December 18, 2019 | Astute News

Pentagon Chiefs Say US Troops to Stay in Syria for Years

December 18, 2019

Barely two months after US President Donald Trump’s demagogic announcement that he was pulling US troops out of northeastern Syria to fulfill his campaign promise to bring a halt to Washington’s “endl…

Washington’s Proposed New Sanctions Against Turkey also Aimed Against Russia

December 18, 2019

Opinion

With the world fixated on Turkish actions against Syria, Greece and Libya at the moment, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Senate of the United States Congress approved a bill, “Promoting Americ…

The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil

December 18, 2019

Opinion

The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli cooperation and the…

Obama and the War on Yemen

December 18, 2019

Opinion

Akbar Shahid Ahmed reports on Biden’s belated reckoning with the Obama administration’s disastrous support for the war on Yemen and Obama’s continued silence on the subject: What Obama has is a choice…

Indigenous Bolivia Ready to Go to War Against Fascism

December 18, 2019

Opinion

Bolivia, December 2019, three weeks after the fascist coup. It is devilishly cold. My comrade’s car is carefully navigating through the deep mud tracks. Enormous snow-covered mountain peaks are clearl…

Gaza 2020: How Easy It Is for the World to Delete Palestinian Pain

December 18, 2019

Opinion

I would like you to try an exercise. Google the words "family of eight killed" and you will be given several options - one in Sonora, Mexico, another in Pike, Ohio, yet another in Mendocino County, Ca…

Peace for the Donbass: A Distant Hope

December 18, 2019

Opinion

The Normandy Four talks, held in Paris,on December 11, between Russia, Germany, France and the Kiev regime of Ukraine produced not much except more of the same: vague commitments to seek peace, agreem…

The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control

December 18, 2019

Opinion

In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind t…