Geopolitics
- Hugo Chávez, Xi Jinping, and a global community of shared futuresocialistchina.org Hugo Chávez, Xi Jinping, and a global community of shared future - Friends of Socialist China
The following is the text of the presentation delivered by Carlos Martinez, co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, at a round-table discussion on Venezuela’s foreign policy in a changing world, held on 20 February 2024 at Bolivar Hall in London. The event was organised by the Ambassador of the Bol...
- Why Is Alexei Navalny’s Death Being Depicted as So Vital for Americans—As Assange Faces Final “Life or Death” Extradition Appeal?www.greanvillepost.com Why Is Alexei Navalny’s Death Being Depicted as So Vital for Americans—As Assange Faces Final “Life or Death” Extradition Appeal? | The Greanville Post
GLENN GREENWALD—Glenn probes the campaign of lies in the Western media describing Navalny as an exemplary hero for opposing Putin, "the corrupt tyrant," while paying no attention to the fate of real heroes like Julian Assange, being slowly disappeared by the American Deep State and its accomplices a...
- Why the West sees China as a threatjohnmenadue.com Why the West sees China as a threat - Pearls and Irritations
China threatens the West because it provides an example of how a poor and technologically backward country can defy Western domination.
- Peace delegates report back from China: Building solidarity and opposing the New Cold Warwww.youtube.com Peace delegates report back from China: Building solidarity and opposing the New Cold War
Although the Biden administration has made some small gestures towards improving US-China relations, the US continues to escalate its campaign of encirclemen...
- US has new intelligence on Russian nuclear capabilities in space | CNN Politicsedition.cnn.com US has new intelligence on Russian nuclear capabilities in space | CNN Politics
The US has new intelligence on Russian military capabilities related to its efforts to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in space, according to multiple sources familiar with the intelligence.
- The Age of Zugzwang
A good overview of the geostrategic Zugzwang that the US empire is facing on three fronts: occupied Palestine, Iran and the broader West Asia, and Russia-Ukraine. The usual disclaimers apply as always when i recommend pieces by non-Marxist authors.
As i have previously explained in another post about an article by the same author, it is clear to me that they have reactionary inclinations. For this particular piece this results in a couple of noticeable annoyances:
One being the bad habit that quite a few geopolitical commentators from the conservative side have with bringing "eschatology" (and more generally metaphysics) into geopolitics. The other is calling anti-colonialism an "emerging religion" in an attempt to conflate it with idealistic/moralistic ideologies.
Both of these are clear symptoms of a lack of dialectical materialism in the author's thinking. Feel free to ignore those parts as they are silly and would not have been included had this been written by a Marxist.
The rest of the analysis i would say is quite lucid, however glaringly incomplete as it entirely omits discussion of the biggest strategic Zugzwang of all for the US which is the unstoppable rise of China.
In all fairness however, that is a huge topic which needs a dedicated piece all its own just to scratch the surface.
- Russia ambassador mocks the low intellect of NATO officials
https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1757221470084755482
- TikTok CEO’s grilling on China ties could ‘undermine’ US image: Singapore envoywww.scmp.com TikTok CEO’s grilling on China ties could ‘undermine’ US image: Singapore envoy
Questions like those put to Chew Shou Zi can hurt how America is ‘viewed in different parts of the world’, says city state’s ambassador in Washington.
- Russians have had to dumb down their speeches at the UN so other countries can understand them, deputy representative Dmitry Polyansky has saidweb.archive.org Western diplomacy ‘primitive’ – Moscow
Western diplomacy is degrading, Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s deputy envoy to the UN, has suggested
- How China is winning the Middle Eastwww.defenseone.com How China is winning the Middle East
China is working to present itself as a responsible alternative to the U.S. in the Middle East, just as many are questioning Washington’s long-term commitment to the region.
- Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalismwww.aljazeera.com Western coverage of Gaza: A textbook case of coloniser’s journalism
Israel’s war on Gaza has exposed the true nature and purpose of Western media.
- Grenville Cross' open letter to UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunakwww.chinadailyhk.com Grenville Cross' open letter to UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunak
It is in the British national interest that there be a full appreciation of the success story that is modern Hong Kong, writes Grenville Cross.
- Iraqi Kurdistan pays a deadly price for hosting the Mossadthecradle.co Iraqi Kurdistan pays a deadly price for hosting the Mossad
Israel's notorious intelligence agency has spent decades infiltrating and sabotaging Arab states. But it has hit a wall in Iraq, a country that hosts the Axis of Resistance and is prepared to fight back hard.
- Former NATO chief says recent US administrations laid groundwork for global conflictsthehill.com Former NATO chief says recent US administrations laid groundwork for global conflicts
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO secretary-general, argued the past three U.S. presidential administrations are in part to blame for some of the current global conflicts. Rasmussen on Tuesday…
- John Pilger: The Coming War -- It's Time to Speak Upconsortiumnews.com John Pilger: The Coming War -- It's Time to Speak Up
Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear, warned the late John Pilger last May. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism. By John Pilger May 1, 2023 In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New
- Assassinations and the Erosion of the Rules-Based Orderwww.rusi.org Assassinations and the Erosion of the Rules-Based Order
If a drone were ever to shoot dead a UK Cabinet minister in the royal box at Wimbledon, a Gulf potentate at Ascot, or a Chinese dissident in the stands at Wembley Stadium, we might look back at the 10 incremental steps that got us there and wonder why we let them happen when the West was still the d...
- Open Defianceimetatronink.substack.com Open Defiance
The empire of debt and lies has been weighed in the balances and found wanting. All that remains is to see if it will go gently into that good night, or in a fit of humiliated rage, set the world on fire.
- Normalization with Israel has been ended by its brutal war on Gazapeoplesdispatch.org Normalization with Israel has been ended by its brutal war on Gaza : Peoples Dispatch
The US-led process of normalizing relations between Arab countries and Israel has stalled completely over Israel's genocidal war on Gaza
- Vietnam-China joint statementsocialistchina.org Vietnam-China joint statement - Friends of Socialist China
Chinese President Xi Jinping successfully concluded his state visit to Vietnam and returned to China on the afternoon of December 13. In a further meeting with Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), just prior to his departure, Xi said t...
- ‘Western domination of history is coming to an end,’ Kishore Mahbubani slams US media for their lack of global POVwww.hindustantimes.com ‘Western domination of history is coming to an end,’ Kishore Mahbubani slams US media for their lack of global POV
Former Singaporean diplomat criticizes American mainstream media (MSM) for their insular and parochial coverage, particularly regarding non-Western worlds.
