April 2, 2018 | Astute News

From “Bandwagoning” Against Eurasia to “Circling the Wagons” in the Center of It

April 2, 2018

The International Relations theories about the Balance of Power and Regional Security Complexes don’t sufficiently explain the simultaneous emergence of three distinct but interconnected power blocs i…

Gaza Mass Murder Postmortems

April 2, 2018

Opinion

On Friday, Israeli soldiers killed 16 unarmed Gazans in cold blood, wounding over 1,400 others, some with life-threatening injuries, the death toll sure to rise – another 49 Palestinians shot on Satur…

China to Slap US with up to 25% Bigger Import Tariffs in Trade War Retaliation

April 2, 2018

Opinion

Beijing is hiking up tariffs on more than 128 US imports, including fruit and pork, as part of a tit-for-tat response to US President Donald Trump’s $60 billion package of tariffs imposed against Chin…

The West Cannibalizes Itself

April 2, 2018

Opinion

What civilization has ever sought to repudiate its own culture and traditions as we do today? Some 13 European thinkers issued an intellectual protest late last year against the assault on the Western…

Sarkozy’s Hand in the French Cookie Jar?

April 2, 2018

Opinion

There was something refreshing about watching former French president Nicholas Sarkozy being interrogated in a French jail. Particularly since he may soon be accused of conspiracy in the murder of my …

Iraq +15: Accumulated Evil of the Whole

April 2, 2018

Opinion

Robert Jackson, the Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals, once denounced aggressive war as “the greatest menace of our time.” With much of Europe laying in smol…

How the Guardian became the West’s Pravda

April 2, 2018

Opinion

Here is a good example of pure, unadulterated western propaganda from the Guardian, written by one of their most senior journalists, Julian Borger. This could be straight out of of the old Soviet mout…

Viral Video Exposes News Stations Across US Pumping Exact Same Scripted Fear into Viewers

April 2, 2018

Opinion

Videos that show the striking similarities between the scripts used by local TV anchors and reporters are nothing new, but a recent compilation has taken the Internet by storm as it shows dozens of ne…