May 1, 2019 | Astute News

Don’t Pout Just Because President Putin Didn’t Meet PM Khan at the BRI Forum

May 1, 2019

Pakistan’s Express Tribune quoted some unnamed diplomatic sources in a recent report claiming that it was the “biggest setback” and a “diplomatic failure” that President Putin didn’t meet with PM Khan…

Behold the Breathtaking Weakness of the Empire!

May 1, 2019

Opinion

The Empire has suffered painful defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, but one has to admit that these are “tough” countries to crack. The Empire also appears to have lost control of Libya, but that is anot…

Guaido Rolls the Dice, a Stars & Stripes Dice, in Venezuela

May 1, 2019

Opinion

Juan Guaido and his supporters in Venezuela, among them elements of the Venezuelan military, have rolled the dice – a Stars and Stripes dice – in a desperate bid to overturn not Nicolas Maduro but dem…

Tectonic Shift in North Africa Puts Washington in Passenger’s Seat

May 1, 2019

Opinion

A massive shift in the geo-political status quo in North Africa has placed the United States in the passenger’s, not the pilot’s, seat. No longer does Washington, not even as a co-pilot with the Frenc…

Sri Lanka – Candidate for a New NATO Base?

May 1, 2019

Opinion

Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019: More than half a dozen bomb blasts shook the country killing from 250 to more than 350 people. Depending on who counts, the death toll varies. The devastation …

Blame Palestinians for Gaza – Israel Is the Perpetual Victim

May 1, 2019

Opinion

If you have read a recent New York Times op-ed entitled “Care about Gaza? Blame Hamas” written by none other than the White House “special representative for international negotiations” Jason Greenbla…

Rethink India’s Belt and Road Options

May 1, 2019

Opinion

India’s absence from the recently concluded second summit meeting of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on April 25-27 was more a topic of animated discussion in our country — that we “rejected” the C…

Russia’s “Military Diplomacy” Might Succeed in Getting Turkey to Switch Sides

May 1, 2019

Opinion

Turkish-American ties have been seriously strained over the past few years since the US started arming Syrian-based Kurdish fighters that Ankara considers to be terrorists and the Mideast country’s of…