January 17, 2017 | Astute News

Is India Threatened by Russia’s Apparent Partnership with Pakistan?

January 17, 2017

The Russian news agency Sputnik has featured a commentary by Moscow-based expert, Andrew Korybko signalling an imminent leap forward in the Kremlin’s strategy toward ties with Pakistan. Unsurprisingly…

Has Soros Declared a Full-out War on Trump?

January 17, 2017

Opinion

The 86-year-old American of Hungarian origin, George Soros is now occupying 46th position in a pretty exclusive club of the richest people in the world. Back in 1990s Soros didn’t hesitate a minute to…

US Senators are Even More Neoconservative than are Trump’s Appointees

January 17, 2017

Opinion

The confirmation hearings for the members of incoming President Donald Trump’s national-security team show that neoconservatism dominates the U.S. government today: neoconservatism didn’t end after Ge…

Why Palestinian Children Throw Stones

January 17, 2017

Opinion

Forget the empty posturing of world leaders in Paris yesterday. This photo (above) tells us what the Israel-Palestine “conflict” is really about. Imagine for a second that the little boy – how old is …

Would Buzzfeed Have Published the Martin Luther King Sex Tape?

January 17, 2017

Opinion

Kompromat--the term for the acquistion and exploitation of compromising material, often of an embarrassing sexual nature--is very much in the news today, thanks to the allegation that Russian security…

F-35 has 276 Deficiencies and Counting, Unfit for Combat Operations

January 17, 2017

Military

The F-35 stealth fighter jet suffers from hundreds of problems and won’t be fully combat-capable before 2020, says a scathing report from the Pentagon’s top evaluator. New issues keep cropping up, and…

The Great Brainwash

January 17, 2017

Opinion

When considering the concept of ‘brainwashing’ most people still think in terms of the methods used by the totalitarian communist societies of the last century. One of the best examples of those metho…

In Syria, the Russian Navy and Air Force are Testing New Means of Defense Against an Invasion by NATO

January 17, 2017

Military

From 8 November 2016 to 6 January 2017, Russia tested in the Eastern Mediterranean a naval group’s ability to execute complex missions similar to those missions that anti-assault craft would have to p…