April 16, 2017 | Astute News

Roaming Charges: Love at First Strike

April 16, 2017 Opinion

Ivanka, our Park Avenue Electra, did it. She’s the one who softened her daddy’s leathery heart by forcing him to watch those dreadful pictures of dead and dying babies, eyes fixed on the carnage scrol…

Global Turmoil: Flatulence or Substance

April 16, 2017 Opinion

Introduction Every day and throughout the world we read and hear of turmoil, of threats, violence, divisions, wars for peace and peace for wars, freedom as oppression and oppression as freedom. In a w…

The Role of Television in Mass Deception

April 16, 2017 Opinion

With the advent of the popularity of television in the 1930s and 1940s, for the first time in history, the banksters had an instrument through which the masses could be controlled effectively, immedia…

US Foreign Policy and The Tangled Matrix of Deceit

April 16, 2017 Opinion

Will America do anything and think anything to preserve its hegemony? Goethe’s Faust, an ever energetic, never satisfied individual, is the traditional symbol of a Western man. He refuses to stay in t…

The True Cost of Israel: U.S. Support Goes Far Beyond the Official Numbers

April 16, 2017 Opinion

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) concluded its annual conference late last month, triggering the usual debate in various alternative media outlets. Why does so much U.S. taxpayer m…

Hubris and Dysfunction in Trumpland

April 16, 2017 Opinion

In decades to come historians will identify this past week as one of the most seminal in post war history, placing particular emphasis when they do on the actions of one of the most unstable, unpredic…

Trump Dumps Campaign Pledges, Goes Ballistic in Syria & Afghanistan

April 16, 2017 Opinion

Today, many erstwhile Trump supporters are suffering shell-shock after the Republican leader, who pledged like a populist on the campaign trail to scale back the US military’s overseas footprint, inst…

US Foreign Aid, Explained

April 16, 2017 Opinion

President Donald Trump seeks to fulfill his campaign promise to “put America first” in his proposed 2018 budget. “This includes deep cuts to foreign aid,” Trump said in his opening message to his prop…