Day: May 1, 2020

[2015] Look Who’s Moving in USA’s ‘Own Backyard’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Look Who’s Moving in USA’s ‘Own Backyard’

In 2008 Washington created a special Pentagon command, AFRICOM, to counter the major Chinese economic initiatives in Africa to make loans and give soft credits in return for long-term trade agreements for oil and other African raw materials. Results have been poor in terms of stopping China’s search for raw materials for its growing economy. Now China has taken a new bold step to challenge the de facto imperialist American “Monroe Doctrine” by making major initiatives into Latin America. Washington’s “own backyard.”

Twitter response to Ken Roth’s sympathy for Russian speaking ISIS terrorists

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Human Rights Watch! Need I say more?! 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Human Rights Watch’s executive director Kenneth Roth is anything but impartial when it comes to Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq. His obsession with Bashar Al-Assad and barrel bombs has been a running joke on twitter for years now. When it comes to ISIS, he has mixed feelings. He may criticize them for enslaving Yazidi girls and beheading Westerners but whenever they commit any atrocities in Syria, he has to always qualify his condemnation of them with something like “they are no worse than Assad”. Here is one of dozens of examples of this sort of thing:

Same thing in Iraq. He is always reminding us of the role that “Shia mistreatment of Sunnis played in the growth of ISIS”. Again there are dozens of examples of that…

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Martin Jacques: How will the Covid-19 pandemic change the world?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Source: Martin Jacques

Nothing will be quite the same again. It raises many questions. Why the extreme China-bashing? Will US-China relations continue to worsen? How will China’s success and the West’s relative failure in dealing with the epidemic impact on the world? Will the trend towards nationalism grow? What will happen to globalisation? To migration? Will Chinese students ever return to Western universities in the same numbers? Interview with Anand Naidoo.