April 8, 2018 | Astute News

Trump Threatens Putin, “Animal Assad” over Syrian “Chemical Attack”; Russia Warns of “Grave” Response If US Launches Strike

April 8, 2018

It's deja vu all over again. Remember when the US admitted Syrian "Rebels" have used chemical weapons? Or when earlier this year, now former Secretary of State blamed Russia for an alleged Syrian chem…

US Deploys Three Carrier Battle Groups to Face-Off Against Chinese Aircraft Carrier in South China Sea

April 8, 2018

Opinion

Last week, we reported that satellite images had captured China’s only aircraft carrier in deployment, the Liaoning, flanked by 40 other warships and submarines, conducting unprecedented live-fire dri…

Does Trump Even Have an Endgame in Trade War with China?

April 8, 2018

Opinion

Back in 2003, at the start of America’s disastrous invasion of Iraq, then Major General David Petraeus, commanding the US 101st Airborne Division driving toward Baghdad, famously asked my Washington P…

Russia: The Spurned Lover Who Persists

April 8, 2018

Opinion

Is the Russian Foreign Ministry so brainwashed that it believes the US is a democracy?! A country in which 90%, if not more, of the people are dispossessed is a democracy?! A country ruled by a handfu…

France Joins Syria Fight: Goals and Consequences

April 8, 2018

Opinion

French President Emmanuel Macron kept his word. On April 1-2, French troops moved into northern Syria. This is the first time France deployed substantial forces there to turn Paris into a new actor ac…

Syria and Donald Trump’s Impulses

April 8, 2018

Opinion

Impending decisions about U.S. troops in Syria will be the next significant outcome of the continuing tussle, between a president’s urges and his appointees, that constitutes Donald Trump’s foreign po…

UK’s Russia Narrative: A Verdict in Search of a Crime

April 8, 2018

Opinion

Two weeks ago, the Right Honourable Boris Johnson was asked by a German journalist how the UK government could be so very certain so very early on that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of a former…

Alt-Media: Debunking the Dogma

April 8, 2018

Opinion

Alt-Media and its corresponding online community can be treasure troves of knowledge and insightful discourse in an increasingly censored world, but just like their Mainstream Media counterparts that …