October 2017 – Astute News

October 31, 2017

Lebanon Next in US War on Middle East

US politicians, policymakers and commentators insist that the United States military’s involvement in Syria and Iraq is solely aimed at defeating militants from the self-titled Islamic State (IS). However, it is abundantly clear that before the Russian intervention in Syria in 2015, the United States was engaged in a proxy war against Damascus, not IS and that as the Russian...

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October 31, 2017

US Masses Ships and Aircraft Outside North Korea

US Defence Secretary James Mattis has again warned North Korea that the United States military is ready and able to obliterate the country of 25 million people unless it abandons its nuclear arsenal. The threat, backed by an unprecedented US military build-up in North East Asia, places the region and the world on the brink of a catastrophic war. “I...

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October 31, 2017

Is Iraq Coming to the End of Forty Years of War?

There is a growing mood of self-confidence in Baghdad which I have not seen here since I first visited Iraq in 1977. The country seemed then to be heading for a peaceful and prosperous future thanks to rising oil revenues. It only became clear several years later that Saddam Hussein was a monster of cruelty with a disastrous tendency to start unwinnable...

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October 31, 2017

From America With Love – U.S. Commandos Are a “Persistent Presence” on Russia’s Doorstep

“They are very concerned about their adversary next door,” said General Raymond Thomas, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), at a national security conference in Aspen, Colorado, in July. “They make no bones about it.” The “they” in question were various Eastern European and Baltic nations. “Their adversary”? Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Thomas, the commander of America’s most elite...

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October 31, 2017

Catalonia in Limbo

Things are in unchartered waters, crisis conditions a long way from resolved. Both sides have polar opposite values. Pro-independence Catalans want their democratic rights upheld. Madrid wants them denied, forcefully if separatists resist. UK-based lecturer in politics and Spanish Caroline Gray accused pro-independence activists of living in a “parallel universe of the new republic…(t)he situation…unpredictable if Spain moves in to...

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October 31, 2017

USA Military Force Projection: Semper Paratus?

Since the inauguration of US President D. J. Trump in January 2017, along with his contingent of generals, Washington has rattled its nuclear and other military sabers in most every direction, threatening to totally destroy North Korea, ramping up weapons deliveries to Syrian opposition groups, scaling up AFRICOM military actions, sending its naval fleets in every imaginable direction from the...

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October 31, 2017

100 Years On: The Balfour Declaration Explained

This week, Palestinians around the world are marking 100 years since the Balfour Declaration was issued on November 2, 1917. The declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain publicly pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” there. The pledge is generally viewed as one of the main catalysts of...

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October 31, 2017

Defending Zionist Impunity in UK: The Case of Rabbi Zvi Solomons and Lord Greville Janner

When the British Zionist zealots figured out that their smear campaign against me had gone nowhere and Reading Festivalwas not going to surrender to their relentless pressure, they decided to mobilise. They triggered their exclusive weapon: the sleazy orthodox Rabbi Zvi Solomons, who was available since he was sacked by (and then sued) his congregation in 2016. The problematic rabbi did his...

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Monthly Archive: October, 2017

Lebanon Next in US War on Middle East

US Masses Ships and Aircraft Outside North Korea

Is Iraq Coming to the End of Forty Years of War?

From America With Love – U.S. Commandos Are a “Persistent Presence” on Russia’s Doorstep

Catalonia in Limbo

USA Military Force Projection: Semper Paratus?

100 Years On: The Balfour Declaration Explained

Defending Zionist Impunity in UK: The Case of Rabbi Zvi Solomons and Lord Greville Janner