September 20, 2019 – Astute News

September 20, 2019

Crises – The Middle-East and a Few Hopefully Useful Pointers

The Middle-East is literally exploding: the Houthis have delivered an extremely effective blow against Saudi oil production which (so they claim) has now dropped by 50% before bouncing back; there are persistent rumors that Russian Su-35S and S-400 has threatened to shoot down Israeli aircraft attacking Syria; Lebanon has declared that it will defend itself against Israeli attacks; Hezbollah has...

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September 20, 2019

Uncle Sam Scapegoats Iran

Following the devastating airstrikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, US Vice President Mike Pence flexed his tough-talking muscles, vowing that his country is “ready to defend our interests and allies… make no mistake about it.” Don’t you think the assurance is a bit late? Saudi Arabia – a historic and key ally of Washington – had its entire oil production...

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September 20, 2019

Turkey’s “Refugee City” Proposal for Syria Amounts to Demographic Engineering

Turkish President Erdogan’s recently announced proposal to build a “refugee city” in Northern Syria amounts to demographic engineering intended to stop the creation of a “Kurdish Corridor” there and also prevent the region from fully reintegrating into Damascus’ fold after the war. *** Turkish President Erdogan proposed the building of a “refugee city” in Northern Syria after the latest trilateral...

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September 20, 2019

Putin’s Multipolar Offer to Saudi Arabian Exceptionalism

Global Islamic Terrorism is universally recognized as today’s big threat and has been the justification for all sorts of changes, especially to life in the West after 9/11. The Islamic terrorists whom we are supposed to fear on a daily basis more or less believe in some form of Wahhabism, which grew up in and is spread from Saudi Arabia....

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September 20, 2019

Saudi Oil Attacks Put US Commitments to the Test

Neither Saudi Arabia nor the United States is rushing to retaliate for a brazen, allegedly Iranian attack that severely damaged two of the kingdom’s key oil facilities. That is not to say that Saudi Arabia and/or the United States will not retaliate in what could prove to be a game changer in the geopolitics of the Middle East. Yet, reading...

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September 20, 2019

Even If He Becomes King, Mohammed bin Salman will Likely be the Last

Surrounded by unyielding enemies of its own making, and cheered on by opportunist allies determined to suck its blood to the last drop, Saudi Arabia seems to have landed itself in an unprecedented predicament. There has probably been no other day on which its enormous wealth seemed so utterly useless. Now, US President Donald Trump, publicly acting more as a contractor...

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September 20, 2019

What is “BLOODLANDS” and Why Do We Need to Expose It?

WHAT is “BLOODLANDS” and WHY DO WE NEED to EXPOSE IT? In 2010 a book was published that rewrites the history of the Soviet Union, Poland, and Ukraine between the years 1932 and 1945. Its title is Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. (1) Its author is Timothy Snyder, a professor of Eastern European history at Yale University in New...

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September 20, 2019

Remembering the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

Thirty-seven years ago this week, one of the bloodiest chapters in Palestinian history unfolded in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Surrounded by Israeli forces from all sides, thousands of refugees, bereft of leadership and protection from the international community, were slaughtered during a two day killing spree in the Shatila refugee camp and the adjacent Sabra neighbourhood of Beirut by...

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Daily Archive: September 20, 2019

Crises – The Middle-East and a Few Hopefully Useful Pointers

Uncle Sam Scapegoats Iran

Turkey’s “Refugee City” Proposal for Syria Amounts to Demographic Engineering

Putin’s Multipolar Offer to Saudi Arabian Exceptionalism

Saudi Oil Attacks Put US Commitments to the Test

Even If He Becomes King, Mohammed bin Salman will Likely be the Last

What is “BLOODLANDS” and Why Do We Need to Expose It?

Remembering the Sabra and Shatila Massacre