July 9, 2017 | Astute News

Putin and Trump Stage-Manage a Win-Win Meeting

July 9, 2017

From the start, the “positive chemistry” in the Mother of All Sit-Downs was a given. The format – with only the four principals, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Foreign…

G20 – Is the West Governed by Psychopaths?

July 9, 2017

Opinion

“Welcome to Hell!” is the slogan with which G20 protesters greet the self-appointed leaders of the world to their summit on 7 and 8 July 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, under Madame Merkel’s auspices to dis…

Three Countries, Three Continents: One Imperial Western Project

July 9, 2017

Opinion

A resource-rich, socialist-led, multi-ethnic secular state, with an economic system characterized by a high level of public/social ownership and generous provision of welfare, education and social ser…

Royal Saud Family Seek Trump’s Support Against Qatar’s Royal Thani Family

July 9, 2017

Opinion

It’s now war between the fundamentalist Sunni Sauds who own the world’s most oil-rich nation Saudi Arabia, versus the fundamentalist Sunni Thanis who own the world’s most gas-rich nation Qatar; and, A…

The Beginning of the ‘US-China Dialogue’ in a New Format

July 9, 2017

Opinion

On June 21-23 this year, the first U.S.-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue (D&SD) was held in Washington. This kind of a ‘dialogues’ between the two leading world powers at the ministerial lev…

The Syrian Test of Trump-Putin Accord

July 9, 2017

Opinion

The immediate prospect for significant improvement in U.S.-Russia relations now depends on something tangible: Will the forces that sabotaged previous ceasefire agreements in Syria succeed in doing so…

Eyeless in Gaza

July 9, 2017

Opinion

I have a unique confession to make: I like Gaza. Yes, I like this far-away corner of Palestine, the narrow strip on the way to Egypt, in which two million human beings are crowded, and which is closer…

End the Korean War

July 9, 2017

Opinion

“I have some pretty severe things we’re thinking about,” Trump said of North Korea at a news conference in Warsaw. “Doesn’t mean we’re going to do them.” What President Trump really meant is that he h…