‘Modernity for Me, but Not for Thee’ – Why West Deposes Arab Modernizers (But Backs Arab Monarchies) Backward Arab monarchies reinforce the Western sense of hierarchy of civilizations – Arab modernizers challenge it Marko Marjanović 3 Dec 17 286 0
Russia Is Retrofitting Its Heavy Cruisers as Carrier Killers for the 21st Century Americans are still betting on aircraft, the Russians on a new generation of guided missiles Marko Marjanović 3 Dec 17 3947 2
What Does Russia Need Egypt Military Bases For? US is sure to try and scuttle the deal that would give the Russian air force the use of Egypt's military bases Marko Marjanović 2 Dec 17 1617 1
The Unlikely Story of South Korea’s Russian Tanks For nearly twenty years the most powerful tank of the South Korean military was the Russian-made T-80 Marko Marjanović 2 Dec 17 4382 4
Strong Evidence US Special Forces Massacred Farmers in Somalia Then planted guns on them, and suppressed the findings of a Somali investigation Christina Goldbaum 2 Dec 17 399 0
400 US Marine Artillerymen Are Leaving Syria Will US forces in Syria now number 1300, or will artillery be replaced with other soldiers? Marko Marjanović 1 Dec 17 425 0
Game of Bluffing – US Orders China to Cut off Oil to North Korea, Or Else… Once again Nikki Haley is writing checks the US can't cash Finance Twitter 30 Nov 17 782 0
US Blabbers About North Korea, Expands China Sanctions Predictably US rewards China for UN North Korea sanctions with a stab in the back Peter Symonds 28 Nov 17 339 0
US Says Feels “Threatened” by “Unsafe” Russian Flying Over Syria Is Pentagon setting the stage to shoot down a Russian jet over Syria? Marko Marjanović 25 Nov 17 1668 7
BIG SHOCKER: US Stabs the Kurds in the Back yet Again Surprising his generals Trump promises Erdogan end to US arms for Syrian Kurds Marko Marjanović 25 Nov 17 854 0
US Discloses It Has 1700 Troops Illegally in Syria, 40 Percent up From Three Months Ago US military has more troops in Syria than in several US states Marko Marjanović 23 Nov 17 716 0
US Military Strikes Half of “Rebels” in Southern Syria From Its Payroll Pentagon has told two hundred fighters from the last group on its payroll at al-Tanf base to return to civilian life Marko Marjanović 22 Nov 17 507 0
American TV Does a Report on the Criminal US-Saudi War on Yemen, Whitewashes the US Role in It Mainstream media is finally taking a look at crimes against Yemen, but is only telling half the story Adam Johnson 22 Nov 17 201 0
Russia’s Syria Intervention Is Now Supplied Over NATO Skies Russia's Syria-bound military cargo planes start using Turkish airspace Marko Marjanović 21 Nov 17 2335 3
US Hints Turkey May Not Receive Its F-35s If It Goes Through With S-400 Purchase Turks in turn threaten the US may have to remove its powerful radar aimed at Iran if that happens Marko Marjanović 21 Nov 17 1806 6
Guardian & New York Times Present the Power-Grabbing Saudi Dictator as a Visionary “Reformer” What more do you need to know about the state of the western mainstream media? Adam Johnson 20 Nov 17 519 0
South Korea Says No to a US-led Anti-China Alliance, Normalizes Relations With Beijing Instead Moon Jae-in has just dealt a major blow to America's "Pivot to Asia" Marko Marjanović 20 Nov 17 1108 1
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 17 421 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 1416 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 17 555 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 1531 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 17 387 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 1019 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 1057 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 2731 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 17 680 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 17 564 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 3902 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 17 666 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 17 392 0
