December 6, 2016 – Astute News

December 6, 2016

The Rules of the (Trump) Game

Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis, chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be the new head of the Pentagon, is a model functionary of the Empire of Chaos. His call sign is – what else – “chaos”. The Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) even shared his regular accolade; “Saint Mattis of Quantico, Patron Saint of Chaos”. The Saint in his...

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December 6, 2016

Now in Bangladesh, Rohingya Muslims Describe Rape, Murder in Myanmar

The Myanmar soldiers came in the morning, the young mother says. They set fire to the concrete-and-thatch homes, forcing the villagers to cluster together. When some of her neighbors tried to escape into the fields, they were shot. After that, she says, most people stopped running away. “They drove us out of our houses, men and women in separate lines,...

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December 6, 2016

China Expands its Presence in Europe

The development of Sino-European relations has emerged as one of central issues boggling the minds of the key players involved in a new global political game. The magnitude of the issue renders it worthy to be discussed whenever a new trend develops or an important event occurs. One of such milestone events is an assessment of the Chinese economy by...

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December 6, 2016

The West vs Russia: Towards the End of Pax Americana?

A peaceful dissolution of the USSR according to the agreement between Mikhail Gorbachow and Ronald Reagan in 1988 in Reykjavik brought a new dimension of a global geopolitics in which up to 2008 Russia, as a legal successor state of the USSR, was playing an inferior role in global politics when an American Neocon concept of Pax Americana became the fundamental framework...

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December 6, 2016

Syrian War Report – December 6, 2016: Militant Counter-Attack Fails in Aleppo

Two Russian medical specialists were killed and another injured as result of militant shelling of a Russian mobile military hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo on December 5. The hospital was shelled during between 12:21 and 12:30pm [local time] during the reception time. An unknown number of local residents attending medical appointments were also injured. “It is beyond doubt...

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December 6, 2016

The US Navy is Spending Money like a Drunken Sailor

The world’s mightiest navy is at risk of being sunk — not by a superior enemy, but by its own inability to acquire ships that work at a price that even the richest military on the planet can afford. The U.S. Navy today has only 272 deployable warships — a decline of more than 50 percent in just the last three decades — of...

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December 6, 2016

Indian Air Force to Train Vietnamese Pilots to Fly Sukhoi Su-30 Jets

Vietnamese pilots will be trained by Indian Air Force instructors in Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets amid bilateral efforts to boost defense ties, Indian media report. Su-30s, in similar versions, form the key part of both countries’ airpower. An agreement to train Vietnam Air Force pilots in India was reached at a meeting between Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar and...

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December 6, 2016

The True History of Chemotherapy & the Pharmaceutical Monopoly

In 2016, approximately 1,685,210 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States alone, and approximately 600,000 people will die from the disease. The number of new cancer cases is 454.8 per 100,000 men and women per year, based on cases from 2008-2010. Men have almost a 50 percent chance of contracting the disease at some point within their...

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Daily Archive: December 6, 2016

The Rules of the (Trump) Game

Now in Bangladesh, Rohingya Muslims Describe Rape, Murder in Myanmar

China Expands its Presence in Europe

The West vs Russia: Towards the End of Pax Americana?

Syrian War Report – December 6, 2016: Militant Counter-Attack Fails in Aleppo

The US Navy is Spending Money like a Drunken Sailor

Indian Air Force to Train Vietnamese Pilots to Fly Sukhoi Su-30 Jets

The True History of Chemotherapy & the Pharmaceutical Monopoly