April 15, 2019 | Astute News

Will the Trump Administration Go to War Next?

April 15, 2019

Ever since Mr. MAGA made it to the White House, I have been awed by the level of sheer stupidity and, frankly, the immorality of this administration. Obama was almost as incompetent and evil, but Trum…

Iran Allies in the Middle East: the Trigger Finger Is Ready in Case of US-Israeli War

April 15, 2019

Opinion

When Trump designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organisation, Iran hit back hours later by labellingthe US Central Command ‘CENTCOM’ a supporter of terrorism. …

“Putinyahu’s Rusrael”

April 15, 2019

Opinion

President Putin and “Israeli” Prime Minister Netanyahu are brothers-in-arms after the former helped the latter win his historic reelection with a last-minute photo-op stunt that ultimately proved pivo…

What Ivanka Told Us About Trump’s Meeting with el-Sisi

April 15, 2019

Opinion

Ivanka Trump, daughter of the US president and wife of Middle East “expert” Jared Kushner – he who has supposedly produced a Middle East “peace plan” to be revealed after Benj…

Putin Derangement Syndrome After Mueller

April 15, 2019

Opinion

The West – its governments and its governments’ scribes – are obsessed with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Obsessed” is probably too weak a word to describe the years of impassioned coverage, airy…

What’s Wrong with the United States?

April 15, 2019

Opinion

In his 1995 book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle in The Dark, Carl Sagan wrote: I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a s…

The Man Who Saw Trump Coming A Century Ago

April 15, 2019

Opinion

Distracted daily by the bloviating POTUS? Here, then, is a small suggestion. Focus your mind for a moment on one simple (yet deeply complex) truth: we are living in a Veblen Moment. That’s Thorstein V…

“The Owner”: The Rise of Eduardo Elsztain and the Coming End of Argentina’s Democracy

April 15, 2019

Opinion

It seemed like a longshot, but anything was possible in the mind of an ambitious, 30-year-old Eduardo Elsztain. Elsztain, then living in New York, had landed a meeting with the wealthy Hungarian-Ameri…