Neither Washington Nor Beijing?

Neither Washington Nor Beijing?

Regardless of what one thinks of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, anyone on the left must support China against US-led imperialist attacks and the New Cold War. The prominent Belgian Trotskyist economist Ernest Mandel was by no means a supporter of Soviet socialism, but he insisted firmly that the Soviet Union must be defended against imperialism. Arguing against Tony Cliff’s slogan of Neither Washington nor Moscow, he wrote: “Why, if it is conceivable to defend the SPD [German Social Democratic Party] against fascism, despite its being led by the Noskes, the assassins of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, is it ‘inconceivable’ to defend the USSR against imperialism?”111

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US Vaccine Imperialism Backfires

By Herman Tiu Laurel (Part 1: mRNA’s yet Unchartered Waters)

It took me some time to ascribe as “imperialism” the US behavior on its vaccine promotion efforts, but after reviewing the course of events since the start of the Covid-19 crisis I found this as an inescapable fact – the US has tried to impose on the world its new vaccine development, its parameters for defining “efficacy” and its pernicious propaganda efforts at putting down other countries’ vaccine projects.

US Vaccine Imperialism Backfires

US Defense Secretary Miller’s naughty US spy flights

The new Trump appointee US Defense Secretary Christopher Miller (doomed to be the shortest serving ever) was in the Philippines making a show of donating war equipment to the Philippines, ironically in the time when it is not needed as it is the time of the Covid pandemic when what we need are ventilators, protective equipment, vaccines and financial aid for economic recovery.

US Defense Secretary Miller’s naughty US spy flights

I said it was just a smokescreen!

Defense Secretary Miller Pledges to Enhance Peace and Stability in the ASEAN Region

Defense Secretary Miller Pledges to Enhance Peace and Stability in the ASEAN Region

This week, Miller, who was appointed as Pentagon Chief in November, has visited the Philippines and Indonesia during his Asia tour. A transfer of $30 mln in defense articles was announced following the results of the meeting between Miller and his Philippine counterpart on Tuesday. The US also pledged to provide Manila with $23.4 mln in COVID-19 assistance and disaster relief.

It’s just a smokescreen!

FNA: “China’s unmet pledges to Philippines seen as reason for Duterte’s shift in tone”

Interasksyon – Online news portal of TV5, a television and radio broadcasting network owned by Philippine-US Society co-chair CIA top honcho John Negroponte under the auspices of honorary chair and arch-US finance oligarch Maurice Greenberg of hte4 AIG group

FNA – “China’s unmet pledges to Philippines seen as reason for Duterte’s shift in tone”