By Omar Latif It is clear, to many at least, that Western governments and the corporate-owned mass media lie when it suits them. The 1965 Gulf of Tonkin Incident in which the North Vietnamese fired on US vessels, Iraq’s weapons of mass [...]
Maoism: A Global History 2019 Author: Julia Lovell Publisher: Penguin Random House Reviewed by Brian W. Major Julia Lovell’s book is a detailed study of the history, impact, appeal and legacy of Mao Zedong and Maoism globally. [...]
By Jianhong Li November 23, 2020 is a significant day in the history of the People’s Republic of China and possibly of the world. China Central Television (CCTV) announced that 9 counties in Guizhou Province, one of the poorest provinces in the [...]
By Ken Stone On September 28, Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Huawei Technologies and permanent resident of Canada, was forced to make yet another appearance in court in Vancouver where she faces possible extradition to the United [...]
COVID-19 has reminded us, brutally, that not only do capital, goods, ideas (useful and nasty) and people flow like wind and water in this world; our mutating viruses do too. Less obviously, the pandemic has put communism back on the table. I use [...]
Jianhong Li The capitalist West is terrified by coronavirus, which has already taken a toll on its seemingly forever-declining economy. On the other hand, China has successfully managed to put the virus under control and emerged stronger than [...]
By Peter Miller in Chongqing I’m in China during the pandemic and it’s pained me to see anti-Chinese propaganda gaining ground in the West, including in Canada. Instead of blaming China for a virus that knows no borders, we should be looking [...]
Containment, Heroism, Fear and Lies As my almost-empty Shanghai subway train pulled into a station in the middle of February, I came face-to-face with an ad for UnionPay, the Chinese debit card found in everyone’s wallet. All members of a [...]
When is an NGO not an NGO? Certainly, when it is Washington’s National Endowment for Democracy, founded in 1983 by Ronald Reagan, generously funded by Congress, and enthusiastically boosted by the likes of the Washington Post, the Clintons and the [...]
