March 30, 2018 – Astute News

March 30, 2018

What to Expect from the ‘Second Most Dangerous Man in Washington’

It is fairly simple to understand what the appointment of John Bolton as the Trump Administration’s National Security Advisor is all about. First of all, as there is no congressional approval or confirmation process involved, the announcement made last week, which is being criticized from all sides, is not really subject to debate. Bolton is the new Advisor and will...

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March 30, 2018

What’s Behind Beijing’s South China Sea Moves – and Why US Patrols are Making Things Worse

The latest spat between the United States and China following the entry of an American destroyer into waters within 12 nautical miles of an island over which Beijing has claimed sovereignty is certain to draw international attention again to the rapid military build-up by the Chinese in the South China Sea. China has dubbed the USS Mustin’s foray into waters...

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March 30, 2018

You Know the US is Losing; We’re Willing to Talk

How do you know when a politician is lying? Their lips move and words come out. How do you know when the United States is at a disadvantage in a geopolitical quagmire? Our diplomats and Presidents want to ‘open up talks.’ Multiple times in the past four years the U.S. has used negotiating ceasefires in Syria and Ukraine to rearm...

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March 30, 2018

The Pseudo-Churchills: Why are Politicians Playing Fast-and-Loose With WW II?

What in the name of God prompts our pseudo-Churchills to play fast and loose with the Second World War? First of all, it was Theresa May saying that “not since” the Second World War had nerve agents been used in Europe. Then Boris Johnson did his poseur act against Russia under the wing of a replica Battle of Britain Spitfire...

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March 30, 2018

The Twilight of the Empire Age: Whose World Will It Be?

“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can’t bomb it into peace” (Michael Franti)[2] David and Goliath in an upside-down world President Donald Trump doesn’t seem to share Georges Clemenceau’s view that “war is too serious a matter to be left to the military”. All the more so, perhaps, since the French statesman is also said to have...

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March 30, 2018

Trump Agrees to Meet Kim: How Stupid Can You Get?

So who is patronising who by acknowledging the other’s existence? Does Trump Actually Think He Is Honouring Him? What can be said of the forthcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.. There was a time when most of the world would have agreed with this assessment, as little irritants like North Korea are generally beneath the personal attention of...

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March 30, 2018

Trump’s “End-Game” Could Become Ours

On March 28th, CNN headlined “An unheard-of problem: The President can’t find a lawyer” and reported that: Five large law firms are passing on the opportunity to represent the President after a shakeup last week on his private defense team and as he anticipates giving possible testimony to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Well-known Washington lawyers cited several reasons for declining the President in...

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March 30, 2018

US Criticism of Congo Highlights E-Voting Hypocrisy and Hybrid War Threats

Despite using electronic voting machines in its own elections, the US is adamant that the Congo forsake this technology in its upcoming ones owing to what Washington hypocritically alleges is its unreliable nature, and it’s even pressuring foreign donors to withhold aid until Kinshasa capitulates to this demand because it believes that paper ballots would make the December vote easier...

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Daily Archive: March 30, 2018

What to Expect from the ‘Second Most Dangerous Man in Washington’

What’s Behind Beijing’s South China Sea Moves – and Why US Patrols are Making Things Worse

You Know the US is Losing; We’re Willing to Talk

The Pseudo-Churchills: Why are Politicians Playing Fast-and-Loose With WW II?

The Twilight of the Empire Age: Whose World Will It Be?

Trump Agrees to Meet Kim: How Stupid Can You Get?

Trump’s “End-Game” Could Become Ours

US Criticism of Congo Highlights E-Voting Hypocrisy and Hybrid War Threats