May 18, 2017 | Astute News

Last to Die in Afghanistan: US Marines Back to Helmand

May 18, 2017

Some 300 US Marines are once again being deployed to Helmand province, Afghanistan after upward to 20,000 US Marines had spent between 2009-2014 attempting, but clearly failing to secure the province …

India Waits for Trump to Revive Obama-Era Policies

May 18, 2017

Opinion

India had an option to accept the invitation extended by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to participate in the Belt and Road Forum meeting in Beijing on May 14-15. Modi, i…

Putin Offers Washington Red Pill. Washington Takes the Blue One

May 18, 2017

Opinion

In an extraordinary moment this week, Russian leader Vladimir Putin offered Washington a challenge to discover the truth over sensational US media claims that President Trump had leaked top-secret inf…

Venezuela: Economic Warfare and the National Constituent Assembly

May 18, 2017

Opinion

What is the point of a sovereign State without a sovereign Economy… The prospect of a national constituent assembly offers a valuable opportunity to evaluate and protect the progress made in terms of …

Propaganda Feeds Fear and Loathing

May 18, 2017

Opinion

A newspaper headline on May 8 informed the British public that «Putin sends three warships to Latvian waters in the Baltic Sea in latest challenge to NATO» and although the message was clear enough, i…

Vladimir Ilyich Trump?

May 18, 2017

Opinion

God bless Donald Trump for sacking James Comey! Just a few days before this decisive step, Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com called James Comey “the most powerful man in America”. Comey was pushing the U…

Israel Minister: “The Time has Come to Assassinate Bashar Assad”

May 18, 2017

Middle East

Israel’s Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant called for the assassination of Syrian President Bashar Assad following yesterday’s US State Department report that the Syrian regime was using a…

Nakba History and the Origins of the Jewish State : the Role of the Balfour Declaration

May 18, 2017

History

The Balfour Declaration, issued on November 2, 1917, committed Britain to set up Palestine — then part of the Ottoman Empire — as a Jewish homeland; it was an extraordinary letter from the Government …