by Evaggelos Vallianatos https://www.counterpunch.org (December 20 2019) https://uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/dropzone/2019/12/IMG_0142-1-768x686.jpeg Car lot, Brownsmead. Photo: Jeffrey St Clair. I was in the United States for a few years before I bought my first car. It was a long, white used Cadillac, with lots of problems, including bad brakes. The man who sold it to me was a customer … Continue reading Car Nation →

The Unspoken History of the Electric Car by Larry Romanoff Global Research {December 09 2019} https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/EdisonElectricCar1913.jpg A study of gasoline-powered automobiles reveals one of the greatest corporate frauds and resulting environmental disasters to ever have been inflicted on human society. There are three distinct but interwoven themes in this story: the promotion of gasoline-powered transportation … Continue reading The American Love Affair with the Automobile →

by H I Sutton, Contributor https://tiananmenstremendousachievements.wordpress.com (December 15 2019) While the US Navy launches a handful of AEGIS destroyers each year, the single image below of a Shanghai shipyard shows nine newly constructed Chinese warships. China's Navy, known as the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), is modernizing at an impressive rate. And on a vast … Continue reading The Chinese Navy is Building an Incredible Number of Warships →

The Bridge That Spans the World by Peter Koenig https://www.21cir.com (November 29 2019) https://www.21cir.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/https___blogs-images-forbes-com_greatspeculations_files_2018_09_comm-mapping-the-belt-and-road-initiatives-progress-08312018-e1536080587677.jpg The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the New Silk Road, is based on a 2,100-year-old trade route between the Middle East and Eastern Asia, called the Silk Road. It wound its ways across the huge landmass Eurasia to the … Continue reading China – The Belt and Road Initiative →

by Andre Vltchek https://www.21cir.com (December 13 2019) A long analysis I wrote about "the Uygur issue" {1} earlier this year will be soon published as a book. For some time now, I have been warning that the West, the United States, in particular, is helping radicalize the Uygurs both in and outside China's Xinjiang Uygur … Continue reading Who Gives US the Right to Lecture China about Rights? →

Answered by Godfree Roberts, EdD Education & Geopolitics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1973)On September 09 2019Most American politicians and policymakers routinely misjudge the intentions and goals of our adversaries, and they often invent a fantasy version of the regime in question that leads them astray again and again. One reason for this is that it … Continue reading What has China done to address US/China trade grievances? →

by Xinhua https://www.globaltimes.cn (December 15 2019) For Qimarhan, a 71-year-old woman living in the city of Hami in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, this winter comes without toil. She used to live in a mountainous area without paved roads, tap water or electricity, and during the winter, she had to chop logs and keep … Continue reading Villagers embrace new life after relocation in Xinjiang →

by Federico Pieraccini https://www.strategic-culture.org (December 17 2019) https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/pierachini-930x520.png (c) Photo: needpix.com The Washington Post, through documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, has published a long investigation into Afghanistan. Journalists have collected over 400 testimonies from American diplomats, NATO generals and other NATO personnel, that show that reports about Afghanistan were falsified to deceive … Continue reading Never Trust a Failing Empire →

America and Britain are Textbook Examples of a New, Gruesome Phenomeon: Rich Nations Self-Destructing Into Poor Failed States by umair haque https://eand.co (December 10 2019) https://miro.medium.com/max/1600/1*2-a4QFMdCilbk47mhXDXbA.jpeg When I ask my European friends to describe us - Americans, Brits, who I'll call Anglo-Americans in this essay - they shake their heads gently. And over and over, … Continue reading This is How a Society Dies →

China to Start Laying Experimental Vacuum Tube Railway Track ... ... for 1,000 kilometers per hour (km/h) Maglev Trains 200 kilometers of experimental track to push speeds up first to 600 km/h and ultimately to 1000 km/h Those Pesky Chinese by Kg Chan https://www.checkpointasia.net (November 06 2019) https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/w_645+h_363+q_lossy+ret_img/https://checkpointasia.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/http___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_180720163516-hyperlooptt-system-front-view.jpg See also: https://www.checkpointasia.net/china-unveils-600-km-h-magnetic-levitation-train-prototype/ China aims to again … Continue reading China to Start Laying Experimental Vacuum Tube Railway Track … →