September 16, 2019 | Astute News

Damage at Saudi Oil Plant Points to Well Targeted Swarm Attack

September 16, 2019

Saturday's attack on the Saudi oil and gas processing station in Abqaiq hit its stabilization facility: The stabilization process is a form of partial distillation which sweetens "sour" crude oil (rem…

Oiling for War: The Houthi Attack on Abqaiq

September 16, 2019

Opinion

The attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia southwest of Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran had a few predictable responses. Given that the facility has a daily o…

The Strange Case of the Burning Saudi Refineries

September 16, 2019

Opinion

The September 2019 attack that cut Saudi Arabia’s oil production by up to 60% and has thrown the world into chaos was not a surprise. The claim by US Secretary of State that “Iran did it” is no surpri…

Russia’s “Multilateral Strategic Stability” Proposal Could Bring “Balance” to South Asia

September 16, 2019

Opinion

Russian media reported that the “multilateral strategic stability” proposal by some of the country’s leading experts to actively prevent a military confrontation between nuclear powers runs counter to…

Hong Kong and the Future of China

September 16, 2019

Opinion

Something didn’t quite add up. This past weekend, protestors were rallying outside the American embassy in Hong Kong. They were waving American flags. They were singing The Star-Spangled Banner. One 2…

The Pompeo Doctrine : How to Seize the Arctic’s Resources

September 16, 2019

Opinion

Donald Trump got the headlines as usual -- but don’t be fooled. It wasn't Trumpism in action this August, but what we should all now start referring to as the Pompeo Doctrine. Yes, I’m referring to Se…

Binyamin Netanyahu’s World War

September 16, 2019

Opinion

On 10 September Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu claimed he’d identified a third secret nuclear site in Iran where Iran allegedly “conducted experiments to develop nuclear weap…

The Devolution of US-Russia Relations

September 16, 2019

Opinion

In 2014, we saw violent U.S.-supported regime change and civil war in Ukraine. In February, after months of increasing tension from the anti-Russian protest movement’s sitdown strike in Kiev’s Maidan …