October 3, 2017 | Astute News

The Future of the EU at Stake in Catalonia

October 3, 2017

Fascist Franco may have been dead for more than four decades, but Spain is still encumbered with his dictatorial corpse. A new paradigm has been coined right inside the lofty European Union, self-desc…

Questions Swirl in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting

October 3, 2017

Opinion

Sunday night Las Vegas shooting at country music concert. Shooter in a high room at the Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel, a long distance away. Deadliest mass shooting in US history. 518 wounded, 58 dead. Wi…

Here’s Why Allowing Saudi Women to Drive is Very Dangerous

October 3, 2017

Opinion

The move risks provoking the already distraught Wahhabi clergy who fear that the monarchy is breaking its old alliance with them by sidelining the Kingdom’s most conservative religious gatekeepers in …

Safe-Zone Judo as Syrian Forces Cross the Euphrates

October 3, 2017

Opinion

Syrian forces with the support of their Russian and Iranian allies, crossed the Euphrates River near the city of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria. The move is not only a significant step forward in restor…

Catalonian Independence and the Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War

October 3, 2017

Opinion

Arriving in Barcelona in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, Ernst Toller wrote, "The most striking experience a foreigner has in Barcelona is that of the functioning of democracy." In 2017 something a…

The Kurdish Independence Referendum was a Political Miscalculation

October 3, 2017

Opinion

The Iraqi government has banned international flights to the Kurdish capital Irbil from 6pm this Friday, isolating the Kurds in Iraq to a degree they have not experienced since the overthrow of Saddam…

What Did Washington Achieve in its Six Year War on Syria?

October 3, 2017

Opinion

Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east, Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to m…

Are You Ready to Die?

October 3, 2017

Opinion

Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked …