October 18, 2016 | Astute News

Trump’s Presidential Run & 6 Other Eerily Accurate Simpsons Predictions (VIDEOS)

October 18, 2016

Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie have become household names since 'The Simpsons' first aired in 1987. But the show’s uncanny ability to consistently predict future events has many believing the ca…

Why Hillary Clinton is a Bigger Concern for China than Donald Trump

October 18, 2016

Opinion

So you think Donald Trump is the biggest threat to world peace? And Barack Obama engineered America’s “pivot to Asia”? It was actually Hillary Clinton, emphasising the necessity of a “strategic turn” …

Sexed Up & Dumbed Down: Western Media Fake News on the Rise

October 18, 2016

Media

As shocking as it may seem to some, fake news is on the increase. It’s cheaper to produce, more effective and often more believable. But it’s not just the Americans who are mastering it. The Europeans…

Good Deaths in Mosul, Bad Deaths in Aleppo

October 18, 2016

Opinion

Note how differently The New York Times prepares the American public for civilian casualties from the new U.S.-backed Iraqi government assault on the city of Mosul to free it from the Islamic State, c…

US Escalating Covert War in Somalia

October 18, 2016

Opinion

The Obama administration has covertly deployed hundreds of US troops to Somalia to wage a secret war in the impoverished East African country alongside private contractors and soldiers from African al…

Putin Sends Aircraft Carrier Group to Mediterranean as Syrian Powderkeg Poised to Erupt

October 18, 2016

Middle East

Yesterday, Russia’s flagship, and only aircraft carrier — the Admiral Kuznetsov — left the port of Severomorsk en route to the eastern Mediterranean – off the Syrian coast, according to the Russian Mi…

The Story Changes: The Pentagon is No Longer Sure Yemen Fired Missiles at a US Ship

October 18, 2016

Middle East

Last Thursday, after two consecutive missile attacks on the US Navy ship USS Mason, which allegedly were launched by Houthi rebel forces in Yemen, the US entered its latest military engagement in the …

The New U.S. Way Of War

October 18, 2016

North America

A recommendable New York Times piece looks at the mostly hidden way the U.S. is now waging wars. The example is Somalia, where the U.S. has been at war with the people of that country for over 25 year…