October 19, 2019 | Astute News

The Genealogy of the Kurdish Question

October 19, 2019

All wars involve a process of simplification: there are only two sides on a battlefield and everyone has to choose their own. In the Middle East, where there are an incredible number of communities an…

Winners and Losers in the Turkish attack on Kurds in Syria? Part 2

October 19, 2019

Opinion

Turkish forces invaded north-east Syria (NES) only when it had coordinated with the US to define the red line of the invasion. Moreover, both superpowers, the US and Russia, protected Turkey by b…

Here’s Where Washington’s Focus will Shift to After Syria

October 19, 2019

Opinion

Much to Washington’s dismay, China is gaining further momentum in the Indo-Pacific region. As the US president pretends to deploy a hands-off approach to the Middle East, expect China’s gains to fare …

Geopolitical Realism Utilized by Obama and Trump

October 19, 2019

Opinion

Donald Trump’s stance towards the Turkish intervention in northern Syria has some (stress some) resemblance to his predecessor Barack Obama’s position on Ukraine. Obama like Trump, saw a reasoned basi…

The War Crimes of the Dutch Government in Iraq and Syria

October 19, 2019

Opinion

In an attack by a Dutch F-16 on a car bomb factory in Iraq in 2015, at least seventy civilian deaths occurred, revealed by the regular Dutch MSM. The bombing completely destroyed a neighborhood in the…

Media and Politicians Didn’t Care About Chaos the US Caused in Syria for Years, But Now That Trump can be Blamed, They’re Outraged

October 19, 2019

Opinion

Mainstream US media has been the biggest cheerleader for Washington’s chaos production in Syria for years, but now, as Donald Trump pulls troops out of the northeast, they’re suddenly outraged. Spare …

Everybody Betraying Everybody in Syria

October 19, 2019

Opinion

Just what have we witnessed in the recent events in Syria? It’s hard to know, given the avalanche of superficial and over-the-top headlines in most U.S. media: betrayal of the Kurds, handing Syria ove…

How Democracy Made Us Dumb

October 19, 2019

Opinion

From the riffs of outrage coming from the Democrats and their demos over “our democracy” betrayed, infiltrated even destroyed—you’d never know that a rich vein of thinking in opposition to democracy r…