January 15, 2020 – Astute News

January 15, 2020

India’s Kashmiri Detainee Self-Censorship Demand Is Undemocratic

India’s demand that thousands of Kashmiri detainees sign a bond that commits them to not to make any comments on “recent events” as a condition for their release after they were previously apprehended without charge for five months already is the definition of an undemocratic practice which exposes the fundamental hypocrisy behind the self-professed “world’s largest democracy”. *** Sputnik reported...

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January 15, 2020

Assassination of Iran’s General Suleimani Planned Months in Advance

The assassination of General Qassem Suleimani, regarded as the second most powerful figure in the government of Iran, was planned more than six months before he and nine others were murdered in a January 3 US drone missile strike at Baghdad’s international airport, NBC News reported Monday. The revelation of these longstanding plans to kill the head of the Islamic...

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January 15, 2020

Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Provocation to War

Like the crucial steps toward public acceptance preceding the U.S. invasions of Vietnam and Iraq, the assassination of Qassem Soleimani was aimed at building popular support for war on Iran. Not only the justification, but the assassination itself were part of a broader strategy to grease the skids into war. The Soleimani ploy has apparently failed, however, thanks to the...

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January 15, 2020

The US Presents Yet Another Anti-Chinese Bill

The author was going to address the situation around Taiwan once more after the results of the general election scheduled for January 11, 2020, during which the President, Vice-President and all 113 members of the unicameral parliament will be elected. However, a multitude of events have occurred in quick succession, all in one way or another related to Taiwan, which...

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January 15, 2020

“Iran Must Begin Acting Like A Normal Nation,” Says Totally Normal Nation

The government which runs a globe-spanning empire led by a reality TV host keeps talking about the lack of normality in the nation of Iran. “What we want all countries to join in,” said State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus in a recent Fox News interview, “is to help us not only to de-escalate any tensions with Iran, but to help...

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January 15, 2020

20/20 Insight: Top 10 Political Predictions for the New Year

The year 2019 will go down in the history books as the year when Donald J. Trump suffered not only the non-stop trials and tribulations of the Mueller Report, which cleared the 45th POTUS of collusion with the Russians, but impeachment as well. However, there are many other upcoming events in the New Year that have – believe it or...

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January 15, 2020

‘As the Clever Hopes Expire’: A Look Back at the Ending Decade

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. These are W.H. Auden’s lines, written as the 1930s drew to a close and six years of global conflagration commenced. Eighty years later, they are pitifully, painfully apt as the second decade of our new century gives...

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January 15, 2020

The Nomos of Cybersecurity and a Sovereign Internet

The term “Nomos” was introduced into modern political science by the German lawyer Carl Schmitt. The word had several meanings in Ancient Greece, including “law” or “custom”. It was also an administrative territorial unit (divided into “nomoi”). Carl Schmitt used it to denote the principle of organising space. And with the advent of cyberspace, it is worth thinking about the...

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Daily Archive: January 15, 2020

India’s Kashmiri Detainee Self-Censorship Demand Is Undemocratic

Assassination of Iran’s General Suleimani Planned Months in Advance

Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Provocation to War

The US Presents Yet Another Anti-Chinese Bill

“Iran Must Begin Acting Like A Normal Nation,” Says Totally Normal Nation

20/20 Insight: Top 10 Political Predictions for the New Year

‘As the Clever Hopes Expire’: A Look Back at the Ending Decade

The Nomos of Cybersecurity and a Sovereign Internet