August 15, 2019 | Astute News

Iran Might be About to Change Its Approach Towards India

August 15, 2019

Iran had hitherto allowed India to make a fool out of it without uttering even the faintest protest in response, yet the Islamic Republic’s previously servile attitude might be changing if two recent …

Kashmir: World Leaders Only Care About Genocide After the Fact

August 15, 2019

Opinion

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has issued a stark warning that the appeasing of Narendra Modi’s expansionist, sectarianism and Hindutva supremacist march on annexed Jammu and Kashmir will result…

Modi’s India: A Clear and Present Danger to Global Free Speech

August 15, 2019

Opinion

As India’s ultra-nationalist BJP government becomes ever more assertive against perceived foreign rivals and internal religious and ethnic minority groups as well as downcast Hindus, an ever more conf…

Hong Kong Phooey! Would You Like Any Hypocrisy with That?

August 15, 2019

Opinion

Where to start? For nearly 40 weeks hundreds of thousands of French people have been on the streets in anti-government demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s rule. Some have lost eyes and …

China and the Zombies of the Past

August 15, 2019

Opinion

The hybrid war, being conducted against China by the United States and its gaggle of puppet states from the UK to Canada to Australia, has entered a new phase. The first stage involved the massive shi…

The Great Switch: Old Ways Fade and are Irrecoverable

August 15, 2019

Opinion

Conflict is popping up everywhere: A major portion of the Turkish army stands ready to invade parts of Syria (though invasion may have been averted for now); PM Modi may just have ignited the next rou…

In Wars and Weapons We Trust: America’s Militarized Profession of Faith

August 15, 2019

Opinion

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I looked to the heavens: to God and Christianity (as arbitrated by the Catholic Church) and to the soaring warbirds of the U.S. military, which I believed kept us s…

The ‘Idiot Box’ – Now More than Ever!

August 15, 2019

Opinion

For decades many critics of broadcast television labeled it ‘The idiot box’. As Ed Norton said in a Honeymooners episode “Maybe the phrase fits.'” Well, today, perhaps more than ever before, we all mu…