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Houthi Red Sea Crisis Rages On as US Admits Its Impotence and Asks China to Help

by Uriel Araujo, published on InfoBRICS, January 26, 2024 The Financial Times reported that, over the last three months, Washington has repeatedly asked Beijing to pressure Iran into curbing the Houthi rebels. Both the White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly talked about the matter with their Chinese counterparts. Sullivan is even flying[…]

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Dismantling Western Hypocrisy on Xinjiang and Gaza

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, January 16, 2024 The movement in the U.S. supporting Palestinian national liberation has drawn truly massive numbers of people in action. On Jan. 13, for example, a reported 400,000 people marched on the White House, marking the largest pro-Palestine demonstration in U.S. history. To counter this growing outpouring of support for Palestine in[…]

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Despite Growth, Only Social Movements Will Bring Progress

by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News,  January 10, 2023 In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a major surprise. The growth of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to decline with no sign of a rebound. Following a modest post-pandemic[…]

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Traveling to Prove China Is Not Our Enemy

by Dee Knight, November 14, 2023 “China Is Not Our Enemy” was the theme of a ten-day visit to China in early November. The visit was designed to find and highlight a path to common prosperity and a shared future between China, the United States, and the rest of the world. Visiting China made me believe peace is possible. We[…]

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The Geopolitics of Al-Aqsa Flood

by Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, October 12, 2023 Global focus just shifted from Ukraine to Palestine. This new arena of confrontation will ignite further competition between the Atlanticist and Eurasian blocs. These fights are increasingly zero-sum ones; as in Ukraine, only one pole can emerge strengthened and victorious. Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was meticulously planned. The launch date[…]

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China-Syria Strategic Partnership Faces the US Imposed Stalemate

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Syria Support Movement, September 27, 2023 Interesting update.   I, for one, was unaware that that many of the Syrian oil fields currently occupied by the United States were taken over by China’s state owned oil company just 2 years before the U.S. pulled the trigger on the Syrian terrorist war.  Sinopec had also recently bought[…]

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BRICS and Camp David: Two Very Different Meetings

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, September 2, 2023 Note:  The following article first appeared in the Global Times on Aug. 28.  (tinyurl.com/2trh7mf2) Within days of each other, two very different meetings of world significance were held.   The meetings sharply frame the choices.  What kind of future these two meetings represent deserves to be analyzed and compared. At[…]

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NY Times Publishes Hit Job on Anti-war Activists; Solidarity Must Be the Answer

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, August 16, 2023 Once in a while, the New York Times runs an article that reveals what this media conglomerate really represents. People often call the Times “liberal.” That’s because it seems to oppose some of the most reactionary politicians, like president #45, and gives ample opinion space to diverse voices. When Washington[…]

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