May 6, 2018 – Astute News

May 6, 2018

The Warmakers

Between the US strikes on Syria in April and the recent developments on the Korean Peninsula, we are in somewhat of a lull in the Empire’s search for a new war to start. The always helpful Israelis, in the person of the ineffable Bibi Netanyahu, are now beating the drums for, well, if not a war, then at least some...

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May 6, 2018

Hail, (Donald) Caesar!

It may be too late. The president of the United States is now a veritable autocrat in the realm of foreign policy. He has been since at least 1945, when the last congressionally declared war finally ended. Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen (among other places) were all waged via executive fiat or...

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May 6, 2018

China’s Aircraft Carriers Will Give It Multiple Floating Bases in Africa

Experts have been arguing for years about what China has in mind by acquiring aircraft carriers, but instead of using them to confront the US’ Indian ally, it’s much more likely that the People’s Republic will rely on them as floating bases for providing “Lead From Behind” assistance to its African partners as they confront anti-Silk Road Hybrid War threats...

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May 6, 2018

Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need to Be Propagandized for Our Own Good

I sometimes try to get establishment loyalists to explain to me exactly why we’re all meant to be terrified of this “Russian propaganda” thing they keep carrying on about. What is the threat, specifically? That it makes the public less willing to go to war with Russia and its allies? That it makes us less trusting of lying, torturing, coup-staging...

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May 6, 2018

Israel’s Racist Nation-State: Codifying Apartheid into Basic Law

A nation affording rights to its favored people over others is profoundly hostile to democratic values – what apartheid is all about. Arabs aren’t welcome or wanted in Israel except as servants to Jews. Israeli laws and customs discriminate against them – hostility toward Arabs in the Occupied Territories extreme. “Israel’s regime of occupation is inextricably bound up in human...

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May 6, 2018

Reality Check: Who’s Funding the White Helmets?

As the U.S. moves closer toward all out war in Syria, a lot of what our government seems to base its intelligence on, especially claims of chemical weapon use by they Syrian government, is an impartial humanitarian group called the White Helmets. You’ve no doubt, heard of the White Helmets. They have been praised in the media as heroes and...

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May 6, 2018

Pashinyan’s Self-Imposed Blockade is Economic Suicide for Armenia

“Opposition” leader Nikol Pashinyan’s call for a so-called “general strike” after parliament rejected his bid for Prime Minister has led to the self-imposed blockade of Armenia after “protesters” shut down the only highways connecting the landlocked country with the outside world, bringing this failing South Caucasian state closer to economic suicide and the resultant military-political turmoil that it entails, including...

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May 6, 2018

Boy Skirts of America: Century-Old Youth Club Caves to PC Police

The oldest youth group in the US has undergone a ‘sex-change’ operation of sorts by declaring itself a ‘gender neutral’ outfit. Such a move does a considerable disservice to both American men and women. Founded in 1910 by the American media magnate and explorer William D. Boyce, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) provided a rite of passage to adulthood...

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Daily Archive: May 6, 2018

The Warmakers

Hail, (Donald) Caesar!

China’s Aircraft Carriers Will Give It Multiple Floating Bases in Africa

Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need to Be Propagandized for Our Own Good

Israel’s Racist Nation-State: Codifying Apartheid into Basic Law

Reality Check: Who’s Funding the White Helmets?

Pashinyan’s Self-Imposed Blockade is Economic Suicide for Armenia

Boy Skirts of America: Century-Old Youth Club Caves to PC Police