Cambodia’s central bank is working towards widespread adoption of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) with the ultimate aim of eliminating the US dollar hegemony in the country.
Cambodia to Erase US Dollar Hegemony with Project Bakong
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Senior US officials kick off ‘unusually frequent’ visits to SE Asian countries
Senior US officials kick off ‘unusually frequent’ visits to SE Asian countries
Trips expose Washington’s anxiety on marshaling regional states against China: analysts
Countering the “China Threat” – At What Price?
In early June 2021, in a classified directive to Pentagon officials, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin slammed the former Trump administration for talking big but never taking action to counter “the China threat.”
Countering the “China Threat” – At What Price?
U.S. Schools Support Genocide Denial and What To Do About It
By failing to educate students about the many genocides the U.S. government has supported, they promote a dangerous nationalistic ideology.
U.S. Schools Support Genocide Denial and What To Do About It
The Fertile Soil: Sino-Lao agricultural cooperation is eliminating poverty
Agriculture has long been the pillar industry of Laos’ national economy. In recent years, the Belt and Road Initiative has helped agricultural cooperation between China and Laos become closer, which has improved the standard of living and contributed greatly to agricultural development in Laos.
The Fertile Soil
Syria war: Who are the real anti-imperialists?
Syria war: Who are the real anti-imperialists?
Chomsky today, of course, is not the Chomsky of the 1970s. While he remains an opponent of US imperialism and a critic of some Israeli policies, his position is less than radical on a number of questions.
In the last decade, he has vociferously and actively opposed the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement’s call to boycott Israel, though he supports boycotting Israeli settlement goods. In addition, and this is most relevant today, he has always been an anti-Soviet cold warrior, even at the height of his anti-US imperialism (anti-Sovietism, and today anti-Russianism, has always been endemic to the US liberal and socialist left).
Chomsky’s anti-imperialist political commitments never relied on any explicit or accepted theory of the nature of imperialism as based on capitalist economic exploitation, which is why he often casually accused the Soviets of also being an “empire”. That he is a signatory to a letter that accuses opponents of US and NATO intervention in Syria of being apologists for Assad has clearly transitioned him to the very same position his enemies occupied when they called him an apologist for the Khmer Rouge.
Covid-19 catch-22: Regime-change policies come packed with US pandemic relief
Covid-19 catch-22: Regime-change policies come packed with US pandemic relief
While the US public was forced to grovel for months for a $600 direct payment, the same piece of legislation pumps billions of dollars into “democracy programs” — US government code for regime-change operations via civil society NGOs — and foreign military assistance. The measly $600 survival checks pale in comparison to the massive foreign spending on regime change and titanic allocations to prop up US-friendly authoritarian militaries.
The Historical US Support for al-Qaeda
The Historical US Support for al-Qaeda
And let me tell you about American leaders. In power, they don’t think the way you and I do. They don’t feel the way you and I do. They have supported “awful jihadists” and their moral equivalents for decades. Let’s begin in 1979 in Afghanistan, where the Moujahedeen (“holy warriors”) were in battle against a secular, progressive government supported by the Soviet Union; a “favorite tactic” of the Moujahedeen was “to torture victims [often Russians] by first cutting off their nose, ears, and genitals, then removing one slice of skin after another”, producing “a slow, very painful death”.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 