Day: January 19, 2021

Trump’s Not-So-Secret Art of Containing China

January 19, 2021

It was hardly a secret throughout the Trump administration. Now, dying embers within sight, and with minimum fanfare, comes the declassification – virtually the whole document, minus a few redactions …

Information War Dethrones US President

January 19, 2021

Opinion

In the end, it was not the Russian government as anti-Russia propagandists in the West claimed but instead homegrown digital tools that brought down US leader Donald Trump. As a result, not only did h…

The French Might Have Bombed a Wedding Party in Mali. And No One Seems to Care

January 19, 2021

Opinion

On the afternoon of 3 January, the French military deployed a Reaper drone over the village of Bounti in central Mali. The drone dropped three bombs on a dwelling in an open area outside the village, …

Israel Must Be Sanctioned for Refusing Covid-19 Vaccinations to Palestinians

January 19, 2021

Opinion

Israel has long since moved on from the argument that its expansion into the West Bank beyond its 1967 borders is an act of self defence, so often heard during the construction of the wall. Israel's a…

An OrWELLSian Purge? Why H.G. Wells’ ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ Has Arrived Today

January 19, 2021

Opinion

It no coincidence that our entertainment industry today, so heavily saturated with the influence of Wells’ propaganda, is obsessed with the theme of a post-apocalyptic world, Cynthia Chung writes. “It…

Trump May Be On Trial, But the System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted

January 19, 2021

Opinion

It is a fitting end to four years of Donald Trump in the White House. On one side, Trump’s endless stoking of political grievances – and claims that November’s presidential election was “stolen” from …

Birth of the Digital Oligarchy: The Trump Ban and the Social Media Ruse

January 19, 2021

Opinion

On January 6, as the events unfolding at the U.S. Capitol were discussed on Twitter, the barrage of opinions predictably accumulated on one side of the political spectrum. Outrage over what mainstream…

Encircling China and Praising India: The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific

January 19, 2021

Opinion

The feeling from Rory Medcalf of the Australian National University was one of breathless wonder. “The US government,” he wrote in The Strategist, “has just classified one of its most secretive …