March 20, 2018 – Astute News

March 20, 2018

The Secret Yacht Summit That Realigned the Middle East

George Nader, the Lebanese-American businessman and convicted paedophile, who is co-operating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign funding, organised a secret summit of Arab leaders on a yacht in the Red Sea in late 2015, Middle East Eye can reveal. Nader proposed to the leaders gathered on the yacht that they should set up an elite...

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March 20, 2018

Spies, Lies and War Propaganda: The Making of Another Conspiracy Theory

What is insane is how Western governments and the mainstream media (MSM) is that they can tell you that they have the proof that their enemies committed an act of war, or how they interfere in the affairs of other countries but cannot release the evidence due to national security issues or they just outright know in their gut instincts...

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March 20, 2018

Things Must Be Serious, Everyone’s Lying

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a moment of clarity once. He famously said, “When things get serious, you have to lie.” Given the state of affairs in his beloved European Union right now Mr. Juncker and company are doing a lot of lying. It is rare in politics to get that kind of honesty from a politician, especially one...

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March 20, 2018

A Curious Incident

A famous Sherlock Holmes story contains the following dialog between Holmes and Detective Gregory. Gregory: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Holmes: “That was the curious incident.” A confrontation is taking place between...

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March 20, 2018

Libya: The True Face of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’

Seven years ago today, NATO began its “humanitarian bombing” of Libya. While “humanitarian bombing” is an oxymoron, many believe that a country is not truly advancing human rights if it’s not bombing another back to the Stone Age. As an initial matter, it must be said that while the UN had authorized a NATO fly-zone over Libya to protect civilians...

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March 20, 2018

Is it Possible to Bring an End to the War in Yemen?

During last month’s Valdai forum – one of the most prestigious in Russia, involving respected experts from around the world – there was a discussion of how the Yemen crisis could be resolved. Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, took part in the forum, clearly defining Russia’s position against a military solution to the conflict in Yemen, which is simply...

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March 20, 2018

The Fog of War in America

Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs are dropped, missiles are launched, and people (generally not Americans) are killed, wounded, uprooted, and displaced. Yet here at home, there’s nothing real about those wars. Here, it’s phony war all the way. In the last 17 years of “forever war,” this nation hasn’t for one second been...

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March 20, 2018

The FSA’s Victory in Afrin Exposed Alt-Media’s Fake News about Syria

According to a wide range of Alt-Media outlets and pundits, Operation Olive Branch has been nothing but defeat followed by defeat for President Erdogan’s FSA proxy forces…until now. The FSA’s victory in Afrin exposed Alt-Media’s fake news about Syria in such a startlingly direct way that the outlets and individuals which previously peddled inaccurate narratives about Operation Olive Branch might...

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Daily Archive: March 20, 2018

The Secret Yacht Summit That Realigned the Middle East

Spies, Lies and War Propaganda: The Making of Another Conspiracy Theory

Things Must Be Serious, Everyone’s Lying

A Curious Incident

Libya: The True Face of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’

Is it Possible to Bring an End to the War in Yemen?

The Fog of War in America

The FSA’s Victory in Afrin Exposed Alt-Media’s Fake News about Syria