As argued in a recent post, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and associated projects like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank which now gives the global south an alternative to the punitive terms of IMF/World Bank loans, have lifted hundreds of … Read More »
Snow is falling on the wide sidewalks of the historic city of Xi’an, but people don’t seem to be troubled by the bitter cold. One of the oldest cities in China, Xi’an is now vibrant, optimistic and stunningly beautiful. Sidewalks … Read More »
Facebook, yesterday. * Re John-Mark Considine’s claims of frenetic Sinophobia in the West, see the first of my China Reads, a closer look at the allegations, given wall to wall publicity despite evidential paucity, of “Uighur genocide”. Re my own … Read More »
Roger Waters speaks during a protest against the extradition of Julian Assange at Parliament Square, London, February 2020 RT two days ago: Roger Waters: Assange movement growing, but mainstream media ‘cowed by the ruling class’ Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, … Read More »
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… They are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor…. They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they … Read More »
I had an email from a friend this morning; on the face of it apropos of nothing. What does getting sentimental about the deplorables achieve? Nothing good, I replied. Why do you ask? one of your posts seemed to me … Read More »
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise Bob Dylan – Hurricane Did you know a key witness in the US case against Julian Assange confessed, in an … Read More »
Five days ago, on June 26, the Icelandic newspaper Stundin broke a story that should have been explosive. In an interview lasting several hours, Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson – a key FBI witness in the US case against Julian Assange – … Read More »
See also, Reading the middle east: part 1 [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] * Topping the returns for a search on “full spectrum dominance” is a wiki page citing Harold Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: … the United States is now totally frank about putting … Read More »