March 29, 2019 – Astute News

March 29, 2019

The World’s Most Dangerous Divide

In the beautiful and terrifying novel The City of Devi, communal hatreds escalate in India and Pakistan until the two countries feel compelled to threaten each other with nuclear weapons. At least, it starts out as a threat. Pakistan vows to take out Mumbai, and India will level Karachi. But everyone involved knows that nuclear war doesn’t really work that...

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March 29, 2019

Russia Throws Down the Gauntlet to US on Venezuela

The Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova acknowledged in Moscow on Tuesday that Russian “specialists” are indeed in Venezuela within the ambit of a 2001 military-technical cooperation agreement with Caracas. Zakharova underscored that Russia’s bilateral military cooperation with Venezuela is in accordance with the latter’s constitution and has legal underpinning, which “doesn’t require any additional approval from the (opposition-controlled) National Assembly...

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March 29, 2019

Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela Is Not “Just about Oil”

Yes, the latest research confirms that Venezuela is so rich in natural resources, that it could single-handedly satisfy all global demand for oil, for over 30 years. And it has much more than oil to offer, in its Orinoco basin and in other areas of the country. But it is not all ‘about oil’; actually, far from it. Those who...

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March 29, 2019

The EU Bows to ‘Systemic Rival’ China

Let’s start with the essential background for the meeting in Paris on Tuesday between Chinese President Xi Jinping and three EU heavyweights – French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of the European Commission (EC) Jean-Claude Juncker. As imperfect as these figures may be, economic growth for the past 10 years after the 2008 financial crisis –...

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March 29, 2019

Russiagate — a Bright, Shining Lie

“The Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia … to influence the 2016 US presidential campaign.” So stated Attorney General William Barr in his Sunday letter to Congress summarizing the principal findings of the Mueller report. On the charge of collusion with Russia, not guilty on all...

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March 29, 2019

Everyone Will Remember That the Media Made a Mockery of Itself Over Russiagate

It’s self-explanatory why everyone will remember that the media made a mockery of itself over Russiagate, but the implications will be far-reaching and deserve to be elaborated upon. It’s official – Trump and his team didn’t “collude” with Russia, and the entire Mainstream Media fake news narrative about the Russiagate witch hunt was just exposed as worse than McCarthyism. “At...

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March 29, 2019

A “Fake Fort Trump” Might Get Belarus to Back Down From Its Promise to Respond

Poland is sending signals about the uncertain future of Fort Trump. There wouldn’t ordinarily be any cause to speculate about the prospects of building the much-talked about Fort Trump in Poland when considering that Warsaw is so gung-ho about it that its President offered to foot the estimated $2 billion bill last year, or especially bearing in mind that the...

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March 29, 2019

Anti-Semitism and “The Israel Project”

Israel is off-limits. The criminalisation of anti-Semitism means nothing short of this. In fact, France’s President Macron says anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism and both are now legally defined as “hate crimes”. Will this be a global precursor? Will the world uphold such a sweeping, broad legal definition that has the potential to embrace the inhumanity and egregious acts...

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Daily Archive: March 29, 2019

The World’s Most Dangerous Divide

Russia Throws Down the Gauntlet to US on Venezuela

Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela Is Not “Just about Oil”

The EU Bows to ‘Systemic Rival’ China

Russiagate — a Bright, Shining Lie

Everyone Will Remember That the Media Made a Mockery of Itself Over Russiagate

A “Fake Fort Trump” Might Get Belarus to Back Down From Its Promise to Respond

Anti-Semitism and “The Israel Project”