Russia to the Rescue as Europe Draws More Gas in “Siberian” Chill After obstructing Russian gas for years Europe finds a rescuer in Gazprom, amps up pipeline shipments and asks for LNG on top Elena Mazneva 4 Mar 18 857 0
The Rift Between US and South Korea Is Now in Open View Seoul is publicly sounding the alarm about danger of US Attack on the North – on American television Daniel Larison 4 Mar 18 676 0
Ludicrous India Trip Bursts the Trudeau Bubble Canadian PM spent eight days in India humiliating his home nation and making a jackass out of himself Christian Butler 4 Mar 18 1378 0
Putin Announced Russia Is Close to Wonder Weapons, Now Watch the USA Bankrupt Itself in Response Putin is goading the US to pour vast fortunes into countering weapons Russia isn't close to fielding Jonathan Marshall 4 Mar 18 2529 2
Russia’s Awesomely Hawkish Ministry of Finance Has Broken the Country’s Addiction to Oil In the boom years Russia needed oil prices at at $115 to stay in the black. Now it's fine with $54 Ben Aris 4 Mar 18 775 0
Trump Talks up Trade War vs China but His Steel Tariff Actually Falls on US Allies China isn't even in the top 10 steel exporters to US and won't be affected much Finance Twitter 4 Mar 18 526 0
US Missile Defense Would Be Useless Against Russia’s Doomsday Torpedo US: We'll pour untold billions into a pie-in-the-sky ballistic missile shield. Russia: Oh well, so we'll just use a torpedo instead Dave Majumdar 3 Mar 18 1481 1
Russia Is Emerging as the World’s Indispensable Diplomatic Power Where US sows chaos, Moscow, working with others, seeks to restore stability for the benefit of all Patrick Lawrence 3 Mar 18 515 0
Trump Roars, China Yawns, US Shoots Itself in the Foot Steel tariffs are only going to hurt one country's economy David Fickling 3 Mar 18 386 0
Russia Now Ships Its Best Crude to China. Europe Gets Barely-Useable Garbage Situation so bad Europeans complaining they can't refine what Russia sends Tsvetana Paraskova 3 Mar 18 1236 0
America’s Forward Bases in Japan Are Sitting Ducks for Chinese Cruise Missiles Bases supposed to menace China are actually huge liabilities, wouldn't last a day in a shooting war Carlton Meyer 3 Mar 18 958 0
Russia’s Flourishing Agriculture Overtakes Its Arms Industry in Exports In 2017 for the first time in many decades Russia again sold more more foodstuffs than weapons Marko Marjanović 28 Feb 18 590 0
How the Federal Reserve Helps US Spy on Foreign Governments Another reason Russia, China, etc should get their assets out of the US Jonathan Spicer 27 Feb 18 370 0
Britain Has Fantasizes of Impersonating an Asian Maritime Power but Its Navy Has Never Been Punnier Sailing against China in Asia just won't work for Britain, besides it's a bad idea Emanuele Scimia 25 Feb 18 556 0
Ex-CIA Director Thinks US Hypocrisy About Election Meddling Is Hilarious When the US interferes it's "for a good cause" Caitlin Johnstone 25 Feb 18 348 2
US Warns Iraq Against Buying Russian S-400 Air Defenses Washington has told Baghdad getting Russian missiles would result in US sanctions Marko Marjanović 25 Feb 18 1819 1
Turkish Invasion of Syrian Kurdish Pocket Kills Government Fighters Hundreds of fighters salaried by Damascus have reinforced Afrin against Turkey Marko Marjanović 24 Feb 18 436 0
Erdogan: US Is a ‘Double-Faced, Liar, Crook’ Country American charm offensive fails to reassure Erdogan US won't keep driving a dagger into his back Marko Marjanović 23 Feb 18 1581 1
Putin’s Phone Call to Netanyahu Put an End to Israel’s Strikes on Syria Prior to Saturday call, senior Israeli officials were still taking a militant line and it seemed Israel was considering further military action Amos Harel 12 Feb 18 3043 3
Pentagon to NATO-Member Turkey: ‘You Hit Us – We Will Respond Aggressively’ The two largest militaries in NATO are issuing threats, warnings and ultimatums...to each other Marko Marjanović 12 Feb 18 2629 2
US Vice President Disrespects United Korean Team at Olympics Opening Mike Pence spits on the Korean people for aspiring to unity and peace Marko Marjanović 10 Feb 18 1618 3
Syrian Army Rains Shells on Turkish Troops in Rebel-Held Idlib. 1 Dead, 6 Wounded Turkey sets up a second military base in rebel-held Syria, directly in front of advancing Syrian troops Marko Marjanović 10 Feb 18 746 2
Syria Downs Israeli F-16 Attacking Its Palmyra Airbase ‘T4’ After over 100 attacks on its soil over the years Syria finally shot down one IAF aggressor Marko Marjanović 10 Feb 18 901 1
UN Sanctions Forbid North Korea Hockey Players Getting Hockey Sticks Great illustration of how obscene the anti-North Korea sanctions are Marko Marjanović 8 Feb 18 787 0
US ‘Defensively’ Bombs Syrian Army, Kills 100 of Its Soldiers Pentagon estimates it has killed 100 Syrian soldiers in Deir Ezzor Marko Marjanović 8 Feb 18 1739 6
Child Beheaders Join Turkey’s Floundering Offensive on Syrian Kurdish Pocket Erdogan's stalled invasion enlists more al-Qaeda partners, ex-clients of the CIA Marko Marjanović 6 Feb 18 691 1
Russia’s Reserves Climb Back to $450bn — Just $50bn Short of Pre-Sanctions High Western financial warfare is no match for hawkishness of Russia's awesome Ministry of Finance Marko Marjanović 5 Feb 18 754 0
Turkey Tries to Block Syrian Army Offensive, Retreats to Lick Its Wounds Erdogan tests Russian resolve with incursion into rebel-held Idlib, but quickly withdraws Marko Marjanović 3 Feb 18 1333 0
Rebels Shoot Down Russian Su-25 Supporting Syrian Army Offensive in Idlib The pilot bailed out and was killed on the ground, so far unclear if executed or went down fighting Marko Marjanović 3 Feb 18 742 0
Syria Is Quietly Helping YPG Bleed Turkey in Afrin Syria is allowing US-trained Kurdish fighters to reinforce Afrin pocket -- driving up the costs of invasion for Erdogan and proxy Islamists Marko Marjanović 1 Feb 18 1326 0