January 7, 2019 – Astute News

January 7, 2019

Is the End of the Brutal War in Yemen Finally at Hand?

When the new Congress convenes Jan. 3, it is expected to pass a House resolution upholding congressional war powers and ending all direct U.S. involvement in the Saudi coalition’s war in Yemen. But hopes remain high that H. Con. Res. 138 will help to end the Yemen war itself. Congressional strategists and activists who have been working on the issue believe...

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January 7, 2019

President Trump’s Syrian Theatrics

The US President, Donald Trump, who has become accustomed to amusing the world with his theatrics just as a magician does by pulling a rabbit out of a hat on the circus arena, has once again left everyone dumbfounded, his own administration in particular. He suddenly ordered all the US forces stationed in Syria to be rapidly withdrawn, and announced...

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January 7, 2019

Syria and Afghanistan: Two Different Realities

Two terrible wars, two mighty destructions, but two absolutely opposite outcomes. In Syria, it may be autumn now, but almost the entire country is blossoming again, literally rising from ashes. Two thousand miles east from there, Afghanistan is smashed against its ancient rocks, bleeding and broken. There, it does not really matter what season it is; life is simply dreadful...

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January 7, 2019

North Africa Situation Overview – Late 2018

By the end of the year, the situation has grown more tense. This is particularly true of Algeria which will undergo a change in supreme leadership. The current president is ill, his surrounding and political elites are in a state of uncertainty, the new configuration of alliances is difficult of predict. The situation is no less fluid in Tunisia due...

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January 7, 2019

From Crisis to Crisis: When a Top World Leader is an Arrogant Psychotic

During his fleeting visit to a US military base in Iraq on December 26 President Trump declared “The United States cannot continue to be the policeman of the world. It’s not fair when the burden is all on us, the United States… We’re no longer the suckers, folks. We’re respected again as a nation.” The world then fell about laughing at the...

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January 7, 2019

In Preparation for Trump’s ‘America First’ Doctrine, Japan Unleashes $243bn Defense Spending Plan

Japan is set to abandon its pacifist past and begin a long and dangerous road to militarization and potential confrontation with its neighbors, according to recently published defense spending documents. Following the end of World War II, the United States military occupied Japan and imposed on the country a unique constitution which on the face of it, renounced war for...

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January 7, 2019

Why One Should Distrust the News

An article by the BBC on “The world’s most nutritious foods” ranks the healthfulness of foods on the basis of an article at the supposedly scientific PLOSone journal, titled “Uncovering the Nutritional Landscape of Food”. That study is based on a dataset that entirely ignores antioxidant-content of foods. Antioxidant-content has come to be recognized during recent decades as constituting perhaps the most important factor in...

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January 7, 2019

The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water

This article was first published on December 21, 2012 by Market Oracle and Global Research. A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace. Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan...

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Daily Archive: January 7, 2019

Is the End of the Brutal War in Yemen Finally at Hand?

President Trump’s Syrian Theatrics

Syria and Afghanistan: Two Different Realities

North Africa Situation Overview – Late 2018

From Crisis to Crisis: When a Top World Leader is an Arrogant Psychotic

In Preparation for Trump’s ‘America First’ Doctrine, Japan Unleashes $243bn Defense Spending Plan

Why One Should Distrust the News

The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water