New Silk Roads define brand China
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Belt and Road Initiative is a strategic axis embodying the organizing Chinese foreign policy concept for the next three decades
Shanghai and computer connectivity. Image: iStock
The New Silk Roads symbolize way more than high-speed rail lines ...
India: How Kerala fought the heaviest deluge in nearly a century
- Tricontinental
During the summer of 2018, the Indian state of Kerala was hit by severe rains and floods – the heaviest in nearly a century – affecting 5.4 million people. What followed was one of the most successful rescue and relief efforts in India’ ...
S-400s don’t solve India’s geostrategic dilemma
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
But Modi emphasizes that Russia has always 'stood shoulder-to-shoulder with India in the energy sector and our goals'
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi on October 4, 2018. Photo: ...
Will there ever be Justice for Rohingya muslims?
- Arshad M. Khan
There is an image engraved in our minds of a stoic, reserved, elegant Aung San Suu Kyi unbending in her struggle against Burma’s generals for democracy, and we assumed for human rights. Last year, when the refugees streamed out of her country ...
Greater Eurasia coming together in the Russian Far East
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok has become a crucial part of strategic integration between China, Russia and other countries in northeast Asia, a graduation assimilation set to transform the current world system
Xi Jinping and Vladimir ...
No, the UN did not report China has ‘massive internment camps’ for Uighur Muslims
- Ajit Singh अजीत सिंह ਅਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ - Ben Norton בן נורטון بن نورتن
Media outlets from Reuters to The Intercept falsely claimed the UN had condemned China for holding a million Uighurs in camps. The claim is based on unsourced allegations by two independent commission members, US-funded outfits and a shadowy opposition ...
Cross-country strikes in China reveal pressure from below
- Zhàn Dòu Zhě 战斗者
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The story of Solapur, India, where housing cooperatives are building a workers’ city
- Tricontinental
Mass housing projects in Solapur, India, prove that the sheer strength of workers’ sustained movements, with the cooperation of governments, can deliver results.
“Earlier we used stay in a small hut in a slum in Shastri Nagar, Solapur ...
Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits
- Julia Carrie Wong - Jon Letman
Attorneys for Facebook’s CEO have filed suits against hundreds of Hawaiians centered around his 700-acre Kauai estate, alarming neighbors
A few days after Christmas, Mark Zuckerberg shared a series of photographs of his family at their $100m, ...
Sexy metal: the missing element in the Korean puzzle
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo knows the importance of rare earth elements, and North Korea has reportedly found one of the world's biggest deposits 150km from Pyongyang; is this another factor behind the recent thaw with the US?
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