December 12, 2018 | Astute News

War With Russia? The New Cold War Is More Dangerous Than the One the World Survived

December 12, 2018 Opinion

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk. — Hegel War With Russia?, like the biography of a living person, is a book without an end. The title is a warning – akin to what the…

The Macron Implosion – Will it Spread to Other EU Members?

December 12, 2018 Opinion

The Yellow Vest Movement – weekend 8 and 9 December – Round 4. Some say, they are the worst riots in France since the student-driven mini-Revolution of May 1968. Over the four weekends, hundreds of th…

The French People Feel Screwed

December 12, 2018 Opinion

On December 4, French Prime Minister Édouard Phillipe told deputies of the ruling party, “La République en Marche”, that a proposed fuel tax rise, which had led to the largest protests France has seen…

AFRICOM: A Neocolonial Occupation Force?

December 12, 2018 Opinion

Amid the George HW Bush imperial death-orgy, the endless saga of Midtown Mussolini’s daily news cycle, the seemingly unprecedented political upsurge in France, and countless other show-stopping news s…

How Democracy Is Losing the World

December 12, 2018 Opinion

If Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels about a one-night stand a decade ago, that, says Jerome Nadler, incoming chair of House Judiciary, would be an "impeachable offen…

Let’s Mobilize an Army of Stone Throwers on Border

December 12, 2018 Opinion

In the United States, even Customs and Border Protection apologizes for doing its job. CBP is supposed to “protects the public from dangerous people and materials attempting to cross the bor…

Propaganda Pantomimes

December 12, 2018 Opinion

The Pantomime season is beginning in London. These particularly British stage shows are all-singing, all-dancing, slapstick comedies, mostly based on old fairy tales and peculiar to the British sense …

How Big Brother Grips Americans’ Minds to Support Invasions

December 12, 2018 Opinion

On November 29th, Gallup headlined “Democrats Lead Surge in Belief U.S. Should Be World Leader” and reported that “Three-fourths (75%) of Americans today think the United States has ‘a speci…