May 23, 2020 | Astute News

China Updates Its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’

May 23, 2020

In 1999, Qiao Liang, then a senior air force colonel in the People’s Liberation Army, and Wang Xiangsui, another senior colonel, caused a tremendous uproar with the publication of Unrestricted Wa…

COVID-19 Pandemic and Anticipated Changes Worldwide

May 23, 2020

Opinion

Although the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic is far from over, changes that could occur and affect our world in the nearest future are becoming more discernible. Nowadays, many analysts point o…

Don’t Be a Black in America

May 23, 2020

Opinion

The musical ‘West Side Story’ was produced over sixty years ago, and the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim still strike a chord, most notably in the song ‘America’ in which Puerto Ricans look at both social …

Will Americans Submit to a Second Lockdown?

May 23, 2020

Opinion

On March 24, President Donald Trump said he wanted the country and the economy “opened up and just raring to go by Easter.” Easter came and went. And Trump was mocked for being aspirational and unreal…

Military Spending and the Pandemic

May 23, 2020

Opinion

“There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”Albert Camus, “The Plague” Camus’ novel of a lethal contagion in the North African city of Or…

The American Genie – Engineering a Catastrophe

May 23, 2020

Opinion

The first signs that something terrible had gone wrong with the security at the Fort Detrick bio-defence facility fifty miles north-west of Washington DC were when cases of a previously unknown and se…

Never the Aggressor: Israel Is Convinced of Its Own Benevolence

May 23, 2020

Opinion

Israel glorifies its military and portrays those who are sent by the state to commit acts of violence as heroes. Remembering a Terrorist “We are persecuted and murdered by the majority of ‘civilized’ …

What Is Power in International Relations?

May 23, 2020

Opinion

Power is the ability to make people, states, movements, organizations, or things to do what they would not otherwise have done. It is a matter of fact that politics is seen to be about might rather th…