AIDS And The AZT Scandal: SPIN’s 1989 Feature, ‘Sins Of Omission’
Day: November 17, 2021
Asia Times: Migration and geopolitics: the Belarus-Poland border crisis
It is crucial to cut through the hype and posturing to ensure this crisis does not escalate into dangerous conflict By ALFRED DE ZAYAS And ADRIEL KASONTA
Fake news and fake law make it difficult to understand the highly politicized migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, in the Balkans and on the border between Poland and Belarus.
Asia Times: Migration and geopolitics: the Belarus-Poland border crisis
Fact-check: Rittenhouse Testified He Drove Himself to Kenosha Without Weapon
The US’ Ethiopian Evacuation Call Is A Pro-TPLF Plot To Provoke Panic
Pinching Pennies for People—But Endless Cash for War
U.S. Terrorism 101: The Bert Sacks Story
Since the annual U.S. Veterans Day holiday honoring military veterans was just observed on November 11, it seems more than appropriate to suggest the creation of a U.S. Victims Day, just as in a similar effort at truth in labeling, the Defense Department should be renamed the Offensive War Department.
U.S. Terrorism 101: The Bert Sacks Story
Will the Military Industrial Complex Permit Good Relations Between the U.S. and China?
U.S. Follow Up On Positive Summit Talks Is A Boycott Of China’s Olympics
CIA Director Burns Goes to Moscow
CIA Director Burns Goes to Moscow
The most popular narrative currently making the rounds among some conspiracy theorists is that the Biden Administration has compiled what might be described as a dossier on the expansion of Chinese influence operations worldwide and is keen to make the case that they threaten everyone, including the Europeans and Russians. Presumably Burns would have been in Moscow to share that information in hopes that the burgeoning de facto alliance between Russia and China can be reversed. Whether Burns was successful in such a task remains to be seen, but it of course would not take into account that views in Beijing and Moscow have been shaped and hardened by confrontational activity that the United States has been engaged in both in the Baltic and South China Sea.
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Russia aside, witness the recent wave of China bashing, begun by Barack Obama with his pivot to Asia, continued under Donald Trump with his China virus rants, and endorsed by Joe Biden’s team which persists in labeling Beijing as enemy number one. No one steps back and considers even for a moment that the US is China’s largest market and that the US in turn relies on Chinese manufactured products to fill its Walmarts. If ever two nations had good reasons not to go to war, it would be China and the United States, yet the US desire to confront the “Red Menace” to include defending Taiwan continues to drive policy.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 