Laos: From Landlocked to High-Speed Rail-Linked

October 19, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO) – For anyone who travelled through the rugged landlocked Southeast Asian country of Laos years ago, they will remember the twisting mountain roads and the many days by bus it would take to traverse the terrain from China’s border with Laos at Boten to the Laotian capital of Vietniane across the Mekong River from Thailand’s city of Nong Khai.

Laos: From Landlocked to High-Speed Rail-Linked

Peter Thiel Embodies Silicon Valley’s Conservative Past and Dystopian Future

Peter Thiel Embodies Silicon Valley’s Conservative Past and Dystopian Future

In August 2020, Thiel told Die Weltwoche that COVID-19 had created an opening. “Changes that should have taken place long ago did not come because there was resistance. Now the future is set free.” But the future desired by Thiel is one that involves less democracy, more restrictive immigration measures, and a tech industry even more aligned with the interests of the US government. Tech’s libertarian age is waning, but its future could be even worse.

Time to warn Taiwan secessionists and their fomenters: war is real + US Marines in Taiwan: A De Facto US Occupation of Chinese Territory (YouTube)

Time to warn Taiwan secessionists and their fomenters: war is real

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Brian explains how the Pentagon’s denial last year reveals just how provocative and dangerous this move by the US is (see notes and sources in video description):

YouTube: US Marines in Taiwan: A De Facto US Occupation of Chinese Territory

Stalin did Not Deport German Communists to Hitler: A critique of an essay by Alex de Jong in Jacobin magazine, August 2021.

In August 2021, the social-democratic magazine Jacobin published an article by Dutch writer Alex de Jong titled “Stalin Handed Hundreds of Communist Over to Hitler.” The assertion in the article’s title is false. De Jong’s article, and other articles and books that make this claim, all commit the following three cardinal errors:

Stalin did Not Deport German Communists to Hitler