November 21, 2018 – Astute News

November 21, 2018

No Trump, Pakistan Did Everything for the US But Got Nothing in Return

The Pakistani Prime Minister is correct in pointing out how much his country did for the US in response to Trump’s disrespectful attack against it this weekend. One of Trump’s prerecorded interviews aired this weekend where the American President attacked Pakistan for supposedly doing nothing for the US during the nearly two decades that the two Great Powers have been notionally...

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November 21, 2018

US Vice President Beats War Drums in Asia

US Vice President Mike Pence used Asian summit meetings over the past week to set out an ultimatum to China that accelerates the drive to war. Either China bows to the demands of American imperialism and accepts a subservient, semi-colonial status, or it will confront the full force of US diplomatic, economic and ultimately military weight. Speaking at the Asia...

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November 21, 2018

Yemen Genocide About Oil Control

The ongoing de facto genocide in the Republic of Yemen in a war whose most intense phase began in 2015, has until very recently been all but ignored in the Western mainstream media. What has also been ignored is the fundamental casus belli for the US-backed Saudi war, ostensibly against the Shi’ite Houthi by the Sunni Wahhabite Saudis. As with...

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November 21, 2018

Can Mohammed bin Salman Hold Power While Juggling Trump, Putin and Oil All At Once

Increasingly, it appears that in a rerun of late 2014, OPEC has lost control of the oil market. According to a Bloomberg Op-Ed, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, President Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin are the three people that will steer the outcome of oil prices in the coming year, whether higher or lower. The problem is, of course, that they...

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November 21, 2018

Netanyahu’s Ceasefire Is Meant to Keep Gaza Imprisoned

Palestinians in Gaza should have been able to breathe a sigh of relief last week, as precarious ceasefire talks survived a two-day-long, heavy exchange of strikes that threatened to unleash yet another large-scale military assault by Israel. Late on Tuesday, after the most intense bout of violence in four years, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas, the Islamic movement that rules...

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November 21, 2018

Registering Israel’s Useful Idiots

Depending on what criteria one uses, there are between 200 and 600 groups in the United States that wholly or in part are dedicated to furthering the interests of Israel. The organizations are both Jewish, like the Zionist Organization of America, and Christian Zionist to include John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, but the funding of the Israel Lobby and...

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November 21, 2018

The Cost of American Militarism and an Absence of Debate

A recent report by Brown University’s Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs on the cost of America’s wars in the aftermath of 9/11 estimates a sum totalling $5.9 Trillion. It is a figure virtually identical to the $6 Trillion figure projected by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2013 to be the eventual cost of waging wars in...

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November 21, 2018

From Brexit to ‘Brokexit’

British Prime Minister Theresa May has repeatedly urged that the “national interest” is at stake over her Brexit plan. She is calling for businesses and politicians to rally around safeguarding ordinary people’s jobs and livelihoods – and to back her draft divorce deal with the European Union. A parliamentary vote is due in the coming weeks. However, the timing of a...

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Daily Archive: November 21, 2018

No Trump, Pakistan Did Everything for the US But Got Nothing in Return

US Vice President Beats War Drums in Asia

Yemen Genocide About Oil Control

Can Mohammed bin Salman Hold Power While Juggling Trump, Putin and Oil All At Once

Netanyahu’s Ceasefire Is Meant to Keep Gaza Imprisoned

Registering Israel’s Useful Idiots

The Cost of American Militarism and an Absence of Debate

From Brexit to ‘Brokexit’