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This week’s News on China in 2 minutes. • Urumqi Fire and new Covid outbreak • Pop singer sentenced to 13 years in prison • Local elections in Taiwan • New findings from the frontal region of the brain The post Urumqi Fire and New Covid Outbreak first appeared on Dissident Voice.

Zelensky believes faking an attack or creating an environmental calamity will repeat history. But he is woefully misinformed as he is ignorant. When the lights go out, the water no longer comes and there isn’t even a scrap of wood to keep Ukrainians warm, Zelensky will need Sean Penn’s Oscar for help. How long has […]

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been the first of its kind and may be a breakthrough in calling out Israel and its apartheid regime, Steven Sahiounie writes. Israeli citizens and journalists are allowed in Qatar in a FIFA agreement during the 2022 World Cup now underway in Doha. Being allowed to enter a […]

Although Ukraine’s power grid has been heavily hit, it is as nothing compared to what Syria is suffering this very day. NATO’s BBC outlet reports that their NATO masters have promised to supply the rump Ukrainian Reich with yet more weapons and a pile of generators to keep Kiev’s Christmas lights burning brightly for both […]

The Pentagon Budget Keeps Soaring Up, Up, and Away! W.J. ASTORE When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the Cold War ended, I heard a lot about peace dividends. It was time to become a normal country in normal (more peaceful) times, said Jeanne Kirkpatrick, an early neocon who served under Ronald Reagan. More […]

By Alexia EYCHENNE Aided by an algorithm, the Dutch tax office has plunged into distress tens of thousands of families – in particular, foreign-born mothers, in wrongfully demanding from them staggering sums. The state is proving incapable of setting things right. Rotterdam. Each day, Sabrina Sliep picks up her telephone to listen to the same […]

Ukraine has likely lost 100,000 soldiers who won’t readily be replaced while US arms deliveries are depleting stocks and exposing security holes in Asia. By Stephen BRYEN In a shocking statement that has now been withdrawn, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote that Ukraine has lost 100,000 soldiers and 20,000 civilians in the Ukraine war. This conforms […]

The euro area is facing rising prices, with energy prices being the main drivers of inflation. Having decided to cut energy ties with Russia, the EU is doing its best to keep energy prices growing. (Click on the image to enlarge)

The organization is the heir to the throne that was vacated after Nazi Germany’s defeat. The foreign ministers of the NATO military alliance met this week for a summit in the Romanian capital Bucharest for what was a celebration of the bloc’s expansion. The anti-Russia rhetoric and hostility were also effervescent. “Russia does not have […]

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE NATO has doubled down on its determination to eventually add Ukraine to its membership, renewing its 2008 commitment to that goal in a meeting between the foreign ministers of the alliance in Bucharest, Romania this past Tuesday. Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp writes: The Romanian city was where NATO initially made the promise to Ukraine back in […]