March 18, 2019 – Astute News

March 18, 2019

Indian Navy Deploys Aircraft Carrier & Nuclear Subs to Deter ‘Misadventures’ by Pakistan

Dozens of Indian warships, including an aircraft carrier and nuclear-powered submarines, left a massive maritime exercise and were deployed amid simmering tensions with Pakistan, the Navy has confirmed. INS ‘Vikramaditya,’ a Russian-built aircraft carrier, and a number of nuclear submarines have set sail along with other vessels and aircraft, according to a statement by the Indian military. The move is...

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March 18, 2019

New Zealand Massacre: The Hate That Australia Produced

“We stand here and condemn absolutely the attack that occurred today by an extremist, right-wing, violent terrorist,” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told a news conference, as his country grapples with the fact that one of its own murdered 50 Muslim worshippers in neighboring New Zealand. The kind of anti-Muslim views espoused by politicians and pundits are indistinguishable from those disseminated by violent far-right...

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March 18, 2019

Russia Wipes US in War?

A recent US war-game report certainly made dramatic headlines claiming that in a conventional war with either Russia or China, American forces would get a whipping. All the more remarkable was that the assessment came from the Rand Corporation, which is closely aligned with the Pentagon. It may seem therefore a rather rude admission by a Pentagon-funded think tank that US military forces...

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March 18, 2019

EU Dilemma: How to Deal with China

Facing China’s irresistible rise all across the chessboard, and under relentless US pressure, the not exactly democratic EU leadership is on a backbreaking exercise to position itself between a geopolitical/geoeconomic rock and a hard place. The 28-member EU holds a crucial meeting next week in Brussels where it may adopt a 10-point action plan detailing, in a thesis, the terms...

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March 18, 2019

The West Broke Syria and Should Own It

As Syria’s war enters its ninth year on March 15, many questions arise as to how it began and what it morphed into, but the most pressing one will be the ‘balance sheet’. Quintessentially speaking, this is a geopolitical cataclysm, and the moving finger, which is still writing, is yet to move on. The death toll tops 370,000 people, including...

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March 18, 2019

Dissecting Washington’s Color Revolution Techniques

As it’s been pointed out by a number of prominent statisticians, over the last hundred years Washington has interfered in the internal affairs of at least 50 countries for a total of 130 individual cases. As for the last three decades, there’s been more than 40 instances of such interference, including cases of elections meddling and fraud, coup d’etats and attempts...

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March 18, 2019

Are Algerian Protests a Color Revolution?

The ongoing protests against the sitting president Abdelaziz Bouteflika that remained at the helm of Algerian politics for two decades and was going to run for the office for the fifth time have led to an abrupt deterioration in the political situation in this country. As a matter of fact, the Bouteflika government has been trying to address widespread public...

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March 18, 2019

Artificial Morality

Artificial Intelligence is one thing. Artificial morality is another. It may sound something like this: “First, we believe in the strong defense of the United States and we want the people who defend it to have access to the nation’s best technology, including from Microsoft.” The words are those of Microsoft president Brad Smith, writing on a corporate blogsite last...

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Daily Archive: March 18, 2019

Indian Navy Deploys Aircraft Carrier & Nuclear Subs to Deter ‘Misadventures’ by Pakistan

New Zealand Massacre: The Hate That Australia Produced

Russia Wipes US in War?

EU Dilemma: How to Deal with China

The West Broke Syria and Should Own It

Dissecting Washington’s Color Revolution Techniques

Are Algerian Protests a Color Revolution?

Artificial Morality