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The Role of “Friendship” and Bromance in International Affairs

The Politics of Getting Around Things: Geopolitics as Couples Therapy By Peter Bach [Excerpts] https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/20/the-politics-of-getting-around-things/      Imagine Trump and Xi disappearing into a room for an hour and emerging with the gentlest of smiles to announce that the United States and China had agreed to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons—with Russia and North Korea waiting in the wings to get rid of them too. I suppose the most famous political [...]

By |2026-10-01T22:36:55-05:00October 1st, 2026|A-I Artificial Intelligence, Anti-capitalism, China, China, Donald Trump, Historical, National Security, News, Nuclear Power, Peace and War, Politics|0 Comments
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Pax Silica

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org/pax-silica/ Talk about Orwellian Double-Speak. Pax Silica is a US-led initiative to put Artificial Intelligence, which is still primarily driven by military and surveillance tech, at the center of an international geo-strategic economic development and national security alliance directed at countering China and protecting US economic, political and military dominance in the second quarter of the 21st Century. It is being [...]

By |2026-05-30T17:00:41-05:00May 30th, 2026|A-I Artificial Intelligence, Activism, Afghanistan, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, China, CIA, Donald Trump, Drones, Economy, Energy, Environmentalism, Immigration/Migrant rights, India, Labor, Marco Rubio, Michael Novick, Palestine, Peace and War, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Security and Insecurity, Surveillance, Tech, Ukraine, Venezuela, War|0 Comments
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Avoiding the “Thucydides Trap”

by Alex Lo, South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3353953/chinas-rise-will-turn-thucydides-trap-its-head [Excerpt] It was no accident that President Xi Jinping cited the “Thucydides Trap” during his summit in Beijing with Trump, putting it forward as something for both superpowers to avoid. The theory, popularized by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, digs into an episode in Greek history to warn against the danger of war between a rising power and a declining one. Meanwhile, more scholars [...]

By |2026-05-30T16:34:13-05:00May 30th, 2026|Anti-capitalism, China, Donald Trump, Historical, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, War|0 Comments
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PDF of Sept. 2025 issue of Change Links

By |2025-08-28T00:18:00-05:00August 28th, 2025|About, Activism, Ads, Anti-capitalism, Black liberation, Black Lives Matter, China, Climate Change, Education, Elections, Fascism, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Justice/Injustice, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Palestinian, Peace and War|0 Comments
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Trump and the coming global economic crisis

Since he took office, Trump has created so much havoc, it’s hard to keep track. A flurry of executive orders has upended financial markets as well as business and household finances. The political upheaval from his assumption of near total power has sparked uproar with the courts and the public. Internationally, allies are being treated like enemies, and there’s a real possibility of trade wars becoming shooting wars. Upheaval in the U.S. [...]

By |2025-07-06T23:45:31-05:00July 6th, 2025|Anti-capitalism, Asia, Banks, Big Business, China, Economy, Economy, Fascism, News|0 Comments
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Trump Gives Peace a Chance in Ukraine

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might just lead to the end of this calamitous war. This is not a breakthrough on the battlefield, but a stark reversal of the U.S. position from being the major supplier of weapons and funding to prolong the war to one of peacemaker. Donald Trump [...]

By |2025-03-01T02:32:49-05:00March 1st, 2025|Capitalism, China, Commentary, Donald Trump, Medea Benjamin, News, Nicolas Davies, Palestine, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Ukraine, War|0 Comments
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Will Trump Take Jimmy Carter’s Advice This Time?

by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies [Excerpts] With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a phone conversation that Carter had with Trump during his first term. Carter’s advice would serve Trump well if he really wants to fulfill his campaign promise to Put America First–something he failed to do in his first term. In April 2019, [...]

By |2025-01-02T01:41:00-05:00January 2nd, 2025|Alex Caputo-Pearl, Asia, Banks, California, China, Commentary, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economy, Elections, France, Historical, Medea Benjamin, News, Nicolas Davies, Paul Cleveland, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Robert Reich, Ron Scherer, Sue Sturgis, War|0 Comments
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PDF of Dec. 2024 Change Links

By |2024-11-30T20:53:23-05:00November 30th, 2024|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Asia, Asian-American, Black liberation, Calendar, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, China, Climate Change, COVID-19, Editorial cartoon, Events, Fascism, Independent Journalism, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Los Angeles|0 Comments
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December 2024 Change Links community calendar

Change Links can’t publish without your support. Send items, articles or poems to changelinks2@gmail.com or via change-links.org/submit/   Please subscribe as well. Subscriptions to the print edition are $12/25/50 a year, low income, regular or sustainer (sliding scale), payable to “AFGJ,” our fiscal sponsor, with “Change Links” in the memo. All events announced are encouraged to donate $5 (per event), payable to AFGJ, mail to: Change Links, PO Box 34236, LA 90034. [...]

By |2024-11-30T20:32:38-05:00November 30th, 2024|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Arts, Banks, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Calendar, California, Carlos Quintanilla, Charles Fredricks, China, Climate Change, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Environmentalism, Events, Features, Films, France, Free Speech, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Independent Media, Indigenous, Internet, Labor, Mark Lipman, Movements, Mumia Abu-Jamal, News, Non-violence, Pacifica/KPFK, Paul Cleveland, Peace, Peace Vigils, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Reports, Robert Reich, Ron Scherer, Social Media, Sue Sturgis|0 Comments
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G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas

G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas [Excerpts] By Pepe Escobar / The Cradle The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geo-politically and geo-economically, trying to put on a brave ‘holiday in the sun’ face. With Rio providing the ultimately gorgeous set, at the very least, tempers at the renovated Museum of Modern Art, the G20 venue with the Sugarloaf in the background, [...]

By |2024-11-30T20:28:45-05:00November 30th, 2024|Africa, Argentina, Arlene Inouye, Asia, Banks, Beyond Capitalism, Brazil, Chile, China, China, Climate Change, Colleen Schwab, Commentary, Economy, Economy, Europe, France, India, India, Iran, Israel and Palestine, Latin America, National Security, News, Politics, Poverty, Robert Reich, Ron Scherer, Sue Sturgis, Ukraine, United Nations, Venezuela|0 Comments
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BRICS Growing Alliance and Economic Activity: A Debate

BRICS Growing Alliance and Economic Activity A Debate on Democracy Now! Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the world’s U.S.-centered balance of power? As the annual BRICS summit wraps up in Russia, Democracy Now!  hosted a debate between US economist Richard Wolff and South African sociologist Patrick Bond over the significance of the conference. This year, the nine BRICS countries (originally based on Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, [...]

By |2024-11-01T19:44:24-05:00November 1st, 2024|Anti-capitalism, Argentina, Asia, Canada, Capitalism, China, Commentary, Economy, Environmentalism, Historical, Independent Journalism, India, Justice/Injustice, Labor, News, Pacifica/KPFK, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, War|0 Comments
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Autonomous Warrior: US, UK, Australia Hold Robot Navy War Games

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA (ARA-LA/PART), KPFK iGM https://antiracist.org/autonomous-warrior-us-uk-australia-hold-robot-navy-war-games/ I have paid close attention to the TV series NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) ever since NCIS Los Angeles ran an episode fictionalizing Occupy LA's Occupy the Ports action that I was involved in. The actual NCIS had been one of over a dozen law enforcement, military and intelligence organizations mobilized to deal with our action at a Goldman Sachs facility in the [...]

By |2024-11-01T19:34:30-05:00November 1st, 2024|Anti-capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, China, China, Drones, India, India, Michael Novick, National Security, News, Peace and War, War|0 Comments
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