March 13, 2019 – Astute News

March 13, 2019

US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats

Introduction The US is currently engaged in negotiations with at least a dozen countries; which involve fundamental political, military and economic issues. The US has adopted diplomatic strategies in the face of its ‘inability’ to secure military victories. The purpose of adopting a diplomatic approach is to secure through negotiations, in part or fully, goals and advantages unattainable through military...

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March 13, 2019

Middle East: Instability is on the Rise

The Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, stated that Iran was making every possible effort, together with India, Russia and nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus, to begin a joint regional campaign against terrorism. He highlighted that only with the help of such joint efforts can one combat terrorism, the plague of...

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March 13, 2019

Washington is Waging a New Dimension War Against China – and will Lose out Bitterly

Once the all-encompassing chittering and chattering about tariffs on Chinese imports by the western corporate media subsided, Trump, egocentric businessman rather than the President of the Empire, “out of the blue”, one could almost say, under the pretext of ‘unfair’ Chinese trading, launches a new ferocious and as usual totally illegal campaign of aggression against China’s fast-growing economy. It’s aillicit...

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March 13, 2019

How Middle America Is to Be Dispossessed

In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W. Bush and Donald Trump won only by capturing narrow majorities in the Electoral College. Hence the grand strategy of the left: to enlarge and alter the U.S. electorate so as to put victory as far out of reach for national Republicans as it...

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March 13, 2019

Bulgaria Is a New Battleground in the New Cold War

Russian Prime Minister Medvedev traveled to Bulgaria last week. The Russian premier’s visit was intended to explore the possibility of extending the TurkStream gas pipeline to the Balkan country and then onwards to Serbia and Central Europe, which is dependent on Sofia securing firm legal guarantees from Brussels in order to avoid a repeat of the South Stream fiasco that...

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March 13, 2019

Talking About Israel. The Relationship with Israel Is Poison for the United States

A recent article by Andrew Sullivan in the New York magazine considers how one might discuss the issue of Israel and its powerful domestic lobby without being accused of anti-Semitism. Sullivan is a keen observer of the dynamics of American political power and the article pretty clearly lays out why the relationship with Israel is poison for the United States,...

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March 13, 2019

Clinton Won’t Run Because She Wants to be the Democrats’ “Grey Cardinal” Instead

There was speculation ever since her epic loss last election that Hillary would throw her hat in the ring again one final time, but she put the rumors to rest in a recent TV interview when she ruled out running. She did say, however, that she’ll work with the various candidates and continue speaking up for what she believes in,...

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March 13, 2019

The Revolution Has No Hollywood Ending

After struggling against our own self-destructive tendencies throughout the entirety of recorded history, humanity is now at a point where that struggle is probably going to be resolved, one way or another, within the lifetime of most people reading this. The movie about this struggle has been written with one of two possible endings. In the first, we are unable...

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Daily Archive: March 13, 2019

US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats

Middle East: Instability is on the Rise

Washington is Waging a New Dimension War Against China – and will Lose out Bitterly

How Middle America Is to Be Dispossessed

Bulgaria Is a New Battleground in the New Cold War

Talking About Israel. The Relationship with Israel Is Poison for the United States

Clinton Won’t Run Because She Wants to be the Democrats’ “Grey Cardinal” Instead

The Revolution Has No Hollywood Ending