June 15, 2019 – Astute News

June 15, 2019

Summarizing PM Khan’s Interview with Sputnik

Pakistani Prime Minister Khan covered a wide range of issues during his exclusive interview with Sputnik, but the main points were that his country has changed a lot since the Old Cold War, desires nothing more than peace with India as soon as possible pending the democratic resolution of the Kashmir Conflict, and is extremely eager to intensify all manner...

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June 15, 2019

Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Is Trump’s Informal Ambassador to Iran, but He Wants More Than to Mediate

Japanese Prime Minister Abe is functioning as Trump’s informal ambassador to Iran during his two day trip to the Islamic Republic, though he has much greater strategic interests in mind than just being the US President’s proxy such as expanding his island nation’s footprint in the Mideast as part of its attempt to “contain” China. Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s trip...

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June 15, 2019

Timing of Gulf of Oman Attacks: Washington Aimed to Kill Historic Iran-Japan Talks in Tehran

Hell-bent on isolating and suffocating Iran, the Trump administration derailed Japan’s historic talks by accusing Tehran without any evidence whatsoever of attacking oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Since entering office, the Donald Trump administration has been itching for a war on Iran. And it may have found an excuse to justify an escalation of military aggression — or...

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June 15, 2019

7 Reasons to be Highly Skeptical of the Gulf of Oman Incident

In a move that surprised exactly zero people, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wasted no time scrambling to blame Iran for damage done to two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, citing exactly zero evidence. “This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian...

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June 15, 2019

US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UK … Who Is Behind the False Flag in Gulf of Oman?

First let me be clear; I greatly admired the principles that American’s used to espouse, in my lifetime; I am very fond of the majority of the people; I’ve spent in total some of years living there, in different States; it is I suppose mostly the silent majority, the ‘middle Americans’ that I am most fond of…certainly not the ‘elite’,...

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June 15, 2019

Pence Goes to War: America Will Be Fighting Forever

On May 25th Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker at the United States Military Academy commencement. His speech was predictably an encomium celebrating both the diversity and the success of the newly commissioned officers as well as of the system at West Point that had produced them, but it also included interesting insights into how he and the...

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June 15, 2019

Panda Diplomacy Much Better Than Mafia Extortion of Collapsing West

While the United States has been intimidating dozens of countries all over the world, two cuddly Chinese giant pandas – a three year old male called Ru Yi, and a female one year younger, named Ding Ding – were settling down in their new home, inside the legendary Moscow Zoo. Chewing bamboo shoots, and obviously enjoying the unprecedented attention, two...

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June 15, 2019

The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction

“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. It’s been 70 years since Orwell—dying, beset by fever and bloody coughing fits, and driven...

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Daily Archive: June 15, 2019

Summarizing PM Khan’s Interview with Sputnik

Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Is Trump’s Informal Ambassador to Iran, but He Wants More Than to Mediate

Timing of Gulf of Oman Attacks: Washington Aimed to Kill Historic Iran-Japan Talks in Tehran

7 Reasons to be Highly Skeptical of the Gulf of Oman Incident

US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UK … Who Is Behind the False Flag in Gulf of Oman?

Pence Goes to War: America Will Be Fighting Forever

Panda Diplomacy Much Better Than Mafia Extortion of Collapsing West

The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction