January 6, 2019 – Astute News

January 6, 2019

Chinese Scholar Offers Insight into Beijing’s Strategic Mindset

The top story of 2019 – and the years ahead – will continue to revolve around the myriad, dangerous permutations of the economic ascent of China, the resurgence of nuclear superpower Russia and the decline of the US’s global hegemony. Two years ago, before the onset of the Trump administration, I sketched how the shadow play might proceed in the...

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January 6, 2019

A Cynic’s Look at Iraq’s Bombing of Daesh in Syria

Alt-Media is celebrating Iraq’s bombing of Syria after Damascus gave it permission to act against terrorists on its territory without any prior permission, but a cynic’s look at this development suggests that it might be too early to pop the champagne. Iraq’s recently bombed Daesh near the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor in a strike that Baghdad claims killed at...

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January 6, 2019

“Liberals” and “Progressives” Resist Ending America’s Wars

Liberal interventionists in the media want America’s wars to continue forever. Last Thursday I actually turned on “PBS Newshour” with Judy Woodruff, which I never watch, but the other offerings on television were dismal, and I was flipping channels. She had on as guests her regular commentator Mark Shields and Michael Gerson of The Washington Post. Shields is a hardcore...

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January 6, 2019

How the War Party Lost the Middle East

“Assad must go, Obama says.” So read the headline in The Washington Post, Aug. 18, 2011. The story quoted President Barack Obama directly: “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way. … the time has come for President Assad to step aside.” France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s David Cameron...

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January 6, 2019

Jerusalem: a Newly-Recognized East-West City

After the Berlin wall fell in 1989, the only major divided capital city in the world was Nicosia, split between its southern Greek part and its northern Turkish sector. Entrepreneurship resulted in the opening of a bar at the United Nations-operated crossing point between the Greek and Turkish sectors called “Checkpoint Charlie II,” a reference to the former crossing point...

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January 6, 2019

Review: War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Power

Members of the political corps of the U.S. writing about U.S. foreign policy have a particular insider viewpoint that can provide some good insights into how their diplomacy works along with the personal peculiarities of some of the actors involved. Ronan Farrow’s War on Peace – The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Power works quite well at...

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January 6, 2019

The ISIS Massacre in Sweida: A Story of Torment and Resilience for an Uninterested World

“Imagine that this were your village, or your neighborhood! Imagine that one of those were your house! Imagine that the same thing happened to you! Imagine that you lost a family member, or maybe two, or maybe more! Imagine that your mother, sister, daughter or son is still kidnapped and now in the hands of … ISIS!” — Syrian Wissam...

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January 6, 2019

Vaccine Realities That Big Pharma Doesn’t Teach Us Doctors (or Our Patients). The Plight of “Vaccine Damaged Children”

“In 1986 a US law was passed that protected vaccine maker’s from ever being sued in a a regular court regardless of how many babies or children were injured of killed from the aluminum, mercury (aka Thimerosal), formaldehyde, aborted fetal cells, deadly peanut byproducts, cells of pigs, cows, monkeys, dogs, insects, MSG (monosodium glutamate), ether and other toxins that make...

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Daily Archive: January 6, 2019

Chinese Scholar Offers Insight into Beijing’s Strategic Mindset

A Cynic’s Look at Iraq’s Bombing of Daesh in Syria

“Liberals” and “Progressives” Resist Ending America’s Wars

How the War Party Lost the Middle East

Jerusalem: a Newly-Recognized East-West City

Review: War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Power

The ISIS Massacre in Sweida: A Story of Torment and Resilience for an Uninterested World

Vaccine Realities That Big Pharma Doesn’t Teach Us Doctors (or Our Patients). The Plight of “Vaccine Damaged Children”