US Congress May Proclaim Part of Iraqi Armed Forces a Terrorist Organization But then how can the US possibly claim it won the 2003-2011 war? Marko Marjanović 19 Nov 17 416 0
Saudi Ruler Offers Princes: “Give Me 70% of Your Wealth and I Stop Torturing You” Bin Salman's "anti-corruption drive" turns out to be an inventive shakedown scheme Finance Twitter 19 Nov 17 1380 1
US Occupation Made Afghanistan Into a Paradise…for Child Rapists The Taliban were cracking down hard on child sex abuse that flourishes under American tolerance Marko Marjanović 18 Nov 17 548 0
Son of Former King Among Those Tortured in the Saudi Purge As well as five other princes who were admitted to a hospital, including one to an intensive care unit David Hearst 17 Nov 17 1524 0
US Allowed ISIS to Evacuate Raqqa and There’s Nothing Wrong With That It's just the smart way to fight. The only problem is the US threw a fit when Syria did the same Marko Marjanović 17 Nov 17 360 0
US Spent a Billion USD on Russian Helicopters for Afghanistan, Will Now Spend a Billion More to Replace Them With US-Made Machines Russia sanctions wreaked havoc with Pentagon's project to build up an Afghan rotary-wing force Marko Marjanović 16 Nov 17 1012 0
Turkey Will Get No Technology From the S-400 Deal, Says Will Try to Get European Tech Instead Ankara says after S-400 deal still needs European help to build own missiles Marko Marjanović 14 Nov 17 1050 1
Saudi Purge Is Far Bigger Than First Reported, Senior Figures Have Been Beaten, Tortured Fratricidal violence the kingdom exported to Iraq, Syria and Yemen is now ravaging Saudi Arabia's own elites David Hearst 12 Nov 17 2725 0
Iraqi Army Offensive Helps Syria Win the Race for Abu Kamal Against US-Kurdish Forces In the race for the Euphrates valley most of the oil goes to US-sponsored SDF, the key border town to Syria Marko Marjanović 12 Nov 17 670 0
India Denies Americans Inspected Its Leased Russian Sub, New Report Blames Story on French Subterfuge Allegedly it's a fabrication planted by French lobbyists to set back Russian-Indian defense ties Marko Marjanović 11 Nov 17 562 0
US Navy’s “State-of-the-Art” Littoral Combat Ships Are Outgunned by Russian Designs a Quarter of Their Size Without a single beyond-visual-range weapon the LCS is a frigate outranged by corvettes Sebastien Roblin 11 Nov 17 3898 4
Don’t Buy the “Reformer” Hype About Saudi Arabia’s Cruel, Young Ruler He has promised a fight with Iran so why would he ever reign in Wahhabi militancy? Marko Marjanović 10 Nov 17 663 0
Renaming Asia to ‘Indo-Pacific’ Won’t Change the Reality That USA Does Not Belong There Trump admin can upgrade the Washington Newspeak but can't make the US and China equally at home in Asia Marko Marjanović 10 Nov 17 387 0
Saudis Forcing Lebanese PM to Resign Is Already Blowing Up in Their Face By plotting the break up of Lebanon's national unity government the Saudis have dealt a mortal blow to their influence in Beirut Aurélie Daher 9 Nov 17 808 0
Trump to North Korea: You Can Have Peace, Just Disarm Unilaterally and Ready for the Next Set of Demands In Seoul speech Trump explained all he needs is for Pyongyang to voluntarily place itself at his tender mercies Marko Marjanović 9 Nov 17 642 1
Lebanese PM Goes for a Visit to Riyadh, Is Forced to Read Resignation Statement on Saudi TV Saudis execute a hilarious move to bring down the national unity government of Lebanon Marko Marjanović 9 Nov 17 611 0
Bad News for Saudi Arabia: The Nincompoop-in-Chief Amasses Total Power The most reckless and adventuristic Saudi prince with a proven record of failure just established one-man rule in the Kingdom Marko Marjanović 8 Nov 17 882 1
US Military Admits It Can Only Destroy North Korea’s Nukes in a Ground Invasion That Would Kill Millions For all of Washington's talk that it can not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, the truth is it has no choice Marko Marjanović 6 Nov 17 368 0
How the Marriage of Uncle Sam and Saudi Court Gave Birth to Global Jihad What Salafist militancy means to Saudi princes, and how the US took it to all corners of the world Daniel Lazare 6 Nov 17 2347 1
Israel Threatens to Intervene in Syria on Behalf of Druze Who Despise It for Backing al-Qaeda Faced with a Druze uprising at home, Israel says it won't allow its al-Qaeda allies to overrun a Syrian government-held town Marko Marjanović 5 Nov 17 569 0
Butthurt Twitter Blocks Checkpoint Asia’s $5 Ad Campaign Can't say unflattering things about the US military and have Twitter take your fiver Marko Marjanović 2 Nov 17 298 0
Used to Decimating Afghan Shepherds With Daisy Cutters, US Army Can’t Handle a Fair Fight in Niger Spoiled by extreme advantages they enjoy over the Taliban, US troops are finding it hard to adapt to a slightly fairer fight in Africa Marko Marjanović 1 Nov 17 970 0
Pentagon Admits the First One Hundred F-35s Will Likely Never Be Combat-Capable $21 billion worth of new '5th generation' wonder-weapons can only be used in training Marko Marjanović 31 Oct 17 1645 0
Iraqi Army Launches Offensive to Frustrate US Operations in Syria Victory would mean the US may no longer cross from northern Iraq into Syria at will Marko Marjanović 29 Oct 17 1885 1
US Attempt to Fuel Iraq-Iran Rift Backfires Baghdad reacts violently to US demand that "Iranian militias" should evacuate the country MK Bhadrakumar 28 Oct 17 1088 0
After Iraqi Kurds Lose Disputed Fields, Rosneft Can Kiss Oil Deals Goodbye Russia's state-owned oil giant is another loser in the Iraqi victory over the Kurdish Regional Government Marko Marjanović 28 Oct 17 639 2
In Iraq, US Allies Wipe the Floor With US Allies In a month Iraqi Kurdistan has become but a shadow of its former self thanks to treachery of its leaders Marko Marjanović 28 Oct 17 754 0
US in Niger – An Intervention So Demented Even John McCain Won’t Get Behind It In a world history first, the old serial warmaker is not rushing to embrace a US war Marko Marjanović 27 Oct 17 426 0
Russian Navy Delivers Weapons the US Declined to Sell to Duterte — For Free The Russians are, as usually, running rings around what passes for "diplomacy" in the imperial capital Marko Marjanović 24 Oct 17 2461 1
Soon, China Will Buy Saudi Oil Only In Yuan Russia has been winning Saudi market share because it is already willing to accept yuan Finance Twitter 12 Oct 17 1380 0
