March 5, 2017 – Astute News

March 5, 2017

China’s Military Power Projection into Af-Pak

Last week, I looked at the recent string of attacks in Pakistan and attributed them to state-sponsored terrorism facilitated by Indian and Afghan security services. That opinion got plenty of support on the hawkish side of Pakistan media. Munir Akram Pakistan’s ex ambassador to the UN declared “we know the hostile powers that have sponsored these attacks the intelligence agencies...

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March 5, 2017

Saudi Arabia’s Southeast Asia Terror Tour

Saudi Arabia’s king, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, has recently undertaken a sweeping tour of Southeast Asia in what the media and analysts are claiming is a bid to firm up economic and political ties with Muslim-majority nations in the region. However, both the media and analysts are sidestepping or entirely omitting the role Saudi Arabia has played in fueling...

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March 5, 2017

What Is To Be Done?

The question in the title is V.I. Lenin’s question. His answer was to create a revolutionary “vanguard” to spread revolutionary ideas among the workers, the economic class that Karl Marx had declared to be the class rising to the ascendency of political power. Finally, democracy, frustrated by upper class interests in its earlier manifestations, would become reality. The workers would...

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March 5, 2017

A New Global Construct and Realigned Relationships

Like a scene out of a Hollywood epic movie, Saudi Arabian King Salman journeyed to Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, with an entourage of 1000 aides and servants, including ten Cabinet ministers and 25 Saudi princes traveling aboard four Boeing 747s and two Boeing 777s. Indonesian president Joko Widodo termed the visit part of a «strategic partnership» between...

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March 5, 2017

China Expands Its Strategic Airlift Capability, Prepares to Expand Its Sphere of Influence

Although combat aircraft such as the J-31 stealth fighter and J-15 aircraft carrier strike aircraft have made most of the headlines, China has made significant accomplishments in the realm of military transport, long range maritime patrol and carrier borne AEW&C aircraft over the past year. First operational in 2016, the Y-20 military transport is now the largest such aircraft in...

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March 5, 2017

The Basic Formula for Every Shocking Russia/Trump Revelation

The basic formula for every breaking Trump/Russia story is essentially as follows: 1. The New York Times or Washington Post releases an article that at first blush appears extremely damning. 2. Anti-Trump pundits and Democrats react reflexively to the news, express shrieking outrage, and proclaim that this finally proves untoward collusion between Trump and Russia — a smoking gun, at last. 3....

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March 5, 2017

Signs of the Times

Lecture from Sheikh Imran N. Hosein from the IBN studio in Trinidad and Tobago on SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The topic is an “Islamic view of the modern international monetary system and our anticipation of the replacement, in toto, of bogus paper-money with even-more-bogus electronic, digital, virtual money in the not-too-distant future. We should prepare for that monetary Guantanamo by...

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March 5, 2017

The Donbass is Breaking Away from an Agonized Ukraine

Tectonic shifts are continuing to occur in the political landscape of the Ukraine. Last week, following the imposition of a total blockade against Novorussia by the Ukronazis, Russia declared that she will from now on recognize the official documents emitted by the DNR and LNR authorities. This week, the Novorussian authorities have nationalized all the key factories of the Donbass....

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Daily Archive: March 5, 2017

China’s Military Power Projection into Af-Pak

Saudi Arabia’s Southeast Asia Terror Tour

What Is To Be Done?

A New Global Construct and Realigned Relationships

China Expands Its Strategic Airlift Capability, Prepares to Expand Its Sphere of Influence

The Basic Formula for Every Shocking Russia/Trump Revelation

Signs of the Times

The Donbass is Breaking Away from an Agonized Ukraine