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Did 1.4 billion Chinese Achieving Poverty Alleviation Cut into Washington’s Cake?
The hopeless fault-finder. Illustration: Liu Rui/GT These days the People’s Republic of China is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Over the past 75 years, China has grown from a poor and backward country to the world’s second-largest economy, with about one-sixth of the world’s population escaping poverty. However, as China continued to rise, the US’ attitude […]
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Handmaiden to the Establishment
When established, well fed and fattened, a credible professional tires from the pursuit. One can get complacent, flatulently confident, self-assured. From that summit, the inner lecturer emerges, along with a disease: false expertise. The Australian journalist Peter Greste has faithfully replicated the pattern. At one point in his life, he was lean, hungry and determined […]
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America Is Falling Apart
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. — Bob Dylan A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices. One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges […]
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Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
Photo credit: CODEPINK On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah, and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and if there were any deaths. But Israel is now considering a counterattack that could propel it […]
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Your Mind is a Battlefield: Decolonize Your Mind to Prevent Global Catastrophe!
Talk delivered for the event “Changes Not Seen in a Century: 75th Anniversary of the Founding of PRC.” Friends, Colleagues, Comrades, It’s a great honor for me to join you in this extraordinary, historical moment of celebration and reflection on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. As has been said, we are seeing […]
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Australian Officials Push Authoritarian Crackdown on Pro-Hezbollah Speech
As Israel begins another invasion of Lebanon, Australian officials from both sides of the imaginary partisan divide have been falling all over themselves to get Australians punished for speech crimes about the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah. The Australian political-media class have been in an uproar ever since footage surfaced of people waving Hezbollah flags at […]
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The Longest Day: Israel’s Victim Mindset
Next month will see the commemoration in Israel of the tragic events of October 7, 2023. For Israelis, that day has taken on a degree of sanctity. It is seen as an event that was unprecedented, unforeseen and unconnected to all that came before. To look for causes, beyond antisemitism and military and political culpability […]
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