December 23, 2018 – Astute News

December 23, 2018

On the Road in the Karakoram

The snowed-over Khunjerab Pass, at 4,934 meters, stands eerily silent on a freezing late autumn morning. On the Pakistani side, a wooden house serves as a small customs office fronted by “the highest ATM in the world” – though you try a foreign credit card at your peril. The Chinese side boasts an intimidating, metal-plated James Bond-esque structure with no...

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December 23, 2018

First Fallout of Trump’s Decision to Withdraw from Syria

President Trump’s strategic decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria creates some significant fallout. The U.S. and international borg is enraged that Trump ends an occupation that is illegal under international as well as U.S. domestic law. “That’s un-American!” Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis resigned from his position effective February 28. He disagreed with the president’s decision. It was the second time in...

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December 23, 2018

Did Someone Slip Donald Trump Some Kind of Political Viagra?

This has been an extraordinary week. After two years of getting rolled by the Washington establishment, it seems that President Donald Trump woke up and suddenly realized, “Hey – I’m the president! I have the legal authority to do stuff!” He has announced his order to withdraw US troops from Syria. His Defense Secretary James Mattis has resigned. There are rumors National Security Adviser John...

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December 23, 2018

Trump Orders Syria Troop Pull-Out & Hollywood ‘Liberals’ Go Bananas

The announcement by President Trump that US troops would be leaving Syria has been met with anger not just by neocons, but by Hollywood ‘liberals’ too. Aren’t progressives supposed to oppose wars and illegal occupations? Of course, we have to be cautious. Trump’s announcement of a troop withdrawal from Syria, for now at least, is just words. We need to...

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December 23, 2018

Will Trump Hold Firm on Syrian Pullout?

“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there,” wrote President Donald Trump, as he ordered the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Syria, stunning the U.S. foreign policy establishment. Trump overruled his secretaries of state and defense, and jolted this city and capitals across NATO Europe and the Middle East. Yet, Trump is doing exactly what...

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December 23, 2018

Time to Get Out of Syria

President Trump has done the right thing with regard to America’s troop deployment in Syria. Trump ordered the 2,000 US troops based in Syria to get out and come home. Neocons and the US war party are having apoplexy even though there are some 50,000 US troops spread across the rest of the Mideast. The US troops parked in the...

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December 23, 2018

Withdrawal from Syria?

According to various news reports, the validity of which is always questionable, US President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of all US troops from the portion of Syria illegally occupied by US troops. This report is surprising as only a few days ago the US Department of Defense declared that any Syrian, Russian, or Iranian action against ISIS in...

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December 23, 2018

Proof the Mainstream Media is the Enemy of the People

You can’t make this stuff up: When the president of the most powerful nation in the world, nuclear armed to the teeth, announces that he will save the world from obliteration by partnering with the heads of the two nuclear countries that America sees as enemies, the media rakes him over the coals. The same media that facilitated — much...

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Daily Archive: December 23, 2018

On the Road in the Karakoram

First Fallout of Trump’s Decision to Withdraw from Syria

Did Someone Slip Donald Trump Some Kind of Political Viagra?

Trump Orders Syria Troop Pull-Out & Hollywood ‘Liberals’ Go Bananas

Will Trump Hold Firm on Syrian Pullout?

Time to Get Out of Syria

Withdrawal from Syria?

Proof the Mainstream Media is the Enemy of the People