December 9, 2019 – Astute News

December 9, 2019

What Really Happened in Iran?

On November 15, a wave of protests engulfed over 100 Iranian cities as the government resorted to an extremely unpopular measure: a fuel tax hike of as much as 300%, without a semblance of a PR campaign to explain the reasons. Iranians, after all, have reflexively condemned subsidy removals for years now – especially related to cheap gasoline. If you...

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December 9, 2019

China Stealing Middle East from Under America’s Nose

China, the world’s second-largest economy, appears to be in the process of carving out a new Middle East plan that will over time erode and chip away at American dominance in the region. Granted, Washington’s influence in the Middle East has been steadily disappearing for some time. It became clear this was the case after the US toppled an anti-Iranian...

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December 9, 2019

Rumours of NATO’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

The decision to “downgrade” the NATO’s historic summit meeting in London on the 70th anniversary of the alliance to a mere “Leaders’ Meeting” implied that no joint declaration or communique would need to be issued after the event. That was smart thinking. The apprehension was that the sharp differences amongst the alliance partners on many crucial issues on the agenda...

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December 9, 2019

West Seeks Control Over Asian Rivers

At first glance the human rights and environmental issues surrounding a proposed dam seem like serious objections to their construction. In some cases they may be. In other cases – these concerns are manufactured, promoted, and cynically exploited by foreign special interests who seek to impede dam construction and likewise impede the march forward of the developing nations seeking to...

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December 9, 2019

Venezuela: The Leadership That Was Not

By 2007 they were looking bold, overflowing with what the previous generation lacked: energy and a willingness to use it up. The truth is that they shocked people in Venezuela and made an impression in the media with their weird and hurried way of talking. An opposition used to monuments of boredom as main figures suddenly received some fresh air...

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December 9, 2019

China Escalation Assures America’s Unmitigated March in the Direction of Stupidity Will Continue

Since a few things became clear to me last year, I’ve consistently forecasted a significant worsening in U.S.-China relations and remained adamant that all the happy talk of trade deals and breakthroughs is just a lot of hot air. What first appeared to be a unique quirk of Donald Trump has morphed into bipartisan consensus in Congress, and clear signs...

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December 9, 2019

From Russia With Sense: Putin Says ‘Nyet’ to PC Radicals Replacing ‘Mothers’ and ‘Fathers’

When it comes to protecting children, families and Russian traditions, Vladimir Putin has few rivals in the developed world. But will Russia be able to holdout forever against the globalists’ ultra-liberal agenda now threatening the planet? Had Peter the Great known what strange ideas would come to fixate the Western mind, perhaps he never would have built his northerly city...

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December 9, 2019

Fake News by Omission : The Mass Media’s Cowardly Distortion Tool

Western mass media have continued their conspiracy of silence on the OPCW scandal, making no significant mention yet this month of the leaks which have been emerging from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons indicating that the US, France and UK bombed Syria last year in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack which probably never occurred, and that...

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Daily Archive: December 9, 2019

What Really Happened in Iran?

China Stealing Middle East from Under America’s Nose

Rumours of NATO’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

West Seeks Control Over Asian Rivers

Venezuela: The Leadership That Was Not

China Escalation Assures America’s Unmitigated March in the Direction of Stupidity Will Continue

From Russia With Sense: Putin Says ‘Nyet’ to PC Radicals Replacing ‘Mothers’ and ‘Fathers’

Fake News by Omission : The Mass Media’s Cowardly Distortion Tool