June 23, 2016 | Astute News

How Afghanistan Defeated and Destroyed America

June 23, 2016

America’s 15-year occupation of Afghanistan has, in the end, hurt America almost as much as the land devastated by carpet bombings and drone attacks. The real story of the War on Terror was how Americ…

Palestine’s ‘Prayer for Rain’: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War

June 23, 2016

Middle East

Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s nati…

U.S. to give Afghan forces $3 billion a year from 2018-2020

June 23, 2016

Miscellaneous

The United States plans to provide more than $3 billion a year in support for the Afghan national security forces from 2018 through 2020, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richa…

No Secrets: Russia to Publish Catalog Disclosing US Military Satellites

June 23, 2016

Science

Russia is planning to release to public its catalog of near-Earth objects, including US military satellites, a Russian official said. Russia will publicly release its own database of Earth orbiting sa…

Phantom dangers, imperial networks: How Pentagon sees the world

June 23, 2016

Opinion

U.S. Defence Secretary Ashton Carter © Jonathan Brady / Reuters The world is threatened by Russia, China, Iran, North Korea – and oh yes, Islamic State – and its only hope is America, backed by loyal …

Putin: Russia will respond to ‘aggressive NATO rhetoric’

June 23, 2016

Europe

U.S. M1 Abrams tanks fire during the "Saber Strike" NATO military exercise in Adazi, Latvia, June 11, 2016. © Ints Kalnins / Reuters Russia will take adequate measures to counter NATO's increasingly “…