October 17, 2019 – Astute News

October 17, 2019

China Displays Rock-Solid Support for Pakistan’s “Core Issue” of Kashmir

The visit by Pakistan PM Imran Khan to Beijing on October 8-9 has been a runaway success from Islamabad’s perspective. It revved up the dynamics of the China-Pakistan Economic Cooperation projects, will most certainly intensify China-Pakistan defence cooperation and, importantly, reaffirmed the whole-hearted Chinese support on Kashmir at the highest level of leadership in Beijing. Although billed as “working visit”,...

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October 17, 2019

Key Highlights of President Putin’s Interview with Arab Media

President Putin gave an extensive interview to Arab media before departing for Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but it’s useful to highlight some of the most relevant parts in case interested observers don’t have the time to watch it in full or skim through the transcript since the Russian leader powerfully refutes the Alt-Media narrative that his country is supposedly...

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October 17, 2019

Kurds Face Stark Options After US Pullback

In the annals of bombastic Trump tweets, this one is simply astonishing: here we have a President of the United States, on the record, unmasking the whole $8-trillion intervention in the Middle East as an endless war based on a “false premise.” No wonder the Pentagon is not amused. Trump’s tweet bisects the surreal geopolitical spectacle of Turkey attacking a 120-kilometer-long stretch...

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October 17, 2019

A Peg for a Peg: That’s the West’s Offer for China

While President Trump keeps trying to support a stock market via noises about negotiations with China progressing well, things are spiraling out of control in Hong Kong. The protests continue to escalate and show no signs of slowing down. The goal has explicitly become attacking the legitimacy of the Hong Kong government and bringing down an economy vulnerable to a...

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October 17, 2019

Another Interventionist “Success” Story

Not surprisingly, the interventionists are blaming their latest interventionist fiasco, this one in Syria, on President Trump. No, they say, the responsibility doesn’t fall on them and their morally bankrupt philosophy. The fault for their interventionist fiascos always lies with others. If only President Trump hadn’t betrayed the Kurds. If only he had kept those 50 U.S. troops who were...

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October 17, 2019

Ecuador – and the IMF’s Killing Spree

For close to 40 years the IMF has weaponized its handle on the western economy through the dollar-based western monetary system, and brutally destroyed nation after nation, thereby killed hundreds of thousands of people. Indirectly, of course, as the IMF would not use traditional guns and bombs, but financial instruments that kill – they kill by famine, by economic strangulation,...

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October 17, 2019

The Sanctions Addicts Look for Their Next Fix

The Trump administration is preparing to wage yet another economic war. This time they intend to impose sanctions on Turkey in response to its government’s invasion of northern Syria: After Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that Trump had authorized “very powerful” new sanctions targeting Turkey, the administration appeared ready to start making good on Trump’s threat to obliterate Turkey’s economy....

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October 17, 2019

Information Warfare: Twitter Targets Hong Kong

When Twitter Safety announced that it was taking actions against “information operations” directed at Hong Kong – informed observers could have immediately assumed that Twitter was not actually serious about stopping anything of the sort – but rather ensuring the information operation they are a part of was protected and those attempting to take action against it were purged from their platform....

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Daily Archive: October 17, 2019

China Displays Rock-Solid Support for Pakistan’s “Core Issue” of Kashmir

Key Highlights of President Putin’s Interview with Arab Media

Kurds Face Stark Options After US Pullback

A Peg for a Peg: That’s the West’s Offer for China

Another Interventionist “Success” Story

Ecuador – and the IMF’s Killing Spree

The Sanctions Addicts Look for Their Next Fix

Information Warfare: Twitter Targets Hong Kong