Four days ago on FB, The Economist was plugging its latest attack on Beijing. Click on the image to go to the Facebook post and ensuing comment I responded: That capitalists are subordinate to state policy is horrifying to the … Read More »
Is there no shabby trick too low in the sinophobic outpourings of every segment – ‘quality’ as much as tabloid, financial as much as generalist – of the West’s corporate media? Hong Kong based Nuri Vitachi, cited in my post … Read More »
Begun by Obama’s “pivot to Asia”, the wall to wall demonising of China by Washington and its junior partners, amped up by our not so independent media, continues under POTUS 46. But there are articulate and informed voices of sharp … Read More »
Sunday Times owner Rupert Murdoch sits on the board of Genie Energy: conducting oil drilling in Syria’s Golan Heights, contrary to international law on exploiting an occupied territory’s resources. See this post One of the most important of capitalism’s ideological … Read More »
For reasons too convolutedly tedious to torture you with, my custom of posting, last weekend of the month, a trio of recommended reads fell into abeyance this spring. Shame, that. Several readers have said they liked this feature. I’m not … Read More »
In a comment exchange below a post last month I spoke of “fake news” as: a charge often levelled by corporate media which daily serve up the stuff in spades And here’s what I said four posts ago, apropos the … Read More »
The Guardian on Tuesday, October 19: Chinese effort to gather ‘micro clues’ on Uyghurs laid bare in report Helen Davidson in Tapei and Vincent Ni A vendor selling naan bread waits for customers on a street under surveillance cameras in … Read More »
In an opinion piece last month, Hu Xijin, editor of China’s English language daily, Global Times, wrote that: The risk of a China-US military confrontation has increased, and mutual trust dropped to almost zero. If the wind blows the door … Read More »
In June last year the Australian not-for-profit, Critical Social Work Publishing House, ran a piece by Milton James: 1989 Tiananmen Square “Student Massacre” was a hoax. This was flagged as a thirty-four minute read. I don’t like that ‘hoax’ descriptor. … Read More »
From Caitlin Johnstone’s blog yesterday. The correct response to someone who supports going to war if China attacks Taiwan is “Are you enlisted?” The correct response when they say “no” is “Then shut the fuck up.” The decision to go … Read More »