October 6, 2020 | Astute News

What’s at Stake in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Chessboard

October 6, 2020

Few geopolitical hot spots across the planet may rival the Caucasus: that intractable, tribal Tower of Babel, throughout History a contentious crossroads of empires from the Levant and nomads from the…

Russian Strategic Calculations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis

October 6, 2020

Opinion

OneWorld is publishing the original English-language version of Andrew Korybko's analysis on the titular topic that was first released in Russian at the Moscow-Baku information portal. The latest Nago…

Why Nagorno-Karabakh and Why Now?

October 6, 2020

Opinion

Several months ago, I wrote that things had been tense on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone since the collapse of the USSR, but only now are we hearing of a resumption of active hostilities, the depl…

Trump’s License to Violence

October 6, 2020

Opinion

The most remarkable moment in the 90-minute US presidential debate was President Trump’s refusal to outright condemn white supremacist groups. Indeed, he went further by referring to one such group by…

Lebanon Crisis: The Long Arm of French Neocolonialism Is Back

October 6, 2020

Opinion

Lebanese politicians are scrambling at home and security chiefs are conferring abroad to form a new government in line with French-set deadlines. The new government is expected to embody a new politic…

Why Is the British Press Sexing Up Stories on Hezbollah, Iran and China?

October 6, 2020

Opinion

The British press seem to be doing a rancorous business of late of fabricating stories about Iran, Hezbollah and China. It’s almost as though these subjects are fair game for the old newsroom saying, …

The Comparisons Between Lebanon’s Civil War and America’s Situation Now Are a Step Too Far

October 6, 2020

Opinion

Time was in the 1990s, even after 2000, that any country in danger of political chaos or “implosion” – a word I still instinctively loath, along with “epicentre” – was in danger of being “Lebanised”. …

Doubt is a Treacherous Path. We Must Avoid Being Diverted Towards Terminal Cynicism

October 6, 2020

Opinion

What I think of as the cynical left are once again berating the progressive critical left, myself included, for failing to write what they want written about Covid-19. I take this as a kind of uninten…