August 5, 2017 | Astute News

Against All Odds, BRICS Nations Get Their Act Together

August 5, 2017

The trade ministers of the five BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) met this week in Shanghai, ahead of the annual summit of heads of state in Xiamen next month. Trouble loom…

India’s Road Games Will Always Flounder Compared with China’s One Belt–One Road

August 5, 2017

Opinion

The ongoing border dispute between India and China combined with the hyper-nationalist and religiously sectarian Hindutva politics of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have led India to try and re…

How the World May End

August 5, 2017

Opinion

The U.S. submarine captain says, “We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now we d…

Trump Will Now Become the War President

August 5, 2017

Opinion

President Trump has been defeated by the military/security complex and forced into continuing the orchestrated and dangerous tensions with Russia. Trump’s defeat has taught the Russians the lesson I h…

Blackwater Founder Wants to Boost the Afghan Air War with His Private Air Force

August 5, 2017

Opinion

Erik Prince, the former CEO of the private military company known as Blackwater, wants to step up the Afghan air war with a private air force capable of intelligence collection and close-air support, …

Liberation of Mosul: What’s Next?

August 5, 2017

Opinion

With the fall of Mosul – the ISIS bastion, a gloomy page in the life of its residents, who spent 1,125 days under the yoke of jihadists, was turned over. Left behind were great human sacrifices and ma…

China’s Missile Forces Could Make US War Planners Think Twice

August 5, 2017

Military

China's conventional missile capabilities pose a serious challenge to US dominance in the Pacific region, RIA Novosti contributor Ilya Plekhanov noted, citing a 2017 Center for a New American Security…

How Mainstream US ‘News’ Media Pump Their Government’s Lies to Deceive the Public

August 5, 2017

Opinion

Now that finally the US government has officially terminated its arming and training of the jihadist gangs that are fighting to overthrow and replace Syria’s government, the neoconservative mainstream…