October 9, 2018 | Astute News

It Is Friendship With Russia, Not China, That Will Allow Pakistan to Cut the Cord With the US

October 9, 2018

With Afghanistan and Pakistan as the staging grounds, politics in South and Central Asia appears to be coming full circle with the making and breaking of alliances involving major regional and interna…

Here’s Why India Might Secure an Anti-Iranian Sanctions Waiver from the US

October 9, 2018

Opinion

The US doesn’t want to do anything that could risk Narendra Modi’s reelection next year such as inadvertently contributing to the explosive growth of petrol prices in his country, so it’s possible tha…

What’s Really Going On Behind the “Secret” Saudi-Russia Oil Deal

October 9, 2018

Opinion

On Wednesday,Reuters reported the details of a private and “secret” deal reached between Russia and Saudi Arabia, a deal that was aimed at increasing oil output in order to offset the coming shock to …

US-Saudi Split Looming?

October 9, 2018

Opinion

The macabre case of a missing Saudi journalist is prompting speculation within the US political establishment about a historic parting of ways between Washington and Saudi Arabia. It’s not clear yet w…

Pakistan After the US — Indian 2+2 Talks

October 9, 2018

Opinion

The US — Indian negotiations held in New Delhi on September 6 this year with the participation of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Defence (in the so-called 2+2 format) represent one of the most …

Syria: The New Terra Nullius

October 9, 2018

Opinion

SYRIA, seat of an Islamic Caliphate. Syria, site of the Middle East’s newest liberal democracy. Syria, socialist paradise. Syria, a corrupt and murderous dictatorship that practices genocide. Syria, a…

Is China Turning Trump’s Oil Weapon Against Him?

October 9, 2018

Opinion

Usually when referring to the so-called oil weapon, analysts are talking about the decades old policy of major oil producing nations withholding production to tighten supplies and drive prices up, oft…

Faked Concern: Haley & Corporate Media Bleating about Idlib Civilians, Ignore Terrorists’ Presence

October 9, 2018

Opinion

Nikki Haley, the hypocritical US Ambassador to the UN, mistakenly thinks she can dictate – from New York City, far from the terrorists which her country supports – that the Syrian army cannot fight an…