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 18 514 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 18 385 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 1235 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 18 957 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 18 588 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 18 369 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 18 555 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 18 347 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 18 435 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 18 745 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 18 786 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 1736 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 18 690 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 18 752 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 1331 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 18 741 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 1325 0
Syrian Army Takes a Huge Chunk of Greater Idlib From Rebels, Avenges the Mass Murder of Its Soldiers Unless Erdogan interferes a total military victory is now in sight Marko Marjanović 1 Feb 18 838 2
Backers of Manchester Terror Bomber Accuse Russia of Looking to Kill Brits in Their Jammies Actually Russia has bolstered British security where British governments undermine it Marko Marjanović 30 Jan 18 225 0
Erdogan Threatens to Invade US-Occupied Syria, Demands US Retreats in Advance We're closest to an inter-NATO war since the 1974 Turkish-Greek war over Cyprus Marko Marjanović 29 Jan 18 914 0
Syrian Rebels and US Troops Have Been Clashing for Months, but Pentagon Has Been Keeping It Under Wraps Turkish-backed Islamists "regularly" fire on US troops in Syria who only "occasionally" fire back Pentagon says Marko Marjanović 25 Jan 18 708 2
Those UN North Korea Sanctions Russia Helped Vote In? The US Is Boasting They’re Already Killing Innocents The Empire is run by scum, but Russia & China what's your excuse? Marko Marjanović 25 Jan 18 384 1
Turkey Bombarding US “Partner Forces” in Syria All Along the Border, US Dares Do Nothing Where is now that vaunted „collective self-defense of partnered forces“ the US was invoking when it was shooting down Syrians, threatening Russians? Marko Marjanović 24 Jan 18 753 3