March 9, 2020 | Astute News

Saudi Arabia’s Oil Price War Could Very Easily Backfire

March 9, 2020

Russia's rejection of its OPEC+ partners' request to further reduce oil production in response to slumping demand prompted Saudi Arabia to unwisely initiate an oil price war over the weekend as reveng…

The Delhi Pogroms and the Case of the Disposable Indian Muslim

March 9, 2020

Opinion

They came to the hospital with gunshot wounds, stabbings, acid burns and mutilated genitalia. Homes and mosques were torched, businesses razed. Those Indian Muslims who resisted had acid thrown …

Russia Just Told the World, “No.”

March 9, 2020

Opinion

There is real power in the word “No.” In fact, I’d argue that it is the single most powerful word in any language. In the midst of the worst market meltdown in a dozen years which has at its source pr…

End Bush’s Stupid War Today!

March 9, 2020

Opinion

After 19 years of war, over $1 trillion in spending, 2,400 dead and a torrent of lies, the US may now be facing an end to its longest war. The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001. There were three reasons:…

New Putin-Erdogan Deal Is Sugar-coating the Turks’ Surrender

March 9, 2020

Opinion

This week’s meeting between Presidents Putin and Erdogan in Moscow was cast as preventing a war between Russia and Turkey in Syria. War, however, was never on the horizon. Putin called Erdogan’s bluff…

Putin Helps Erdogan Climb Down from the Tree with a Ceasefire Agreement

March 9, 2020

Opinion

President Vladimir Putin agreed to meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who came to Moscow seeking a ceasefire he could not announce unilaterally on the battlefield, where he has lost mo…

Can Australia and India Get Cooperation Against China Going?

March 9, 2020

Opinion

Only ten years ago, it would have been impossible to say that the cooperation between Australia and India was particularly active. But since then, the two countries have intensified their efforts to c…

Sugar and Spice and Everything Vice: the Empire’s Sin City of London

March 9, 2020

Opinion

The over 1000 point plunge of the stock market on Feb 27th and broader ruptures of the financial system last week have been yet another wake up call for those who have been contented so far to “live i…