March 27, 2017 – Astute News

March 27, 2017

Putin’s Red Line in Syria is not an Invitation for Israel to Play Russian Roulette with Assad

What is Israel’s real role in the war in Syria? Can we really believe that it doesn’t want to get involved in the conflict? And how much longer can Israel be Washington’s strong arm in the region while sustaining good relations with Russia? A minor incident took place last week in Syria which few in Washington and London even noticed,...

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March 27, 2017

Forget North Korea: A Nuclear War Betweeen India and Pakistan Should Terrify You

While the United States is preoccupied by the threat of nuclear weapons in the hands of potential adversaries such as Russia, China or North Korea, the danger of nuclear conflict may actually be greatest between two of its allies, Pakistan and India. The two nations have engaged in four wars starting since their partition along religious lines in 1947. A...

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March 27, 2017

As ISIS’s Caliphate Shrinks, Syrian Anger Grows

It must be the most beautiful front line in the world. Turn right at the ancient city of Qatna, drive east for 40 miles and you’ll come to a village called Telwared, the “Hill of Roses”. There are fields of yellow flowers, sheep and cattle and almond orchards and an old T-62 tank and then a series of largely empty,...

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March 27, 2017

Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised

From the start of his presidency, Donald Trump’s “war on terror” has entailed the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people in the name of killing terrorists. In other words, Trump has escalated the 16-year-old core premise of America’s foreign policy — that it has the right to bomb any country in the world where people it regards as terrorists are found —...

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March 27, 2017

Are the Japanese Navy Ships Going on a Tour?

As regular as it may sound, one is bound to note that there’s a rapid acceleration of political processes that can be observed in the world today in general and in the Asia-Pacific region in particular. It seems that only yesterday NEO was reporting on the chances of a possible aggravation between the leading regional players in the struggle for...

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March 27, 2017

Israel Begins ‘Extensive’ Military Drills in Golan Heights Amid Heightened Tensions with Syria

The Israeli Defense Forces began “extensive” military drills in the Golan Heights on Sunday. The exercises are expected to last one week, according to Israeli military officials. The Times of Israel reports: The exercises in the Golan Heights come at a time of increased tension with Syria, following several reported Israeli strikes on targets in Syria and a Syrian attempt to shoot...

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March 27, 2017

$10 Trillion Missing from Pentagon and No One — Not Even the DoD — Knows Where It Is

Over a mere two decades, the Pentagon lost track of a mind-numbing $10 trillion — that’s trillion, with a fat, taxpayer-funded “T” — and no one, not even the Department of Defense, really knows where it went or on what it was spent. Even though audits of all federal agencies became mandatory in 1996, the Pentagon has apparently made itself...

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March 27, 2017

How Facebook, Instagram, Google, and Twitter Use Censorship to Kill Free Speech…

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter play an increasingly important role in our lives, but a brand new study into online censorship has revealed a number of developing trends regarding how social media platforms are attempting to regulate their users’ speech. While most readers have likely been lucky enough to evade Facebook jail, others might have friends who have...

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Daily Archive: March 27, 2017

Putin’s Red Line in Syria is not an Invitation for Israel to Play Russian Roulette with Assad

Forget North Korea: A Nuclear War Betweeen India and Pakistan Should Terrify You

As ISIS’s Caliphate Shrinks, Syrian Anger Grows

Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised

Are the Japanese Navy Ships Going on a Tour?

Israel Begins ‘Extensive’ Military Drills in Golan Heights Amid Heightened Tensions with Syria

$10 Trillion Missing from Pentagon and No One — Not Even the DoD — Knows Where It Is

How Facebook, Instagram, Google, and Twitter Use Censorship to Kill Free Speech…