May 22, 2017 – Astute News

May 22, 2017

Trump Puts US on Sunni Muslim Side of Bitter Sectarian War with Shias

It was crude stuff. President Trump called on 55 Muslim leaders assembled in Riyadh to drive out terrorism from their countries. He identified Iran as a despotic state and came near to calling for regime change, though Iran held a presidential election generally regarded as fair only two days previously. He denounced Hezbollah and lined up the US squarely on...

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May 22, 2017

The Macedonian Crisis Isn’t Over, and a Bigger Balkan One is Just Beginning

The US didn’t resolve Macedonia’s crisis, it made it much worse, and the fate of the Balkans is now in jeopardy because of the latest American-brokered “deal”. Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Yee visited Skopje a few weeks ago and successfully “convinced” Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov to give pro-American SDSM opposition leader Zoran Zaev the mandate to form a...

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May 22, 2017

US Strike on Syrian Forces: The Scramble for Post-Islamic State Syria

The recent strike on a Syrian military convoy within Syrian territory by US military forces represents another incremental escalation by Washington within the region, and another example of American unilateral military aggression worldwide. The tactical scope of the attack was relatively limited, but strategically, the stakes particularly along Syria’s territorial boundaries have been raised significantly. Regarding the attack, US geopolitical...

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May 22, 2017

Trump’s Riyadh Speech: Bowing to the Saudi Regime

The bar for Donald Trump’s speech in Riyadh had been set so low that it was scraping the sand. How much could be expected from a notorious exploiter of Islamophobia speaking to a gathering of leaders of majority Muslim countries? Getting through the experience without causing major new damage should perhaps be considered a success. Perhaps Trump and his speechwriters...

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May 22, 2017

Israel Lobby Pays the Political Piper

In this age of rancorous hyper-partisanship, getting members of Congress to agree on anything beyond the naming of a post office is a challenge. Yet in late April, all 100 members of the U.S. Senate signed a tough letter to the U.N. Secretary General, demanding that the organization end its “unwarranted attacks” on Israel’s human rights record. Three months earlier,...

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May 22, 2017

Sorry, Time, But Putin Doesn’t Work in a Cathedral

Russians have long been dismayed at how foreign media characterizes their homeland. This week’s Time cover gaffe, in which the magazine mistakes a cathedral for the Kremlin, is the latest addition to a collection of confusion. One of the primary reasons for the creation of RT almost twelve years ago was Russian exasperation at the dreadful Western press coverage of...

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May 22, 2017

Khomeini’s Iran: Israel’s Ally

“How can we tolerate the disgrace of having our Islamic country turned into a base for Israel and Zionism?. . . Israel wants to take our economy in its clutches. Israel wants to destroy our trade and agriculture. Israel wants to destroy that which stands between them and domination. This buffer is formed by the ulama who have to be...

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May 22, 2017

Is Misogyny a Cure for Woman Worship ?

“One need only look at a woman’s shape to discover that she is not intended for either too much mental or too much physical work. She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers–by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a...

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Daily Archive: May 22, 2017

Trump Puts US on Sunni Muslim Side of Bitter Sectarian War with Shias

The Macedonian Crisis Isn’t Over, and a Bigger Balkan One is Just Beginning

US Strike on Syrian Forces: The Scramble for Post-Islamic State Syria

Trump’s Riyadh Speech: Bowing to the Saudi Regime

Israel Lobby Pays the Political Piper

Sorry, Time, But Putin Doesn’t Work in a Cathedral

Khomeini’s Iran: Israel’s Ally

Is Misogyny a Cure for Woman Worship ?