October 25, 2017 | Astute News

India Mimics America and Hints at a Russian Twitter Troll Conspiracy

October 25, 2017

The US-Indian Strategic Partnership has rapidly evolved to such a point that the Indian government is now obliquely hinting that Russian twitter trolls are backing the country’s opposition leader, sho…

Phoenix 2.0 – CIA’s Vietnam Terror Unleashed Upon Afghanistan

October 25, 2017

Opinion

Last week the new head of the CIA Mike Pompeo publicly threatened to make the CIA a "much more vicious agency". His first step towards that is to unleash CIA sponsored killer gangs onto the people of …

What Israel is Fighting for in the Middle-Eastern Mess?

October 25, 2017

Opinion

As forces of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group are pushed across Syria and Iraq, one can clearly see Israel’s shifting position regarding the situation in Syria, which can be explained by Te…

USS Theodore Roosevelt Arrives in Asia-Pacific Amid Korean Peninsula Tensions

October 25, 2017

Military

USS Theodore Roosevelt carries four strike fighter squadrons, an electronic attack squadron, an airborne early warning squadron and two helicopter combat and strike squadrons. The US nuclear–powered a…

The Afghanistan Illusion

October 25, 2017

Opinion

In testimony before the House and Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month, Secretary of Defense James Mattis unveiled his new Afghan strategy, which he called “R4+S” (regionalize, realign, …

Are U.S. Mideast Wars Forever?

October 25, 2017

Opinion

“The Kurds have no friends but the mountains,” is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds. As their U.S. allies watched, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters were run out of K…

What’s Going on in Niger? America’s Unspoken War Against Sub-Saharan Africa

October 25, 2017

Opinion

Few Americans know anything about the country. They’re minimally knowledgeable geographically about nations only when Washington goes to war – testimony to public ignorance, a national disgrace in a n…

Mutual Assured Destruction – Missile Defense Might be a Lie

October 25, 2017

Opinion

Sometimes it is possible to read or view something that completely changes the way one looks at things. I had that experience last week when I read an article at Lobelog entitled “A Plea for Common Se…