January 18, 2017 | Astute News

Global Helmsman Xi Jinping Steps Up with Charm Offensive

January 18, 2017

He did it, his way; Chinese President Xi Jinping descended on the Swiss Alps; profited from a geopolitical vacuum only three days before Donald Trump’s inauguration with the Atlanticist West mired in …

Operation Barbarossa II: The Yanks in their Armoured Parade

January 18, 2017

Opinion

I stated some months ago, while assembling a criminal dossier against the NATO powers for the ultimate war crime of aggression, that the build-up of NATO forces in Eastern Europe, particularly America…

Trump’s Cat Among European Pigeons

January 18, 2017

Opinion

Incoming US President Donald Trump threw a cat among the European pigeons this week after he said that the EU was heading for breakup and that he didn’t care much if that were to happen. In interviews…

Trump’s Delusion: Halting Eurasian Integration and Saving ‘US World Order’

January 18, 2017

Opinion

The failed foreign-policy strategy of the neoconservatives and neoliberals has served to dramatically reduce Washington's role and influence in the world. Important alliances are being forged without …

How The U.S. Enabled ISIS To Take Deir Ezzor

January 18, 2017

Middle East

The city of Deir Ezzor (Deir ez-Zur) in east-Syria is on the verge of falling into the hands of the Takfiris of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). More than 100,000 civilian inhabitants of De…

In Defense of Populism

January 18, 2017

Opinion

DAVOS MAN: “A soulless man, technocratic, nationless and cultureless, severed from reality. The modern economics that undergirded Davos capitalism is equally soulless, a managerial capitalism that red…

Look Out, Men: Your “Toxic Masculinity” is Now the Focus of Progressive Wrath

January 18, 2017

Miscellaneous

The growing epidemic of imagined victim-hood is expanding, and you won’t believe who the witch-hunters are after this time. You’ve likely heard that colleges across the US have been offering courses a…

How’s Your Water?

January 18, 2017

Food

Buried in the Safe Drinking Water Act: CFR 40 Part 141-149, are the regulations for the range of pH levels of drinking water. These standards are set by, among others, our friends the EPA. The Base me…