January 2019 | Astute News

The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader

January 31, 2019

Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent cam…

Venezuela Plot Thickens… UN should be Probing Washington and Allies for Regime-Change Crimes

January 31, 2019

Opinion

Identical condemnations from the US and allies and the synchronicity show that Venezuela is being targeted for regime change in a concerted plot led by Washington. Given the South American country is …

France’s Red Scarves: Ready-Made Counter-Protest and New Media Darlings

January 31, 2019

Opinion

The pressure will now grow to disperse the Yellow Vest movement while also attempting to use the Red Scarves to manufacture support for draconian government policies and police crackdowns aimed at fin…

Yellow Revolution will be Televised

January 31, 2019

Opinion

The Yellow Vests movement, that was launched by French workers to oppose the fuel tax that Macron chose to introduce doesn’t seem to be inclined to go away even after months of continuous protests. Mo…

Israel’s Drive to Become a Modern-Day Sparta

January 31, 2019

Opinion

With April’s elections looming, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has good reason to fear Benny Gantz, his former army chief. Gantz has launched a new party, named Israeli Resilience, just as the net …

Belarus & Russia: Nipping the “Annexation” Infowar Narrative in the Bud

January 31, 2019

Opinion

The emerging narrative that Russia is planning to “annex” Belarus is nothing more than an external infowar attack on their recently troubled partnership that seeks to accelerate the pace of Minsk’s pr…

Mike Pompeo’s Deranged Foreign Policy

January 31, 2019

Opinion

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo started out the new year—the date was Jan. 10—preaching “the truth” about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and for reasons we will get to below, he chose to …

The Private Wealth Within Nations, Now and in the Future

January 31, 2019

Opinion

The annual Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report is the gold-standard for estimates of private wealth around the world. The latest is Global Wealth Report 2018. It’s at: https://www.credit-suisse.com/ So…