June 20, 2019 – Astute News

June 20, 2019

Pompeo Might Have the Perfect Carrot to Dangle in Front of Modi’s Mouth

The US is planning to include India on its International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) list in order to place it at par with its NATO allies, “Israel”, and a few others for the export of high-level military technologies, which could be the perfect carrot for Pompeo to dangle in front of Modi’s mouth during his visit to the South...

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June 20, 2019

A Retired Russian Colonel Shared a Surprising Observation about South Asia with RT

Mikhail Khodarenok, a retired colonel who’s held many high-level positions all across the Russian security sphere during his several decades of service, proved that his country’s previous political taboo on calling out India’s military-strategic alliance with America is over after sharing his remarkably frank assessment with RT that his country’s Soviet-era partner is “increasingly drifting towards the US and Europe”...

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June 20, 2019

Who killed Mohamed Morsi?

Egypt’s first democratically elected president met an end as dramatic as his one and only year in power. The date alone on which it happened is significant. Mohamed Morsi died on 17 June, seven years to the day from the second round of his presidential election. For all of his time in prison, Morsi was held in solitary confinement. He...

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June 20, 2019

Declassified: The Sino-Russian Masterplan to End U.S. Dominance in Middle East

Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin’s early June 2019 summit in Moscow with People’s Republic of China (PRC) Pres. Xi Jinping seems likely to have a disproportionate influence on the next phases of the crises unfolding in the greater Middle East, and therefore on the future of the region. The escalating confrontation between Iran and the US is both influencing and influenced by the...

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June 20, 2019

Trump’s Evidence About Iran is “Dodgy” at Best

The crackpot president of the United States of America has so snarled up the gangplank to truth these past 29 months that no matter how much “evidence” he and his crew produce to prove that the Iranians have been trying to blow up oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman – or not quite blow them up – the pictures have...

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June 20, 2019

Trump’s Cuba Sanctions Are Sadistic and Spiteful

The history of sanctions is grim, and it is generally acknowledged that they penalise ordinary people to an unjustifiable degree. It is difficult to forget the excruciating pronouncement by Madeleine Albright, President Clinton’s Secretary of State, when she was ambassador to the UN and commented on their effects in Iraq in the 1990s, in the run-up to the US invasion....

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June 20, 2019

The Ugly View of Western Democracy

Standing back a little and surveying the events of the last couple of weeks, gives a bleak view of the current state of western democracy. We have seen what appears to be the most unconvincing of false flags in the Gulf. I pointed out why it was improbable Iran would attack these particular ships. Since then we have had American...

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June 20, 2019

Rake’s Progress: The Unstoppable Rise of Boris Johnson

The first time I ever spoke to Boris Johnson, almost certainly Britain’s next prime minister, was when my phone rang in London’s Soho back in 2002 and a now familiar voice boomed “I want to interview Saddam Hussein.” At the time I was the only British politician still traveling to sanctions-stricken Iraq and the only one who met regularly with...

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Daily Archive: June 20, 2019

Pompeo Might Have the Perfect Carrot to Dangle in Front of Modi’s Mouth

A Retired Russian Colonel Shared a Surprising Observation about South Asia with RT

Who killed Mohamed Morsi?

Declassified: The Sino-Russian Masterplan to End U.S. Dominance in Middle East

Trump’s Evidence About Iran is “Dodgy” at Best

Trump’s Cuba Sanctions Are Sadistic and Spiteful

The Ugly View of Western Democracy

Rake’s Progress: The Unstoppable Rise of Boris Johnson