July 4, 2016 | Astute News

Palestinian village demolished for the 100th time since 2010

July 4, 2016

Bedouins attend Friday prayer under a tent in the Al-Araqib village, located between Beersheba and Rahat in the Israeli Negev desert. © Hazem Bader / AFP Israel has demolished the Arab village of Al-A…

On the Road to United Eurasia

July 4, 2016

Opinion

Whenever President Vladimir Putin stresses Russia’s «all-embracing and strategic partnership» with China, one can hear the proverbial howls of anger emanating from the neocon/neoliberalcon axis in the…

How Does Corporate Media Manufactures False Narratives?

July 4, 2016

Media

What bothers me is not that we are unable to find the solution to our problems, what bothers me more is the fact that neoliberals are so utterly unaware of the real structural issues that their attemp…

Terrorism: A Matrix of Lies and Deceit

July 4, 2016

Opinion

So how is your war on “terrorism” going? I’m not doing too well at it since I have no idea who the enemy is. Like the American black comedian, Dick Gregory, who, on hearing that President Johnson had …

Brexit coincides with India’s and Pakistan’s entry into the SCO

July 4, 2016

Opinion

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 laid down a US unipolar geo-strategy and toxic, financial globalization, that sowed monstrous inequality at the local/regional/global levels. This was harnessed by …

True Islamic Ideals: Muslim Group Break Ramadan Fast with Irish LGBT Community

July 4, 2016

Miscellaneous

A Muslim group aimed at fostering peace and integration in Ireland has joined with members of the country’s LGBT community to break bread during Ramadan. In an effort to display “true Islamic ideals…

A Conspiracy Theory that became a Conspiracy Fact: The CIA, Afghanistan’s Poppy Fields and America’s Growing Heroin Epidemic

July 4, 2016

Politics

The heroin epidemic resembles the days when “Crack cocaine” became the major drug that destroyed communities across the United States and other parts of the world including the Caribbean that began in…

Lord Rothschild Demands Britain Stay In Europe

July 4, 2016

Europe

Lord Rothschild has urged the British public to steer clear of a Brexit vote and remain part of the European Union, in a threatening open letter for The Times. Rothschild, says in his letter that the…