March 9, 2020 – Astute News

March 9, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s Oil Price War Could Very Easily Backfire

Russia’s rejection of its OPEC+ partners’ request to further reduce oil production in response to slumping demand prompted Saudi Arabia to unwisely initiate an oil price war over the weekend as revenge, one which the Gulf country is ill-equipped to wage and which could prospectively catalyze a global economic crisis. *** President Putin’s job obliges him to put his country’s...

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March 9, 2020

The Delhi Pogroms and the Case of the Disposable Indian Muslim

They came to the hospital with gunshot wounds, stabbings, acid burns and mutilated genitalia. Homes and mosques were torched, businesses razed. Those Indian Muslims who resisted had acid thrown at their faces. Others were shot at. The Hindu mobs came in numbers, carried saffron flags, and chanted “Jai Shree Ram” – a battle cry for a Hindu India. Even as the...

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March 9, 2020

Russia Just Told the World, “No.”

There is real power in the word “No.” In fact, I’d argue that it is the single most powerful word in any language. In the midst of the worst market meltdown in a dozen years which has at its source problems within global dollar-funding markets, Russia found itself in the position to exercise the Power of No. Multiple overlapping crises...

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March 9, 2020

End Bush’s Stupid War Today!

After 19 years of war, over $1 trillion in spending, 2,400 dead and a torrent of lies, the US may now be facing an end to its longest war. The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001. There were three reasons: 1. to cover up the humiliation of the tough-talking Bush administration for being caught sleeping on guard duty by the 9/11...

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March 9, 2020

New Putin-Erdogan Deal Is Sugar-coating the Turks’ Surrender

This week’s meeting between Presidents Putin and Erdogan in Moscow was cast as preventing a war between Russia and Turkey in Syria. War, however, was never on the horizon. Putin called Erdogan’s bluff, and the Turk folded. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, accompanied by their respective senior national security advisers, met in Moscow on March 5....

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March 9, 2020

Putin Helps Erdogan Climb Down from the Tree with a Ceasefire Agreement

President Vladimir Putin agreed to meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who came to Moscow seeking a ceasefire he could not announce unilaterally on the battlefield, where he has lost momentum. Thousands of Turkish soldiers were pushed onto the frontline against the Syrian army and its allies because the tens of thousands of jihadists deployed in Idlib and its...

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March 9, 2020

Can Australia and India Get Cooperation Against China Going?

Only ten years ago, it would have been impossible to say that the cooperation between Australia and India was particularly active. But since then, the two countries have intensified their efforts to collaborate with one another, with notable success. The reason for India’s and Australia’s increased interest in deepening their partnership is the concern felt by both about China’s growing...

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March 9, 2020

Sugar and Spice and Everything Vice: the Empire’s Sin City of London

The over 1000 point plunge of the stock market on Feb 27th and broader ruptures of the financial system last week have been yet another wake up call for those who have been contented so far to “live in the moment” of fast money. Since the 2008 financial crisis, which is considered the most serious financial crisis since the Great...

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Daily Archive: March 9, 2020

Saudi Arabia’s Oil Price War Could Very Easily Backfire

The Delhi Pogroms and the Case of the Disposable Indian Muslim

Russia Just Told the World, “No.”

End Bush’s Stupid War Today!

New Putin-Erdogan Deal Is Sugar-coating the Turks’ Surrender

Putin Helps Erdogan Climb Down from the Tree with a Ceasefire Agreement

Can Australia and India Get Cooperation Against China Going?

Sugar and Spice and Everything Vice: the Empire’s Sin City of London