November 9, 2018 – Astute News

November 9, 2018

Why’d the US Issue a Sanctions Waiver for Chabahar?

Many observers are wondering why the US issued a sanctions waiver for the Indian-built port of Chabahar in southeastern Iran and the railroad project that’s supposed to one day extend from it to Afghanistan, but the reason is that America sees this curious “Lead From Behind” arrangement as one of its last chances to retain its long-term influence in the...

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November 9, 2018

The Drug Catastrophe in Afghanistan

On November 5 yet another US soldier was killed by a member of Afghanistan’s military forces, as the country continues to be wracked by violence in its seventeenth year of war. Donald Rumsfeld was US Secretary for Defence from 2001 to 2006 under President George W Bush. They, along with other psychotic figures such as Vice-President Dick Cheney, were responsible for the...

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November 9, 2018

Trumped by the President: How the Democrats’ Blue Wave Turned into a Blue Rinse

Whilst the Nancy Pelosi-led Democratic Party understandably talked up their House of Representatives victory, there was no fireworks barge on the East River and no blue wave on which to float it. The billions of dollars spent by the suddenly flush Blues yielded a Republican majority in the US Senate (and thus the end of the impeachment threat), the victory...

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November 9, 2018

What Do We Make of the US Midterm Election?

Readers are asking for my thoughts about the midterm elections. Looking at this CNN map — it seems that except for thin areas of the northeast and west coasts and hispanic and black enclaves in the southwest and south, the country overwhelmingly voted Republican. In my opinion, flyover America voted Republican because the “deplorables” want to defend Trump. They want...

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November 9, 2018

Divide and Conquer

I am not even remotely a Trump supporter, but I do think that he has managed to expose the spectrum of western political morbidity, both left and right. Trump is the ultimate Post Political icon — the symptom as well as the disease. For the last four decades, the West has been subjected to an intense cultural and social revolution. The cause of ‘social justice’ has...

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November 9, 2018

US Declares War on ‘Troika of Tyranny’ Pushing Them Closer to Russia

The US is going to extend its “combat operations” — the sanctions war aimed at reshaping the world — to Latin America. Tough new penalties are planned against the “troika of tyranny,” consisting of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua “in the very near future.” This announcement was made by National Security Adviser (NSA) John Bolton on Nov.1 — a few days before the US...

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November 9, 2018

Trudeau’s Warm Welcome to the “White Helmets” Is Highly Hypocritical

Canada accepted over 100 so-called “White Helmets” from Syria. Popularly described as “neutral civilian volunteers” and “humanitarian rescuers”, this organization was proven by investigative journalists Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett to be linked to terrorist groups, which makes Canada’s rolling out of the red carpet for them especially controversial considering its recent tiff with Saudi Arabia over the Kingdom’s alleged...

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November 9, 2018

World War One Centenary – the World Comes Full Circle

Sunday’s Paris series of meetings of key world leaders, including a probable Trump Putin, secret or otherwise, meeting, will inevitably take place, while marking the 100th anniversary on the 11th hour of the 11th month, of the end of the First World War, will be meetings heavy on irony. Starting with the fact that in past 100 years the global...

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Daily Archive: November 9, 2018

Why’d the US Issue a Sanctions Waiver for Chabahar?

The Drug Catastrophe in Afghanistan

Trumped by the President: How the Democrats’ Blue Wave Turned into a Blue Rinse

What Do We Make of the US Midterm Election?

Divide and Conquer

US Declares War on ‘Troika of Tyranny’ Pushing Them Closer to Russia

Trudeau’s Warm Welcome to the “White Helmets” Is Highly Hypocritical

World War One Centenary – the World Comes Full Circle