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China’s Water Crisis Could Trigger Global Catastrophe
China’s Water Crisis Could Trigger Global Catastrophe China’s water crisis is nothing new, but it’s gotten worse – and is now on the ‘brink of catastrophe‘ and could trigger a global catastrophe, according to Foreign Affairs. Dried-up riverbed of Jialing river, a Yangtze tributary, China, August 2022 Thomas Peter / Reuters Given the country’s overriding importance to the […]
China & US War in 3 Months?
China & US War in 3 Months? The former Labor Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd has come out in a piece he wrote in Foreign Affairs – Beware the Guns of August—in Asia. Rudd is claiming that the US and China may go to war in three months ahead of the US elections. This is clearly the […]
In Africa, A New Tactic to Suppress Online Speech: Taxing Social Media
In Africa, A New Tactic to Suppress Online Speech: Taxing Social Media Think things are bad in the US and Europe when it comes to social media speech suppression? Check out, Africa. Will this be our future? Aware of the threat that social media poses to their power, repressive regimes in Africa have employed various […]
Perpetual War: Treadmill of America’s Mind
Perpetual War: Treadmill of America’s Mind Like a caged hamster on a running wheel, the American people are trapped in perpetual wars that the foreign policy elites offer no way to end, only excuses to continue, observes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. The newest issue of Foreign Affairs features the theme of “America’s Forgotten Wars,” […]
Foreign Affairs Mag Advances Domestic Terrorism To Remove Alternative Media
Foreign Affairs Mag Advances Domestic Terrorism To Remove Alternative Media Is Foreign Affairs magazine advancing “domestic terrorism” because it could help remove alternative media, and even jail editors and writers or worse. The recent article is entitled “Should We Treat Domestic Terrorists the Way We Treat ISIS? What Works—and What Doesn’t.” It begins as follows: […]
Splendid Isolation: A Sane Foreign Policy For America
Splendid Isolation: A Sane Foreign Policy For America A proper foreign policy for the US would be consistent with and recognize the limitations placed upon our country by the physical world in which we live. First of all it would recognize that all countries, including the US, have limited resources. These resources are provided by […]
Did “China” Really Say “War” With the United States is “Inevitable”?
Did “China” Really Say “War” With the United States is “Inevitable”? The Stenographic Press Strikes Again! Spoiler: No. It would seem a certain amount of foreign affairs reporting starts out as pabulum fed by the government and its loyal allies to available journos, who further if incompletely digest it and then crap it out on […]
Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us
Why the GOP’s Vision of North America’s Energy Future Should Scare All of Us It will be a nightmare of environmental degradation and global conflict. It’s a ritual long familiar to observers of American politics: presidential hopefuls with limited international experience travel to foreign lands and deliver speeches designed to showcase their grasp of foreign […]
Russian Sanctions Might Be Obama’s Greatest Blunder
Russian Sanctions Might Be Obama’s Greatest Blunder One of the greatest foreign policy blunders of the Obama Administration was the push by the U.S. for economic sanctions against Russia. That led to Russia fleeing into the arms of China for refuge. In response, Russia, Europe’s largest and most populated country, is now intent on moving […]
Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America
Foreign policy shift puts Canada at risk of armed attacks | Al Jazeera America. A drastic shift in Canada’s Middle East policy has put the country “on the map” of international armed groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), analysts say, following two lethal attacks in the span of a week — one […]
