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Is Washington seeking to fabricate a casus belli against Cuba?
According to the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal, which had the “honor” of putting the lie into circulation, there is an agreement between Cuba and China, in military matters, for the installation of an alleged espionage base.
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Train horror in India: Another crime of decaying capitalism
The deadliest train crash in India in more than a quarter of a century has killed nearly 300 passengers and injured more than 1,000. It is a tragedy that has horrified the world and exposed the criminal neglect of basic infrastructure by the ultra-right regime of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi and the capitalist governments that preceded it.
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India: Five years behind bars for five activists, neither tried nor even charged
Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice!
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Debt ceiling hypocrisy: U.S. boosts military budget while restricting food stamps for poor
U.S. politicians from both parties agree: the deficit doesn’t matter. In their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and Republicans are boosting military spending to $886 billion while making it harder for poor people to receive food stamps and welfare.
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Why China’s socialist economy is more efficient than capitalism
The difficulty the U.S. faces in its current attempts to damage China’s economy was analysed in detail in the article “The U.S. is trying to persuade China to commit suicide”. Reduced to essentials, the U.S. problem is that it possesses no external economic levers powerful enough to derail China’s economy.
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“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if it Takes Place,” says Noam Chomsky
“Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we’ll go off the precipice together.”
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Kissinger’s secret war in Cambodia reveals mass killings: Intercept
Between 1969 and 1973, the U.S. brutally bombed Cambodia, and the man behind the operation, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, bears responsibility for more devastation than previously recognized.
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China beats U.S. in contributions to nature and science journals
The sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has increased the number of citations for Chinese research.
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The Group of Seven should finally be shut down: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2023)
During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near where the meeting was held.
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Montana TikTok ban a sign of intensified cold war with China
It’s worth remembering that fear of an Asian menace in the United States led to the nation’s first major immigration restrictions and mass imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. It continues to lead to racist murder and other anti-Asian crimes.
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“Peak China” – a new low in Western attempts to persuade China to commit suicide
One of the latest covers of the magazine The Economist carries a headline “Peak China”. This, as its name suggests, is a claim that while during the last seven decades China’s has enjoyed a peaceful “rise”, specifically in relation to the U.S., this has now ended. It was the latest of decades long wildly inaccurate predictions regarding China.
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew 4% in the first quarter of 2023, reaching a record high for the first three months of the year.
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Chinese researchers discover evidence of ancient ocean on Mars
An international team of researchers led by Chinese scholars has made another groundbreaking discovery on the surface of Mars.
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Biden drops ‘One China’ policy, uses Philippines for war drive over Taiwan
Pentagon strategists have been beefing up their military presence in Asia and building alliances in preparation for an all-out war against China.
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U.S. post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows
Wars the U.S. waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.
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China’s peace in West Asia
The Chinese-brokered agreement emerged in retaliation to the U.S. as the latter continues to wage a series of provocations aimed at destabilizing China’s domestic stability with regard to Taiwan.
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The splendor of a thousand suns: Hiroshima and imperial forgetfulness
Joe Biden’s visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of “a thousand suns” on a defenseless population.
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Not bluffing: the U.S., China and the threat of war over Taiwan
Chris Bambery examines the grim logic of great-power competition.
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Indonesia launches national payment system to replace VISA, MasterCard
Dicky Kartikoyono the Head of Strategic Management and Governance Department of the Central Bank, says that Indonesia will launch its very own national payments system to be used in state-owned institutions and enterprises.
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Understanding the highly complex world of Western China analysis
Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby was interviewed on The National Review’s Charles CW Cooke Podcast, where he provided some very high-level analysis on the tensions around China, Taiwan, and the United States.