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Countries refuse to toe US line on China [Maitreya Bhakhal]  "US efforts to garner allies against China seem to be hitting a roadblock. Many nations are tired of US bullying and are pushing back. Much to the US regime's chagrin, the global order today is not as divided and partisan as it was during the Cold War. By politicizing every issue and forcing nations to pick a side, the superpower finds itself rapidly losing allies to China." Source Article: https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202010/27/WS5f9775dfa31024ad0ba812bf.html

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to  nearly four years in prison  after pleading guilty to  leaking secret government information  about America's psychopathic civilian-slaughtering  drone assassination program . The sentence was much harsher than Hale's defense requested but not nearly as harsh as US prosecutors pushed for, arguing that longer prison sentences are necessary for deterring whistleblowing in the US intelligence cartel. The Dissenter's Kevin Gosztola  reports : Despite the fact that Hale pled guilty on March 31 to one of the five Espionage Act offenses he faced, prosecutors remained spiteful and unwilling to support anything less than a "significant sentence" to "deter" government employees or contractors from "using positions in the intelligence community for self-aggrandizement." In other words, if you tell the public the truth about your government's crimes, you...

"Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency began its sadistic program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense created a prison at Guantanamo to evade U.S. law. We are still learning about the horrors of the Global War on Terror. On July 16, military prosecutors finally asked to erase information obtained through torture and abuse. Several days later, the Biden administration transferred its first detainee out of Gitmo, repatriating a Moroccan man who had been cleared for release five years ago. These two items provide an opportunity to document the inadequacy and the errors of the mainstream media’s coverage of CIA’s unconscionable crimes." https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/27/the-continuing-horror-of-cias-torture-and-abuse/

If CPC Politburo member Yang Jieci served an appetizer at the Alaska Talks with Blinker, then Vice Foreign Minster Xie brought out the main dish at his meeting with the US Deputy Secretary of State in Tianjin. Taking off the velvet kids gloves, Xie didn't pull his punches. Telling it like it is or should be.  Some of the sucker punches : // The so-called "rules-based international order" put forward by the US is a disguise that packages rules set up by a few Western countries. It is the US version of the "law of the jungle" where it abandons the widely accepted international law and trample on the international system, so that it can profit and bully others. The US-claimed "competition, cooperation, and confrontation" policies are nothing but cover-ups for exerting pressure on China.   Confrontation and containment are the fundamentals, cooperation is for expedients, and competition is a trap of discourse. When the US needs China, cooperati...

Many of post-colonial Africa’s immense challenges are the result of inordinate faith placed in “historic” political settlements that formally ended colonial rule without solving critical structural problems and systemic inequities. A case in point is the Lancaster House Conference of 1979 which  ushered in majority rule in Zimbabwe but postponed the resolution of the land question to a time when neither the goodwill nor the financial wherewithal to do so could be mustered. Such postponements give politically astute populists who may or may not have the true interests of the people at heart the opportunity to become “champions” of the people’s cause. Unfortunately it is difficult in the euphoria of any populist movement to distinguish good leaders from bad ones, and the idea that we can only tell the difference when they assume high office has been tragic for Africa. Part of the difficulty of putting the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) in the same bucket as the Lan...

US fingerprints all over this, including a link to the NED.  Something for Empire-lovers to compartmentalise and forget about, no doubt.  And the reason for it?  "Regime change."  What else? "As the investigation into Moïse’s murder unfolds, the U.S. appears to be preparing the groundwork to deploy troops to Haiti at the request of a figure whom it has spent decades grooming. According to The New York Times, Claude Joseph, who is in a struggle against Dr. Ariel Henry to head the Haitian state in the wake of Moïse’s assassination, requested the U.S. send military forces to guard key infrastructure, including the port, airport, and gasoline reserves. White House Spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced that the U.S. would reinforce U.S. personnel in Haiti with FBI and DHS deployments." Source Article: Colombian assassin trained by the U.S. While the Haitian-Americans reportedly served as translators, the muscle of the assassination squad came from Colombia, the U.S...

|| In 2019, the Africa development bank (AfDB) estimates showed that the continent needed a minimum of US$ 130bn to US$ 170bn per annum, for infrastructure development and half of the needed amount remained un funded. According to CARI statistics, the biggest African borrowers from China in 2019, were; Ghana, US$ 1.25 Billion, South Africa, US$ 1.24 Billion, Egypt US$ 1.2Billion, Ivory Coast US$671Million and Nigeria US$ 560million. Much of the Chinese loans to Africa go mainly to the transport sector especially in infrastructure development, power, mining, ICT, water, etc.   The China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is much appreciated in many African countries for improving transportation and energy investment in Africa  https://africachinareview.com/africa-is-more-indebted-to-western-countries-than-china/ ||  #BRI #AfricaChina via Turin Ahmed Source Article: https://africachinareview.com/africa-is-more-indebted-to-western-countries-than-china/