2022-02-23: News Headlines

Matthew J.L. Ehret (2022-02-23). Today's Emergencies Act, and Anti-Russian False Flags Echo the Gouzenko Hoax That Unleashed the Cold War. dissidentvoice.org Today, a new coordinated psychological operation has been sprung to convince every living patriot across the Five Eyes sphere of influence that the enemy of the free world who lurks behind every conspiracy to overthrow governments, and western values are Russia and China. Over the past months, slanderous, and often conjectural stories of Chinese and …

Ken Moak (2022-02-23). Why US cannot stifle China's rise. asiatimes.com The US is increasingly belligerent in its efforts to stifle China's rise and pressure its allies to do the same. But none of the tactics — trade wars, "freedom of navigation" operations (FONOPs), pushing allies to ditch Huawei equipment or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), etc — have worked. Indeed, one could even argue …

_____ (2022-02-22). American Athletes Subverted The US'S Information War Against Beijing. popularresistance.org Few events have been more politicized than the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. New cold warriors and atrocity propagandists led by the United States did everything in their power to generate popular support for a full boycott of the Games. NED-backed organizations formed a coalition for the cause, the corporate media engaged in a full-scale "China bad" propaganda blitz, and the political establishment got busy crafting several pieces of legislation to respond to the so-called "China threat." Their efforts failed. To save face, the U.S. implemented a non-consequential "diplomatic boycott" that found support from onl…

Owen Fairclough (2022-02-22). Nixon's visit to China: 50 years on. america.cgtn.com 50 years ago, U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China to try to find, as he described it, common ground. Relations between the two countries had been frozen by the Cold War. The historic meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong paved the way for the world's …

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