMansion sprawl Kelley Vlahos 20 Apr 19 536 0
Japan Now Losing Nearly Half a Million People a Year. Record Immigration Barely Making a Dent Decline accelerates as their late-1940s baby boomers start dying off Financial Times 20 Apr 19 991 2
China Is Drilling for Oil in Cuban Waters Chinese tech is helping Cuba expand its oil production, whitstand the American embargo Tim Daiss 20 Apr 19 3736 5
Here Is a Crazy Idea, Why Doesn’t China Build an Aircraft Carrier for Russia? Aside from a small loss of prestige for Russia, and some industrial capacity occupied for China what's the downside? Robert Farley 20 Apr 19 1593 0
Russia Has Now Done for Syria What It Could Not for Serbia in 1999 Hillary was sure Russia would not dare interfere in Syria as it had not in Kosovo. She was wrong on both counts Marko Marjanović 19 Apr 19 1282 3
Kim Jong Un to Travel to Russia for a Summit With Putin This Month Relations with China are chilly, Russia is seen as nation likeliest to stand up to US on North Korea sanctions Kim Ji-eun 19 Apr 19 445 4
The Bolivarian Militia: Meet the Venezuelans Picking up Rifles to Defend the Country From Uncle Sam — VIDEO Nearly 2 million common Venezuelans have joined France 24 19 Apr 19 1127 1
Yesterday’s Country: Don’t Worry, They Can’t Innovate The Chinese invented paper, compass, gunpowder and printing yet Americans convinced themselves they couldn't innovate Fred Reed 19 Apr 19 1708 6
The War in Yemen: Every Day Since February 2014 Start, Animated Map VIDEO If you want to figure out this complex war this is a good start Koopinator 19 Apr 19 491 0
Pompeo Keeps Lying About What North Korea Has Agreed To, so Pyongyang Wants Him out of Future Talks Pompeo's constant lying finally catches up to him Marko Marjanović 19 Apr 19 987 9
Whose “Debt Trap”? Chinese Loans Account for Just 10 Percent of Sri Lanka’s Runaway Debt Actually Sri Lanka is running austerity measures to service its loans to West and Japan-controlled financial institutions Ken Moak 19 Apr 19 742 2
Russia May Scrap Its Only Aircraft Carrier The sinking of the titanic PD-50 floating dock in a freak accident last year has made it near impossible to repair or refit the ship Kyle Mizokami 19 Apr 19 1171 0
Zero Fucks Given. Sanctioned North Korea Makes Do by Cyber-Robbing World Banks Pyongyang has trained up the world’s greatest bank-robbing crews. In just the past few years they've pillaged $650 million for their nation. That we know of. Patrick Winn 18 Apr 19 563 5
Yeah the Russia-China Relationship Is a “Marriage of Convenience”, That’s What Makes It so Strong It means the parties are equals and have mutual interest, the US which only has unequal client allies couldn't possibly understand Chan Kai Yee 18 Apr 19 889 2
I’m Tired of Hearing About the End of “Western Civilization” "Western Civilization" has been dead since its murder-suicide in 1914, what we have now is a bastard thing called Pax Americana Zack Sorenson 18 Apr 19 1491 4
Bolton: Latin America “Must Remain Free from Internal Despotism”, Will Have Its Fate Decided by “Western Hemisphere” Top tier mental gymnastics from Bolton to explain why Washington DC should have more say in Venezuela than Caracas Marko Marjanović 18 Apr 19 431 2
US Soybean Exports Plunge, No Recovery In Sight, Farmers Are Concerned About Tariff Man US tariffs on Chinese goods last summer spurred Beijing to abandon US farmers for South American growers Tyler Durden 18 Apr 19 815 3
The US Military Is Running 36 Code-Named Operations in Africa Between 2013 and 2017 US troops have fought in at least 13 African countries and have been killed or wounded in at least 6 Nick Turse 18 Apr 19 478 1
France Is Stabbing Italy in the Back in Libya Once again French adventurism is fueling a crisis and Italy is left absorbing the fallout Paul Taylor 18 Apr 19 632 0
Here Is Why Russia’s Sole Aircraft Carrier Emits so Much Black Smoke It's all about the fuel it runs on compounded by poor shipbuilding standards of the 1990s crisis years it was being completed Charlie Gao 18 Apr 19 6426 0
Pentagon Already Planning a F-35 Replacement That Will Cost Three Times as Much Good to know efforts to bankrupt the Empire will only intensify Valerie Insinna 17 Apr 19 2095 5
