March 12, 2020 – Astute News

March 12, 2020

Which Target After Syria?

19 years of “war without end” President George W. Bush decided to radically transform the Pentagon’s missions, as Colonel Ralph Peters explained in the Army magazine Parameters on September 13, 2001. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appointed Admiral Arthur Cebrowski to train future officers. Cebrowski spent three years touring military universities so that today all general officers have taken his...

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March 12, 2020

What is Trump Thinking — Peace or Chaos for Afghanistan?

On February 28, US officials signed a peace deal in the Qatari capital Doha with representatives of the Taliban movement (banned in Russia). CNN were quick to describe the agreement as a “historic” event. Most people now believe that America’s war against the Taliban is nearing its end. We could argue that this agreement might bring an end to the...

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March 12, 2020

Trump and the Taliban ‘Non-Peace Peace’

History is filled with examples of Neville Chamberlain’s Folly: Old fools like the British prime minister in 1938 selling out Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union to the merciless bloodlust of Adolf Hitler and proclaiming “peace in our time” when there was no peace. U.S. President Donald Trump’s new deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan may prove to be a classic...

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March 12, 2020

Old Ideas in New Bottles

Numerous so-called “front groups” operate in the United States. A front group is very simply an organization that pretends to have a certain program while at the same time using that identity as cover to promote a hidden agenda that is something quite different, often opposed to what is being said publicly. The Global Climate Coalition is, for example, an...

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March 12, 2020

And the Winner is? Deflation

Back in August I penned a post called, “The Battle of the ‘Flations Has Begun.” With an historic 2000 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrials on Monday in response to Saudi Arabia and Russia declaring an oil price war on, well, everyone it’s clear that one of the two ‘flations, deflation, has won out. In retrospect the timing out...

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March 12, 2020

The MH17 Show Trial Isn’t About Justice or Closure, But Information Warfare

The MH17 tragedy is back in the news after the start of this case’s show trial in the Netherlands, which isn’t about bringing the alleged perpetrators to justice or helping the victims’ families find closure, but waging information warfare against Russia in an attempt to “conclusively” pin the blame for this crime on its supposed proxies in Eastern Ukraine so...

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March 12, 2020

LOCK STEP: This is No Futuristic Scenario

Every day world mainstream news reports more people in more countries diagnosed “positive” for the coronavirus illness, now called COVID-19. As the reported numbers grow, so does widespread nervousness, often in the form of panic shopping for masks, disinfections, toilet paper, canned goods. We are told to accept the testing results as science-based. While it is next to impossible to...

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March 12, 2020

1983 CIA Document Reveals Plan to Destroy Syria, Foreshadows Current Crisis

As the Syrian crisis enters its ninth year, the Donald Trump administration is looking more and more like the Obama administration every day. With the Trump regime refusing to open useful dialogue with Russia regarding Syria, it’s obvious anti-Iran and pro-Israel positioning, and support for a very questionable “safe zone” plan for Syria, the odds of a rational U.S. policy...

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Daily Archive: March 12, 2020

Which Target After Syria?

What is Trump Thinking — Peace or Chaos for Afghanistan?

Trump and the Taliban ‘Non-Peace Peace’

Old Ideas in New Bottles

And the Winner is? Deflation

The MH17 Show Trial Isn’t About Justice or Closure, But Information Warfare

LOCK STEP: This is No Futuristic Scenario

1983 CIA Document Reveals Plan to Destroy Syria, Foreshadows Current Crisis