November 10, 2016 – Astute News

November 10, 2016

India’s Crackdown in Kashmir: Is This the World’s First Mass Blinding?

For the past month, while the attention of the world has been fixed on every dramatic twist in the US presidential election, the renewal of armed conflict between India and Pakistan has barely touched the headlines. In the past few weeks, the two nuclear states have, between them, killed two dozen civilians and injured scores of others in exchanges of...

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November 10, 2016

Another U.S. Massacre in Afghanistan

The latest massacre of many innocent people by U.S. forces in Afghanistan provides another demonstration as to why it is imperative that the American people stop deferring to the authority of the national security state and demand the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan. In a war that has now gone on for 16 years, U.S. forces just...

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November 10, 2016

Smog Smothering India’s Cities Spotted from Space

Air pollution plaguing areas surrounding India’s capital city was at one point so bad in early November that it could be seen from space. NASA satellite images taken last week reveal a thick blanket of grey smog stretching hundreds of miles from the Pakistani cities of Faisalabad and Lahore, to the Indian capital New Delhi. The seriousness of the pollution...

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November 10, 2016

‘How Did Trump Win?’ People Turn to Google After Shock US Election Result

The unexpected news of Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton is beginning to sink in across the US and the world, leaving people with only one obvious question, how exactly could this happen?, and who better to provide the answers than trusted search engine Google. Google Trends reported that the top ‘How did..?’ queries searched Wednesday were ‘How did Trump...

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November 10, 2016

US Navy Can’t Fire its Awesome New Gun

The U.S. Navy can’t fire its awesome new gun that can hit a target more than 70 miles away because the rounds are costing the service nearly a million bucks a piece. Just a couple weeks after the Navy commissioned its most advanced warship, the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), the service says it won’t be buying any more of the guided precision...

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November 10, 2016

The Mediterranean has Become a Cemetery

With little mention in the media, a grim milestone was passed off the southern shores of Europe last month. With the death toll of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea already surpassing all of last year, 2016 has become the deadliest year on record for those fleeing the violence, poverty and horror of their home countries in the hope of finding...

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November 10, 2016

Flagship Of Fearmongering: The Guardian, MI5 And State Propaganda

Readers of the Guardian woke up last Tuesday (November 1, 2016) to find that the newspaper and website had been given over to promoting MI5. To be more precise: the paper was trumpeting a fearmongering ‘exclusive’ with MI5 Director-General, Andrew Parker. It was billed as ‘the first interview of its kind’ and was conducted by the paper’s deputy editor, Paul...

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November 10, 2016

Illegal Israeli Settlers Steal Palestinian Olive Harvest

Israeli settlers stole the harvest of 400 olive trees planted on private Palestinian land, farmers in Nablus reported yesterday. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that more than 30 Palestinian families from the Nablus district village of Deir Sharaf entered their agricultural lands yesterday after being banned since Friday by Israeli authorities....

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Daily Archive: November 10, 2016

India’s Crackdown in Kashmir: Is This the World’s First Mass Blinding?

Another U.S. Massacre in Afghanistan

Smog Smothering India’s Cities Spotted from Space

‘How Did Trump Win?’ People Turn to Google After Shock US Election Result

US Navy Can’t Fire its Awesome New Gun

The Mediterranean has Become a Cemetery

Flagship Of Fearmongering: The Guardian, MI5 And State Propaganda

Illegal Israeli Settlers Steal Palestinian Olive Harvest