July 16, 2018 | Astute News

Trump-Putin Summit Hits Last-Minute Turbulence

July 16, 2018

It was always within the realms of possibility that there might be some last-minute attempt made by the strong and vociferous opposition within the United States to President Donald Trump aimed at und…

Putin on the Trump: ‘New York’ Dons Tinfoil Hat, Claims Soviet-Era Kompromat on The Donald

July 16, 2018

Opinion

This week, The Daily Intelligencer promoted the theory that says the story of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia dates back to the Soviet period, an obvious attempt to sour the upcoming Putin-T…

Japan After the North Korea–United States Summit

July 16, 2018

Opinion

Washington’s initiation of a new game on the Korean Peninsula has become an important element in the overall process of reformatting the political map at global and regional levels. A long time coming…

China’s Myanmar Policy: Peace, Conflict – Whatever Works

July 16, 2018

Opinion

As Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi this week sought to make progress on ending decades of civil war by bringing the country’s military and myriad ethnic armed groups to the negotiating tabl…

The Night Turkey Changed Forever

July 16, 2018

Opinion

Two years ago on 15 July, Turkey witnessed the bloodiest coup attempt in its political history. A faction in the Turkish military launched a coordinated operation in several major cities across Anatol…

The World ‘Knows’ bin Laden Did 9/11 — So Why Isn’t There Any Evidence?

July 16, 2018

Books

He is arguably the most notorious person in the 21st century. The world takes for granted that Osama bin Laden was the architect of the “terror attacks” of Sept. 11, 2001. But why was this man singled…

The Moral Decadence of Zionism

July 16, 2018

Opinion

We have watched this for seven decades. Seven decades of unremitting, remorseless, violence. A poisonous ideology gives rise to a state, poisonous at its roots, the people poisoned by the state, indoc…

The American Oligarchy: A Review

July 16, 2018

Books

Consumers of left-wing media are well aware that America is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Everyone with a functioning cerebrum, in fact, should be aware of it by now: even mainstream political scient…