April 14, 2019 – Astute News

April 14, 2019

Pakistan Is Blackmailing Modi and Doval

Doublespeak is commonplace in statecraft. A celebrated case is of the former US President Barack Obama who was facing re-election in 2012. Battered by criticism by his Republican contender Mitt Romney for being “soft” on Russia, Obama sought a private understanding with the Kremlin leadership that he couldn’t afford to be seen by the American public as flexible on relations...

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April 14, 2019

Netanyahu’s Victory Tells Us Who Holds Power in the Middle East

Benjamin Netanyahu is an early version of the nationalist populist leaders that have come to power in country after country in recent decades. He has an acute sense of who holds – and does not hold – power and how to manipulate it. No wonder he gets on well with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. His political approach has not...

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April 14, 2019

Where Trump’s and Bibi’s Interests Clash

On Monday, President Donald Trump designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, the first time the United States has designated part of another nation’s government as such a threat. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council responded by declaring U.S. Central Command a terrorist group. With 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and 2,000 in Syria, often in proximity to Iranian...

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April 14, 2019

Libya Is Our Regime Change Nightmare

Eight years after the start of the US-led military intervention to overthrow Moammar Gaddafi and promote “stability,” Libya is still wracked by civil war. Ironically, the violence over the next few days has forced the US to evacuate its remaining forces—there for diplomatic security and counterterrorism—from the volatile country. Ever since the collapse of the old regime and Gaddafi’s violent death...

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April 14, 2019

Russia Warns Bolton: ‘Monroe Doctrine’ Remarks Are Insulting to Latin America

What is the ‘Monroe Doctrine’? In brief, it is a document which defines the entire Western Hemisphere as a ‘backyard’ of the United States. It ‘philosophically’ justifies Washington’s neo-colonialism, and the most barbaric coups it has been triggering, as well as covered and open interventions in the Caribbean, and in Central and South America. And now, National Security Advisor John...

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April 14, 2019

The Betrayal of Brexit Is a Mix of Social Engineering and Mock Elections

The UK’s so-called “powers that be” are betraying Brexit through a mix of social engineering and mock elections in order craft the false narrative that it’s actually the “people’s will” to remain in the EU. By now it’s obvious enough that PM May represents the vested interests of the UK’s so-called “powers that be” by betraying Brexit and doing all...

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April 14, 2019

Fake News Alert: China Is NOT Building a Base in Zimbabwe!

Alt-Media is once again being manipulated by infowar practitioners into spreading fake news, with the popular outlet South Front republishing a false report about a Chinese base in Zimbabwe because it seemingly satisfied their “wishful thinking” confirmation bias about the People’s Republic forcefully challenging the US in Africa despite the allegation itself being a cleverly crafted attempt to discredit both...

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April 14, 2019

The Age of Injustice

April 11, 2019, brought us a new word for Judas: Moreno—the puppet president of Ecuador who sold Julian Assange to Washington for his 30 pieces of silver. This morning’s arrest of Assange inside the Ecuadoran embassy in London is the first stage in Washington’s attempt to criminalize the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Washington’s man in Quito said he...

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Daily Archive: April 14, 2019

Pakistan Is Blackmailing Modi and Doval

Netanyahu’s Victory Tells Us Who Holds Power in the Middle East

Where Trump’s and Bibi’s Interests Clash

Libya Is Our Regime Change Nightmare

Russia Warns Bolton: ‘Monroe Doctrine’ Remarks Are Insulting to Latin America

The Betrayal of Brexit Is a Mix of Social Engineering and Mock Elections

Fake News Alert: China Is NOT Building a Base in Zimbabwe!

The Age of Injustice