This didn’t age well.
A review of RAND Corporation’s ‘War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable’
Read More »This didn’t age well.
A review of RAND Corporation’s ‘War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable’
Read More »Türkiye says its embassy in Damascus to open on Saturday (Anadolu Agency)
On the collapse of the Bashar Assad regime earlier this month in the face of rapid anti-regime advances, Fidan said Türkiye “paved the way for this to happen in a bloodless manner” by continuing to pursue talks with “two key actors,” referring to Russia and Iran.
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*Fidan said before the latest developments, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was controlling an area where 5 million Syrians were living and highlighted that they have gained experience in providing municipal services, education services, basic services, transportation and many other services in the past 5-6 years. [Idlib]
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New Syria govt won’t recognise PKK/YPG terror group’s authority — Fidan (TRT)
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5 Vietnamese Communist Party officials jailed for helping abducted blogger
Vietnam has jailed five party members for feeding information to Duong Van Thai, a blogger who is believed to have been abducted in Thailand last year and resurfaced in Vietnamese custody, the human rights group 88 Project reported, citing sources inside the government.
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Vietnamese court sentences blogger to 12 years in prison for anti-state propaganda
Read More »Political unrest continues to erupt in the nation of Georgia along Russia’s southern Caucasus border, led by openly anti-Russian protesters backed by US-European government money and support.
Previously:
Screenshots of Western front organizations in Georgia: Thanks to the EU blackmail/bullying Georgia suspends talks on accession
2003 Rose Revolution: The US government funds election observers and exit polls for regime change
Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism
In the latest front in the culture war over school curricula, the House of Representatives is set to vote Friday on a bill that would give a congressional stamp of approval to the lesson plans of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a group closely linked to fervently hawkish corners of the foreign policy blob.
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A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism: 5. “Monism And Dualism”
But this Kievsky argument is wrong. Imperialism is as much our “mortal” enemy as is capitalism. That is so. No Marxist will forget, however, that capitalism is progressive compared with feudalism, and that imperialism is progressive compared with pre-monopoly capitalism. Hence, it is not every struggle against imperialism that we should support. We will not support a struggle of the reactionary classes against imperialism; we will not support an uprising of the reactionary classes against imperialism and capitalism.
The hit job titled “How a Strongman Made Himself Look Weak” claims that PM Modi responds to criticism within India by ‘co-opting’ the media and ‘repressing’ the religious minorities [read Muslims]. And, on foreign soil, the Modi government responds to criticism with anger and laughably, even ‘political assassinations’.
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Daniel Block (Asia Foundation—CIA, Henry Luce Scholar— partners with the Asia Foundation, The Caravan)
Read More »A decision on Red No. 3, the synthetic coloring made from petroleum, could come in the next few weeks.
FDA may finally ban artificial red dye from beverages, candy and other foods
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