August 28, 2018 – Astute News

August 28, 2018

While Everyone was Watching Syria, the US Tried to Stage a False Flag in Afghanistan

While the world was waiting with bated breath to see whether the US would really stage yet another chemical weapons false flag attack in Syria, Washington tried to pull a fast one in Afghanistan by manufacturing a fake crisis between Russia and the Taliban. It’s no secret that the US fears the consequences of Russia’s newly pragmatic approach towards the...

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August 28, 2018

Is the US and Its Allies Preparing to Bomb Syria? Towards a “No Fly Zone” in Northern Syria?

Are the U.S. France and Britain preparing to launch punitive airstrikes against Syria in reprisal for another (forthcoming) “false flag” Chemical Weapons attack allegedly ordered by president Bashar al Assad against his own people. U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is reported to have told his Russian counterpart, Nikolai Patrushev, that “Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be preparing to use chemical...

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August 28, 2018

Trump Regime Planning Another Chemical Weapons Attack False Flag in Syria

The Syrian Arab News Agency reported on an impending false flag CW incident in Idlib province to be wrongfully blamed on government forces. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said a false flag attack is coming to “imped(e) a normal settlement of the…fight against terrorism in Idlib.” On Saturday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov explained what’s coming, what happened...

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August 28, 2018

U.S. Prepares New Bombing Raid to Topple Assad in Syria

A report from Russian Television asserts that the U.S. Government is positioning weaponry for yet another bombing-raid to punish Syria for having Bashar al-Assad as its President. Headlining “Terrorists readying chemical attack to frame Damascus & provide pretext for US strikes” RT reported on Saturday, August 25th, that “The US and its allies are preparing new airstrikes on Syria, the...

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August 28, 2018

Britain Prepares for War Against Russia

The headline in the UK newspaper the Daily Mail on August 7 encapsulated much that is paranoid in sad modern Britain. It read “Russian warships pass through English Channel as Putin’s armed forces ratchet up pressure on the Royal Navy.” Certainly, the United Kingdom is in a state of crisis; but it isn’t because of any sort of military threat. The vote to leave...

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August 28, 2018

China’s Embrace of El Salvador Is About a Lot More Than Just Taiwan

El Salvador’s decision to break off ties with Taipei and “defect” to Beijing obviously had a lot to do with the economic aid that China promised it, but the People’s Republic is embracing the Central American nation for strategic reasons that go far beyond the symbolism of international recognition and include the establishment of an influential foothold in the US’...

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August 28, 2018

Watching America’s Collapse

In the 1950s and 1960s the United States was a vibrant society. Upward mobility was strong, and the middle class expanded. During the 1970s the internal contradiction in Keynesian demand management resulted in stagflation. Reagan’s supply-side economic policy cured that. With a sound economy under him, Reagan was able to pressure the Soviet government, which was unable to solve its...

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August 28, 2018

American Pravda: The Nature of Anti-Semitism

I recently published a couple of long essays, and although they primarily focused on other matters, the subject of anti-Semitism was a strong secondary theme. In that regard, I mentioned my shock at discovering a dozen or more years ago that several of the most self-evidently absurd elements of anti-Semitic lunacy, which I had always dismissed without consideration, were probably...

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Daily Archive: August 28, 2018

While Everyone was Watching Syria, the US Tried to Stage a False Flag in Afghanistan

Is the US and Its Allies Preparing to Bomb Syria? Towards a “No Fly Zone” in Northern Syria?

Trump Regime Planning Another Chemical Weapons Attack False Flag in Syria

U.S. Prepares New Bombing Raid to Topple Assad in Syria

Britain Prepares for War Against Russia

China’s Embrace of El Salvador Is About a Lot More Than Just Taiwan

Watching America’s Collapse

American Pravda: The Nature of Anti-Semitism