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 »
Dear Zoltan Jorovic Thank you again for your comment on my post of September 2. You focus on a key aspect – China Rising and the West’s response – of a more general piece. I intend to respond very specifically … Read More »
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I hate to kick off with a long sentence but today I’ll make an exception. Those who still believe – in defiance both of simple logic and decades of (a) smoothing the way for profit-led carnage in the middle east; … Read More »
On July 11 – see China Rising: humanity’s best hope? – I gave my view of the state we’re in: Our world is capitalist in its advanced stage of imperialism – the export of monopoly capital from global north to south, and the south … Read More »
Tom Fowdy writes in RT, August 27: It’s wrong to say China is heading for socialism: it never abandoned it Western coverage of events in China is highlighting a lurch leftwards by Xi Jinping. But this misunderstands Beijing’s approach and … Read More »
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Beijing, March 23, 2021 When Pepe Escobar has a column to fill but his content, though important, could be expressed in a few words, he can come across as … Read More »
FaceBook this week. What Douglas Baker posted was a link to the CovertAction piece I too had linked from the final paragraph of my earlier post, NATO Expansion map Mark II. That piece poses three questions to pierce the myth … Read More »