April 25, 2019 – Astute News

April 25, 2019

US Sanctions Got India to Ditch Iran, Will They Get It to Ditch Russia Too?

The announcement by India’s Oil Minister that his country will replace US-sanctioned Iranian oil imports with those from “major oil-producing countries” despite the dramatic Bollywood show that New Delhi has made up until this point out of “defying” US sanctions makes one seriously wonder whether India’s preparing to ditch Russia next if the US imposes CAATSA sanctions against it over...

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April 25, 2019

A Summer of Confrontation Looms in the South China Sea

Freedom of Navigation is most important, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down that “The high seas are open to all States, whether coastal or land-locked. Freedom of the high seas is exercised under the conditions laid down by this Convention and by other rules of international law.” The generally accepted definition of freedom of navigation is “the...

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April 25, 2019

After ISIS, a Divided Iraq, Wounded and Grief-Stricken

The moment the 54-year-old walks up to the car, it is obvious something is terribly wrong. The way he drags his feet, then stamps them on the ground and marches forward like a toy soldier, head lowered; then the way he looks up at you from beneath dark brows, in both greeting and concern. Taamy Wahab Mohamed al-Yasaari should have returned from the Isis...

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April 25, 2019

Is the Tartus Port Deal a Strategic Trap for Syria?

Russia will be in a prime position to control the bulk of Syria’s international trade and consequently keep an eye on Iran’s maritime exports to the Arab Republic once it obtains control of Tartus port, with it being very likely that Moscow will also exploit this ultra-strategic advantage for political ends as it seeks to advance its own national interests...

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April 25, 2019

NATO at 70: Retirement or Renaissance?

US Vice President Mike Pence has recently referred to NATO as, “the most successful military alliance in the history of the world.” Of course, “success” needs to be defined, especially when casual observers note the trail of death and destruction left in NATO’s wake from Eastern Europe to North Africa to the Middle East to Central Asia over the last several decades....

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April 25, 2019

The Conspiracy Against Trump

The real “deplorable” in today’s United States is the continuation of a foreign policy based on endless aggression to maintain Washington’s military dominance in parts of the world where Americans have no conceivable interest. Many voters backed Donald J. Trump because he committed himself to changing all that, but, unfortunately, he has reneged on his promise, instead heightening tension with...

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April 25, 2019

Combatting Anti-Semitism: Washington Goes to War for World Jewry

One of the most extraordinary displays of Jewish power in the United States took place in the State Department press briefing room on April 11th though it went virtually unreported in the mainstream media. It involved the introduction to the media of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan S. Carr, who had been sworn in earlier that day by...

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April 25, 2019

Pan-Africanism and the Trade Unions in the Post-Colonial Era

Western imperialism was built off of the exploitation of African land and labor from the mid-to-late 15th century through the conclusion of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the consolidation of classical colonialism at the end of the 1800s. Leading African historical scholars have documented the link between the tremendous profits accrued through the plantation system in the Caribbean, South America, Central...

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Daily Archive: April 25, 2019

US Sanctions Got India to Ditch Iran, Will They Get It to Ditch Russia Too?

A Summer of Confrontation Looms in the South China Sea

After ISIS, a Divided Iraq, Wounded and Grief-Stricken

Is the Tartus Port Deal a Strategic Trap for Syria?

NATO at 70: Retirement or Renaissance?

The Conspiracy Against Trump

Combatting Anti-Semitism: Washington Goes to War for World Jewry

Pan-Africanism and the Trade Unions in the Post-Colonial Era