October 14, 2018 | Astute News

The Russian-Pakistani $10 Billion Pipeline Will Promote Eurasian Integration

October 14, 2018

Russia and Pakistan signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) late last month to carry out a feasibility study for prospectively building a $10 billion undersea gas pipeline that Moscow hopes will ev…

International Relations: The Calm Before the Storm?

October 14, 2018

Opinion

The current situation – extending from the Russian response to the destruction of its Ilyuchin-20 to the US mid-term elections on 6 November - is uncertain. All the protagonists of the war in Syria ar…

Saudis Must Cough Up Billions to Settle Khashoggi Case

October 14, 2018

Opinion

The Khashoggi case, discussed here, will be moved off the news pages even faster than assumed. A CNN correspondent just tweeted this: https://twitter.com/MarquardtA/status/1050426836835012610 Erdogan …

The US-Led Genocide and Destruction of Yemen

October 14, 2018

Opinion

“Only God can save our children”, say Yemeni fathers and mothers as they can do nothing but watch their children die, try to comfort them in their final agonizing hours, and pray for God to spare them…

Bush & Blair’s Iraq War was Key that Opened Door to Syria’s Current Hell

October 14, 2018

Opinion

If the pain of birth is the price of life, Syria’s birth as a truly independent nation has come at the price of eight years of brutal and merciless struggle. As with the Vietnamese people, so with the…

Did US and Allies Commit War Crime by Bombing Syria on April 14th?

October 14, 2018

Opinion

INTRODUCTION Bombardment (or other military invasion) of a country that has not invaded nor threatened to invade the attacking country(s) is “aggression” under international law, and is the chief crim…

US-China War is Inevitable?

October 14, 2018

Opinion

When a US warship narrowly avoided slamming into a Chinese naval vessel earlier this month in the disputed South China Sea, the incident could serve as a metaphor. The two economic giants seem to be o…

Burkina Faso Is the New Flashpoint in France’s War on Terror

October 14, 2018

Opinion

France’s Sahel-wide “Operation Barkane” has recently been forced to pay increasing attention to the upsurge of terrorism in Burkina Faso, which is quickly turning into another flashpoint in the War on…