Monthly Archives: December 2021

2021-12-31: News Headlines

teleSUR (2021-12-30). China to Defend Fairness and Justice in Multilateral Arena. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi said that China would pull together with most countries to defend fairness and justice and do the right thing for humanity. | RELATED: | He made these remarks when asked to talk about the situation that the United States and its allies are seeking to spread Western values and stoke ideology-driven divisions, and there were lots of encounters between various different fo…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-30). FBI is Recklessly Misusing Trump-Era Espionage Policy to Create "Climate of Fear" Among Scientists—Terrorizing Families and Ruthlessly Destroying Careers. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov [Source: justice.gov] The Justice Department's China Initiative Was Established by the Trump Administration to Crackdown on Chinese Economic and Scientific Espionage.However, its primary targets have been academics prosecuted for failing to properly disclose their connection to Chinese universities on grant forms and it has led to numerous miscarriages of justice On the Tuesday…

Editor (2021-12-30). A red under every bed? Canada, racial profiling, and the Five Eyes. mronline.org Amid the wreckage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have turned their sights on China. University of Victoria professor emeritus and historian John Price examines the rise of the coalition of Anglo settler colonial states of Canada, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, and how they are today fomenting conflict in the Asia Pacific.

2021-12-31 18:03 | 14:03 EST | jz | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 

2021-12-30: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-30). FBI is Recklessly Misusing Trump-Era Espionage Policy to Create "Climate of Fear" Among Scientists—Terrorizing Families and Ruthlessly Destroying Careers. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov [Source: justice.gov] The Justice Department's China Initiative Was Established by the Trump Administration to Crackdown on Chinese Economic and Scientific Espionage.However, its primary targets have been academics prosecuted for failing to properly disclose their connection to Chinese universities on grant forms and it has led to numerous miscarriages of justice On the Tuesday…

Editor (2021-12-30). A red under every bed? Canada, racial profiling, and the Five Eyes. mronline.org Amid the wreckage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have turned their sights on China. University of Victoria professor emeritus and historian John Price examines the rise of the coalition of Anglo settler colonial states of Canada, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, and how they are today fomenting conflict in the Asia Pacific.

_____ (2021-12-29). Diplomatic Boycott of the Beijing Olympics is Washington's Self-inflicted Wound. journal-neo.org The confrontation with China taken by Washington in recent years is being pursued not only on the economic front, with numerous sanctions against Chinese companies, but in politics as well, with the US creating various anti-Chinese blocs, such as AUKUS, provoking Taiwanese separatism, launching an information campaign criticizing alleged human rights violations in the Xinjiang …

_____ (2021-12-29). American Gulag: Inside The US' Massive Prison System. popularresistance.org For a supposedly developed, democratic nation, the United States locks up an extraordinary number of its citizens. Close to one quarter of the world's prison population is in the United States. Even on a per capita basis, only El Salvador and Turkmenistan come close to America's preponderance for incarceration. | In a country with a rising population and a falling demand for labor, the government decided to solve this problem by simply locking up millions of its poorest citizens, in the process allowing corporate America to make billions from their suffering. The prison industry is booming: between 1990 and 2005,…

2021-12-30 21:19 | 17:19 EST | jz | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 

2021-12-29: News Headlines

_____ (2021-12-28). If You Haven't Researched Arguments Disputing a Western Narrative, You Don't Understand the Issue. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | It's a question that can be applied to any disputed western narrative about any government the US-centralized empire doesn't like. Russia is engaging in aggressive provocations. Assad is using chemical weapons. There's a genocide in Xinjiang. Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Maduro is deliberately starving his people. Whatever's the Official Imperial Line of the Day about the Official Bad Guy of the Day. | What I've found interesting about this exercise is that while I would've correctly predicted that those questioned had done zero research into the opposing viewpoints of the issue they…

2021-12-29 19:16 | 15:16 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 

2021-12-28: News Headlines

teleSUR (2021-12-27). US Sanctions Undermine Global Cotton Industry Chain. telesurenglish.net A report about the impact of U.S. Xinjiang-related sanctions on the global cotton industrial chain was released in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Sunday. | RELATED: | The report, titled "Hindering Trade, Increasing Costs and Disrupting the Industrial Chain: Impacts of U.S. Xinjiang-Related Sanctions on Global Cotton Industrial Chain," was issued by the Institute for Communication and Borderland Governance, Jinan Univer…

2021-12-29 01:07 | 21:07 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 

2021-12-26: News Headlines

_____ (2021-12-25). Maturity Is Realizing That Propaganda Isn't Something That Only Happens to Other People. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | What I find interesting is that it's not just coming from complete mainstream normies; a lot of the pushback I'm getting comes from people who've succeeded in seeing through other western propaganda narratives on fronts like Russia, Syria, or Julian Assange. They're just as brainwashed about China as any uncritical consumer of TV news, but because they get their information from people like Tucker Carlson and other so-called "right-populists" who have disputed those other narratives, they assume they are safe from mass media indoctrination. | And a liberal who gets their information from Th…

2021-12-26 21:50 | 17:50 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 

2021-12-23: News Headlines

Noam Chomsky (2021-12-23). US-China Cooperation Is Essential to Avert a New Cold War. zcomm.org The main lesson from the Cold War era is that it's a virtual miracle that we have survived…

Monica Cruz (2021-12-22). 2021: A year of US warmongering against China. peoplesdispatch.org The US-led aggression against China, termed by some to be "A New Cold War", is advancing with much of the

2021-12-24 01:12 | 21:12 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 

2021-12-22: News Headlines

Dr. Andrey KORTUNOV (2021-12-21). 8 Years Have Passed, Western Leaders' Lack of Vision Continues from Sochi to Beijing. moderndiplomacy.eu The US recently confirmed that it would not send any official or diplomatic representatives to the Winter Olympic Games and Paralympics in February 2022 due to China's alleged "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses." Make no mistake—this tough language does not imply a total boycott of the Games—US …

A Guest Author (2021-12-21). Have you been lied to about Xinjiang, human rights ‚àí and China? workers.org This statement was issued by the International Action Center (iacenter.org), posted at wp.me/p4Yme1-4Rf and available in PDF at wp.me/P4Yme1-4SF. Claiming that it is acting in defense of human rights, the U.S. tries to cover its own criminal record on internal human rights violations and its record of endless wars, assassinations, . . . |

2021-12-22 13:49 | 07:49 EST | jz | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 

2021-12-21: News Headlines

_____ (2021-12-20). Belt and Road: How Laos Exemplifies Preconditions for Global Success. journal-neo.org More than eight years ago, in September 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the launch of China's global transport initiative, One Belt One Road (OBOR). The project implies the unification of all major world transport routes into a single system and removing all economic and political barriers to the free circulation of goods through this …

2021-12-21 13:48 | 09:48 EST | jz | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0