January 22, 2017 | Astute News

Saudi-led Coalition Ready to Join Fighting in Syria and Iraq

January 22, 2017

The Saudi-led anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition seeks to liberate Iraq's Mosul and Syria's Raqqa from the terrorist group, said spokesman for the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT) a…

China is Changing the Middle East’s Geo-political Dynamics

January 22, 2017

Opinion

Nowhere has the Obama administration done more damage to the US position than in the Middle East, leaving a big void to be filled largely by China, the silent player, and Russia, the military stalwart…

‘Billion-year’ Gambian President was Installed by the CIA

January 22, 2017

Opinion

Gambian President and dictator Yahya Jammeh, facing a combined military force composed of Senegalese army troops, the Nigerian air force, and troops from Mali, Ghana, and Togo, has agreed to relinquis…

Selectivity in Trashing Trump

January 22, 2017

Opinion

To say that Donald Trump is an imperfect messenger for some reasonable messages doesn’t do justice to the word “imperfect.” But he is right to note that Official Washington has gone far off-track in r…

When Was America Great?

January 22, 2017

Opinion

Donald Trump ran for President on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” implying that America had been great once, but no longer is. True to form, Hillary Clinton’s rejoinder was clueless. America i…

Nobody ‘Stealing’ Your Jobs, You Spend Too Much on Wars, Alibaba Founder tells US

January 22, 2017

Miscellaneous

Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma believes that improper distribution of funds and hyper inflated US military spending, not globalization or other countries “stealing” US jobs, is behind…

Watching Major Media Commit Suicide: Notes on the End of the News Business as We Know it

January 22, 2017

Media

It’s personal. This article goes to many places. I think you’ll find a place that works for you. I’ve been investigating and reporting on deep medical fraud for 29 years. I’ve been around the block a …

Islamaphobe on Social Media gets Confronted with Truth

January 22, 2017

Miscellaneous

It’s difficult to determine the roots of Islamaphobia, but I think its strong presence today can largely be attributed to the many terrorist attacks purported to be carried out in the name of Islam al…