November 8, 2019 | Astute News

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

November 8, 2019

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…

A Blue Dot Barely Visible from New Silk Roads

November 8, 2019

Opinion

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 centu…

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

November 8, 2019

Opinion

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 gover…

The Endgame Begins In Yemen’s War

November 8, 2019

Opinion

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 Tr…

Lebanon on Fire as Protests and Demonstrations Rage On

November 8, 2019

Opinion

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 ac…

US Seizure of Oil Fields Escalate Tensions in Syria

November 8, 2019

Opinion

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 h…

Ukraine Joining NATO would Take World Dangerously Close to Nuclear War

November 8, 2019

Opinion

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 Berl…

How the Deep State ‘Justifies’ Itself in America

November 8, 2019

Opinion

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 McGlaughli…