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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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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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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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BRICS: Anti-imperialist or Sub-imperialist?

BRICS, sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange Patrick Bond interviewed  by Federico Fuentes https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/brics-sub-imperialism-and-unequal-ecological-exchange Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist and author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique. In part 2 of this interview with Green Left’s Federico Fuentes, he discusses some of the limitations in Vladimir Lenin’s views on imperialism and the need to incorporate the concept of "unequal ecological [...]

By |2024-10-06T03:18:42-05:00October 6th, 2024|Africa, Banking Reform, Big Business, Brazil, Capitalism, China, China, Donald Trump, Economy, Economy, Environment, Europe, India, India, Iran, Latin America, Movements, National Security, News, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Socialism, United Nations|0 Comments
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Report from Cairo on Chinese Activist-Based Panda Aid for Gaza Refugees Medical Humanitarian Needs

by 李小轩 Lee Siu Hin Panda Aid: www.PandaAid.org Gaza Watch www.GazaWatch.net English: http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/PandaAid/Sep2024Report-PartTwo-ENG.html This is our third delegation to Turkey and Egypt for Gaza’s medical humanitarian mission, Sept. 16-21. On September 18, in Cairo, Egypt, we went to the Network for Palestine, located in the eastern suburbs of Cairo. They are a rescue organization composed of a group of Palestinians and Westerners in Egypt to help local Palestinian refugees. According to statistics [...]

By |2024-10-04T23:53:26-05:00October 4th, 2024|Activism, Asia, Beyond Capitalism, China, Israel and Palestine, Movements, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Activists Around the World Demand: An Israeli Cease Fire NOW!

U.S. Hands-Off Gaza! Egypt, Open the Rafah Crossing NOW! Report on Gaza - Part On,e by Lee Siu Hin 李小轩 National Coordinator, China-US Solidarity Network; National Immigrant Solidarity Network https://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/Gaza/GazaReport/PartOne.html As of March 25, over 32,000 Gazans have been killed, at least 74,000 injured; and at least another 8,000 are still missing, believed to be buried under the destroyed buildings. At least 360,000 houses have been destroyed by the Israeli Defense Forces [...]

By |2024-04-03T22:23:00-05:00April 3rd, 2024|Activism, China, Israel and Palestine, Lee Siu Hin, Movements, News, Palestine, Palestinian, Peace, Peace and War, Solidarity|0 Comments
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The Sound of the New War Drum Goes Tik Tok

By Wei Yu, Nuvpreet Kalra and Melissa Garriga Last [month], a Congressional hearing took place where the TikTok CEO was grilled for five hours on the grounds of “security concerns.” This was days after the FBI and DOJ launched an investigation on the Chinese-owned American company. Isn’t it ironic that while the US government is putting TikTok under the magnifying glass, it’s turning a blind eye to its own surveillance programs on [...]

By |2023-04-29T01:29:08-05:00April 29th, 2023|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Asian-American, Capitalism, China, China, Economy, Internet, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Psy-Ops, Security and Insecurity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo: Half a million tons of methane rise from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline. Photo credit: Swedish Coast Guard With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to [...]

By |2023-03-02T01:32:57-05:00March 2nd, 2023|Activism, Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Ecology, Economy, Europe, Medea Benjamin, Movements, National Security, News, Nicolas Davies, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Solidarity, Ukraine, United States, War|0 Comments
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Is Ukraine a Prelude to US War with China?

Scott Ritter & Ray McGovern on Ukraine, Russia, China By Ray McGovern https://raymcgovern.com/2022/05/28/scott-ritter-ray-on-ukraine-russia-china/ Scott and I focused initially on President Biden’s just-completed Excellent Adventure in the Far East and the U.S. effort to woo countries away from China or, at least, pre-empt closer bilateral ties. I again posed the question (see my brief talk Thursday, embedded in https://raymcgovern.com/2022/05/27/why-is-win-win-a-no-no/ ), Why must China’s “win-win” approach be dismissed out of hand — especially when [...]

By |2022-06-03T01:50:08-05:00June 3rd, 2022|Biden, China, China, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Independent Journalism, National Security, News, Peace, Peace and War, Politics, Ray McGovern, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Ukraine, War|0 Comments
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A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule

by Nicolas J. S. Davies Photo credit: UNICEF Teachers and students were able to return to school in Lao Cai, Viet Nam, in May 2020 A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat worried” (35%) about the virus, while the other half are “not very [...]

By |2021-07-01T23:56:44-05:00July 1st, 2021|Activism, Biden, China, COVID-19, Economy, National Security, Nicolas Davies, Politics, Solidarity|0 Comments
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Poetry Corner: a Cosmic Sun (Sun Yat-Sen)

A Cosmic Sun: An Astronomical, Spatial And Multidimensional Portrait Of A Chinese Revolutionary (SUN YAT-SEN) by Cosmos III [Excerpt] 1 Sublimely Stirred by the magnificent zenith of the marvelous Sunrise Sagas of the Taiping Rebels dazzling and Subversive aurora borealis display and in the romantic Spirit of legendary monster—slayers of ancient epochs, Sun Yat-Sen was that providential Chung kuo "Morning Star," a chosen heavenly Son born on the twelfth day of the [...]

By |2020-10-01T01:51:15-05:00October 1st, 2020|China, Heroes and Whistleblowers, MacArthur Gunter, Movements, Poetry Corner|0 Comments
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Hands Off Hong Kong

The East Bay Chapter of Veterans For Peace has passed a resolution opposing the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019,” introduced by Marco Rubio, (R-FL) in the Senate and by Chris Smith (R-NJ) in the House, with multiple sponsors and broad bipartisan support. The bill passed both houses and Trump signed it  into law. It will allow the Secretary of State (currently Mike Pompeo, former head of the CIA) [...]

By |2019-11-28T23:35:50-05:00November 28th, 2019|Activism, China, China, Commentary, Human Rights, News, Peace and War, Politics, Protests and Rallies, Security and Insecurity|0 Comments
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