February 6, 2020 – Astute News

February 6, 2020

Trump Green Lights Greater Israel

Many interested parties have already weighed in on President Donald Trump’s “Deal of the Century.” Even though it sounds like a phrase that a used car dealer would use, the “Deal” is dead serious in that it effectively denies to the Palestinians in perpetuum any political entity that has attributes of genuine sovereignty. Israel, which has just postponed a vote...

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February 6, 2020

The Afghanistan Papers

Afghanistan is a famous desert for empires, a burial ground which has consumed those in power who thought that extra fortification and trading most might benefit them. It remains a great, and somewhat savage reminder about those who suffer hubris, overconfidence and eagerness in pursuing their agendas. But the country has also served another purpose: a repository for the untruths...

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February 6, 2020

What the Deal of the Century Tells Us About the World We Live In

The real issue with US President Donald J. Trump’s Deal of the Century Israeli-Palestinian peace plan is not whether it stands a chance of resolving one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. It doesn’t. More important is the fact that Israel will, in violation of international law, be empowered to unilaterally annex occupied territory and take steps towards creating an...

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February 6, 2020

“Hybrid War” and Its Impacts on Latin America

This is the full English-language original version of the interview that Andrew Korybko gave to Argentinian journalist Santiago Mayor, who then published a shortened form of it in the Buenos Aires newspaper “Tiempo Argentino”. *** 1. In your book about the theory of the Hybrid War, you review the different American geopolitical theories throughout history to arrive at the current...

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February 6, 2020

The Interpretation of the Shoah

We are currently commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, where more than a million prisoners perished. We have made it the symbol of the extermination camps, Nazi crimes and the Shoah. Holocaust deniers have tried to rehabilitate Nazi Germany by denying that it intended to exterminate people, that it actually murdered millions of people, and...

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February 6, 2020

Great Land Grab: Two-State Solution or a Two-State Problem?

Analysis of Donald Trump’s proposed “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian problem has followed a predictable pattern. Trump supporters have hailed it as a realistic attempt to bring peace to the region. His opponents say it is a means of distracting from his impeachment and helping his ally Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing multiple corruption charges himself. What few seem to...

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February 6, 2020

More About Trump’s Ukraine Connections

Hardly a day passes but some new and usually disturbing light is cast on President Donald Trump, and a recent illuminating glimpse came from publication of a recording that showed yet more of his expansive bluster. The video/sound evidence of his performance showed him at a dinner table “in a private suite in his Washington hotel with a group of...

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February 6, 2020

Will Brexit See Gibraltar’s Return to Spain with EU Support?

The European Union plans to support Spain in its territorial claims on Gibraltar in the next round of Brexit negotiations that are expected to begin on March 3. The EU will give the Iberian country the power to exclude British overseas territory from any commercial agreement signed with Brussels. British control over Gibraltar was achieved by the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht....

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Daily Archive: February 6, 2020

Trump Green Lights Greater Israel

The Afghanistan Papers

What the Deal of the Century Tells Us About the World We Live In

“Hybrid War” and Its Impacts on Latin America

The Interpretation of the Shoah

Great Land Grab: Two-State Solution or a Two-State Problem?

More About Trump’s Ukraine Connections

Will Brexit See Gibraltar’s Return to Spain with EU Support?