July 4, 2018 – Astute News

July 4, 2018

Saudi Religious Diplomacy Targets Jerusalem

A United Arab Emirates-backed Saudi effort to wrest control from Jordan of Islam’s holy places in Jerusalem signals a sharper, more overt edge to Saudi religious diplomacy and the kingdom’s quest for regional hegemony that risks deepening divides in the Muslim world. The effort also serves to support Donald J. Trump’s plan for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that...

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July 4, 2018

Feeding the Monster: Washington’s Spinelessness Enables Israeli Brutality

I have just spent a couple of days in New York City. Returning to Virginia on Wednesday morning, I had a somewhat strange experience. I cleared through my emails before leaving the hotel and also read through a number of the featured news articles. One, in particular, caught my eye. It described how the Democratic Party primary in Queens New...

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July 4, 2018

What Donald Trump Is Preparing

After having observed Donald Trump’s historical references (the constitutional compromise of 1789, the examples of Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon) and the way in which his partisans perceive his politics, Thierry Meyssan here analyses his anti-imperialist actions. The US President is not interested in taking a step back, but on the contrary, abandoning the interests of the transnational ruling class...

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July 4, 2018

Australia Is Attempting to “Contain” China

Australia is attempting to tighten its vise-grip of control over the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. The tiny nation has sought to strategically liberate itself in recent years by realigning closer to China as a means of “balancing” out Australia’s excessive influence, but the rapid success of this policy fed into fake news fears from two months ago that...

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July 4, 2018

Syria Is Now Like the Balkans in 1914

The war in Syria has returned to where it was started in 2011, in Dara’a, close to the Jordanian border and therefore easily accessible to takfiris and weapons shipped in to be used behind the façade of ‘peaceful protests.’ The template had been used in Latin America and the Middle East on many occasions and here it was being used again,...

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July 4, 2018

Militants Threaten China’s OBOR Initiative in Myanmar

Militants in northern Myanmar have once again put China’s One Belt, One Road initiative on hold. It should come as no surprise that Anglo-American history played a direct role in their creation, and currently fund and back networks supporting them. The BBC has mounted a recent propaganda campaign aimed at once again placing pressure on Myanmar’s military, within a wider...

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July 4, 2018

The Trump-Putin Peace, Trade and Friendship Talks

News that a meeting has been arranged between Presidents Trump and Putin on 16 July was greeted with displeasure in many sectors of the western world, and especially by the military-industrial complex, the cabal of war-profiteering US and European oligarchs whose interests lie solely in maintaining their lucrative arms manufacturing empires. Trade is most important to them — but peace...

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July 4, 2018

The Battle of the Three Seas. Geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe, US-Russia Confrontation

The vast expanse of Central and Eastern Europe stretching between the Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas has turned into a massive zone of serious competition for the US and Russia. The “Intermarium” Most observers missed it, but one of the most immediate post-Brexit geopolitical consequences for the EU was the hosting of the first-ever “Three Seas Initiative” (TSI) summit in...

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Daily Archive: July 4, 2018

Saudi Religious Diplomacy Targets Jerusalem

Feeding the Monster: Washington’s Spinelessness Enables Israeli Brutality

What Donald Trump Is Preparing

Australia Is Attempting to “Contain” China

Syria Is Now Like the Balkans in 1914

Militants Threaten China’s OBOR Initiative in Myanmar

The Trump-Putin Peace, Trade and Friendship Talks

The Battle of the Three Seas. Geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe, US-Russia Confrontation