November 6, 2019 | Astute News

The RCEP Train Left the Station, and India, Behind

November 6, 2019

A pan-Asia high-speed train has left the station – and India – behind. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which would have been the largest free trade deal in the world, was not s…

Russia Is Skeptical Of the US’ ‘Indo-Pacific’ Concept

November 6, 2019

Opinion

The interview that Russian Prime Minister Medevedev gave to the Bangkok Post during his recent visit to Thailand to attend the ASEAN Summit there served to remind everyone of Russia's skepticism towar…

Modi’s Assault on Kashmir and the Indian Working Class

November 6, 2019

Opinion

5 November 2019 marks exactly three months since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his henchman Home Minister Amit Shah and a cabal of senior military and intelligence officers mounted a constituti…

Debt Trap? China’s Belt and Road Is More Like a Giant Giveaway for the 3rd World

November 6, 2019

Opinion

Critics often claim that China is using its massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a form of coercive “debt-trap diplomacy” to exert control over the countries that join its transnational infrastru…

Nord Stream 2 Crosses the Danish Finish Line

November 6, 2019

Opinion

‘With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half’…Otto von Bismark, Prussian statesman Nord Stream 2 got the green flag from the Danish govern…

Down the Rabbit Hole With Donald Trump

November 6, 2019

Opinion

There can be no question about it. Donald Trump is Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts. “Off with his head!” was the president's essential suggestion for -- to offer just one example -- a certain whistleb…

Living Under the Spectre of Hyperinflation: 1923 Weimar and Today

November 6, 2019

Opinion

While world’s attention is absorbed by tectonic shifts unfolding across the Middle East, and as many Americans are brainwashed to believe the 2020 elections are driven by the need to impeach President…

For-Show Female Empowerment & Gender Fluidity are Simply the Latest Instruments of Corporate Capitalism

November 6, 2019

Opinion

Should women unashamedly wear mustaches? Should men abandon their masculinity because it’s ‘toxic’? This is all just a smoke screen capitalist overlords use to hide real issues and stay in power, phil…