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 19 347 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 1126 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 19 909 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 19 476 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 10506 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 19 945 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 19 837 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 19 209 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 1889 7
The Coming US-EU Trade War Promises to Be Delicious Indeed Trump is already selling a China deal as his personal triumph, which means he is going to need a new trading bad guy for 2020 Mike “Mish” Shedlock 13 Apr 19 892 2
Belarus’ Lukashenko Threatens to Suspend Russia’s Oil Transit to Europe Still upset over loss of massive energy subsidies. Time for Nord Stream 3? bne IntelliNews 13 Apr 19 1150 1
EU Is Now Pretending New Silk Road Was Its Idea all Along They'll cooperate with China's Belt and Road all right, they'll just pretend its part of their own thing Marko Marjanović 13 Apr 19 428 0
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 19 580 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 2418 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 19 218 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 2452 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 19 729 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 19 554 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 2346 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 19 573 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 1396 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 19 315 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 19 365 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 19 838 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 19 411 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 19 742 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 1060 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 19 992 2