November 8, 2018 | Astute News

Pakistan in the Middle of Saudi, Iran and Rival Pipeline Plans

November 8, 2018

A tweet roared like announcing a blockbuster premiere and sanctions did engulf Iran on time – despite opposition from Russia, China and the EU-3 (France, Germany and the United Kingdom), who still sup…

Russia Financial Advisory Assistance to Venezuela Is “Regime Reinforcement”

November 8, 2018

Opinion

Russia dispatched financial advisors to Venezuela upon Caracas’ request. The Russian team landed in the country’s capital a day after a Chinese delegation, making some wonder whether the two Great Pow…

Ukraine-Russia Tensions Rise in Church Row

November 8, 2018

Opinion

The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, an authority completely outside Ukraine, on Oct. 11 stripped away the canonical authority of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church—Mosc…

Trump Goes to Paris: Will He Make Peace with Putin & Erdogan?

November 8, 2018

Opinion

Trump and over 60 other world leaders will be in Paris over the weekend to attend an event commemorating the end of World War I a century ago, during which time the American leader is expected to have…

The Troika of Tyranny: The Imperialist Project in Latin America and Its Epigones

November 8, 2018

Opinion

Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are today threatened by US imperialism. The first salvo of the modern Age of Imperialism started back in 1898 when the US seized Cuba along with Puerto Rico and the Phil…

With Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Israel Finds Another Natural Partner on the Far-right

November 8, 2018

Opinion

The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election last week has won Israel a passionate new friend on the international stage. The world’s fifth-most populous nation will now be “coloure…

Filming in the Most Depressing City on Earth – Jakarta

November 8, 2018

Opinion

It stinks, it is the most polluted city on earth, but that is not the most terrible thing about it. You can drive for ten or even twenty kilometers through it, and see only ugliness, fences and broken…

The Immaturity of American Concepts

November 8, 2018

Opinion

One imagines… from outside of America at least…that the political system there, robust one year, retro the next, is on its way to drowning in a sea of vitriolic comeuppance. Half the population think …