September 1, 2018 | Astute News

Back in the (Great) Game: The Revenge of Eurasian Land Powers

September 1, 2018

Get ready for a major geopolitical chessboard rumble: from now on, every butterfly fluttering its wings and setting off a tornado directly connects to the battle between Eurasia integration and Wester…

McCain Didn’t Die, He was “Reincarnated” in India!

September 1, 2018

Opinion

In what was either an eerie coincidence or a sign of something supernatural, a rabid right-wing Indian politician began loudly beating the drums of war against his county’s tiniest neighbors on the da…

Sources Go Quiet in Moscow

September 1, 2018

Opinion

The CIA admits that it knows nothing. A quite astonishing article recently appeared in the New York Times, astonishing even by the standards of that newspaper, which featured Judith Miller and Michael…

Grand Bargain Update: U.S. Offered to Pull Out of Syria

September 1, 2018

Opinion

According to a recent report by Joachin Flores at Fort Russ News, the U.S. offered a withdrawal plan to Bashar al-Assad of Syria with three conditions. What should be immediately obvious is that the U…

Turkey & Qatar Are Being Punished for Refusing to do Washington’s Bidding on Iran

September 1, 2018

Opinion

For years, Turkey and Qatar were at the vanguard of the Western imperial project in the Middle East. Having had their fingers burnt in Syria, however, they’re refusing to facilitate Washington’s Iran …

The Trump Administration’s Spoiler Foreign Policy

September 1, 2018

Opinion

It is not possible to speak of “Donald Trump’s foreign policy” for the simple reason one can never tell whether the president or his minders are running it. Contradictions, reversals, and turns-on-a-d…

The US Doesn’t Care about Idlib But Wants to Get Iran to the Negotiating Table

September 1, 2018

Opinion

Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz didn’t wait for the ink to dry on the deal signed by the Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami and his Syrian counterpart Ali Ay’youb “to rebuild the Syrian A…

Sure, Maybe China “Weaponizes Tourism”, But the US Weaponizes Its Own Economy

September 1, 2018

Opinion

China has allegedly “weaponized” tourism to punish the Pacific Island country of Palau for its continued political relations with Taiwan. Reuters published a report last weekend about the effects of C…