March 28, 2019 – Astute News

March 28, 2019

India Is Using Its Pulwama Humiliation as a Pretext to Race China in Space

India’s anti-satellite muscle-flexing is being portrayed as a response to its recent humiliation by Pakistan, but the latest regional events are only being relied upon as a “plausible pretext” for thinly disguising the fact that India intends to race China in space at the behest of its new American ally. “Mission Shakti” Modi stunned the world by announcing that his...

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March 28, 2019

Road to Next War Begins in Golan

When Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austro-Hungary, took a wrong turning in Sarajevo in 1914 the world found itself on the road to WW1. With Donald Trump’s self-serving recognition of Israel’s illegal annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights, a similar wrong turn has been taken, and it has paved the way to the next Middle East...

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March 28, 2019

Trump’s Golan Green Light Paves Way to Israel’s Annexation of West Bank

When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem last year, effectively sabotaging any hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state, he tore up the international rulebook. Last week, he trampled all over its remaining tattered pages. He did so, of course, via Twitter. Referring to a large piece of territory Israel seized from Syria in 1967, Trump...

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March 28, 2019

Eight Years Ago, March 2011. The Day Before Daraa: How the War Broke Out in Syria

The day before September 11, 2001 was like any normal day in New York City. September 10, 2001 was unaware of the earthshaking events which would happen the next day. Similarly, one might think the day before the violence broke out in Daraa, Syria in March 2011 would have been an uneventful day, unaware of the uprising about to begin....

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March 28, 2019

Apocalypse Now & Loving It!

Remember the madcap scene in ‘Apocalypse Now’, the 1979 film by Francis Ford Coppola about American genocidal rampaging in Vietnam? “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”, bellows the psychotic military commander as US choppers strafe and destroy a Vietnamese village. The same kind of unhinged death-wishing is reminiscent in the Trump administration. President Trump is on an infernal roll and...

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March 28, 2019

Now for Confrontation in Space

There was much international news in mid-March, although little of it was encouraging for those who prefer peace to war, handshakes to sabre-rattling, and cooperation to confrontation. But there was one item of good cheer which showed that friendly cooperation between the US and Russia continues, albeit unobtrusively. It concerned the International Space Station, about which it was reported on March 15...

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March 28, 2019

Putin Inviting Erdogan to Crimea Will Earn Him Soft Power Points in the “Ummah”

President Putin invited his Turkish counterpart to the opening of the Central Mosque in Crimea. The offer was made over the weekend when the Russian leader visited the peninsula to commemorate the fifth year of its historic reunification with the Motherland, during which time he said in response to the idea publicly raised by the Mufti of Crimea’s Muslims that “He...

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March 28, 2019

Trump Is America’s First Zionist President

It is impossible not to feel some sympathy for President Donald Trump. His agenda to restore normal relations with Russia and to end Washington’s gratuitous wars has been frustrated by the “Russiagate hoax” that the military/security complex and corrupt Democratic Party used in the effort to remove Trump from the presidency. He and his wife have been embarrassed by the...

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Daily Archive: March 28, 2019

India Is Using Its Pulwama Humiliation as a Pretext to Race China in Space

Road to Next War Begins in Golan

Trump’s Golan Green Light Paves Way to Israel’s Annexation of West Bank

Eight Years Ago, March 2011. The Day Before Daraa: How the War Broke Out in Syria

Apocalypse Now & Loving It!

Now for Confrontation in Space

Putin Inviting Erdogan to Crimea Will Earn Him Soft Power Points in the “Ummah”

Trump Is America’s First Zionist President