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About Ajit Singh

Ajit Singh is an investigative journalist with the No Cold War project. He is a contributing author to Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education: Common Concepts for Contemporary Movements. His work has appeared in The Grayzone, Truthout, teleSUR English, NewsClick, and The Hampton Institute. Follow him on Twitter @ajitxsingh.
  • Manufacturing consent-How the United States has penetrated South African media

    Manufacturing consent: How the United States has penetrated South African media

    Ajit Singh and Roscoe Palm

    As tensions between the United States and China rise, Washington is intent on contesting Beijing’s influence around the world, particularly in the Global South. The U.S. government has ramped up its efforts to influence international media and public opinion. In this new Cold War, South Africa is once again in the crosshairs.

  • “Wipe out China!” US-funded Uyghur activists train as gun-toting foot soldiers for empire

    “Wipe out China!” U.S.-funded Uyghur activists train as gun-toting foot soldiers for empire

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 31, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Cultivated by the US government as human rights activists, Uyghur American Association leaders partner with far-right lawmakers and operate a militia-style gun club that trains with ex-US special forces.

  • With US support, Taiwan planted deception about warning World Health Org of Covid

    With U.S. support, Taiwan planted deception about warning World Health Org of COVID

    Originally published: The Grayzone on July 17, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Taiwan’s claim that it provided early warning to the WHO about COVID and “human-to human-transmission” has been exploited by the Trump administration to attack the multi-lateral body and turn up the heat on China. There’s just one problem: it’s totally false.

  • From the series Paintings for Wuhan, China (2020) by Li Zhong

    Amid coronavirus crisis, China demonstrates that an alternative to the US-led, neoliberal order is possible

    Ajit Singh

    The bankruptcy of neoliberalism has been highlighted by the vastly different responses of the world’s two most powerful countries to the coronavirus pandemic.

  • China Starts Construction on World's First Forest City

    China’s rise threatens U.S. imperialism, not American people

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    That China and the U.S. are moving in opposite directions is not a new trend, but it has been brought into sharper focus in the Trump era. Growing anxious about its diminishing international authority, the U.S. demonstrates increasing hostility towards China.

Monthly Review Essays

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    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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