January 14, 2020 | Astute News

Iran’s ‘Deep State’ Struggle Will Intensify After the UIA-752 Cover-Up Was Exposed

January 14, 2020

There's little doubt that Iran's "deep state" struggle will intensify after a senior IRGC commander from the country's "principalist" faction took responsibility for his country accidentally shooting …

The AngloZionist Empire vs Iran: A Discussion of the Recent Events

January 14, 2020

Opinion

First, since we have more reliable data about what happened, let me recap a few key points to being: It is has now become pretty clear that Iran took several steps to make sure that the US would know …

Iran Will Make Huge Political Gains Out of This Crisis

January 14, 2020

Opinion

The Iranian missile attack on two US bases in Iraq is symbolic retaliation for the US assassination of General Qassem Soleimani on 3 January. Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei said there would be dir…

Geopolitical Ramifications of the “Cloak and Dagger” Operation in Iraq

January 14, 2020

Opinion

The murder of the renowned Iranian General Kassem Suleimani, who was in command of Iran’s special operations unit known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, has effectively become the talk of th…

The Endless War with Iran

January 14, 2020

Opinion

The United States has been in a 40-year cold war with Iran. Just like the cold war with the Soviet Union, the conflict between Washington and Tehran has been fought largely through proxies: in Yemen, …

The Afghanistan Papers Are a Case Study in Colonial Propaganda

January 14, 2020

Opinion

In an earlier article (FAIR.org, 12/18/19) regarding the Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers (12/9/19), I discussed how the Post’s exposé also exposed the Post as one of the …

Can China Confront and Defeat the U.S. Navy?

January 14, 2020

Military

A number of reports have appeared in both U.S. and foreign media in recent weeks pointing to the apparent eclipse of U.S. naval supremacy by an ascendant China. While these reports are largely overblo…

The Decline of Democracy in the 21st Century

January 14, 2020

Opinion

“In general, unfortunately, the qualifications required to gain power and keep it have almost no connection with those required to govern with competence and impartiality.” – Jean-François Revel&…