July 20, 2017 – Astute News

July 20, 2017

America’s Invasion of Syria

The US government has invaded and occupies Syria, supporting the ‘rebels’ (tens of thousands of imported foreign jihadists there) against the nation’s secular government, and the only two US Senators who are at all disturbed that the US has violated both US law and international law by having our soldiers and weapons in Syria are the two libertarians, Rand Paul and Mike Lee....

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July 20, 2017

Chinese Army Mobilizes Military Assets to Tibet Following Live Fire Drills

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) mobilized thousands of ground vehicles and other military equipment as the standoff between Chinese and Indian troops near the disputed area of Sikkim continues, according to a report from the PLA Daily. PLA Daily is widely considered the main outlet the Chinese army uses for external communications, LiveMint notes. The report did not specify the...

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July 20, 2017

Mic Blunder: Netanyahu ‘Admits Israel Carried Out Dozens of Strikes on Hezbollah Convoys’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that Israel carried out dozens of attacks against Hezbollah arms convoys in Syria, oblivious to the fact that his remarks were being picked up by a live mic and relayed to reporters, Haaretz reported. “We blocked the border not only in Egypt but in the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu reportedly said during a closed...

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July 20, 2017

The US Empire, the CIA, and the NGOs

The CIA recruited the Muslim Brotherhood to fight a proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, which led to the withdrawal of the Soviets from the Hindu Kush. Since then, the CIA used the mercenaries to fight more proxy wars in the Balkans, Chechnya, and Azerbaijan. Due to the wars of aggression against Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen the...

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July 20, 2017

Damascus Behind the Kremlin Wall

The central event of the G20 summit in Hamburg was the meeting between Putin and Trump. The Russian and American presidents, among other things, agreed on the situation in southwest Syria. The heads of the Russian Federation and the USA did not discuss the crisis in the Persian Gulf after the Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and their allies’ ultimatum...

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July 20, 2017

US-Iran Sanctions are a Tit-For-Tat Measure That is Part of a Wider Geo-Strategic Reality

Iran calls the US a terrorist sponsoring state and the US strikes back with sanctions. The United States has just levelled new sanctions on Iran. The stated justification for the sanctions is Iran’s procurement of “military hardware, such as fast attack boats and unmanned aerial vehicles”. But while the US admits that Iran has not breached any part of the...

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July 20, 2017

The Crossed Wires of the “Syrian Revolution”

Given impetus after the September 11th attacks in New York in 2001, the technology of “colour revolutions” as an element of fourth generation warfare has become the primary method of hijacking the functions of a foreign sovereign State. This is partially due it being both economically cheaper and less risky than a military incursion, but also due to the truncated way...

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July 20, 2017

It Took Obama More Than Two Years to Kill This Many Civilians. It Took Trump Less Than Six Months.

A new investigation shows that President Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against ISIS (the Islamic State) over several months has already led to nearly as many civilian deaths as those overseen by the Obama White House over several years. According to an Airwars investigation conducted for The Daily Beast, at least 2,300 civilians were killed by coalition strikes from 2015 until...

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Daily Archive: July 20, 2017

America’s Invasion of Syria

Chinese Army Mobilizes Military Assets to Tibet Following Live Fire Drills

Mic Blunder: Netanyahu ‘Admits Israel Carried Out Dozens of Strikes on Hezbollah Convoys’

The US Empire, the CIA, and the NGOs

Damascus Behind the Kremlin Wall

US-Iran Sanctions are a Tit-For-Tat Measure That is Part of a Wider Geo-Strategic Reality

The Crossed Wires of the “Syrian Revolution”

It Took Obama More Than Two Years to Kill This Many Civilians. It Took Trump Less Than Six Months.