August 19, 2018 – Astute News

August 19, 2018

Donglang/Doklam 2.0: Did China Make a Dummy Out of India?

The creeping revival of last year’s Donglang/Doklam Drama proves that China did in fact make a dummy out of India at the time, but that India had in turn made a dummy out of the rest of the world by keeping up the charade that it got China to back down, the narrative of which the US is finally exposing...

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August 19, 2018

Afghanistan: The War That Shames America

After 17 bloody years, the longest war in US history continues without relent or purpose in Afghanistan. There, a valiant, fiercely-independent people, the Pashtun (Pathan) mountain tribes, have battled the full might of the US Empire to a stalemate that has so far cost American taxpayers $4 trillion, and 2,371 dead and 20,320 wounded soldiers. No one knows how many...

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August 19, 2018

What’s Behind the US-Turkey Rift?

Imprisoned in Turkey since October 2016 on charges of involvement in the failed months earlier coup attempt against President Erdogan, the Trump regime’s demand for Andrew Brunson’s release conceals what’s really behind the US/Turkey rift. It’s all about what Michel Chossudovsky calls a “Russia-Turkey-Iran ‘triple entente,’” – growing Ankara ties with Washington’s main adversaries. The US doesn’t give a hoot...

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August 19, 2018

The Lira’s Collapse Is Linked to the US Hybrid War on Turkey

Turkey’s lira is undergoing an orchestrated crash. The country’s currency is being subjected to a coordinated attack from abroad most visibly triggered by Trump’s steel and aluminum sanctions but also being due to systemic factors stemming from the government’s freewheeling economic policies over the years. The focus of this analysis is more about the political implications of this crisis than...

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August 19, 2018

So What will The Sanctioned Supergroup Do?

Those were the days, during the Cold War 1960s and 1970s, when the earth was actually ruled by rock supergroups – from Cream and Led Zeppelin to Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends – and the post-truth geopolitical remix of the supergroup. Meet The Sanctioned; a multinational band starring multi-instrumentalists...

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August 19, 2018

Can America Ever Come Together Again?

If ex-CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance. He would have been challenged to a duel and shot. “Trump’s … performance in Helsinki,” Brennan had said, “exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’ It was … treasonous.” Why should the president...

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August 19, 2018

1953 Iran Coup – a Crime Authored in London and Washington

This week marks 65 years since the Western-orchestrated coup in Iran. August 19, 1953 is the day that Iranians were taught a hard lesson in the rules of the game when it comes to empire and hegemony. For on this day, the country’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, was overthrown at the hands of Washington and London. It was,...

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August 19, 2018

Ecuador: The False Lenin

Ecuador plans to allow the US to open up a so-called “Security Cooperation Office” in the South American state. RT reported that the Ecuadorian Defense Minister confirmed this development late last week and wrote that it represents a policy reversal from previous President Rafael Correa’s administration, which refused to renew the US’ lease on the Manta Air Base and later...

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Daily Archive: August 19, 2018

Donglang/Doklam 2.0: Did China Make a Dummy Out of India?

Afghanistan: The War That Shames America

What’s Behind the US-Turkey Rift?

The Lira’s Collapse Is Linked to the US Hybrid War on Turkey

So What will The Sanctioned Supergroup Do?

Can America Ever Come Together Again?

1953 Iran Coup – a Crime Authored in London and Washington

Ecuador: The False Lenin