Show notes: The CIA STILL Ships in the Drugs!
Category: Laos
Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma
The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget
Visualize the movement against the Vietnam War. What do you see? Hippies with daisies in their long, unwashed hair yelling “Baby killers!” as they spit on clean-cut, bemedaled veterans just back from Vietnam? College students in tattered jeans (their pockets bulging with credit cards) staging a sit-in to avoid the draft? A mob of chanting demonstrators burning an American flag (maybe with a bra or two thrown in)? That’s what we’re supposed to see, and that’s what Americans today probably do see — if they visualize the antiwar movement at all.
Hegseth visits Manila: Washington prepares for war with China + More
Hegseth visits Manila: Washington prepares for war with China
The language of Hegseth’s press conference in Manila is indicative of the openly aggressive face of US imperialism under Trump. Gone was any reference to what had been the political shibboleth of Washington in the Asia Pacific region: the defense of “freedom of navigation.” Hegseth spoke rather of “preparing for war,” using the phrase more than once. Every time Hegseth mentioned China he termed it “Communist China,” and spoke of its “aggression.” Hegseth referred to US Seventh fleet commander Admiral Samuel Paparo “and his war plans. Real war plans.”
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Soft Power: U.K. & Quad STEM Scholarships
RAND and SeaLight Part 3b: Four Ways China Is Growing Its Media Influence in Southeast Asia
05-10-2022: Four Ways China Is Growing Its Media Influence in Southeast Asia
China’s most straightforward method of media outreach is directly broadcasting or publishing its state media content in target ASEAN countries. Xinhua, China’s official state media agency, has print bureaus in every Southeast Asian country. TV news channels CCTV-4 and the English-language CGTN likewise operate in nearly every country in the region, while China Radio International airs multilingual content in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar. Xinhua is a ministry-level agency directly under the State Council, while the other media organizations all operate under the Chinese Communist Party Publicity Department.
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Has the South China Sea been part of China “since antiquity”
Philippine laws up tension on South China Sea
New laws specifying Manila’s claims have also angered smaller countries such as Malaysia, which could hamper unified resistance to China’s attempts at regional dominance.
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What’s Really Going On In the South China Sea Between the Philippines and China
Read More »Leaked docs reveal US ‘color revolution’ bid in Cambodia
Biden administration backed organisations plotting colour revolution in Cambodia (archived)
The Cambodia National Rescue Movement is affiliated with Liberal International, the same organization which is affiliated with Vente Venezuela, the party of María Corina Machado. My Indonesia and Bangladesh documents can be found on my documents page, along with the Atlas Network one.
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Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL): $500,000.00 from USAID
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