July 6, 2016 | Astute News

World War 3 – Who is Who in the Zoo

July 6, 2016

Place Your Bets! Soon after he was elected, a representative from the American embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, came on a local news station and proudly declared that Obama was “the ruler of the wo…

US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11

July 6, 2016

Military

Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, m…

EXCLUSIVE: Turkey nuked the Kurds inside Syrian territory

July 6, 2016

Middle East

CNN photo taken on Kurdish territory near the Turkish-Syria border, 23rd October, 2014.Photo analysis by Jeff Smith, nuclear physicist; inspector for the UN/International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)Sm…

Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy: Harun ibn Yahya’s ninth-century Arabic description of Britain

July 6, 2016

History

Al-Idrisi's mid-twelfth-century Arabic map of southern Britain and northern Frances, from the copy preserved in the sixteenth-century Oxford MS Pococke 375, fol. 281b–282a. Note, north is at the botto…

T-34 – the Darling Among Tanks

July 6, 2016

Military

The Т-34, the main Soviet battle tank during the Great Patriotic War, was universally recognized as the best tank by friends and foes alike. Over 50,000 T-34s were produced during the War. In many way…

They abused, cut up corpses: Escaped ISIS fighter shares his horrors from Syria

July 6, 2016

Miscellaneous

© Stringer / Reuters He spent a year in Syria, protecting one of Islamic State’s most wanted leaders, but later managed to escape. Hiding his identity and in fear for his life, the former fighter sat …

Price to pay for US: Beijing ready to confront Washington if it intervenes in S.China Sea dispute

July 6, 2016

Asia

© China Daily / Reuters Beijing must prepare to make the US “pay a cost it can’t stand” if it intervenes in the South China Sea dispute by force, a state newspaper editorial has warned, days before a …

Who and what is the real Bibi Netanyahu?

July 6, 2016

Middle East

Is he a smooth-talking, disingenuous, cunning salesman who knows that everything he asserts about Israel being in danger of annihilation and not having a Palestinian partner for peace is propaganda no…