February 20, 2019 | Astute News

US Elites Remain Incapable of Understanding China

February 20, 2019

A new report on US policy toward China launched by the Asia Society in New York is another example of how supposedly bipartisan US intellectual elites, instead of offering impartial advice, do little …

War With China?

February 20, 2019

Opinion

In his highly acclaimed 2017 book, Destined for War, Harvard professor Graham Allison assessed the likelihood that the United States and China would one day find themselves at war. Comparing the U.S.-…

Can Maduro Emulate Castro and Assad to Keep NATO’s Imperialist Hands Off Venezuela?

February 20, 2019

Opinion

Imperial logic I: External crises distract from internal ones Empires with internal problems tend to create external crises to distract the public opinion and unite their political and economical ruli…

The Siege of Venezuela and The Travails of Empire

February 20, 2019

Opinion

Here’s the bullet-point version: It’s imperialism.It’s American imperialism, a bipartisan national project.American imperialism is the global management of capitalist class power.It’s a binary situati…

Libya – 2011. Revolt or Revolution?

February 20, 2019

Opinion

For the 8th anniversary of the counter-revolutionary rebellion inspired by NATO Alliance in the Libyan Jamahiriya (February 17, 2011) Recall what the Libyan Jamahiriya was at the beginning of 2011. On…

China Might Lose El Salvador If Its New Populist Government Pivots to the US

February 20, 2019

Opinion

The new Salvadoran president promised to reassess relations with China. The secretary general of President-elect Nayib Bukele’s New Ideas party told his countrymen that their new leader will reconside…

The Growing Anti-Semitism Scam

February 20, 2019

Opinion

In his novel 1984 George Orwell invented the expression “newspeak” to describe the ambiguous or deliberately misleading use of language to make political propaganda and narrow the “thought options” of…

Lies, Damned Lies and the Mainstream Media – Don't Be Fooled

February 20, 2019

Opinion

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled” Mark Twain For the first time I reached for my Mark Twain book of quotes while I considered the thrust of&n…