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Pentagon-funded Think Tank simulates war with China on NBC
NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct US hot war with China.
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“Stay safe”: the whole world is in harms’ way
This is not a dispatch, editorial, or an article, but a brief note.
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Economist Michael Hudson on decline of dollar, sanctions war, imperialism, financial parasitism
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the U.S. dollar, the sanctions war on Russia, his concept of “free-trade imperialism,” and financial parasitism.
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Ecological rift and alienation: Field notes from Goa and Sikkim
For years, the loss of land and livelihood has been upheld as the sacrifice people would have to make in order to get jobs and money later on. It does not seem to matter that any sort of prosperity has failed to trickle down to the people till date, barring those few who get to fatten their pockets.
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China, Serbia mark anniversary of NATO’s deadly bombing of Chinese embassy
Diplomats from the Chinese Embassy in Serbia and Serbian government officials held a commemorative event in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, on Saturday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in the former Yugoslavia in 1999.
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A difficult return – race, class, and politics in Rodney’s Guyana
In 1974 Walter Rodney and his family returned to Guyana. Rodney immediately faced a country divided between the Indian and African working class, and the brutal and divisive regime of Forbes Burnham. Rodney produced an impressive body of historical work which provided a Marxist explanation for the divide of the country’s working people. Chinedu Chukwudinma continues the story of Rodney’s revolutionary life.
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The dollar system in a multi-polar world
The multipolar financial world is here. The United States can survive it–but only with major political and economic changes at home. It’s time to start thinking about what those need to be.
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India and Pakistan’s brutal heat wave poised to resurge
2022 will likely be one of the coolest years Earth will experience in the foreseeable future; much more intense heat waves are in India and Pakistan’s future.
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Carrot and stick: U.S. pressure and extortion to break Latin America’s ties with Russia and China
In the last two weeks, the State Department has deployed an ambitious blackmailing persuasion program on countries located in the so-called “Western Hemisphere”, with the aim of limiting their trade and cooperation ties with Moscow and Beijing.
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With clenched fists, they spend money on weapons as the Planet burns: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2022)
Two important reports were released last month, neither getting the kind of attention they deserve. On 4 April, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group III report was published, evoking a strong reaction from the United Nations’ Secretary General António Guterres.
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Fall-out of the Ukraine conflict on India’s economy
The Problem Is Actually At Home
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Indonesia, not the EU, needs to make its palm oil sustainable
Importers must step up support for sustainable palm oil, and producers be bold in revoking the licences of illegal palm estates, writes Andre Barahamin.
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No to a new Monroe Doctrine in the Pacific
The Anglo ruling classes have gone into a state of frenzy over a recently-signed security agreement between the People’s Republic of China and the Solomon Islands.
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Why China stands firm on dynamic zero-COVID policy
In a country of some 1.4 billion people, any public health issue is of significant concern, and the coronavirus outbreak is no exception.
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Reflections on the Sri Lankan economic crisis
The American establishment and the new cold-warriors of that country put the blame on the Sri Lankan government’s developing close economic relations with China (and we shall no doubt hear much more of it in the coming days); others blame the sheer “irresponsibility” of the government which is accused of “sleeping” when Sri Lanka’s external debt was building up.
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Sri Lankan economic crisis inflicted by self-serving elite
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Once deemed a basic human needs success story, Sri Lanka (SL) is now in its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. Nonetheless, SL’s ‘moment of truth’ now offers lessons for other developing countries.
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U.S. narrative won’t survive defeat in Donbass
An extraordinary thing about British diplomacy is that it continually looks for ways to stay ahead of the curve and provide added value to its customer across the Atlantic, the United States. That makes the remarks on Ukraine conflict by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at his press conference in New Delhi on Friday highly significant.
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What is propelling the U.S. into increasing international military aggression?
This article by John Ross (Luo Siyin) was also published in slightly edited form in Guancha as “It’s pointless to count on American ‘kindness’.” Introduction The international escalation of U.S. military aggression over a period of more than two decades is clear. However, even within that framework, the events leading to the Ukraine war represent […]
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U.S. suddenly pretends to care about rights abuses in India
While it is true that India’s right-wing government is guilty of human rights abuses and has been for years, it is also true that the US State Department does not actually care about human rights abuses.
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Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets
The Washington Post–owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts–has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.