April 18, 2019 – Astute News

April 18, 2019

Here is How to Counter Anti-Pakistani Bigotry

Pakistan remains a widely misunderstood country not only in a cultural context but in terms of its vital role as a major global power. Below are some of the most common defamatory falsehoods that are purposefully spread by those with an visceral bigotry against Pakistan, followed by an truthful elucidation on the contemporary realities of Pakistan. “Pakistan is a Wahhabi...

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April 18, 2019

Who’s Afraid of Afghan Peace Talks – Kabul and Delhi?

Henry Kissinger wouldn’t have approved the way Zalmay Khalilzad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, handles the Afghan peace talks. Even if Tweeter were in vogue in the late sixties, Kissinger wouldn’t have used it to signal to Hanoi or the Vietcong. But caught between the “Khalid Operation” — Afghan government’s new security plan — and the Taliban’s riposte Operation...

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April 18, 2019

The “Deal of the Century” Won’t Go Through: Split Among Palestinians Supports Israel (1)

For over a year now, the Israeli “Deal of the Century” for Palestine has been endorsed by the US establishment and is now echoing to the four corners of the world. The two novices in foreign policy, US President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, manoeuvred by Israel from behind the scenes, are trying to promote it among Arab...

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April 18, 2019

The Overthrow Of Omar El-Bechir

The similarity between events in Algeria, Libya and Sudan evoke what happened in 2011 in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. For some, it was a revolutionary movement against dictatorships, while for others, it was a replay of the organisation by the British of the Great Arab Revolt of 1916. Concerning 2011, the publication of internal Foreign Office e-mails by whistle-blower Derek...

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April 18, 2019

Confusion Dominates as Algeria Heads into Troubled Waters

With the presidential election day approaching in Algeria, the sheer number of political forces aiming to secure power in this troubled state leaves geopolitical analysts bewildered and confused. Those trying hard to explain the situation that slips out of control rapidly are also trying to establish who was behind the recent anti-government protests on top of the US, that clearly...

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April 18, 2019

Why Isn’t Oil-Rich Russia Helping Its Syrian “Ally” Survive the Fuel Crisis?

It’s seemingly inexplicable to many that one of the world’s top oil exporters won’t help its “ally” survive the ever-worsening fuel crisis, but upon closer consideration and after much-needed critical thinking, it becomes clear that Russia intends to politicize this crisis in order to compel Syria into undertaking further concessions related to the upcoming constitutional reform process and initiating Iran’s...

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April 18, 2019

Trump Dances to Israel’s Tune

So newly reelected Israeli monster-in-chief Benjamin Netanyahu has boasted, with a grin, that America’s President Donald J. Trump followed through on his proposal to declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist group. Bibi was smiling because the timing of the move, one day before the Israeli election, strongly suggests it was done to assist him against what had...

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April 18, 2019

Venezuela – Still on the Brink?

The silence is almost deafening. Is it the quiet before the storm? – Or is the US giving up on Venezuela? I don’t think so. It’s more like a regrouping after a first defeat, well, it’s a multiple defeat, if we start counting since the failed coup attempt against Hugo Chavez on 11 April 2002. However, Washington is not giving...

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Daily Archive: April 18, 2019

Here is How to Counter Anti-Pakistani Bigotry

Who’s Afraid of Afghan Peace Talks – Kabul and Delhi?

The “Deal of the Century” Won’t Go Through: Split Among Palestinians Supports Israel (1)

The Overthrow Of Omar El-Bechir

Confusion Dominates as Algeria Heads into Troubled Waters

Why Isn’t Oil-Rich Russia Helping Its Syrian “Ally” Survive the Fuel Crisis?

Trump Dances to Israel’s Tune

Venezuela – Still on the Brink?