August 12, 2017 | Astute News

Is North Korea Showing the Emperor is Naked?

August 12, 2017

Amid the thick fog of (rhetorical) war between Washington and Pyongyang, it’s still possible to detect some fascinating writing on the (unbuilt) wall. A case can be made that President Trump is using …

China Will Prevent US First Strike Against North Korean Regime

August 12, 2017

Diplomacy

China will prevent the US and South Korea from carrying out strikes on North Korea and trying to overthrow the leadership there, but will remain neutral if Pyongyang launches missiles at American targ…

Avoiding Nuclear War: Why Kim Jong-Un’s Strategy Makes Sense

August 12, 2017

Opinion

Looking at the recent North Korean testing of two intercontinental missiles, it may seem that Pyongyang wishes to increase tensions in the region. A more careful analysis, however, shows how the DPRK …

Has Narenda Modi Switched Sides?

August 12, 2017

Opinion

It’s very discomforting to see the nation of India, one of the great potential leading countries of the world systematically self-destruct. Provoking a new war with China over remote chunks of land in…

Is the American Empire Worth the Price?

August 12, 2017

Opinion

"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," Samuel Johnson observed, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." And the prospect of a future where Kim Jong Un can put a nuclear weapon on a U.S.…

US Imperialism and The Threat of Nuclear War Against North Korea

August 12, 2017

Opinion

The world is poised on the brink of a war on the Korean Peninsula that could rapidly escalate into a global nuclear conflict. US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his inflammatory threat to e…

Korea Crisis: Trump ”Losing Control of His Rhetoric” But Without Any Plan for Attack

August 12, 2017

Opinion

President Trump's threats against North Korea conceal the absence of any US intention to attack that country. All they do is play into Kim Jong-un's hands. Shortly after both the Chinese and the Russi…

‘Now We Have a Smaller Payroll’: Trump Thanks Putin for Cuts to US Diplomatic Staff in Russia

August 12, 2017

Diplomacy

President Donald Trump deadpanned that he is “very thankful” for Russian President Vladimir Putin's order to kick out hundreds of US diplomatic staffers from Russia. Trump’s quip that the US would “sa…