Links — 15 Jan 2020

ABC News (Australia) (ah, the irony)
Iran and the US are now trading barbs on China’s Weibo amid censorship on other platforms
Alan Weedon and Kai Feng

EconForecast
The EIA Is Grossly Overestimating U.S. Shale
Dian L. Chu

Anti-Empire
“Tariff Man” Is Presiding Over the Biggest Contraction in US Manufacturing in 10 Years
Frank E. Holmes

Mish Talk — Money Maven (will Trump go after Airbus?)
Orders at Boeing Drop to a 16-Year Low

Michael "Mish" Shedlock

Fort Russ News (Putin's move to liberalize by switching from a presidential to a parliamentary form of government)
BREAKING: Russian Prime Minister Resigns – Medvedev steps down
Joaquin Flores

Reminiscence of the Future (beware of the "experts" spinning this)
Putin's Address.
Andrei Martyanov

Irrussianality
Governing Russia (scale)
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Moon of Alabama
The Russian Prime Minister Resigns And No One Knows Why

Fort Russ News
Putin presents finance guru Mikhail Mishustin to the Duma for new Prime Minister.

Vzglyad.ru

Sputnik International
What You Need to Know About Putin-Proposed Candidate for Russian Prime Minister's Office

Sputnik International
Power-Sharing: Putin Proposes Elegant Solution for Russia's Further Democratisation - Observers

Sputnik International
Russian Government 101: How Did it Work and What’s About to Change?

Sputnik International
Lavrov: Russia to Continue De-Dollarisation Drive Amid ‘Increasingly Aggressive’ US Sanctions Policy

Anti-Empire
Putin Explains the Obvious, Russian Mercenaries in Libya Aren’t Working for Him

Pravda.ru

Dances with Bears
GERMAN PARLIAMENT OFFICE REPORTS NO RUSSIAN INVASION OF DONBASS, REJECTS MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA
John Helmer

Defend Democracy Press (legal assassination requires imminent threat)
German parliament doubts legality of Soleimani’s killing

Defend Democracy Press (blowback)
India seeks to strengthen relationships with Iran and Russia as US-made chaos threatens New Delhi

Ashish Shukla

Defend Democracy Press (neither Trump's idea, nor a spur of the moment decision)
How Pompeo convinced Trump to kill Soleimani and fulfilled a decade-long goal
Nicole Gaouette and Jamie Gangel

The American Conservative (neocons trying to pressure the presdient into war? Trump prefers to use economic siege rather than military force)
Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Provocation to War
Gareth Porter

Calculated Risk (difficulty finding qualified workers)
Small Business Optimism Index "Dips" in December
Bill McBride

Fort Russ News
Trump Steps Back From the Edge. Neocons Rage Accordingly

Matthew Ehret | Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review

VoltaireNet (Important)
Behind the Scenes of U.S./Iran Relations
Thierry Meyssan

Fort Russ News (more loose ends)

Time to Untangle a Very Deep Deception – Downing of Flight 752
Ronald Thomas West

Geopolitical Monitor (backgrounder—important)
China’s Naval Strategy in the East China Sea
James MacHaffie

Intel Today (handle with care; may be poisoned)
On This Day — Wikipedia Is Born. And The Spooks Love It! (January 15 2001) [2020]

Oriental Review (getting behind the scenes of British daffiness over "royals." Talk about much ado about nothing.)
Harry And Meghan Exit: The Royal Family Propaganda Machine
Binoy Kampmark

People's Dispatch
Moqtada al-Sadr calls for million-man march against US troops in Iraq

Sputnik International
‘We Need More Money’: US Navy Claims it Can’t Hit Fleet Size Goals on Current Budget

Zero Hedge (US losing its luster?)
Shocking Number Of Young Americans Say Other Countries Are Better
Tyler Durden