January 15, 2020 | Astute News

India’s Kashmiri Detainee Self-Censorship Demand Is Undemocratic

January 15, 2020

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…

Assassination of Iran’s General Suleimani Planned Months in Advance

January 15, 2020

Opinion

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 Janu…

Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Provocation to War

January 15, 2020

Opinion

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 US Presents Yet Another Anti-Chinese Bill

January 15, 2020

Opinion

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 m…

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

January 15, 2020

Opinion

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 Departme…

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

January 15, 2020

Opinion

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…

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

January 15, 2020

Opinion

I sit in one of the divesOn Fifty-Second StreetUncertain and afraidAs the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade. These are W.H. Auden’s lines, written as the 1930s drew to a close and six years…

The Nomos of Cybersecurity and a Sovereign Internet

January 15, 2020

Opinion

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 administra…