January 6, 2017 | Astute News

The Russia Pakistan Equation

January 6, 2017

A remarkable geopolitical shift has taken place in this part of the world as the traditional pattern of friends and adversaries is broken. India and Pakistan have been in opposite camps since the part…

Nonexistent Merits of the “US-led Coalitions”

January 6, 2017

Opinion

The perpetual war that the so-called US-led coalition is waging is now almost universally synonymous mass murder, and this is just another not propaganda claim, and that’s rather unfortunate. By the e…

Talk Grows in U.S. of Possibility of Military Strikes on North Korea

January 6, 2017

Diplomacy

Talk is growing in the United States of the possibility of using military strikes to take out North Korea’s nuclear and missile capabilities after the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, threatened he’s clos…

Seoul Vows to Proceed with THAAD Deployment, Slams China’s ‘Reprisals’ Tactics

January 6, 2017

Diplomacy

South Korea’s determination to deploy its US THAAD anti-missile systems is widening the rift with its powerful neighbour China, who has urged Seoul to reconsider its decision. The Chinese Foreign Mini…

British Contribution to Genocide in Rwanda

January 6, 2017

Opinion

An edited extract from Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World In the hundreds of media articles on the 1994 Rwanda genocide, there is barely a mention of Britain being a permanent member of t…

The Gear the US Army Wants for 2017 and Beyond

January 6, 2017

Military

In 2014, having withdrawn from Iraq and looking to end its official combat mission in Afghanistan, the US Army started to assess the impact of more than a decade of almost exclusively fighting insurge…

Mathematics Suggests Western Society will Collapse in a Decade

January 6, 2017

Science

A boffin who uses maths to predict changes in society says his numbers show that western society will collapse in the 2020’s. Peter Turchin, a professor at the University of Connecticut’s department o…

India, From the Destabilization of Agriculture to Demonetization, “Made in America”

January 6, 2017

Opinion

Emerging evidence indicates that demonetisation was not done to curb corruption, ‘black money’ or terrorism, the reasons originally given. That was a smokescreen. Modi was acting on behalf of powerful…