October 30, 2016 – Astute News

October 30, 2016

Despicable Balfour: A Story of Betrayal

November 2 marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which began the still-ongoing colonisation of Palestine and sowed the seeds of an endless nightmare for the Palestinian people, both those who were forced to flee at gunpoint and those who have managed to remain in the shredded remains of their homeland under Israel’s brutal military occupation. A movement...

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October 30, 2016

The Strange Case of the Scottish Ambulance Found Among the Rubble of Eastern Aleppo

Moonscape. Desert. Blitz. The past 100 years of war have turned all our words into clichés. I rage at every reference to the Second World War – because it’s over, because Hitler is dead, because we won and because we shouldn’t dig up old graves to frighten future generations. But Beni Zeid is an exception. It goes on for square...

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October 30, 2016

Down to the Seas in Confrontation

Over a century ago the English poet John Masefield wrote that «I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky / And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by», but it is doubtful he would express such sentiments in this age, because he would probably find it...

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October 30, 2016

Clinton Suggested US Should Rig a Foreign Election — But Don’t Expect the Media to Care

Hillary Clinton has spent a disproportionate amount of time lately complaining — without evidence — about “the Russians” interfering with the US election. But it turns out that interfering in foreign elections is totally fine if you’re the United States. Clinton has used this notion of Russian interference as a non-stop talking point throughout her campaign. Any and all scandals...

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October 30, 2016

The De Facto US/Al Qaeda Alliance

A curious aspect of the Syrian conflict – a rebellion sponsored largely by the United States and its Gulf state allies – is the disappearance in much of the American mainstream news media of references to the prominent role played by Al Qaeda in seeking to overthrow the secular Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. There’s much said in the U.S....

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October 30, 2016

Russia Calls Washington’s Bluff, Moves to Finish Syrian War

The Western media storm has suddenly quietened. For several months, there has been a howling campaign orchestrated by Western governments to discredit the anti-terror operations carried out by the Syrian army and its Russian ally to retake the crucial battleground city of Aleppo. Western leaders, amplified by dutiful media outlets, have been relentlessly accusing Russia of war crimes and threatening...

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October 30, 2016

Tensions Boil: Beijing Accuses Japan of Endangering Chinese Aircraft

On Thursday the Chinese Defense Ministry accused Japan of targeting and endangering the safety of Beijing’s military aircraft. Tokyo and Beijing are in the midst of a long-standing dispute over a group of islands in the East China Sea, called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku in Japan. Fighter jets and patrol ships from both countries have been hounding each other...

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October 30, 2016

Why Dietary Recommendations on Fat Need to Change

A recent editorial in the journal Open Heart suggests many of us have it all wrong when it comes to the balance of fats we eat. The authors urge a return to equal amounts of specific types of fats known as omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in order to help combat global obesity. The paper reflects a recent wave...

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Daily Archive: October 30, 2016

Despicable Balfour: A Story of Betrayal

The Strange Case of the Scottish Ambulance Found Among the Rubble of Eastern Aleppo

Down to the Seas in Confrontation

Clinton Suggested US Should Rig a Foreign Election — But Don’t Expect the Media to Care

The De Facto US/Al Qaeda Alliance

Russia Calls Washington’s Bluff, Moves to Finish Syrian War

Tensions Boil: Beijing Accuses Japan of Endangering Chinese Aircraft

Why Dietary Recommendations on Fat Need to Change