September 2, 2020 | Astute News

A Pakistani Olive Branch Extended In Efforts to End the Afghani Conflict

September 2, 2020

In the face of the obvious failure of US policy in Afghanistan, Pakistan stepped up its efforts to peacefully resolve the Afghani conflict. On August 24, at the invitation of Pakistani Foreign Ministr…

Did Trump’s Federalism Just Win Him the Election?

September 2, 2020

Opinion

For months we’ve been told that President Trump has trailed Democrat Joe Biden in the opinion polls. His odds of winning were vanishingly small. From the moment the George Floyd protests turned into v…

America’s Fake Civil War

September 2, 2020

Opinion

The United States, in the fourth year of the Trump presidency, is in near anarchy. On April 29, 2020, a 600-car caravan, mostly trucks, from the ‘suburbs’ of Portland, Oregon, drove through town on wh…

A New Dawn Rises in Montenegro

September 2, 2020

Opinion

The “Democratic Party of Socialists” just lost its first election in Montenegro since the end of communism, heralding an exciting new era of democracy in this tiny Balkan country where such a concept …

Stung by Election Loss, Montenegro’s Eternal Ruler Milo Djukanovic May Be Planning a Reverse ‘Color Revolution’

September 2, 2020

Opinion

One of the six successor states of Yugoslavia, Montenegro commands a strategic location on the Adriatic coast but has fewer than 700,000 residents. Djukanovic has ruled it in one capacity or another s…

Wasting the Elderly: Coronavirus and the Calculus of Death

September 2, 2020

Opinion

The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welled-up because of it. In March, he feared that the world’s elderly citizens risked being marginalised in any pan…

Ghosts of the American Republic

September 2, 2020

History

Let us update the wisdom of Sigmund Freud to the Age of Marshall McLuhan and Philip K. Dick: Sometimes the image, or label of the cigar is far more important than any petty real cigar – especially if …

Facebook Hires an Israeli Censor

September 2, 2020

Opinion

Israel’s defenders both in the political realm and in the media have long used every weapon available to stifle any criticism of Israeli racism and its oppression of the Palestinians. In particular, t…