Welcome to the Jungle! A troubling new era has begun in Brazil with the election on Sunday of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro as president. It’s darkness at the break of (tropical) high noon. Jean Baudrillard…
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The tobacco companies’ response to the US Surgeon General’s report in 1964 linking smoking to lung cancer was countered by the tobacco companies setting up propaganda organizations to create a controversy by generating doubt over…
The European Parliament has asked yesterday (25 October) for an immediate embargo on the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia, hence sanctioning the Kingdom of rogue Saudi Arabia which is joining the United States and…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would be forced to target any European countries that agreed to host U.S. nuclear missiles following Washington’s withdrawal from a landmark Cold war-era arms…
The Pentagon may not be advocating total war against both Russia and China – as it has been interpreted in some quarters A crucial Pentagon report on the US defense industrial base and “supply chain…
Agreement sealed in Tehran last month provides for Iran to export crude oil to Russia, where it will be refined and sold worldwide, Foreign Ministry document reportedly specifies Russia and Iran have agreed on a…
The insanity and vileness of Western anti-Chinese propaganda used to make some of my Chinese friends cry late at night. But things are changing. The lunacy of what is said and written about China (and…
As key representatives of the three chief villains of international finance and trade, the IMF, World Bank (WB) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) met on the lush resort island of Bali, Indonesia, they warned…
While traveling in Africa in the ’80s and ’90s, I was surprised to see Chinese crews building roads, schools and houses. Although at the time this meant little to me, I later realized it was…
Trump is trying to square a globalized world through a national-based American capitalism. It won’t work. Former President Teddy Roosevelt (1901-09) described the essence of US foreign policy as “speaking softly while carrying a big…