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 […]

US society and politics: Some linkages between the domestic and the global

US society and politics: Some linkages between the domestic and the global

Graffiti of swastika on a softball field dugout in Wellsville, N.Y., Nov. 9, 2016. Brian Quinn, Wellsville Daily Reporter Jan Oberg June 24, 2023 One of the constant features of US society is, to put it crudely, that it is an enigmatic mixture of the worst and the best. Few who have followed this country […]

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 […]

20 Years Later, NYT Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame

20 Years Later, NYT Still Can’t Face Its Iraq War Shame

Arie Pauil, Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas May 4, 2023 On the 20th anniversary of the US- and British-led invasion of Iraq, the New York Times continued to dedicate itself to a waffling narrative, one that writes out most of history and opts for a message of “it’s complicated” to discuss the disaster it can’t admit that it helped create. […]

Christopher Quigley: Civilizations die by suicide, not by murder

Christopher Quigley: Civilizations die by suicide, not by murder

Christopher Quigley April 28, 2023 Very few people today know that between 1934 and 1961 the British historian Arnold Toynbee wrote A Study of History describing the rise and fall of the 23 civilizations he had identified in human history. In contrast to Oswald Spengler, who thought that the rise and fall of civilizations was […]

Carl Bernstein (1977): The CIA and the media

Carl Bernstein (1977): The CIA and the media

Carl Bernstein April 26, 2023 Originally published in 1977 but, beyond doubt, highly relevant today too. How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up Working press – CIA style To understand the role of most journalist‑operatives, it is necessary to […]

Henry Heller: The rise of China and the decline of the West

Henry Heller: The rise of China and the decline of the West

Photo by David Dennis/Flickr Henry Heller April 19, 2023 The focal point of the world’s economy is shifting to Asia and Eurasia China’s place on the world stage advances year by year. It is arguably already the world’s largest economy. Its Belt and Road Initiative and its other international links like the BRICS have helped to magnify its economic […]

The asymmetrical US-China ‘technology cold war’ – analysis

The asymmetrical US-China ‘technology cold war’ – analysis

He Jun April 11th, 2023 The policy of decoupling and containment towards China pushed by the United States is most aggressive in the technology field. Although the current state of U.S.-China relations has not yet reached the level of a cold war, researchers at ANBOUND believe that in the technology field, the competition between the […]

Nicolai Petro: The Tragedy of Ukraine

Nicolai Petro: The Tragedy of Ukraine

Nicolai Petro April 10, 2023 (original 2019) HARD LESSONS TO LEARN FROM THE CLASSICS “Tragedy rests not in the individual destiny…but in the general condition, of a people reducing or destroyingitself because it is not conscious of its true condition” – Raymond Williams, Modern Tragedy Abstract As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year,  […]

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