2021-05-12: News Headlines

Ben Norton (2021-05-12). Economics of the new cold war and US 'super imperialism' with economist Michael Hudson. thegrayzone.com The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton interview world-renowned economist Michael Hudson on his concept of American "super imperialism" and the economics of the new cold war on China and Russia. In this wide-ranging discussion on the Moderate Rebels podcast, Hudson addresses US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, the policies of the Joe Biden administration, Beijing's economic model, cryptocurrencies, and dedollarization — the potential end to the dollar as the global reserve currency. Transcript Ben Norton 0: 03 Hello everyone, I'm …

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-05-12). China on the Horizon as 'World's Pharmacy'. Sinopharm's Covid Vaccine. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @crg_globalresearch. The World Health …

RobertAlvarez (2021-05-12). What's up With the Herd? ips-dc.org The problem with the current pandemic is that we don't know if we're coming or going. It's as if we're swimming far from shore, overwhelmed by one wave after another, and we're unsure if we're heading toward land or away from it. | China was the early face of COVID-19, but it hasn't faced many infections since last spring. Europe, like the United States, has experienced successive outbreaks. Brazil continues to be hit hard while Turkey is only now seeing a reduction of cases from a mid-April surge. Thailand and Cambodia are only now dealing with their first major upticks in the disease. | But the real surprise ha…

Staff (2021-05-12). China Urges the US to Lift Sanctions Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The government of China demanded an end to the coercive measures of the United States administration against Venezuela, calling the unilateral sanctions illegal and highlighting that the coercive measures were intensified amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the fact that the sanctions are violating human rights. | China's position was ratified by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying, who pointed out that while Washington presents itself as a defender of legal guarantees and human rights, it nonetheless is intensifying its illegal measures, not only against Venezuela, but also agains…

Anonymous007 (2021-05-12). China's Air Force Fields J-10 Fighter Jet With Indigenous Engine. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | China's People's Liberation Army Air Force has received Chengdu J-10 jets powered by indigenous engines for operational service. | ICYMI, this photo published on the website of China's state radio broadcaster is confirmation the Chengdu J-10C powered by the indigenous WS-10B turbofan is in PLAAF service, suggesting China has sufficient confidence in the engine to use it on single-engined types — Mike Yeo Ê&ugr…

Editorial Team (2021-05-12). Communists of China and Britain discuss Marxism. challenge-magazine.org In a high-level meeting at the beginning of the month, leading Communists from China and Britain spent more than two hours discussing Marxism past, present and future. The online talks took place at the invitation of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and its Vice-Minister Guo Yezhou. The Communist Party of Britain was represented by General Secretary Robert Griffiths, Chair Liz Payne, International Secretary John Foster and Political Committee member Ben Chacko.

WSWS (2021-05-12). Australian budget pours billions more into corporate coffers while driving down wages. wsws.org For all the hype about a "big spending" budget, it boosts the fortunes of the super-rich at the expense of workers, while making preparations for a US-led war against China.

John Kendall Hawkins (2021-05-12). China: All In All Just Another BRIC In The Wall. counterpunch.org Chief of Police: One man cannot move a mountain. Charlie Chan: No, but two men can start digging. -Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935) calling a spade a spade Fifty-one years ago, Capitalists Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger initiated their rapprochement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after 25 years of total silence between the world's

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2021-05-12). 660+ Groups Call on Democrats to 'Reject Gas and Other False Climate Solutions' for Clean Energy Standard. commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/solar_photovoltaic_panel_china.jpg

Deirdre Griswold (2021-05-11). Good news from China. workers.org As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage many countries, including the United States, China has announced that it will make millions of doses of its Sinopharm vaccine available for free to the hard-hit countries in the developing world. The announcement came as the World Health Organization declared the Sinopharm vaccine . . . |

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-05-11). China on the horizon as 'world's pharmacy'. mronline.org The World Health Organisation's approval Friday for China's COVID-19 vaccine known as Sinopharm dramatically transforms the ecosystem of the pandemic. | May 11, 2021 | News…

Rainer Shea (2021-05-11). Eternal War and Austerity: The Hell that Imperialist Propaganda Demands us to Accept. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — May 8, 2021 | The narrative managers of U.S. imperialism don't want us to think about the mounting evidence that an alternative to our current socio-political system exists. They don't want us to think about how over 800 Chinese million people have been lifted out of poverty in the last generation due due to China's socialist workers democracy, or about the successes that the five Marxist-Leninist countries have had in fighting Covid-19 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, or how a multi-polar world order is emerging which is diminishing the deadly reach of the U.S. empire, or how a new wa…

Chris Kanthan (2021-05-11). What America can learn from China — Lessons from the pandemic. nationofchange.org While the China model cannot be transplanted to the West, there's a lot that America can learn from China.

Tom Engelhardt (2021-05-11). Tomgram: Mandy Smithberger, Joe Biden's Pentagon Honeymoon. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Strange, isn't it? Our secretary of state emphatically claims that China has been acting "more aggressively abroad" and behaving "increasingly in adversarial ways." No, he insists, we're not exactly at the edge of a new cold war or …

Rick Rozoff (2021-05-11). Massive British, NATO war games prepare Queen Elizabeth carrier strike group to confront Russia and China. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Irish Sea: Massive British, NATO war games prepare Queen Elizabeth carrier strike group to confront Russia and ChinaRick Rozoff This year's iteration of Britain's biannual Joint Warrior exercise in the Irish Sea is subsumed under another exercise, Strike Warrior 21, being used to prepare the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, the flagship of the Royal …

Dave DeCamp (2021-05-11). Chinese Scholars Say Biden's China Policy Is More Similar to Trump's Than Expected. news.antiwar.com A group of Chinese foreign policy scholars said at a seminar reviewing President Biden's first 100 days in office "Judging from Biden's first 100 days, there is more continuity than the changes that we expected. The Biden administration also has a more focused and systematic approach," said Ni Feng, head of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, according to The S…

Abahlali baseMjondolo (2021-05-11). eKhenana: A background provided in the context of the arrest of Mqapheli Bonono. zcomm.org The achievements of the eKhenana Occupation have been extraordinary.

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