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Biden Indicts Trump on 5 Charges That Applied Also to Hillary Clinton, Who Was Never Charged
Alan J. Russo opened the “Conclusions” section of his extraordinary (extraordinarily fine) 1970 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review article, “Equal Protection from the Law: The Substantive Requirements for a Showing of Discriminatory Law Enforcement,” by saying: In order to be acquitted in a penal proceeding on grounds of discriminatory enforcement, a defendant generally has […]
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Proven Guilty of Innocence (but not Naïvety)
“We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us.” (Don Jose, The Wild Bunch) Back when I was on Facebook, every morning, I’d be informed of which friends were marking a birthday. It became one of my daily rituals to post — on each of their walls — a question from […]
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Novak Djokovic: Always More than Tennis
The victory of Novak Djokovic in the latest French Open had the usual mixed reception in Australia. While Australians pretend to like radicals, larrikins and the occasional deviant, the contrary is true. Tight buttoned, properly behaved and conformist to the point of invisibility, the boringly predictable are always preferred. You can rely on them. Even […]
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US Calls China “Aggressive”
This week’s News on China video, presented by Tings Chak. • US calls China “aggressive” • Suez Canal investments • Multinational pharmaceuticals in China • History of bicycles in China
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Anything Paul Revere Can Do, a 16-Year-Old Girl Can Do Better
Over the years, I’ve often been asked to categorize my work. I find this to be close to impossible but — when pressed — I see myself playing a Paul Revere-style role. In other words, I have important info to share. So, I call out the warning to all who have ears to hear. All […]
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Why Has WSJ Become a “Professional Rumormonger” against China?
Illustration: Liu Rui/GT On June 8, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an “exclusive report” citing anonymous US officials, stating that China agreed to pay cash-strapped Cuba several billion dollars to allow it to build an eavesdropping station. To understand what this news means to Washington, which has become so sensitive about China-related issues, we […]
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The Vaccine Hesitant
Contrary to the vaccine hesitant crowd, retired professor Noam Chomsky opined, “People who refuse to accept vaccines, I think the right response for them is not to force them to, but rather to insist that they be isolated. If people decide, ‘I am willing to be a danger to the community by refusing to vaccinate,’ […]
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From Net Zero to Glyphosate: Agritech’s Greenwashed Corporate Power Grab
Today, in the mainstream narrative, there is much talk of a ‘food transition’. Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much- promoted plans to ‘feed the world’ with ‘precision’ farming’, ‘data-driven’ agriculture and ‘sustainable’ production. These are the very institutions responsible for the social, ecological and […]
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A Matter of Interest: The RBA, Inflation and Corporate Profits
He is one of the least empathetic of beings, a cold fish, bothered and irritated. Captured by the cradle of numbers (he is an economist); obsessed by the spreadsheet of projections that may never result, there is not much to recommend the chief of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Philip Lowe. Come to think of […]
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Promethean City Builders vs Finance Capital Malthusians
Part I Who are Some Western Supporters of Multipolarists? Orientation Most of us realize there is a major tectonic shift in the world economy from West to East. The multipolar nations are basing their economies on investing in developing the productive forces of science and technology and to better human life. The Belt and Road […]
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