August 18, 2018 | Astute News

Pakistan at a Crossroads as Imran Khan Is Sworn In

August 18, 2018

Criticism of Pakistan’s anti-money laundering and terrorism finance regime by the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is likely to complicate incoming Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s ef…

Is the US Beheading the Turkish Economy as an Act of Terror?

August 18, 2018

Opinion

The US continues to play its poker game of “Show Down” with a growing list of unhappy countries. We are at the point where we might soon see a call to rename the US… to the United States of Sanctions,…

Iran’s Reply: No War and No Negotiations

August 18, 2018

Opinion

We can all thank God for the fact that the AngloZionists did not launch a war on the DPRK, that no Ukronazi attack on the Donbass took place during the World Cup in Russia and that the leaders of the …

Caspian Deal Highlights Shift in Azerbaijan

August 18, 2018

Opinion

As the US/Turkish relationship deteriorates it is having spillover effects around the region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s continued defiance of US’s demands have placed Turkey in the cros…

World Is Drowning in Debt and It Spells Disaster for Everyone

August 18, 2018

Opinion

The entire planet is swimming in debt, yet no one seems to criticize the system itself as being fundamentally flawed. “A man in debt is so far a slave,” American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once repo…

Turkey’s Currency and Debt Crisis Has Been Years in the Making

August 18, 2018

Opinion

After decades of stagnant growth, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AKP party turned around Turkey's economy in the early 2000s. It was a boom underscored by easy borrowing that prioritised loan…

He Can’t Win It for Technical Reasons, But PM Abiy Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

August 18, 2018

Opinion

The Ethiopian premier can’t win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for technical reasons, but he nevertheless deserves global recognition for his peacemaking successes. The Nobel Committee will award its e…

Decline in the Fall (Or Late Summer, Anyway)

August 18, 2018

Opinion

I am not sure why people write columns. Partly from boredom, I suppose, or lack of anything better to do. Partly from exasperation. Yet partly from the hope that if enough people collectively become a…