China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the most ambitious infrastructure and economic integration project ever devised, linking over 140 countries across Asia, Africa and Europe. Much unlike the political West, Beijing is trying to project power through economic means, a starkly different approach to that of the most aggressive power pole in human history.
Political West’s “Divide And Rule” Strategy of Destabilizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) (archived)
Tag: Democracy
Choreographed Dissent
How Reform Rebrands Power Without Redistributing It
Notice: This is not an endorsement of Mr. Reagan. What strikes me is how long it’s taken some folks to catch on—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was never the political outsider she was marketed to be. I remember watching these videos years ago. Even then, it was clear her role was never to disrupt the machinery, but to redirect dissent—to shepherd disillusioned voters back into the Democratic fold. The Justice Democrats weren’t a rupture; they were a renovation.
You can’t change the system from within.
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Trump is Working on Regime Change in Europe – Fact, Not Conspiracy Theory
On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
Politicians all over Europe would do well to read this document carefully before they and their spin doctors start concocting strategies for their upcoming election campaigns.
Trump is Working on Regime Change in Europe – Fact, Not Conspiracy Theory
YOU Are the Threat Now: How Governments are Criminalizing Critical Voices
US President Trump Streamlined the National Endowment for Democracy*, not Dismantle it
Brian Berletic, June 11, 2025
While many believe that under the Trump administration the controversial National Endowment for Democracy (NED*) was defunded, dismantled, or otherwise dissolved, the reality is far less dramatic and far more dangerous.
US President Trump Streamlined the National Endowment for Democracy*, not Dismantle it (archived)
June 7 is Muammar Gaddafi’s birthday.
From the book by M. Gaddafi “Village, village. Land, land. The suicide of an astronaut and other stories” (Tripoli, 1993, pp. 65-79): “Throughout your entire life, you must resist Death… Death is a man who attacks and never goes on the defensive, even if he is defeated. He is spiteful, sometimes brave, sometimes cowardly. Sometimes, death is defeated and is forced to retreat. It does not win as a result of every attack, as is commonly believed. In how many face-to-face fights has Death become exhausted and, exhausted, retreated! Despite the wounds received in the fight against death, the stubborn opponent never gives in. And this is the superiority of life over death… The correct position is resistance, and running away from Death even abroad will not save you… However, if it has reincarnated as a woman… and we feel it with every cell of our body… then resisting it is unworthy of a man, and one should give in to it at the last moment…».
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Selective Free Speech: Censorship, Hypocrisy, and the Politics of Control
Marx’s insight—”The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class”—perfectly captures the hypocrisy of free speech under the Trump administration. While they denounced censorship when the Biden administration silenced voices questioning pandemic policies, they now weaponize state power against those protesting the war in Gaza. This contradiction reveals that their defense of free speech is not based on principle but on political utility—protecting narratives that serve their interests while suppressing dissent that threatens their agenda. By framing pandemic skepticism as truth-seeking while branding anti-war activism as dangerous, they manipulate public discourse to maintain control rather than uphold genuine democratic values. This selective enforcement isn’t new; it’s a recurring pattern in power structures, where the ruling class dictates which ideas are legitimate and which must be silenced.
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.
The DOGE Is All Wrong
W.J. Astore
You can’t do a wrong thing the right way
During World War II, the Nazi system of extermination camps was fairly efficient. Relatively small death camps like Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka killed an astonishing number of people, more than 1.6 million and nearly all Jews, quickly and efficiently. If there were a Nazi DOGE, I suppose these death camps may have won “efficiency” awards from it. They stripped the incoming victims of all their valuables and then killed virtually all of them. The loot stolen by the SS was then distributed, again fairly efficiently.
The DOGE Is All Wrong
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