Opinion: Taiwan abandoning the one-China framework aggravates the risk of war

Opinion: Taiwan abandoning the one-China framework aggravates the risk of war

Terry Gou July 22, 2023 Editor’s introduction I believe there is great confusion in the minds of many Westerners about Taiwan, its relation to China and the US’s real Taiwan policy. TFF has written about some of it in our Smokescreen Report here but you may also like to read this Wikipedia entry about the […]

How I lost faith in established media

How I lost faith in established media

By Helmut Scheben* July 18, 2023 Mass media are often unreliable, but hardly anyone has time to check the news. If news reports later turn out to be false, they are usually already burned into the hard drive of collective memory as “historical truth”. Originally published at Zeit-Fragen After the Gulf War of 1991, it […]

RT’s CrossTalk about NATO’s Vilnius Summit

RT’s CrossTalk about NATO’s Vilnius Summit

Jan Oberg with two expert journalists – Misty Winston and Mike Jones – on “CrossTalk,” the flagship program with Peter Lavelle on RT (formerly Russia Today). July 14, 2023 There are other informed news and commentaries than those made by Western mainstream media (MSM) NATO mouthpieces which are either state or corporate. All three participants […]

The US-Nordic Summit: NATO expansion, confusion and repetition

The US-Nordic Summit: NATO expansion, confusion and repetition

Jan Oberg July 13, 2023 After the NATO Summit in Vilnius, a US-Nordic Summit took place in Helsinki on July 13, 2023. Here is, first, what I would suggest the US, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland take up: • How to back out of NATO’s conflict with Russia, stop the war in Russia and move […]

NATO in Vilnius: We’ve dropped you, Ukraine! One more PR event on the way to split and dissolution

NATO in Vilnius: We’ve dropped you, Ukraine! One more PR event on the way to split and dissolution

Jan Oberg July 12, 2023 – the day NATO’s Vilnius Summit ended. • 1 NATO is not going to let Ukraine in as a full member. Probably never. All the statements about getting it in and its rightful place in NATO is sugar-coating. NATO cannot say that but knows now that its ill-considered promise in […]

The Wolfowitz Doctrine

The Wolfowitz Doctrine

A basic document for understanding the last 30 years of US imperialist policies US Independence Day, July 4, 2023 The obsession with being # 1 and letting no other country ever challenge that position has dominated the thinking behind virtually everything the US has done, including NATO’s reckless and imprudent expansion and the new Cold […]

American Shaun Rein, 25 Years living in China, tells you what China is about in 2023.

American Shaun Rein, 25 Years living in China, tells you what China is about in 2023.

And you should listen carefully to how far he is from Western media and policy-makers who know close to nothing. A Cyrus Janssen Interview July 1, 2023 0:00 – What’s China Like in 2023? 0:53 – Who is Shaun Rein? 1:58 – China is Normal and Not Normal Right Now 4:03 – Why is Consumer […]

Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.

Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.

June 26, 2023 New York Times About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or […]

Demonisation and the US encirclement of China

Demonisation and the US encirclement of China

Alex Lo & Daniel Bell June 24, 2023 “It’s quite clear from recent policies that the US aims to curb China’s economic development and encircle the country with military bases in unfriendly (from China’s viewpoint) countries. Such demonisation only reinforces repressive trends in China and benefits security-obsessed hardliners in China’s political system. That’s why “de-demonisation” can help […]

Most propaganda looks nothing like this

Most propaganda looks nothing like this

Caitlin A. Johnstone June 12, 2023 When most people in the English-speaking world hear the word “propaganda”, they tend to think of something that’s done by foreign nations who have governments that are so totalitarian they won’t even let people know what’s true or think for themselves. Others understand that propaganda is something that happens […]

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