September 30, 2019 | Astute News

Kashmir Annexation: Pakistan Just Warned the World About the 21st Century’s Munich Moment

September 30, 2019 Opinion

Pakistani Prime Minister Khan warned the world that India’s annexation of Kashmir is akin to Nazi Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland and might even lead to a nuclear war if New Delhi proceeds to …

China’s BRI-plomacy Can Facilitate a Rapprochement Between Myanmar & Bangladesh

September 30, 2019 Opinion

China's active diplomatic efforts in trying to resolve the "Rohingya" issue can facilitate a rapprochement between Myanmar and Bangladesh that strengthens their trilateral cooperation through the Belt…

Saudi Policy Shift: A Rare Trump Foreign Policy Success

September 30, 2019 Opinion

By the law of unintended consequences, US President Donald J. Trump’s mix of uncritical and cynical embrace of Saudi Arabia and transactional approach towards relations with the kingdom may be produci…

US Military Officials Who Knew Saudi Arabia Would Fail

September 30, 2019 Opinion

While it’s seems axiomatic that most Americans suffer from historical amnesia, that’s not necessarily true for the U.S. military. And as America and Iran were sprinting towards a military confrontatio…

Trump Frees Himself from Bolton – but Robert O’Brien Will Be Just as Bad

September 30, 2019 Opinion

After months of rumors, John Bolton was finally fired from the White House but the post mortem on why it took so long to remove him continues, with the punditry and media trying to understand exactly …

Why Is Iceland the Focus of Washington’s New Trade Strategy?

September 30, 2019 Opinion

Less than a month after his failed attempt to buy Greenland, Trump is now shifting attention to another Nordic nation—Iceland—but rather than offering to acquire the country, the U.S. administrat…

Netflix and Israel: A Special Relationship

September 30, 2019 Opinion

Back in 2016, the Israeli embassy in the United States tweeted with regard to Netflix’s global expansion: “For the 5+/- days a year the weather’s not good… @Netflix, now in Israel!” What fortune, inde…

Here’s How We Are Silenced By Big Tech

September 30, 2019 Opinion

This is how they silence us: your content has been secretly flagged as being "unsafe," i.e. "guilty of anti-Soviet thoughts;" poof, you're gone. Big Tech claims it isn't silencing skeptics, dissenters…