July 16, 2018 – Astute News

July 16, 2018

Trump-Putin Summit Hits Last-Minute Turbulence

It was always within the realms of possibility that there might be some last-minute attempt made by the strong and vociferous opposition within the United States to President Donald Trump aimed at undermining his Monday summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. The suspense was about if this would happen, how it would happen and from which quarter the...

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July 16, 2018

Putin on the Trump: ‘New York’ Dons Tinfoil Hat, Claims Soviet-Era Kompromat on The Donald

This week, The Daily Intelligencer promoted the theory that says the story of collusion between Donald Trump and Russia dates back to the Soviet period, an obvious attempt to sour the upcoming Putin-Trump summit. Before embarking upon the wildest conspiracy theory to emerge since Sasquatch was filmed in his natural habitat many years ago, author Jonathan Chait begins his multi-page...

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July 16, 2018

Japan After the North Korea–United States Summit

Washington’s initiation of a new game on the Korean Peninsula has become an important element in the overall process of reformatting the political map at global and regional levels. A long time coming, this process has sharply quickened with Donald Trump’s rise to power in the USA, with this message addressed to allies: “Guys, that’s enough coasting on our account. We’ll...

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July 16, 2018

China’s Myanmar Policy: Peace, Conflict – Whatever Works

As Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi this week sought to make progress on ending decades of civil war by bringing the country’s military and myriad ethnic armed groups to the negotiating table, the influence of Myanmar’s looming neighbour, China, weighed large on proceedings. Although bringing peace was a campaign promise when Suu Kyi won landmark elections in...

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July 16, 2018

The Night Turkey Changed Forever

Two years ago on 15 July, Turkey witnessed the bloodiest coup attempt in its political history. A faction in the Turkish military launched a coordinated operation in several major cities across Anatolia to topple the government and unseat the country’s strongman president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. What happened next was something unprecedented: thousands of ordinary Turks, armed with little more than...

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July 16, 2018

The World ‘Knows’ bin Laden Did 9/11 — So Why Isn’t There Any Evidence?

He is arguably the most notorious person in the 21st century. The world takes for granted that Osama bin Laden was the architect of the “terror attacks” of Sept. 11, 2001. But why was this man singled out for this horrific crime? How did we learn of his alleged guilt? And what is the evidence used to support his guilt? These...

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July 16, 2018

The Moral Decadence of Zionism

We have watched this for seven decades. Seven decades of unremitting, remorseless, violence. A poisonous ideology gives rise to a state, poisonous at its roots, the people poisoned by the state, indoctrinated, taught to hate and taught to kill without compunction, without conscience. Israel is by far the worst settler-colonial experience in history, infinitely worse than Algeria at its worst...

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July 16, 2018

The American Oligarchy: A Review

Consumers of left-wing media are well aware that America is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Everyone with a functioning cerebrum, in fact, should be aware of it by now: even mainstream political scientists recognize it, as shown by a famous 2014 study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page. Nevertheless, it is important to continue to publicize the oligarchical character...

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Daily Archive: July 16, 2018

Trump-Putin Summit Hits Last-Minute Turbulence

Putin on the Trump: ‘New York’ Dons Tinfoil Hat, Claims Soviet-Era Kompromat on The Donald

Japan After the North Korea–United States Summit

China’s Myanmar Policy: Peace, Conflict – Whatever Works

The Night Turkey Changed Forever

The World ‘Knows’ bin Laden Did 9/11 — So Why Isn’t There Any Evidence?

The Moral Decadence of Zionism

The American Oligarchy: A Review