November 1, 2018 – Astute News

November 1, 2018

The Asian Parliamentary Assembly Meeting in Gwadar was Good News for CPEC

It was a very prudent move for Pakistan to have Gwadar host this year’s Asian Parliamentary Assembly instead of any other of the country’s cities because Islamabad showed off the progress that’s been made thus far on CPEC, encouraged its fellow institutional members to feel like they have a stake in its future success, and opened their eyes to the...

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November 1, 2018

The US Pretends to Support the Independence of Syria and Iraq

During the International Institute for Strategic Studies 14thdialogue in the Bahraini Capital Manama, Bert McGurk, the US envoy for the global coalition to defeat the Islamic State group (ISIS), took leave of his designated function by expressing unusual solicitude for Syria when he said it is “necessary for the Iran-Backed militias to leave Syria to ensure a stable and independent country”....

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November 1, 2018

Western Media Make One Death a Tragedy, Millions a Statistic

The Western media coverage devoted to the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi proves the cynical adage that one person’s death is a tragedy, while millions of deaths are a mere statistic. During the past four weeks since Khashoggi went missing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the case has been constantly in the news cycle. Contrast that with the sparse...

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November 1, 2018

NATO is at War with NATO in Northern Syria

Not for the first time the Turkish army has attacked U.S.-backed forces in northeastern Syria on Sunday in yet another absurd contradiction of American policy in the region. It highlights the awkward fact that in northern Syria for over the past year one NATO country (Turkey) is at war with another NATO country’s proxy force, namely the Pentagon armed and trained Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

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November 1, 2018

American Breakdown: Uncle Sam Pays an Overdue Visit to the Psychiatrist Couch

After a tumultuous week that included letter bombs, a swooning stock market, a caravan of migrants approaching the border, and a deadly mass shooting at a synagogue, the US finally sought out professional help. Hello, Doctor. I am so grateful that you agreed to see me at this late hour. I am at my wit’s end with the latest turn...

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November 1, 2018

Is America Finished?

The refusal of the Democratic Party and the military/security complex to accept the results of the 2016 US presidential election and the misuse of their positions of power to prevent Donald Trump from exercising presidential powers is a revolutionary step, well described by Angelo Codevilla here. Americans are now so polarized that they “no longer share basic sympathies and trust,...

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November 1, 2018

How Google Wipes Palestine Off the Map

Like the other Silicon Valley monopolies, Google habitually takes the side of Israeli occupation and war crimes in Palestine – the very term Palestine is not used by their highly influential maps app. A new report by a Palestinian human rights group last month exposed the depths of Google’s dedication to the Israeli occupation. With a known history documented back...

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November 1, 2018

Trump is Right: The Fed is a Big Problem

President Donald J. Trump has taken on the Federal Reserve (Fed), saying that Fed chairman Jerome H. Powell is threatening US economic growth by further raising interest rates. Mainstream economists, the financial press and even some politicians react with indignation: the president’s comments undermine the Fed’s political independence, potentially endangering the confidence in the US dollar. Such a public reaction is,...

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Daily Archive: November 1, 2018

The Asian Parliamentary Assembly Meeting in Gwadar was Good News for CPEC

The US Pretends to Support the Independence of Syria and Iraq

Western Media Make One Death a Tragedy, Millions a Statistic

NATO is at War with NATO in Northern Syria

American Breakdown: Uncle Sam Pays an Overdue Visit to the Psychiatrist Couch

Is America Finished?

How Google Wipes Palestine Off the Map

Trump is Right: The Fed is a Big Problem