September 23, 2018 | Astute News

How Modi’s Rafale Defence Deal has Left India Lagging China, Pakistan

September 23, 2018

The Indian government, rattled by a vocal opposition campaign that has charged it with financial wrongdoing and endangering national security over the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter aircraft from Frenc…

The West Against the Rest or The West Against Itself?

September 23, 2018

Opinion

What is the bigger story? The West Against the Rest or The West Against Itself? The Illiberal Quartet of Xi, Putin, Rouhani and Erdogan is in the line of fire of haughty homilies about Western “values…

America Is Quietly Expanding Its War in Tunisia

September 23, 2018

Opinion

Last month, a U.S. Africa Command spokesperson confirmed in a Task & Purpose report that Marine Corps Raiders were involved in a fierce battle in 2017 in an unnamed North African country, where th…

Putin Erdogan have Concluded a Good Deal on Idlib

September 23, 2018

Opinion

Much scepticism surrounds the fate of the city of Idlib following the deal concluded between the two presidents, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that led to the suspension of the long-awaited…

The American War in Yemen

September 23, 2018

Opinion

It’s the war from hell, the savage one that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with seven other Middle Eastern and North African states, have been waging in Yemen since March 2015, with …

Australia’s Naval Base in Papua New Guinea Is a Power Play in the South Pacific

September 23, 2018

Opinion

Australia’s plans to return to the Lombrum Naval Base on Manus that it previously occupied in Papua New Guinea prior to the island state’s independence is a power play for leadership in the South Paci…

Has Russia Given Up on the West?

September 23, 2018

Opinion

By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an "evil empire," was strolling through Red Square with Russians slapping him on the back. Bliss was it in that …

Mercenaries Leading Assault on Yemen Port City Were Trained by IDF in Israel

September 23, 2018

Opinion

A new report from the Emirati news website Al-Khaleej Online has revealed that many of the mercenaries leading the assault against the Yemeni port city of Hodeida were trained in Israel by Israeli sol…