With Soleimani Dead, the US Must Brace for the Wrath of Iranian Hardliner

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The potential that retaliation to General Qassem Soleimani’s death could snowball into an outright regional war is no longer impossible to conceive. Bessma Momani explains why we must now brace ourselves for the wrath of Iranian hardline anger and fumbling reaction from the Trump administration.

In episode 5 of Big Tech James Der Derian, director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney, delves into the impact quantum technologies could have on peace, security, economics and society.

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As another year of accomplishments and challenges comes to an end and we enter a new decade, Rohinton Medhora, Robert Fay and Aaron Shull share their resolutions for 2020 and beyond.

The US Chamber of Commerce is calling the new NAFTA "a global standard for IP protection in the 21st century." Given the importance of the agreement, Jeremy de Beer describes the negotiating context and the negotiated text of the controversial IP chapter.

In a tweet, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey suggested that a team of independent — though Twitter-funded — engineers should lead the development of new social media standards. Robert Fay argues that this process is akin to letting the fox guard the henhouse.

Feb. 25 – 7:00 p.m. EST (UTC–05:00) – Waterloo, Canada: Join us for a community screening of the award-winning film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People that explores the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans.

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