November 8, 2019 – Astute News

November 8, 2019

The Completion of the Kartarpur Corridor Is a Victory for the Sikh Community

The global Sikh community is celebrating the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor on 9 November that will create an international pilgrimage route from India to the nearby Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan where the founder of the world’s fifth-largest religion passed away, which will open just in time to commemorate the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak’s death and is...

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November 8, 2019

A Blue Dot Barely Visible from New Silk Roads

Chinese President Xi Jinping six years ago launched New Silk Roads, now better known as the Belt and Road Initiative, the largest, most ambitious, pan-Eurasian infrastructure project of the 21st century. Under the Trump administration, Belt and Road has been utterly demonized 24/7: a toxic cocktail of fear and doubt, with Beijing blamed for everything from plunging poor nations into...

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November 8, 2019

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are Fed Up with Iran 1/4

The United States of America, Israel and Saudi Arabia are fed up with Iran and its allies in the Middle East. But despite waging war against Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon, by inviting the Iraqi government to dilute al-Hashd al-Shaabi, by attempting to submit Gaza and to curb the Houthis in Yemen, it was not possible to break the strong...

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November 8, 2019

The Endgame Begins In Yemen’s War

The power-sharing agreement signed in Riyadh on November 5 between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government headed by Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and UAE-backed southern separatist group known as the Southern Transitional Council (STC) gives reason to hope that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is veering round to the political track to end the bloody war in Yemen. The agreement as such...

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November 8, 2019

Lebanon on Fire as Protests and Demonstrations Rage On

Saad Hariri announced that he was leaving his post as Prime Minister of Lebanon, and stated that he had come to a dead-end after two weeks of mass protests in Lebanon, during which its participants accused the government of corruption and creating conditions for a possible economic collapse. Saad Hariri served in this role since December 2016. Forceful demonstrations erupted...

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November 8, 2019

US Seizure of Oil Fields Escalate Tensions in Syria

The US has deployed hundreds of troops backed by armored vehicles into oil fields located in Syria’s northeastern Deir Ezzor province, where they are reportedly building two new bases. Turkish media have reported that large quantities of construction equipment and materials have been sent into the region, along with the troops, tanks, armored personnel carriers and ammunition. Pentagon officials defended...

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November 8, 2019

Ukraine Joining NATO would Take World Dangerously Close to Nuclear War

Ukrainian membership of NATO would be a brazen provocation that could finally break the back of Moscow’s patience. Besides, very few seem to worry about the ontology of Ukrainian nationalism. The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago and with it eventually the “Iron Curtain” which had divided Europe from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic. Russia accepted...

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November 8, 2019

How the Deep State ‘Justifies’ Itself in America

On October 30th, there was a panel discussion broadcast live on C-Span from the National Press Club and the Michael V. Hayden Center. The discussants were John Brennan, Michael McCabe, John McGlaughlin, and Michael Morrell. They all agreed with the statement by McLaughlin (former Deputy CIA Director) “Thank God for the ‘Deep State’”, and the large audience there also applauded...

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Daily Archive: November 8, 2019

The Completion of the Kartarpur Corridor Is a Victory for the Sikh Community

A Blue Dot Barely Visible from New Silk Roads

Lebanon and Iraq Protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are Fed Up with Iran 1/4

The Endgame Begins In Yemen’s War

Lebanon on Fire as Protests and Demonstrations Rage On

US Seizure of Oil Fields Escalate Tensions in Syria

Ukraine Joining NATO would Take World Dangerously Close to Nuclear War

How the Deep State ‘Justifies’ Itself in America