August 20, 2018 | Astute News

Why Pakistan Should Ditch Washington

August 20, 2018

To the despair of State Department professionals (who are very professional indeed), the art and craft of US diplomacy have taken a very nasty knock since the appearance of Donald Trump on the world s…

Turkey’s Financial Crisis Raises Questions About China’s Debt-Driven Development Model

August 20, 2018

Opinion

Financial injections by Qatar and possibly China may resolve Turkey’s immediate economic crisis, aggravated by a politics-driven trade war with the United States, but are unlikely to resolve the count…

Afghan “Viceroy”? Trump Mulling Blackwater Founder Erik Prince’s Plan to Privatize Longest War

August 20, 2018

Opinion

Alexander the Great couldn't do it. Genghis Khan couldn't do it. Neither could the British Empire nor NATO and the US military machine. But Erik Prince thinks he can stabilize Afghanistan with his lat…

Saudi Arabia: Wherever One Looks, Failure Abounds

August 20, 2018

Opinion

A Saudi Arabian youth organization posted an image in its Twitter feed depicting a plane approaching the CN Tower (the tallest building in the world erected in Toronto, and the city’s symbol, whose he…

Trump Just Triggered a New Financial Crisis. Here’s Why

August 20, 2018

Opinion

Trump’s attack on the Turkish lira, combined with recent Federal Reserve moves to choke off dollar supply, is pushing the world towards a re-run of the 1997 currency crisis. This may well be the whole…

Dodik’s Support of Vucic’s Kosovo Partition Plan Is Self-Interested

August 20, 2018

Opinion

The President of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska recently signaled his support for Vucic’s plan to partition Kosovo, but while he may try to clothe his arguments in pragmatism, Dodik is really only concerne…

The Discarded Wisdom of America’s Founders

August 20, 2018

Opinion

A good example of the discarded wisdom of America’s Founders is George Washington’s Farewell Address to the nation, delivered by him not orally but instead solely in printed form, published in Philade…

Jews, Logic and Corbyn

August 20, 2018

Opinion

According to the Transitive Axiom if A=B and B=C then A = C (If any two items are equal to the same third item then the two are equal to each other). I mention the Transitive Axiom because it is a str…