October 3, 2017 – Astute News

October 3, 2017

The Future of the EU at Stake in Catalonia

Fascist Franco may have been dead for more than four decades, but Spain is still encumbered with his dictatorial corpse. A new paradigm has been coined right inside the lofty European Union, self-described home/patronizing dispenser of human rights to lesser regions across the planet: “In the name of democracy, refrain from voting, or else.” Call it democracy nano-Franco style. Nano-Franco is...

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October 3, 2017

Questions Swirl in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting

Sunday night Las Vegas shooting at country music concert. Shooter in a high room at the Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel, a long distance away. Deadliest mass shooting in US history. 518 wounded, 58 dead. With the body count and wounded numbers rising, and the concert shooter, Stephen Paddock, dead, here are a few questions: What weapon was he using? That...

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October 3, 2017

Here’s Why Allowing Saudi Women to Drive is Very Dangerous

The move risks provoking the already distraught Wahhabi clergy who fear that the monarchy is breaking its old alliance with them by sidelining the Kingdom’s most conservative religious gatekeepers in its quest for socio-economic modernization. Hardcore Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia have warned for generations that allowing women to drive would be a very dangerous development for the ultra-fundamentalist Kingdom, arguing...

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October 3, 2017

Safe-Zone Judo as Syrian Forces Cross the Euphrates

Syrian forces with the support of their Russian and Iranian allies, crossed the Euphrates River near the city of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria. The move is not only a significant step forward in restoring security nationwide and ensuring the nation’s territorial integrity, it is also a significant step toward turning the tables on the very interests who provoked and...

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October 3, 2017

Catalonian Independence and the Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War

Arriving in Barcelona in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, Ernst Toller wrote, “The most striking experience a foreigner has in Barcelona is that of the functioning of democracy.” In 2017 something akin to history repeating is unfolding in the Catalonian capital, where democracy has again been raised aloft as a cause worth fighting for. The scenes of Spanish riot police...

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October 3, 2017

The Kurdish Independence Referendum was a Political Miscalculation

The Iraqi government has banned international flights to the Kurdish capital Irbil from 6pm this Friday, isolating the Kurds in Iraq to a degree they have not experienced since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The isolation is political as well as geographical as traditional Kurdish allies, like the US, UK, France and Germany, have opposed the referendum on...

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October 3, 2017

What Did Washington Achieve in its Six Year War on Syria?

Now that the defeat of ISIS in Syria appears imminent, with the Syrian army clearing out some of the last ISIS strongholds in the east, Washington’s interventionists are searching for new excuses to maintain the illegal US military presence in the country. Their original rationale for intervention has long been exposed as another lie. Remember that President Obama initially involved...

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October 3, 2017

Are You Ready to Die?

Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media. The propagandists running Homeland Security were contradicted by the state...

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Daily Archive: October 3, 2017

The Future of the EU at Stake in Catalonia

Questions Swirl in the Las Vegas Mass Shooting

Here’s Why Allowing Saudi Women to Drive is Very Dangerous

Safe-Zone Judo as Syrian Forces Cross the Euphrates

Catalonian Independence and the Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War

The Kurdish Independence Referendum was a Political Miscalculation

What Did Washington Achieve in its Six Year War on Syria?

Are You Ready to Die?