October 5, 2018 – Astute News

October 5, 2018

The Dangerous and Duplicitous Infowar Against Imran Khan

Among the many reasons why Imran Khan’s PTI party swept Pakistan’s recent general elections while making major inroads in provincial elections was his party’s commitment to ending a systematic culture of corruption that existed among both of the national legacy parties as well as among regionally strong and fringe parties. As a result, PTI not only won at a national...

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October 5, 2018

Forget Trump’s Tough Talk, He’s Not Going to Let the House of Saud Fall

For as chaotic as “The Kraken” is, he’s not likely to let the House of Saud fall even after insultingly telling its King that he might be out of power within two weeks if it wasn’t for the protection afforded to him by the US military. Trump’s fondly referred to as “The Kraken” by his many supporters who love his...

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October 5, 2018

US Openly Threatens Russia with War: Goodbye Diplomacy, Hello Stone Age

US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison is a highly placed diplomat. Her words, whatever they may be, are official, which includes the ultimatums and threats that have become the language increasingly used by US diplomats to implement the policy of forceful persuasion or coercive diplomacy. Bellicose declarations are being used this way as a tool. On Oct. 2, the...

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October 5, 2018

New Silk Roads Define Brand China

The New Silk Roads symbolize way more than high-speed rail lines crisscrossing Eurasia, or a maze of highways, pipelines and port connectivity. They represent a Chinese alliance with at least 65 participating nations, responsible for 62% of the world’s population and 31% of its GDP. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as it’s formally known, is not a “road” or...

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October 5, 2018

US Turns World War III Ambitions Towards Ukraine as Syria Plans Unravel

The United States Government is now treating Ukraine as if it were a NATO member, and on September 27th donated to Ukraine two warships for use against Russia. This is the latest indication that the US is switching to Ukraine as the locale to start World War III, and from which the nuclear war is to be sparked against Russia, which borders...

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October 5, 2018

Best Government Money Can Buy

Very few Americans know who Sheldon Adelson is and fewer still appreciate that, as America’s leading political donor, when he speaks the Republican Party listens. By virtue of his largesse, he has been able to direct GOP policy in the Middle East in favor of Israel, which might well be regarded as his true home while the United States exists more...

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October 5, 2018

On Capitalism and Eternal War

On September 14, in an address to the far right American organisation called The Heritage Foundation, referring, one supposes, to their fascist roots, the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, described NATO in effect to be a world government prepared for eternal war. He declared NATO to be the “guarantor of peace and stability in Europe since 1949,” when in fact...

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October 5, 2018

Trump’s Sub-Saharan Border Wall Proposal Is More Than It Seems

Trump supposedly made an imaginative suggestion to Spain that it build a wall across the Sahara desert to keep out illegal immigrants. The Spanish Foreign Minister revealed that the American President even remarked that “the Sahara border can’t be bigger than our border with Mexico”, which drew much mockery in the Liberal-Globalist Mainstream Media because the peninsular country only has...

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Daily Archive: October 5, 2018

The Dangerous and Duplicitous Infowar Against Imran Khan

Forget Trump’s Tough Talk, He’s Not Going to Let the House of Saud Fall

US Openly Threatens Russia with War: Goodbye Diplomacy, Hello Stone Age

New Silk Roads Define Brand China

US Turns World War III Ambitions Towards Ukraine as Syria Plans Unravel

Best Government Money Can Buy

On Capitalism and Eternal War

Trump’s Sub-Saharan Border Wall Proposal Is More Than It Seems