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 19 663 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 6452 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 2125 5
US Congress Orders President to Stop Unconstitutional Yemen War, Trump Tells It to Take a Hike The joys of imperial presidency. The idea the 1787 Constitution is still de facto in place is a joke Marko Marjanović 17 Apr 19 602 5
Why Uganda and Angola Are Flying State of the Art Russian Su-30 Fighters Each of the African countries has a dozen Tom Cooper 17 Apr 19 3105 2
US Troops Slaughtered Refugees in Korea as Policy Were ordered and complied with firing on, shelling and strafing refugee columns for fear there might be a few "enemy infiltrators" mixed in with them David Morgan 17 Apr 19 658 3
CIA Chief Showed Trump Dead Duck Photos, Told Him Russians Poisoned Them With Novichok Told him the Russians novichoked ducks and children in Britain — neither ever happened Jason Ditz 17 Apr 19 950 2
Sitting on Syria’s Oil, US Cuts Lifeline From Iran, Plunges Syria Into Fuel Crisis An Arab oil-producing nation has been forced into a fuel crisis by US occupation of its oil fields, and shipping blockade Marko Marjanović 17 Apr 19 2241 11
Trump Asks China to Shift Soybean Tariffs to Something Else — If We Didn’t Know They Hurt Before Trump confirms agriculture tarrifs hit where it hurt him — by asking China to shift them Mike “Mish” Shedlock 16 Apr 19 895 3
The Saker: Venezuela Is Completely at the Mercy of a Potential US Air War. Those S-300s Sadly Won’t Be Much Use The US is so near and so much more powerful it can simply overwhelm any Venezuelan defenses with sheer numbers of missiles and from a safe distance The Saker 16 Apr 19 2475 10
Trump Asked Netanyahu to Curb Ties With China, Eject It From Haifa Port It's a key port for the US 6th Fleet that has been leased to Shanghai-based investors Barak Ravid 16 Apr 19 1017 3
“Pompeo Has Lost His Mind” — China Hits Back At Latin America Remarks "The Latin American countries have good judgment about who is their true friend and who is false, and who is breaking rules and making trouble" — Beijing Tyler Durden 16 Apr 19 828 3
Guaido Urges China to “Switch Sides in Venezuela” in Bloomberg Op-Ed After one great power failed to impose him on Venezuela Guaido now hopes a pair of them can do the trick Juan Guaido 16 Apr 19 506 6
Kim Jong-Un Calls for South Korea to Become More Independent From the US To stop waiting on American permission to advance peace between Koreans Lee Je-hun 16 Apr 19 462 0
Pompeo Shuts Down Reporter on Venezuela: “You Shouldn’t Ask Questions Like That” This guy is so out of his depth it isn't even funny Daniel Larison 15 Apr 19 2821 21
US Military Attack on Venezuela Mulled by Trump Advisors and Latin American Officials at Private DC Meeting State Department and National Security Council officials took part in a roundtable on "Assessing the Use of Military Force in Venezuela" Max Blumenthal 15 Apr 19 382 1
Why Has the Establishment Suddenly Closed Ranks Around George Soros? This destructive and arrogant oligarch is now being upheld as a male Mother Theresa Frank Furedi 15 Apr 19 651 1
The Unlikely End to China’s New Silk Road Is in Germany’s Rust Belt The world's largest inland port has been rejuvenated by train freight from China Guy Chazan 15 Apr 19 830 2
OPCW’s Report on Supposed Syria “Chemical Attack” Discredits It as Source of Impartial Investigation Organization broke its own rules to produce a shody, amateurish report that glosses over evidence the attack was staged Marko Marjanović 15 Apr 19 369 1
A $350 Billion Defense Force Would Keep America Safer Than a $700 Billion War Machine America's war machine is needlesly courting a probable financial and a potential nuclear armageddon Nicolas J. S. Davies 15 Apr 19 346 0
Let’s Take a Moment to Appreciate What a Pathetic Failure Trump’s Venezuela Policy Has Been They really thought it would be so easy, huh? Daniel Larison 15 Apr 19 798 2
Russian Warships Drill With the Philippine Navy en Route to China’s Naval Parade A little exercise with a notional US ally before heading to a parade where South Korea and Japan will also be present but the US won't Sputnik 15 Apr 19 1124 0
Pompeo: China, Russia “Spread Disorder” in Latin America. Lavrov: We Team up to Defend International Law Which has "a sobering effect" on those who push for illegal methods says the Russian FM Marko Marjanović 14 Apr 19 1181 10
The Free World Stands in Solidarity With the Treatment of Journalist Who Exposed Russian War Crimes The 47-year old Joachim Assenheim of Austria who has just been arrested by the Venezuelan police in the Turkish Embassy of Caracas Stan O’Grapher 14 Apr 19 908 10
How the US Navy Sold the Vietnam War False narratives paved the way for the Vietnam War. The very first one was a very popular book with phoney tales of Communist atrocities against Catholics Gareth Porter 14 Apr 19 475 6
Armchair Generals Conclude China’s Latest J-20 Fighter Isn’t Maneuverable. Wind Tunnel Experiment Proves Them Wrong The agility of a modern, complex aircraft cannot be simply eyeballed Rick Joe 14 Apr 19 10505 2
The Developed World Is Headed for a Japan-Style Zombification Japan has perfected the art of managing decline while maintaining the illusion that the status quo is solid and permanent Charles Hugh Smith 14 Apr 19 944 2
Russia Is Making Major Inroads Into Lebanon’s Oil and Gas Sector, Leaving the US Far Behind Which will further enhance its position in Syria and northern Iraq Michal Kranz 14 Apr 19 835 1
Yemen’s Saudi-Installed “President” Visits Yemen The absurdity of it. He doesn't even reside in the country he purports to rule Jason Ditz 14 Apr 19 208 0
The Shambolic F-35 Will Cost the Empire $1.5 Trillion and That’s a Good Thing The Empire probably can't reform itself but maybe it can bankrupt itself — the heroic F-35 is sure doing its part William Rivers Pitt 13 Apr 19 1885 7