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 17 497 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 17 199 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 2327 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 1801 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 17 511 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 1106 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 17 418 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 1410 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 17 550 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 1525 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 17 370 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 1014 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 1053 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 2727 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 17 673 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 3899 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 17 389 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 17 818 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 17 647 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 17 612 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 17 883 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 17 369 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 2350 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 17 570 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 17 301 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 17 978 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 1647 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 1888 1