June 2, 2017 – Astute News

June 2, 2017

Why is ISIS Attacking the Philippines?

As ISIS moves across the world, conveniently popping up wherever America wants to touch down, the fact that the terrorist organization is an American creation is becoming more and more obvious to many people. Regardless, the news that ISIS recently managed not only to conduct terror attacks in the Philippines but was able to seize and occupy an entire city...

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June 2, 2017

Goodbye Pacific Pivot, Hello Pacific Retreat: Who Will Take America’s Place in Asia?

Asia has been the future for more than a generation. When Americans try to glimpse what’s to come, images of the Pacific Rim flood the imagination. For movie audiences in 1982, the rain-soaked Los Angeles of Blade Runner looked like downtown Tokyo. By 2014, the City of Angels in the Spike Jonze film Her had more of a Shanghai vibe....

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June 2, 2017

Qatar-Saudi Spat Threatens Riyadh’s Influence. But What are the Saudis Really Worried About?

Saudi Arabia’s move to use its influence among other Muslim countries to threaten Iran appears to be backfiring as Qatar now reveals an entirely new plan, a third way for the entire region. Oops, Qatar did it again. It dared to think. Recently, this tiny energy-rich nation, a small island perched on the edge of the huge peninsula which mighty...

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June 2, 2017

Massive Bombing in Kabul as Washington Mulls Afghan Escalation

A massive bomb transported in a sewage tanker truck blew up Wednesday morning in the center of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killing at least 90 people and wounding over 400 more. The death toll is expected to rise. The suicide bombing took place near Zanbaq Square, a supposed high security zone that is a center for foreign embassies and Afghan government...

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June 2, 2017

Why is the World so Unsettled? The End of the Post-Cold War Era and the Crisis of Global Order

U.S. foreign policy is likely to be wracked by crises in the coming years. Yet crises are often symptoms of deeper structural transformations, and the fundamental fact of international politics today is that the post-Cold War era has reached its end. That period was defined by uncontested U.S. and Western primacy, a marked decline in ideological struggle and great-power conflict,...

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June 2, 2017

Funding Corruption: Why the World is ‘Better Off’ Without Western Aid and NGOs

Around the world, Western aid is failing to fulfil its stated objectives. Nowhere is this more flagrant than Haiti, where despite billions flowing in to the ravaged country, little progress has been made since the 2010 earthquake. A former UN development expert has suggested the country – and others – may well fare better without. In the immediate aftermath of the...

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June 2, 2017

Israel’s Military Indoctrination of Children

The modern roots of Zionism go back to its founding at the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland, in 1897, its programme being the “establishing for the Jewish people of a publicly and legally assured home in Eretz Yisrael”. Five decades later, this was accomplished by dispossessing indigenous Palestinians, denying them the right to their land, creating a new Jewish...

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June 2, 2017

The Bilderberg 2017 Agenda: “The Trump Administration – A Progress Report”

Every year, the world’s richest and most powerful business executives, bankers, media heads and politicians sit down in some luxurious and heavily guarded venue, and discuss how to shape the world in a way that maximizes profits for all involved, while perpetuating a status quo that has been highly beneficial for a select few, even if it means the ongoing...

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Daily Archive: June 2, 2017

Why is ISIS Attacking the Philippines?

Goodbye Pacific Pivot, Hello Pacific Retreat: Who Will Take America’s Place in Asia?

Qatar-Saudi Spat Threatens Riyadh’s Influence. But What are the Saudis Really Worried About?

Massive Bombing in Kabul as Washington Mulls Afghan Escalation

Why is the World so Unsettled? The End of the Post-Cold War Era and the Crisis of Global Order

Funding Corruption: Why the World is ‘Better Off’ Without Western Aid and NGOs

Israel’s Military Indoctrination of Children

The Bilderberg 2017 Agenda: “The Trump Administration – A Progress Report”