Two days ago I noted how corporate media in the West give even positive news about China a negative spin by appending the rhetorical question, but at what cost? I should have added that China’s ultra-leftist critics, imperialism’s useful idiots, … Read More »
The Economist laments the fact that in China the state controls its capitalists. In the West the reverse is true. The uniformity of negative reporting on China across all corporate media in the West allows for only two interpretations. EITHER … Read More »
I don’t really get CounterPunch’s editorial position. I used to, or at least I used to think I did. And I approved of what I thought was its editorial position, to the point of opening up the old wallet when … Read More »
In her blog post six days ago, Caitlin Johnstone wrote: The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and … Read More »
A blistering piece appeared yesterday on the World Socialist Website. For once it eschews the “China is no better” trope so often marring WSWS analyses. And for once it doesn’t do that rabbit-from-a-hat trick, in the final or penultimate paragraph, … Read More »
Thanks to my Facebook friend Hoi Yat Tsoi for alerting me to this. Guyana born Hong Kong resident and blogger Daniel Dumbrill debates with US based journalist and former Vietnam veteran Paul Mooney on what is – and what is … Read More »
The River Soar yesterday. What follows is less pretty. I’m promoting three reads here, starting with Caitlin Johnstone’s post today: Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born Things are fucked. That’s our current situation in a nutshell. In a slightly … Read More »
Yesterday the centre-right Nikkei Asia ran this on its website: Sri Lanka awards port project to China after dropping Japan, India Beijing steps up Belt and Road spending with support of friendly president Shipping containers at the main port of … Read More »
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 »