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 1385 0
Turkish State Media Boasts Ankara’s New Russian Missiles Can Shoot Down US Aircraft There's no love lost between these two formal allies Marko Marjanović 10 Oct 17 1480 1
No Wonder US Navy Kept Colliding With Merchant Ships. It Told Captains to Sail With ID Systems Off Not "cyber-attacks". Pentagon arrogance and paranoia the cause of collisions which killed 17 US sailors this year Marko Marjanović 5 Oct 17 2555 0
Trump Keeps Undermining Tillerson’s Every Attempt at North Korea Diplomacy Tillerson was overseas trying to soothe tensions only to be embarrassingly undercut by Trump tweeting from a golf course Jason Ditz2 2 Oct 17 173 0
UK Navy Plans Patrols to China-Claimed Waters, but Faces Future Without a Single Anti-Ship Missile London continues the policy of shouting loudly and carrying a tiny stick Marko Marjanović 2 Oct 17 1819 2
US Officials Are Literally Offended Because South Korea Doesn’t Want War With the North South Korean press reveals US complained harshly when Seoul proposed talks with its Northern brethren James Holbrooks 1 Oct 17 822 0
The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll Barely a word on the two million civilians killed, majority by American policies and arms Nick Turse 30 Sep 17 517 0
China Needs to Stop Financing the US Military Buildup Against It Unlike the USSR, the US can afford guns and butter both, because China provides the butter on credit Marko Marjanović 29 Sep 17 1169 0
US Navy to Schedule Regular Provocations to Waters Claimed by China A new American invention - provocation by schedule Marko Marjanović 28 Sep 17 436 0
Census of Russia’s Oligarchs 2017 Ethnic Russians own 57% of Russia's private millions, Russian Jews 25%, and Caucasians 12% Jim Lemuel Wilson 27 Sep 17 649 0
Russia, US Agree to Jointly Build a Station Orbiting the Moon At height of New Cold War tensions NASA and Roscosmos announce an alliance Jim Lemuel Wilson 27 Sep 17 211 0
US Tears of Joy as Saudi Arabia Catches up to ISIS on Women Driving At long last Saudi Arabia has become as socially liberal as...ISIS Marko Marjanović 27 Sep 17 296 0
Erdogan Has Backstabbed Every Ally He Has Ever Had. After Kurdish Independence Vote Watch as He Turns on Barzani The unlikely partnership of the two old schemers is coming to an end Omer Taspin 26 Sep 17 754 0
Trump Is Gambling With the Lives of Tens of Thousands of South Koreans Trump has shown the world, again, how dumb a US president could be if he tries hard enough Finance Twitter 26 Sep 17 668 1
US Not Checkmated After All. Iran’s Long-Range Missile Test Was a Hoax Shows how desperate Iran is to deter the US, how desperate Trump is to threaten it Marko Marjanović 26 Sep 17 339 0
US and Russian Generals Met in Unprecedented Face-To-Face Syria Deconfliction Meeting Their rivalry in eastern Syria is forcing them to speak to each other more often than ever before Marko Marjanović 25 Sep 17 1541 0
Thinly-Veiled Threat: US Says Has Boosted Surveillance of Russian Troop Locations in Syria The wave of US & Russian threats, warnings, accusations and counter-accusations in eastern Syria continues Marko Marjanović 25 Sep 17 253 0
US-Backed SDF Claims Was Struck by Russian Jets After Moving Into East Syria Gas Field Kurds warn will not "stand by with arms crossed" Marko Marjanović 25 Sep 17 168 0
Iran’s New Missile Checkmates US, Israel Tehran answers Trump's sabre-rattling by phenomenally boosting its deterrence capability MK Bhadrakumar 25 Sep 17 950 0
How the Soviets Came to Intervene in Afghanistan The Soviets went in knowing full well it was a stupid thing to do Marko Marjanović 24 Sep 17 1705 2
US Senate Votes in $700 Billion “Defense” Budget. Mad Pooch Mattis Questions Whether the US Can Survive Dramatic much? Marko Marjanović 22 Sep 17 566 0
Russia Says Syrian Army Was Hit by SDF or US Artillery. Threatens to Fire Back If It Happens Again The US-Russian race for Euphrates threatens to become a US-Russian clash Marko Marjanović 21 Sep 17 1101 0
China, Not the US, Is Behind Sanctions on North Korea Russia did not veto North Korea sanctions because Beijing wanted them too Marko Marjanović 21 Sep 17 600 0
US-Backed Kurds Flood the Euphrates to Hamper Syrian Army Advance Russia Claims Comes after US claims that Russia bombed Kurdish fighters Jim Lemuel Wilson 20 Sep 17 422 0
US Winds Down Its Land Grab in Southern Syria, Launches Another One in the East A pair of offensives kick up the US-Syrian race for eastern Syria into high gear Marko Marjanović 19 Sep 17 326 0
It’s No Threat. North Korea Has No Choice But Fire Missiles Over Japan Look at the map, overshooting Japan is the least inflammatory option available to Pyongyang Marko Marjanović 18 Sep 17 708 0
US Threatens to Trash the Dollar if China Does Not Uphold Sanctions Against North Korea US Treasury Secretary laughably suggests cutting China off from the dollar would hurt the former Marko Marjanović 13 Sep 17 1693 3
What We Aren’t Being Told About Myanmar? A State Department veteran has trashed the cartoonish mainstream narrative. Is she right? Marko Marjanović 11 Sep 17 596 0
There Is Little Reason to Believe North Korea Has an H-Bomb Washington and Pyongyang have a common interest in exaggerating North Korea's nuclear capabilities Marko Marjanović 8 Sep 17 390 0
US Propaganda Poster Depicts the Taliban as “Muslim Dogs” Pentagon itself crafts the message the Taliban are Muslim warriors and the US is an enemy of Islam Marko Marjanović 7 Sep 17 464 0