*To kill terrorist leaders without addressing the despair of their supporters is a fool’s errand and produces more frustration, more despair, and more terrorism. The more we ‘win’ such a misbegotten war — the more we debase civil society and democratic norms — the more we turn our society into an Orwellian dystopia in which truth and lies are indistinguishable.*

The UK wants to cancel the citizenship of the British wife of Syrian dictator Assad.

The UK government claims she participated in his horrible crimes. The proper way for it to act to those claims is indict her and ask Interpol to help arrest her. Given adequate evidence, a fair trial could convict her and sentence her to prison. This would be justice.

Cancelling someone's citizenship is wrong on its face, and since the UK does it without a trial, it is also punishment without trial.

In practice, the effect of either measure would be to prevent her from traveling to the UK or to a country that might extradite her to the UK. If she travels anywhere, it would be to a country that has decided to receive her as the spouse of Syria's president, and in that case it would not matter directly to her which way the UK had handled the matter.

But it will matter for justice to others in the future.

*Has the pandemic led to a long-term erosion of the right to dissent?*

There is no need to make it a question. The answer is, definitely yes. What remains a question is whether the people, in the various countries harmed, can overcome and reverse the process.

The army arrested a Burmese political leader and protest organizer, then said he had died while trying to escape from jail. However, evidence suggests he was tortured to death.

*Acting civilian leader says people 'must win the uprising' against junta.*

2 trillion dollars of investment in coal-powered and gas-powered electric generators is a bubble. When it bursts, those generating plants are going to be valued at much less. Don't be caught owning any of them when that happens!