June 24, 2019 | Astute News

Trump Claims He Canceled an Airstrike Against Iran at the Very Last Minute

June 24, 2019

The first thing to say here is that we have no means to know what really happened. At the very least, there are two possible hypotheses which could explain what took place: 1) a US provocation: it is …

Pakistan Picked The Right Spy Chief And Got The Right People Upset

June 24, 2019

Opinion

Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed was chosen to head Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency last week, infuriating the country's liberals and indirectly drawing the ire of India as well, with the …

How Close Was the Trump Regime to Waging War on Iran?

June 24, 2019

Opinion

From Harry Truman’s aggression on North Korea to post-9/11 preemptive US wars, US ruling authorities acted with coalition of the willing partners — in lieu of going it alone. World community oppositio…

Putin Reaffirmed Russia’s Willingness to Negotiate a “Political Transition” in Syria

June 24, 2019

Opinion

Many in the Alt-Media Community were shocked to hear President Putin reaffirm Russia’s willingness to negotiate a “political transition” in Syria during his annual Q&A session, but Moscow actually…

The Battle for the Soul of Trump Foreign Policy

June 24, 2019

Opinion

President Donald Trump heads to Camp David Saturday amid an inflection point in his presidency. This week, he officially declared for re-election, swapped defense chiefs and called off a strike on Ira…

Jerusalem’s Old City: How Palestine’s Past Is Being Slowly Erased

June 24, 2019

Opinion

Israel has controlled East Jerusalem and the walled Old City since the 1967 war in which it also occupied the adjacent West Bank. It has effectively treated them as annexed territory ever since. To co…

Violence Erupts as West Turns Its Sexual Subversion Weapon on Georgia

June 24, 2019

Opinion

With apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, it’s June, when a young man’s (or woman’s, or sexually indeterminate person’s) fancy lightly turns to thoughts of nontraditional “love” of any variety expresse…

The Greatest Generation of Whoremongers

June 24, 2019

Books

Review of Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France (University of Chicago Press, 2013), xii + 351 pgs., hardcover. Another D-Day (June 6) celebra…