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Are China and Russia competing in Central Asia? A view from Beijing

23May

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China, Russia

Are China and Russia competing in Central Asia? A view from Beijing

The ongoing China-Central Asia Summit aims to promote cooperation, not competition in the region, especially not with Russia. By Yawen Xu, a journalist and commentator with CGTN based in Beijing. She covers Chinese foreign policy, China-US relationship, tech, and economy. Follow Yawen on Twitter and YouTube. Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) presides over a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the China-Central Asia Summit on May 18, 2023. © Mark CRISTINO / POOL / AFP Chaired by President Xi Jinping, the China-Central Asia Summit invites the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to gather and attend the meeting in the historic city of Xi'an, China on 18 and 19 May. As the first major diplomatic ...

US fails to break Russia-India ties – leaked Pentagon documents

23May

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India, Russia, USA

US fails to break Russia-India ties – leaked Pentagon documents

The files shed new light on how Washington snoops on allies and foes alike to further its unipolar world agenda By Joydeep Sen Gupta, Asia Editor A view of the rostrum at Pentagon afterU.S. Defense Department spokesperson Air Force Brigadier General Patrick Ryder holds a press conference in Washington DC, United States on April 13, 2023. © Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A cache of classified US documents leaked online last month has shed light on American intelligence gathered about other countries. Images of the covert files initially appeared on the messaging app Discord in January, but went unnoticed until March. Discord later put out an official statement condemning the leak. The documents consist of an ...

Executed for poverty: Jordan Neely’s death exposes systemic flaws of US society

22May

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Human Rights, USA

Executed for poverty: Jordan Neely’s death exposes systemic flaws of US society

Conservatives are christening their new anti-homeless hero while liberals sit on their hands Bradley Blankenship is an American journalist, columnist and political commentator. He has a syndicated column at CGTN and is a freelance reporter for international news agencies including Xinhua News Agency. @BradBlank_ US Marine veteran Daniel Penny, 24, is escorted in handcuffs by the NYPD (New York City Police Department) after turning himself into the 5th Precinct in Lower Manhattan. © Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images The parable of the Good Samaritan, as told by Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke, is about a traveler (assumed to be Jewish) who is stripped, beaten and left to die on the side of a road. He is approached by...

Disgraced ex-PM Liz Truss seeks to ruin any hopes for normal UK-China ties

22May

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China, United Kingdom

Disgraced ex-PM Liz Truss seeks to ruin any hopes for normal UK-China ties

The former premier’s Taiwan trip is nothing but a provocation for Beijing to lash out at London, sinking any constructive dialogue By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss gives a speech at a forum held by Prospect Foundation on May 17, 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan. © Annabelle Chih/Getty Images Disgraced Liz Truss will always be remembered as a disastrous prime minister who spent only a month in office and was outlasted by a head of lettuce. Her disastrous budget plans sent shudders through the UK economy, eliciting criticism from the British people, MPs and foreign leaders alike. Her ideology-driven political decisions found little sympathy with the public, which repaid her with abysmal approval ratings. You’d think someone like th...

US struggles to explain images of its destroyed hardware inside Russia

22May

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Russia, Ukraine, USA

US struggles to explain images of its destroyed hardware inside Russia

The Russian Defense Ministry released footage showing American vehicles used by Ukrainian militants in Belgorod attack © The Russian Defense Ministry President Joe Biden’s administration has suggested that contrary to the footage shared by the Russian military and many other images posted on social media showing US-made military vehicles destroyed in Belgorod Region, the equipment used by Ukrainian militants in their latest attack on Russian soil was likely not supplied by Washington or its Western allies. “We’ve seen some of the reports circulating on social media and elsewhere making claims that US-supplied weapons were used in these attacks,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday in Washington. “I will say tha...

THE CIA COUP AGAINST ‘THE MOST LOYAL ALLY’ IS HISTORY’S WARNING IN 2020

22May

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Australia, United Kingdom

THE CIA COUP AGAINST ‘THE MOST LOYAL ALLY’ IS HISTORY’S WARNING IN 2020

The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer "personal" and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter? Secret letters written in 1975 by the Queen and her man in Canberra, Sir John Kerr, can now be released by the National Archives - if the Australian establishment allows it. On November 11, 1975, Kerr infamously sacked the reformist government of prime minister Gough Whitlam, and delivered Australia into the hands of the United States. Today, Australia is a vassal state bar none: its politics, intelligence agencies, military and much of its media are integrated into Washington's "sphere of dominance" and war plans. In Donald Trump's current pr...

ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING… UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW

22May

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China, Russia, USA

ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING… UNLESS WE STOP IT NOW

In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five 'ground zeros' for nuclear weapons - from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next. When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties. I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was ...

HOW BRITAIN COULD HAVE DEFEATED COVID. YOU CAN NOW WATCH “THE DIRTY WAR ON THE NHS”

22May

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Health, United Kingdom

HOW BRITAIN COULD HAVE DEFEATED COVID. YOU CAN NOW WATCH “THE DIRTY WAR ON THE NHS”

The Dirty War on the NHS was first broadcast in Britain on the ITV Network on 17 December, 2019. It was shown following the general election that saw Boris Johnson become prime minister - even though the future of the NHS was a major issue in the campaign. The remarkable prescience of the film became clear when the COVID pandemic struck, and the NHS, crippled by bed shortages, the starvation of resources and accelerating privatisation, could not cope. This was the film's warning - a warning also delivered in 2016 when a full 'drill' for a pandemic showed the NHS would barely survive such an emergency. The politicians and managers did nothing; the report of the results of the drill was suppressed. The ideological assault on the world's first public health service continued at the...

22May

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Human Rights, United Kingdom

BRITAIN’S CLASS WAR ON CHILDREN

A British family from the film Smashing Kids, 1975. Photograph: John Garrett When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful.In Hackney, in 1975, I filmed Irene Brunsden's family. Irene told me she gave her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes. "She doesn't tell me she's hungry, she just moans. When she moans, I know something is wrong." "How much money do you have in the house? I asked."Five pence," she replied.Irene said she might have to take up prostitution, "for the baby's sake". Her husband Jim, a truck driver who was unable to work because of illness, was next to her. It was as if they shared a private grief.This is what poverty does. In my experience, its damage...

THERE IS A WAR COMING SHROUDED IN PROPAGANDA. IT WILL INVOLVE US. SPEAK UP

22May

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United Kingdom

THERE IS A WAR COMING SHROUDED IN PROPAGANDA. IT WILL INVOLVE US. SPEAK UP

johnpilger.com In this new essay, John Pilger recalls the 'electric' opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is 'a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda' as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.   In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on 'the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists' to discuss the 'rapid crumbling of capitalism' and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the public with more than a thousand turned away.   Arthur Miller, Myra Page, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett warned tha...