June 20, 2017 – Astute News

June 20, 2017

The Kurds are Ethnically Cleansing Arabs from Raqqa, and the World is Silent

The global media — to their credit – are focusing on the brutality of the US-backed Raqqa campaign, though they’re avoiding any serious reporting about how and why the Kurds are ethnically cleansing Arabs from Raqqa. According to available reliable information, in early June ISIL terrorists entered into collusion with the command of the Kurdish armed units, which are part...

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June 20, 2017

World on the Precipice as Russia Threatens to Shoot Down U.S. Jets, U.S. Refuses to Back Down

The world is now perhaps closer to World War Three than it has been in five decades as the situation in Syria is heating up yet again. In less than 24 hours, the United States has attacked the Syrian military, Iran has launched missiles into Syria, Russia is threatening to shoot down American planes, and the United States is digging...

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June 20, 2017

The British and U.S. Governments Installed Khomeini into Power in 1979

“It is easier to mislead many men than one.” – Herodotus. (As quoted in F.E. Adcock’s 1963 book, ‘Thucydides And His History,’ on pg. 51. Cambridge University Press: London). “Reality is created by language. But, we don’t realize how true this is, that reality really is created by language, and that we are all imprisoned in somebody else’s language.” –...

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June 20, 2017

Russia and Islam, Connecting the Dots and Discerning the Future

Russia has often been in the news over the past years, mostly as the demonized “Empire of Mordor” responsible for all the bad things on the planet, especially Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton, the Russian intervention in Syria and, of course, the “imminent” Russian invasion of the Baltics, Poland or even all of Western Europe. I won’t even dignify all...

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June 20, 2017

The Syrian Nightmare: No End in Sight

“Washington’s strategic objectives in Iraq and Syria are not those of “fighting terrorism,” but rather consolidating US hegemony over the oil-rich Middle East and preparing for war against the principal obstacles to this objective, Iran and Russia. For US imperialism, undisputed control over both the Persian Gulf and Central Asia would provide the means to cut off energy supplies to...

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June 20, 2017

Democracy is a Front for Central Bank Rule

Several years ago when the Federal Reserve had its Fed funds rate at zero to 25 basis points (one-quarter of one percent—0.25%), there was a great deal of talk, somehow presented as urgent, whether the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates. RT asked me if the Fed was going to raise interest rates. I answered that the purpose of low...

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June 20, 2017

Israel has been Secretly Funding Syrian Rebels for Years

Earlier, when discussing why the Syrian “rebels” fighting Assad are in “turmoil”, we said that as a result of the ongoing Qatar crisis the various Saudi and Qatari supply chains supporting the rebels, both in terms of weapons and funding, had dried up due to the diplomatic fallout involving Qatar and Saudi Arabia. “Together with Turkey and the United States,...

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June 20, 2017

A Line in the Steppes: NATO Meets an Expanded SCO

While NATO leaders were congratulating themselves on the accession of petite Montenegro into the military pact, NATO’s counter-balancing force to the east was welcoming as full members India and Pakistan. While Montenegro’s flag was being raised at NATO headquarters in Brussels, the flags of the world’s most populous democracy and the third-most populous Muslim nation – India and Pakistan, respectively...

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Daily Archive: June 20, 2017

The Kurds are Ethnically Cleansing Arabs from Raqqa, and the World is Silent

World on the Precipice as Russia Threatens to Shoot Down U.S. Jets, U.S. Refuses to Back Down

The British and U.S. Governments Installed Khomeini into Power in 1979

Russia and Islam, Connecting the Dots and Discerning the Future

The Syrian Nightmare: No End in Sight

Democracy is a Front for Central Bank Rule

Israel has been Secretly Funding Syrian Rebels for Years

A Line in the Steppes: NATO Meets an Expanded SCO