Kim refuses to be intimidated
- The Japan Times
North Korea continued its defiance of the international community with the test of yet another ballistic missile Wednesday morning. In response to this latest outrage, concerned governments continue to try to muster a concerted effort to constrain ...
How the DPRK Riddle is Freaking out the US Establishment
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The 19th Party Congress has made it very clear that “socialism with Chinese characteristics” – as codified by President Xi Jinping – is China’s roadmap ahead. Not only the strategy graphically eschews those much-lauded ...
Xi’s road map to the Chinese Dream
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
China's Belt and Road Initiative – the New Silk Road – will spark the country's development and turn the dream into reality
Now that President Xi Jinping has been duly elevated to the Chinese Communist Party pantheon in the rarified ...
Re-imagining a world beyond capitalism and communism
- Arundhati Roy
Excerpt from the book Walking with the Comrades (Penguin Books 2011) in which Arundhati reflects on her time spent with Maoist guerrilla insurgents in India. Her report, inItially published on Outlook Magazine, can be read here.
Dandakaranya landscape ...
A frightened dog barks louder
Statement on Donald Trump’s address to UN General Assembly
- Kim Jong-un 김정은 Ким Чен Ын 金正恩
The speech made by the US president in his maiden address on the UN arena in the prevailing serious circumstances, in which the situation on the Korean peninsula has been rendered tense as never before and is inching closer to a touch-and-go state, is ...
The Russia-China plan for North Korea: stability, connectivity
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Moscow has been busy building agreements that would extend Eurasian connectivity eastward. The question is how to convince the DPRK to play along
The United Nations Security Council’s 15-0 vote to impose a new set of sanctions on North Korea ...
9/11 and the unsolvable Afghan drama
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
With 9/11 fading into the past, there are now two possible solutions for Afghanistan: one involves the US while the other focuses on Asia
Sixteen years after 9/11, and the subsequent US bombing that toppled the Taliban, where do we stand?
Osama bin ...
North Korea: from buffer state to China’s nightmare neighbor
- Xuan Loc Doan Xuân Lộc Duẫn
The BRICS summit in Xiamen, a port city on China’s southeast coast, was supposed to be another important moment for China to present itself as a global power and its president, Xi Jinping, as a great world leader.
But on Sunday, just hours ...
The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets
- Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود
To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a ‘democracy icon’ because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led western coalition isolated ...
Why Trump's new strategy for Afghanistan is the disaster you'd expect it to be
- Vijay Prashad
On August 21, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to send more thousands of U.S. troops to Afghanistan to extend the American war that began in 2001. The speech Trump gave has no details, only a tweetable line: ‘We are not nation-building ...
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