September 24, 2019 – Astute News

September 24, 2019

Pakistan’s Economic Crisis

Pakistan is going through financial woes. The Government’s external debt sits at over 100 billion dollars [up significantly since 2017], while foreign currency reserves hovered in the range of 15 billion last July. To make matters worse, the Central Bank of Pakistan has been raising the interest rate in the last moths, from an initial rate of 6 percent up to 13.25 percent. In...

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September 24, 2019

Who Launched That Mystery Attack?

The Mideast has its own variety of crazy humor. The Saudis have been blasting and bombing wretched Yemen, one of this world’s poorest nations, since 2015. These US-supported attacks and a naval blockade of Yemen imposed by Saudi Arabia and its sidekick ally, the United Arab Emirates, have caused mass starvation. No one knows how many Yemenis have died or...

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September 24, 2019

Why Didn’t Iraq Retaliate Against Israel? Part 1

Iraq and Syria have decided to re-open the border-crossing between the two countries at albu Kamal – al Qaem, a vital move for the economic interests of both countries, with considerable benefits for the “Axis of the Resistance” (Iran, Iraq, Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon). Twenty-four hours before the opening was due, an attack occurred against Iraqi militants positioned on...

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September 24, 2019

The Saudi Arabia Drone Attacks Have Changed Global Warfare

The devastating attack on Saudi oil facilities by drones and missiles not only transforms the balance of military power in the Middle East, but marks a change in the nature of warfare globally. On the morning of 14 September, 18 drones and seven cruise missiles – all cheap and unsophisticated compared to modern military aircraft – disabled half of Saudi...

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September 24, 2019

Saudi Arabia: Who is Responsible for Rising Tensions?

It is well known that on the night of 14 September some drones attacked two of the largest Saudi facilities: one of them is an enormous oil processing site in Abqaiq (with a capacity of 7 million barrels per day), and the other the Khurais oil field with deposits of 20.1 billion barrels of oil, according to experts. An official...

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September 24, 2019

Lavrov Elaborated on Russia’s Vision for the Emerging Multipolar World Order

The Russian Foreign Minister’s latest article provides the most up-to-date information on his country’s interpretation of International Relations straight from its top diplomat himself, which includes numerous critiques of the fading US-led unipolar world order and several envisioned goals that Moscow hopes to advance in the emerging multipolar one that’s replacing it. *** Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s latest article “World...

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September 24, 2019

Firing Bolton: Bait and Switch or Changing Tack?

News of US National Security Adviser John Bolton’s departure was followed by hopeful commentary both within the US and abroad that so too would follow the aggressive foreign policy he advocated – particularly in regards to Iran. However, US foreign policy – including its decades-long belligerence toward Iran – is a function of powerful corporate-financier special interests dominating Wall Street...

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September 24, 2019

Plastic Apocalypse: Alarming Levels of Plastic Found in Children

New studies are being published that detail high levels of dangerous microplastics had been detected in some of the most remote regions of the world. Another study warned microplastics are turning up in human stool. Now there are new reports that show high levels of microplastics have been found in blood and urine samples of children. The study, conducted by the German Environment...

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Daily Archive: September 24, 2019

Pakistan’s Economic Crisis

Who Launched That Mystery Attack?

Why Didn’t Iraq Retaliate Against Israel? Part 1

The Saudi Arabia Drone Attacks Have Changed Global Warfare

Saudi Arabia: Who is Responsible for Rising Tensions?

Lavrov Elaborated on Russia’s Vision for the Emerging Multipolar World Order

Firing Bolton: Bait and Switch or Changing Tack?

Plastic Apocalypse: Alarming Levels of Plastic Found in Children