October 30, 2016 | Astute News

Despicable Balfour: A Story of Betrayal

October 30, 2016

November 2 marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which began the still-ongoing colonisation of Palestine and sowed the seeds of an endless nightmare for the Palestinian people, both …

The Strange Case of the Scottish Ambulance Found Among the Rubble of Eastern Aleppo

October 30, 2016

Opinion

Moonscape. Desert. Blitz. The past 100 years of war have turned all our words into clichés. I rage at every reference to the Second World War – because it’s over, because Hitler is dead, because we wo…

Down to the Seas in Confrontation

October 30, 2016

Opinion

Over a century ago the English poet John Masefield wrote that «I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky / And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by», but it is dou…

Clinton Suggested US Should Rig a Foreign Election — But Don’t Expect the Media to Care

October 30, 2016

Opinion

Hillary Clinton has spent a disproportionate amount of time lately complaining — without evidence — about “the Russians” interfering with the US election. But it turns out that interfering in foreign …

The De Facto US/Al Qaeda Alliance

October 30, 2016

Opinion

A curious aspect of the Syrian conflict – a rebellion sponsored largely by the United States and its Gulf state allies – is the disappearance in much of the American mainstream news media of reference…

Russia Calls Washington’s Bluff, Moves to Finish Syrian War

October 30, 2016

Opinion

The Western media storm has suddenly quietened. For several months, there has been a howling campaign orchestrated by Western governments to discredit the anti-terror operations carried out by the Syr…

Tensions Boil: Beijing Accuses Japan of Endangering Chinese Aircraft

October 30, 2016

Asia

On Thursday the Chinese Defense Ministry accused Japan of targeting and endangering the safety of Beijing’s military aircraft. Tokyo and Beijing are in the midst of a long-standing dispute over a grou…

Why Dietary Recommendations on Fat Need to Change

October 30, 2016

Food

A recent editorial in the journal Open Heart suggests many of us have it all wrong when it comes to the balance of fats we eat. The authors urge a return to equal amounts of specific types of fats kno…