May 23, 2018 – Astute News

May 23, 2018

Russia Is in the Middle East to Halt the War, Not Take Part in the Iran-Israel Conflict

Frequent misconceptions surround the Russian role in the Middle East, and particularly its role in Syria. Many Syrians claim to see Russia attacking Israel or delivering to the Syrian government all its advanced weapons, technology and modern jets so these can be used against Israel’s continuous violation of its air space and invasion of its sovereignty. Actually, Syrians would like...

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May 23, 2018

Trump-Pompeo’s Twelve “Idiotic-Insulting” Demands Upon Iran

On Monday, May 21st, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out a dozen demands upon Iran’s Government — demands which insult the sovereignty of Iran and dictate terms to its Government, as if the U.S. Government weren’t the one that routinely invades and perpetrates coups overthrowing other governments, so that the peoples of the world say that the U.S....

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May 23, 2018

Middle East in Washington’s Iron Grasp

Mike Pompeo’s inspection – visit to the Middle East, as events demonstrate, became a trigger of sorts to an abrupt turn for the worse in this turbulent region. Saudi Arabia, the biggest customer of the US defense industry, became the first Arabic country that the Secretary of State visited. It is estimated that three more sets of military hardware are...

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May 23, 2018

Trumpism Folds into Netanyahu-ism, or ‘Neo-Americanism’

The 8 May US Presidential declaration (on exiting JCPOA) requires of us fundamentally to revise our understanding of Trumpism. At the outset to his term of office, Trumpism was widely understood to be based on three key pillars: That the costs incurred by the US in upholding the full panoply of Empire (i.e. policing the American, rules-based, global order) were...

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May 23, 2018

France Wants the Future to be Eurasia vs. Eurafrica

A former French Prime Minister unveiled a detailed and very ambitious plan to form a Eurafrican Axis in the New Cold War as a means of “balancing” between East and West, but what he’s really calling for is a policy of ‘controlled’ ‘replacement migration’ coupled with refined neo-imperial political and economic models for making France the ‘missing’ African hegemon. Dominique...

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May 23, 2018

The Baltic States Ask the US for a Bigger Military Presence on Their Soil

The foreign ministers (FMs) of the Baltic states have wound up their May 16-18 visit to Washington. They asked National Security Adviser John Bolton to reinforce the NATO battalions that have been deployed to their countries with air and naval units. They also want their air-defense capability enhanced. Lithuanian FM Linas Linkevicius emphasized that it’s not just the numbers that are important,...

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May 23, 2018

Mahathir Will Continue Malaysia’s Multipolar Course

Former long-time Prime Minister and nonagenarian Mahathir bin Mohamad returned to office after incumbent Najib Razak suffered a humiliating loss that many analysts attribute to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB corruption scandal that he’s implicated in. A whistleblower leaked incriminating documents about this scam a couple of years ago that have since been used as the basis for the US Department of...

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May 23, 2018

China’s Only Danger: A ‘Generation X’ Who Believes They Aren’t Communist

When you have a world war, there is no question: We are all living in a postwar world. However, not all subsequent generations have been shaped the same. In debunking the standard view of the Cultural Revolution in this series – and also showing that, when it came to politics and non-musical revolutions, John Lennon was the status-quo company man...

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Daily Archive: May 23, 2018

Russia Is in the Middle East to Halt the War, Not Take Part in the Iran-Israel Conflict

Trump-Pompeo’s Twelve “Idiotic-Insulting” Demands Upon Iran

Middle East in Washington’s Iron Grasp

Trumpism Folds into Netanyahu-ism, or ‘Neo-Americanism’

France Wants the Future to be Eurasia vs. Eurafrica

The Baltic States Ask the US for a Bigger Military Presence on Their Soil

Mahathir Will Continue Malaysia’s Multipolar Course

China’s Only Danger: A ‘Generation X’ Who Believes They Aren’t Communist