March 23, 2018 – Astute News

March 23, 2018

Saudi Fragility, and Why MbS is No Ataturk

One of the more intriguing news reports about the rapid rise to power of the 32-year-old Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), concerns how he isolated his mother, placing her under house arrest for a time. He kept her away from his father, the mentally declining King Salman, and devised phony explanations to the king as to why she...

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March 23, 2018

A Nasty US-China Fight is Inevitable. But It Needn’t be Terminal

Since late February, three nor’easter storms in two weeks have pummelled the northeastern United States while the cold spell known as “the Beast from the East” froze much of Europe, dumping heavy snow and causing massive disruption and chaos. Following in their wake is likely to be a geopolitical storm of equally large proportions – one that will slam into...

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March 23, 2018

Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner was “In His Pocket”

Until he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance in February, presidential adviser Jared Kushner was known around the White House as one of the most voracious readers of the President’s Daily Brief, a highly classified rundown of the latest intelligence intended only for the president and his closest advisers. Kushner, who had been tasked with bringing about a deal...

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March 23, 2018

Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts Walking-Dead King Sarko

NATO’s 2011 war on Libya was unanimously sold across the West as a necessary humanitarian operation against the proverbial evil dictator (Hillary Clinton: “We came, we saw, he died.”). Russia and China were firmly against it. Now, in a stunning historical reversal, the ghost of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi seems to have come back to haunt former French President Nicolas Sarkozy,...

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March 23, 2018

Hawks Resurgent in Washington

One of the most discouraging aspects of the musical chairs being played among the members of the White House inner circle is that every change reflects an inexorable move to the right in foreign policy, which means that the interventionists are back without anyone at the White House level remaining to say “no.” President Donald Trump, for all his international...

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March 23, 2018

Has Russia Had Enough?

This morning I watched a briefing the Russian Foreign Ministry provided for the diplomatic community where international toxic substances experts presented information concerning the alleged nerve agent used in the alleged attack on Skripal and his daughter. This information has been known for some time, and none of it has been reported in the Western presstitute media. In the briefing...

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March 23, 2018

Civil Insurrection: A Modest Proposal for Ending the United States

I see that a man named Sessions, apparently Washington’s Attorney General, threatens to unleash the coercive powers of the federal government against the state of Colorado, his reason being that he does not like the state’s policy with regard to marijuana. This is most curious. Why he believes the policies of Colorado to be his concern is not clear. Equally...

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March 23, 2018

5 Things That Ethiopia and Myanmar’s Leadership Changes Have in Common

An ordinary person might not think that Ethiopia and Myanmar have anything in common, but an analysis of their latest leadership changes shows that these two Chinese Silk Road partners actually share five structural vulnerabilities with one another, and identifying these points of pressure could reveal some crucial insight about the US’ latest Hybrid War plans in the New Cold...

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Daily Archive: March 23, 2018

Saudi Fragility, and Why MbS is No Ataturk

A Nasty US-China Fight is Inevitable. But It Needn’t be Terminal

Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner was “In His Pocket”

Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts Walking-Dead King Sarko

Hawks Resurgent in Washington

Has Russia Had Enough?

Civil Insurrection: A Modest Proposal for Ending the United States

5 Things That Ethiopia and Myanmar’s Leadership Changes Have in Common