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Behind Trump’s Wishful Thinking on ‘Reindustrialization’: Why China Can Do It, U.S. Can’t

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 21, 2025 Sara Flounder’s brilliant and detailed analysis explains the failed tariff plan and the catastrophic condition of the U.S. economy that underlies it.      [jb] In the 1950s, when Japan and much of Europe was in ruins, the U.S. accounted for 50% of the world’s global production. By the 1960s, this was[…]

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Say No to Trump’s Tariffs and Anti-China Policy

by Mick Kelly, published on Workers World,  March 20, 2025 The following statement has been issued by the Friends of Socialist China U.S. Committee in response to the Trump administration’s announcement of new tariffs on Chinese imports. The statement was posted on socialistchina.org on March 14, 2025. The [Donald] Trump administration’s decision to slap additional tariffs on the People’s Republic[…]

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What Is Trump Really Up To With His Foreign Policy?

by Joe Lombardo, published on Facebook, February 18, 2025 Many people are happy to see that Trump is talking to the Russians and seems to be moving in the direction of ending the war in Ukraine. I think he is, but why? Well, for one thing, it is a lost war. Biden’s proclamations that we will destroy Russia with sanctions[…]

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Washington’s Fantasy of a War Against China

by Vijay Prashad, source: Globetrotter, February 4. 2025 The fragility of U.S. power was clear when a small Chinese startup released the DeepSeek machine learning program. The U.S. stock market Nasdaq shuddered, with technology stocks collapsing. This collapse is not a minor matter for the U.S. economy. During the post-COVID-19 inflation (2021), foreign investors began to slow down their purchase[…]

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North Korea Has Survived 75 Years of Barbaric Imperial Attack Under the Stewardship of the Much Maligned Kim Dynasty

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on CovertAction Magazine, January 15, 2025 Development of nuclear weapons has enabled North Korea to avoid the fate of Libya, Syria and Iraq Over the last 75 years, North Korea has been invaded and bombed back to the stone age by the United States, subjected to unprecedented economic warfare, vilified in the international media and had[…]

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U.S. Loses Fight Against World Anti Doping Agency

by Bernard, published on Moon of Alabama, January 9, 2025 In April last year the U.S. government, with the prominent help from the New York Times, opened a campaign against the World Anti Doping Agency WADA and against Chinese sports competition. Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for Banned Drug, Then Won Olympic Gold – New York Times The positive testing,[…]

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Washington Deploys Proxies to Xinjiang to Scuttle China’s Giant Infrastructure Project

by Mike Whitney, pubished on The Unz Review, December 21, 2024 As the U.S. is preparing to send it’s proxy army of ‘jihadi’ mercenaries back into China, it will be interesting to see how China will respond.  Everywhere else, from Serbia and Kosovo, to Chechnya, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, and of course Palestine, the result has been war and chaos. […]

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Biden Declares Another “National Emergency” Because of the Threat Posed by Tiny Nicaragua

by John Perry, published on Counterpunch, November 27, 2024 Why is it that everything the US does in Latin America is so surreal?  ~jb In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national[…]

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