September 4, 2019 | Astute News

Russia’s Using India to Cash In on the US’ Anti-Iranian Sanctions

September 4, 2019

India’s compliance with the US’ unilateral anti-Iranian sanctions has made it eager to cut more energy deals with Russia in response, which can’t help but please the Kremlin since it also adds a renew…

US Slaps New Tariffs on China; One Minute Later China Retaliates

September 4, 2019

Opinion

The biggest reason for last week's torrid stock market rally was rekindled "optimism" that the escalating trade war between the US and China may be on the verge of another ceasefire following phone co…

Our Least Finest Hour: Britain is in the Grip of Mass Hysteria

September 4, 2019

Opinion

Eighty years ago this week, Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. Within months, we stood alone with the Hitlerite hordes, at the Channel ports, preparing to invade us. Our people then kept calm and c…

Merkel’s in Beijing, Pence is in Poland

September 4, 2019

Opinion

A senior Polish official explained to me recently why his country couldn’t accept American demands to exclude Huawei from Poland’s buildout of 5G broadband. During the early 2010s, the United States i…

America Loses Asia-Pacific as Full Spectrum Dominance Continues to Fail

September 4, 2019

Opinion

Always working a little harder than most to stay a step below reality, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made especially candid remarks this week that America’s INF pullout was timed for a targeting …

Israel’s Many Wars

September 4, 2019

Opinion

Two years ago I wrote an article entitled “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars.” Though I made clear in the piece that I was writing about specific, identifiable Jews who fund and staff the thin…

The West Oppressed the Third World for so Long that It Became Third World Itself

September 4, 2019

Opinion

Many have already noticed: The US really, really doesn’t feel like the world leader, or even as a ‘first world country’. Of course, I write that sarcastically, as I detest expressions like ‘first worl…

The Twilight of the Global Order

September 4, 2019

Opinion

We live in an era of hyperbole, in which gripping accounts of monumental triumphs and devastating disasters take precedence over realistic discussions of incremental progress and gradual erosion. But …