Turkish Invasion of Syrian Kurdish Pocket Kills Government Fighters Hundreds of fighters salaried by Damascus have reinforced Afrin against Turkey Marko Marjanović 24 Feb 18 444 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 1588 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 3052 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 2641 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 1626 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 18 754 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 18 908 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 18 792 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 1748 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 18 705 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 18 760 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 1357 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 18 748 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 1332 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 18 846 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 18 233 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 18 924 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 18 712 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 18 400 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 18 765 3
It’s Time We Called Sanctions What They Really Are – War Crimes Economic sanctions are like a medieval siege but with a modern PR apparatus attached to justify what is being done Patrick Cockburn 23 Jan 18 280 0
Dead North Koreans Are Evidence US Diplomacy Is Effective Tillerson Says Effective diplomacy is defined differently in the US RT 22 Jan 18 282 0
Turkey Invades Kurdish-Held Syria Erdogan starts the Turkish-Syrian Kurdish War Marko Marjanović 22 Jan 18 543 3
What It Was Like Thinking a Ballistic Missile Was Speeding Toward Us in Hawaii "People were out there crying, with desperate expressions that said this is the end" Robert Barsocchini 15 Jan 18 653 1
Putin Heaps Praise on Kim Jong-un, So Why Did He Vote in UN Sanctions on North Korea? Moscow blames the Korean crisis on the US, yet still helps its pigheaded assault on the North Marko Marjanović 15 Jan 18 330 3
After 100 Billion Yuan, China’s & World’s Longest Sea Bridge Is Now Completed Another engineering marvel from the future superpower Finance Twitter 10 Jan 18 1265 2
Iran’s Ex-Hardline President Arrested for Inciting Protests the US Has Been Salivating Over Desperate Washington pins hope on protests egged on by "Hitler reincarnate" Marko Marjanović 8 Jan 18 567 0
How Cheney and His Allies Created the North Korea Nuclear Missile Crisis for Lockheed Martin They killed not one, but two deals, because peace would have been a disaster for missile defense boondoggle Gareth Porter 7 Jan 18 1239 0
Russia, China Collaborate With US War on North Korea Civilians If new suffocating UN sanctions result in mass death Moscow and Beijing will be as culpable as Washington Peter Symonds 5 Jan 18 646 1
Pakistan Is Ditching the Dollar for Trade With China — 24 Hours After Trump Denounced the Country Brilliant move: Trump hammers another nail in the petrodollar coffin Nyshka Chandran 5 Jan 18 848 0
