August 18, 2018 – Astute News

August 18, 2018

Pakistan at a Crossroads as Imran Khan Is Sworn In

Criticism of Pakistan’s anti-money laundering and terrorism finance regime by the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is likely to complicate incoming Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s efforts to tackle his country’s financial crisis. Addressing the criticism of the 41-nation APG, which reports to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism watchdog that earlier...

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August 18, 2018

Is the US Beheading the Turkish Economy as an Act of Terror?

The US continues to play its poker game of “Show Down” with a growing list of unhappy countries. We are at the point where we might soon see a call to rename the US… to the United States of Sanctions, the USS. Turkey is getting most of the publicity now with its currency and economy under assault. The sanctions professionals...

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August 18, 2018

Iran’s Reply: No War and No Negotiations

We can all thank God for the fact that the AngloZionists did not launch a war on the DPRK, that no Ukronazi attack on the Donbass took place during the World Cup in Russia and that the leaders of the Empire have apparently have given up on their plans to launch a reconquista of Syria. However, each of these retreats...

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August 18, 2018

Caspian Deal Highlights Shift in Azerbaijan

As the US/Turkish relationship deteriorates it is having spillover effects around the region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s continued defiance of US’s demands have placed Turkey in the cross-hairs of a vicious hybrid-war attack on the country’s fragile economic foundation. So, I find it very interesting that during the week of the greatest turmoil in Turkish markets, notably a panic...

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August 18, 2018

World Is Drowning in Debt and It Spells Disaster for Everyone

The entire planet is swimming in debt, yet no one seems to criticize the system itself as being fundamentally flawed. “A man in debt is so far a slave,” American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once reportedly said. In light of this statement, I contend that I don’t need to have a college degree in economics to tell you that our...

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August 18, 2018

Turkey’s Currency and Debt Crisis Has Been Years in the Making

After decades of stagnant growth, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AKP party turned around Turkey’s economy in the early 2000s. It was a boom underscored by easy borrowing that prioritised loans to the construction sector over capital intensive areas like manufacturing and IT development. ‘The administration knew that a slowdown was on the cards, and[that’s]why they pulled elections forward to...

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August 18, 2018

He Can’t Win It for Technical Reasons, But PM Abiy Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

The Ethiopian premier can’t win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for technical reasons, but he nevertheless deserves global recognition for his peacemaking successes. The Nobel Committee will award its eponymous Peace Prize on 5 October, and while Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy certainly deserves this more than anyone else, it’s impossible for him to receive it for technical reasons having to...

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August 18, 2018

Decline in the Fall (Or Late Summer, Anyway)

I am not sure why people write columns. Partly from boredom, I suppose, or lack of anything better to do. Partly from exasperation. Yet partly from the hope that if enough people collectively become aware of problems, they might, just maybe, do something about them. I can’t believe this any longer. Today’s crimes, lunacies, and decays are too many, profitable,...

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Daily Archive: August 18, 2018

Pakistan at a Crossroads as Imran Khan Is Sworn In

Is the US Beheading the Turkish Economy as an Act of Terror?

Iran’s Reply: No War and No Negotiations

Caspian Deal Highlights Shift in Azerbaijan

World Is Drowning in Debt and It Spells Disaster for Everyone

Turkey’s Currency and Debt Crisis Has Been Years in the Making

He Can’t Win It for Technical Reasons, But PM Abiy Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Decline in the Fall (Or Late Summer, Anyway)