Monthly Archives: May 2021

2021-05-26: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-05-26). China: Towards Capitalist Restoration. Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca Scroll down to download Michel Chossudovsky's book on China in

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-05-26). Pakistan, China, India and the Afghan Chessboard. globalresearch.ca Apocalyptic scenario is …

WSWS (2021-05-26). US planned nuclear attack on Chinese cities in 1958 Taiwan crisis. wsws.org Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers in 1971, has published classified documents making clear that the Pentagon was actively preparing a nuclear attack on Chinese cities in 1958.

WSWS (2021-05-26). Australian Labor Party aligns behind Biden's offensive against China. wsws.org While backing Biden's intensifying confrontation with China, Wong voiced nervousness about members of the Australian government openly "beating the war drums," for fear of triggering public opposition.

Manlio Dinucci (2021-05-26). Why the EU Sides Against China. globalresearch.ca On May 20 …

Staff (2021-05-25). Headlines for May 25, 2021. democracynow.org U.S. Secretary of State Reaffirms Israel's "Right to Self-Defense" After Meeting with Israeli PM, Israel to End All COVID-19 Restrictions; Gaza Assault Increases Risk to Unvaccinated Palestinians, WHO Director Decries "Scandalous Inequity" on Vaccinations "That's Perpetuating the Pandemic", Los Angeles to Fully Reopen Classrooms in the Fall, with Remote Learning Options, Mexico City Protesters Demand Vaccines for Students Before a Return to Classes, China Blasts Wall Street Journal Report Suggesting Coronavirus Escaped from Wuhan Lab, European Union Sanctions Belarus over "Hijacking" of Ryanair Plane and "Kidnapp…

Anand Naidoo (2021-05-25). The Heat: 70th anniversary of Tibet's peaceful liberation. america.cgtn.com China celebrates 70 years after the peaceful liberation of Tibet. We will take a look on what's changed there.

Andy Kroll (2021-05-25). America Dominant Again (in Arms Sales). tomdispatch.com When it comes to trade in the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the United States of America. In April of this year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published its annual analysis of trends in global arms sales and the winner — as always — was the U.S. of A. Between 2016 and 2020, this country accounted for 37% of total international weapons deliveries, nearly twice the level of its closest rival, Russia, and more than six times that of Washington's threat du jour, China. Sadly, this was no surprise to arms-trade analysts. The U.S. has held that top spot for 28 of…

Manlio Dinucci (2021-05-25). Porque é que a UE se destaca contra a China. globalresearch.ca O Parlamento Europeu, em 20 de Maio, congelou a ratificaàßà£o do Acordo UE-China sobre investimentos, assinada em Dezembro pela Comissà£o Europeia após sete anos de negociaàßàµes. A resoluàßà£o foi aprovada por uma esmagadora maioria com 599 votos a favor, 30 …

William Hartung (2021-05-25). When It Comes to the Tools of Death and Destruction, No One Tops the US. commondreams.org "Between 2016 and 2020, this country accounted for 37% of total international weapons deliveries, nearly twice the level of its closest rival, Russia, and more than six times that of Washington's threat du jour, China." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/dismantle-war-economy_0.jpg …

Melvin Goodman (2021-05-25). Intelligence and Ideology: the Exaggeration of the Threat. counterpunch.org The three major military powers (the United States, Russia, and China) systematically and consistently engage in inflation of the threats they face. Each side tends to see the worst motivation and the greatest capabilities in assessing its adversaries in order to justify its own actions. This problem was endemic throughout the Cold War, particularly in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan used exaggerated and politicized threat assessments to justify the largest peacetime increase in defense spending and to rally American support for the buildup. Ironically, the United States was doing so at the very time that…

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2021-05-26: Social Media Postees

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US planned nuclear attack on Chinese cities in 1958 Taiwan crisis
wsws.org | 2021-05-26
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers in 1971, has published classified documents making clear that the Pentagon was actively preparing a nuclear attack on Chinese cities in 1958.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/26/pers-m26.html

China: Towards Capitalist Restoration. Michel Chossudovsky
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-26
Scroll down to download Michel Chossudovsky's book on China in pdf (free of charge) In 1981-82, based at the University of Hong Kong, Centre for Asian Studies (CAS), I started my research on the process of capitalist restoration in …
globalresearch.ca/china-towards-capitalist-restoration-michel-chossudovsky/5745990

Pakistan, China, India and the Afghan Chessboard
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-26
Apocalyptic scenario is …
globalresearch.ca/pakistan-china-india-and-the-afghan-chessboard/5746254

Australian Labor Party aligns behind Biden's offensive against China
wsws.org | 2021-05-26
While backing Biden's intensifying confrontation with China, Wong voiced nervousness about members of the Australian government openly "beating the war drums," for fear of triggering public opposition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/26/wong-m26.html

Why the EU Sides Against China
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-26
On May 20 | …
globalresearch.ca/why-the-eu-sides-against-china/5746294

Headlines for May 25, 2021
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-05-25
U.S. Secretary of State Reaffirms Israel's "Right to Self-Defense" After Meeting with Israeli PM, Israel to End All COVID-19 Restrictions; Gaza Assault Increases Risk to Unvaccinated Palestinians, WHO Director Decries "Scandalous Inequity" on Vaccinations "That's Perpetuating the Pandemic", Los Angeles to Fully Reopen Classrooms in the Fall, with Remote Learning Options, Mexico City Protesters Demand Vaccines for Students Before a Return to Classes, China Blasts Wall Street Journal Report Suggesting Coronavirus Escaped from Wuhan Lab, European Union Sanctions Belarus over "Hijacking" of Ryanair Plane and "Kidnapp…
www.democracynow.org/2021/5/25/headlines

America Dominant Again (in Arms Sales)
Andy Kroll | tomdispatch.com | 2021-05-25
When it comes to trade in the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the United States of America. In April of this year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published its annual analysis of trends in global arms sales and the winner — as always — was the U.S. of A. Between 2016 and 2020, this country accounted for 37% of total international weapons deliveries, nearly twice the level of its closest rival, Russia, and more than six times that of Washington's threat du jour, China. Sadly, this was no surprise to arms-trade analysts. The U.S. has held that top spot for 28 of…
tomdispatch.com/america-dominant-again-in-arms-sales/

When It Comes to the Tools of Death and Destruction, No One Tops the US
William Hartung | commondreams.org | 2021-05-25
"Between 2016 and 2020, this country accounted for 37% of total international weapons deliveries, nearly twice the level of its closest rival, Russia, and more than six times that of Washington's threat du jour, China." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/dismantle-war-economy_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2021/05/25/when-it-comes-tools-death-and-destruction-no-one-tops-us?cd-origin=rss

Porque é que a UE se destaca contra a China
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-25
O Parlamento Europeu, em 20 de Maio, congelou a ratificaàßà£o do Acordo UE-China sobre investimentos, assinada em Dezembro pela Comissà£o Europeia após sete anos de negociaàßàµes. A resoluàßà£o foi aprovada por uma esmagadora maioria com 599 votos a favor, 30 …
globalresearch.ca/porque-e-que-a-ue-se-destaca-contra-a-china/5746212

The Heat: 70th anniversary of Tibet's peaceful liberation
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-05-25
China celebrates 70 years after the peaceful liberation of Tibet. We will take a look on what's changed there.
america.cgtn.com/2021/05/25/the-heat-70th-anniversary-of-tibets-peaceful-liberation

Intelligence and Ideology: the Exaggeration of the Threat
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-25
The three major military powers (the United States, Russia, and China) systematically and consistently engage in inflation of the threats they face. Each side tends to see the worst motivation and the greatest capabilities in assessing its adversaries in order to justify its own actions. This problem was endemic throughout the Cold War, particularly in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan used exaggerated and politicized threat assessments to justify the largest peacetime increase in defense spending and to rally American support for the buildup. Ironically, the United States was doing so at the very time that…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/25/intelligence-and-ideology-the-exaggeration-of-the-threat/

1622-10-24 20:01 | 22:01 EST | 44 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0

2021-05-25: News Headlines

Melvin Goodman (2021-05-25). Intelligence and Ideology: the Exaggeration of the Threat. counterpunch.org The three major military powers (the United States, Russia, and China) systematically and consistently engage in inflation of the threats they face. Each side tends to see the worst motivation and the greatest capabilities in assessing its adversaries in order to justify its own actions. This problem was endemic throughout the Cold War, particularly in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan used exaggerated and politicized threat assessments to justify the largest peacetime increase in defense spending and to rally American support for the buildup. Ironically, the United States was doing so at the very time that…

Editorial Team (2021-05-24). All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask. challenge-magazine.org Alexander Norton interviews Keith Lamb on how China's self-proclaimed socialist system measures up to the expectations of a Western socialist expat from Scotland who has lived through almost two decades of drastic change in the world's emerging superpower | In the 1990s and 2000s conventional Western wisdom was that China had long abandoned socialism. But by 2018, when president Xi Jinping lauded Marx as the greatest thinker of modern times at the closing speech of a 2-week celebration of his 200th anniversary and reaffirmed China's commitment to his vision of communism, many on the left — and the right…

Staff (2021-05-24). Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-05-24). It's Past Time to End U.S. Funding of Israeli Violence. counterpunch.org At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel stood out as a success story, administering more doses of vaccines to its modest-sized 9-million-strong population than any other country after China, the U.S., and the UK. Today, more than 60 percent of Israelis are vaccinated,

WSWS (2021-05-24). COVID-19 breaks out in Taiwan, with daily case numbers above 100. wsws.org Despite the resurgence of the pandemic globally, Taipei continued to ease restrictions, leading to what is now a dangerous outbreak.

Aidan Jonah (2021-05-24). Canadian Media Launches Sinophobic Anti-China Campaign, Amid Years of Attacks on Chinese-Canadian Institutions. orinocotribune.com Over the past few weeks there has been a ramping up of a sinophobic anti-China campaign by Canadian media. This campaign comes in total disregard of the clear links between rampant Sinophobia and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes across the continent, including Canada. The core element of this campaign is a push to create the impression among Canadians that China is plotting to subvert Canadian "democracy" and infiltrate Canadian institutions. The groups used as proxies to push these dangerous narratives: Hong Kong "pro-democracy" dissident groups in Canada, and "Uyghur rights" groups and their imperialis…

David Swanson (2021-05-24). What The New Acceptability of the Lab Leak Origin Tells Us About Media Outlets. warisacrime.org Have you noticed that a lot of science writers have lately been saying that they were perfectly right a year ago to mock and condemn even considering a lab leak origin for Coronavirus but that now it's perfectly proper to admit that Coronavirus may very well have come from a lab? It seems to be …

Michael T. Klare (2021-05-24). The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China. thenation.com The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China…

Pavan Kulkarni (2021-05-24). South African dockworkers to boycott Israeli ships until total liberation of Palestinian people: Union. peoplesdispatch.org The dockworkers continue to boycott work on the Israeli ship Zim Shanghai which arrived at Durban port on May 20. All ships carrying cargo to and from Israel will be boycotted by dockworkers, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) told Peoples Dispatch…

John Whitbeck (2021-05-24). A Biden Speech to Transform the Middle East. counterpunch.org President Biden has a problem. He wishes to escape from the Middle East quagmire and focus American foreign policy on the perceived China threat. However, in the wake of the recent Israeli-Palestinian carnage, there is no escape. He must do something. But what? Doing the same thing yet again while hoping for a different result

2021-05-25 18:58 | 14:58 EST | 10 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0

2021-05-25: Social Media Postees

Please be social by posting these 'POSTEES' on social media! (Copy the text of the postee below, then paste it on social media and the story images will also appear.)

Intelligence and Ideology: the Exaggeration of the Threat
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-25
The three major military powers (the United States, Russia, and China) systematically and consistently engage in inflation of the threats they face. Each side tends to see the worst motivation and the greatest capabilities in assessing its adversaries in order to justify its own actions. This problem was endemic throughout the Cold War, particularly in the 1980s when President Ronald Reagan used exaggerated and politicized threat assessments to justify the largest peacetime increase in defense spending and to rally American support for the buildup. Ironically, the United States was doing so at the very time that…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/25/intelligence-and-ideology-the-exaggeration-of-the-threat/

It's Past Time to End U.S. Funding of Israeli Violence
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel stood out as a success story, administering more doses of vaccines to its modest-sized 9-million-strong population than any other country after China, the U.S., and the UK. Today, more than 60 percent of Israelis are vaccinated,…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/its-past-time-to-end-u-s-funding-of-israeli-violence/

COVID-19 breaks out in Taiwan, with daily case numbers above 100
wsws.org | 2021-05-24
Despite the resurgence of the pandemic globally, Taipei continued to ease restrictions, leading to what is now a dangerous outbreak.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/24/taiw-m24.html

All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask
Editorial Team | challenge-magazine.org | 2021-05-24
Alexander Norton interviews Keith Lamb on how China's self-proclaimed socialist system measures up to the expectations of a Western socialist expat from Scotland who has lived through almost two decades of drastic change in the world's emerging superpower | In the 1990s and 2000s conventional Western wisdom was that China had long abandoned socialism. But by 2018, when president Xi Jinping lauded Marx as the greatest thinker of modern times at the closing speech of a 2-week celebration of his 200th anniversary and reaffirmed China's commitment to his vision of communism, many on the left — and the right…
challenge-magazine.org/2021/05/24/all-the-questions-socialists-have-about-china-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask/

Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-24
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…
orinocotribune.com/venezuela-to-start-new-vaccination-phase-with-1-3-million-doses-from-china/

Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-24
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…
orinocotribune.com/venezuela-to-start-new-vaccination-phase-with-1-3-million-doses-from-china/

Time for a New Box
John Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-24
Though his story has been widely disseminated by now, before Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong he sent a box of classified documents by snail mail from Hawaii (marked mysteriously "from B. Manning") to a writer in New York, which made its way, unopened, from person to person until it reached journalists Laura Poitras and …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/time-for-a-new-box/

Canadian Media Launches Sinophobic Anti-China Campaign, Amid Years of Attacks on Chinese-Canadian Institutions
Aidan Jonah | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-24
Over the past few weeks there has been a ramping up of a sinophobic anti-China campaign by Canadian media. This campaign comes in total disregard of the clear links between rampant Sinophobia and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes across the continent, including Canada. The core element of this campaign is a push to create the impression among Canadians that China is plotting to subvert Canadian "democracy" and infiltrate Canadian institutions. The groups used as proxies to push these dangerous narratives: Hong Kong "pro-democracy" dissident groups in Canada, and "Uyghur rights" groups and their imperialis…
orinocotribune.com/canadian-media-launches-sinophobic-anti-china-campaign-amid-years-of-attacks-on-chinese-canadian-institutions/

Time for a New Toolbox
John Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-24
Though his story has been widely disseminated by now, before Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong he sent a box of classified documents by snail mail from Hawaii (marked mysteriously "from B. Manning") to a writer in New York, which made its way, unopened, from person to person until it reached journalists Laura Poitras and …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/time-for-a-new-toolbox/

Canadian Media Launches Sinophobic Anti-China Campaign, Amid Years of Attacks on Chinese-Canadian Institutions
Aidan Jonah | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-24
Over the past few weeks there has been a ramping up of a sinophobic anti-China campaign by Canadian media. This campaign comes in total disregard of the clear links between rampant Sinophobia and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes across the continent, including Canada. The core element of this campaign is a push to create the impression among Canadians that China is plotting to subvert Canadian "democracy" and infiltrate Canadian institutions. The groups used as proxies to push these dangerous narratives: Hong Kong "pro-democracy" dissident groups in Canada, and "Uyghur rights" groups and their imperialis…
orinocotribune.com/canadian-media-launches-sinophobic-anti-china-campaign-amid-years-of-attacks-on-chinese-canadian-institutions/

The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China
Michael T. Klare | thenation.com | 2021-05-24
The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China…
thenation.com/article/environment/renewable-energy-war-china/

South African dockworkers to boycott Israeli ships until total liberation of Palestinian people: Union
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-24
The dockworkers continue to boycott work on the Israeli ship Zim Shanghai which arrived at Durban port on May 20. All ships carrying cargo to and from Israel will be boycotted by dockworkers, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) told Peoples Dispatch…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/24/south-african-dockworkers-to-boycott-israeli-ships-until-total-liberation-of-palestinian-people-union/

A Biden Speech to Transform the Middle East
John Whitbeck | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
President Biden has a problem. He wishes to escape from the Middle East quagmire and focus American foreign policy on the perceived China threat. However, in the wake of the recent Israeli-Palestinian carnage, there is no escape. He must do something. But what? Doing the same thing yet again while hoping for a different result…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/a-biden-speech-to-transform-the-middle-east/

2021-05-25 18:58 | 14:58 EST | 52 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0

2021-05-24: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-05-24). COVID-19 breaks out in Taiwan, with daily case numbers above 100. wsws.org Despite the resurgence of the pandemic globally, Taipei continued to ease restrictions, leading to what is now a dangerous outbreak.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-05-24). It's Past Time to End U.S. Funding of Israeli Violence. counterpunch.org At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel stood out as a success story, administering more doses of vaccines to its modest-sized 9-million-strong population than any other country after China, the U.S., and the UK. Today, more than 60 percent of Israelis are vaccinated,

Staff (2021-05-24). Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China. orinocotribune.com The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…

David Swanson (2021-05-24). What The New Acceptability of the Lab Leak Origin Tells Us About Media Outlets. warisacrime.org Have you noticed that a lot of science writers have lately been saying that they were perfectly right a year ago to mock and condemn even considering a lab leak origin for Coronavirus but that now it's perfectly proper to admit that Coronavirus may very well have come from a lab? It seems to be …

Aidan Jonah (2021-05-24). Canadian Media Launches Sinophobic Anti-China Campaign, Amid Years of Attacks on Chinese-Canadian Institutions. orinocotribune.com Over the past few weeks there has been a ramping up of a sinophobic anti-China campaign by Canadian media. This campaign comes in total disregard of the clear links between rampant Sinophobia and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes across the continent, including Canada. The core element of this campaign is a push to create the impression among Canadians that China is plotting to subvert Canadian "democracy" and infiltrate Canadian institutions. The groups used as proxies to push these dangerous narratives: Hong Kong "pro-democracy" dissident groups in Canada, and "Uyghur rights" groups and their imperialis…

Pavan Kulkarni (2021-05-24). South African dockworkers to boycott Israeli ships until total liberation of Palestinian people: Union. peoplesdispatch.org The dockworkers continue to boycott work on the Israeli ship Zim Shanghai which arrived at Durban port on May 20. All ships carrying cargo to and from Israel will be boycotted by dockworkers, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) told Peoples Dispatch…

John Whitbeck (2021-05-24). A Biden Speech to Transform the Middle East. counterpunch.org President Biden has a problem. He wishes to escape from the Middle East quagmire and focus American foreign policy on the perceived China threat. However, in the wake of the recent Israeli-Palestinian carnage, there is no escape. He must do something. But what? Doing the same thing yet again while hoping for a different result

Michael T. Klare (2021-05-24). The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China. thenation.com The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China…

_____ (2021-05-23). More Of The Same: Biden's Hybrid War Against China. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden's budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6% more than the $704 billion enacted under Donald Trump's administration. The outline states that the primary justification for this increase in military spending is to counter the threat of China, and identifies China as the United States' "top challenge."

2021-05-24 20:22 | 16:22 EST | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0

2021-05-24: Social Media Postees

Please be social by posting these 'POSTEES' on social media! (Copy the text of the postee below, then paste it on social media and the story images will also appear.)

COVID-19 breaks out in Taiwan, with daily case numbers above 100
wsws.org | 2021-05-24
Despite the resurgence of the pandemic globally, Taipei continued to ease restrictions, leading to what is now a dangerous outbreak.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/24/taiw-m24.html

It's Past Time to End U.S. Funding of Israeli Violence
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel stood out as a success story, administering more doses of vaccines to its modest-sized 9-million-strong population than any other country after China, the U.S., and the UK. Today, more than 60 percent of Israelis are vaccinated,…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/its-past-time-to-end-u-s-funding-of-israeli-violence/

Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-24
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…
orinocotribune.com/venezuela-to-start-new-vaccination-phase-with-1-3-million-doses-from-china/

Venezuela to Start New Vaccination Phase with 1.3 Million Doses from China
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-24
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that 1.3 million new COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in the country from China, which would help to accelerate mass vaccination in the country. | During his speech this Sunday, May 23, the president clarified that a new phase of vaccination will start this week, with the aim to get 70% of the population vaccinated by the end of August. | "This week, a new phase of vaccination starts in the country; 1,300,000 new vaccines arrived in Venezuelans from China. More vaccines are arriving this week, and even more doses are yet to come," he stated in his Sunday address…
orinocotribune.com/venezuela-to-start-new-vaccination-phase-with-1-3-million-doses-from-china/

Time for a New Toolbox
John Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-24
Though his story has been widely disseminated by now, before Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong he sent a box of classified documents by snail mail from Hawaii (marked mysteriously "from B. Manning") to a writer in New York, which made its way, unopened, from person to person until it reached journalists Laura Poitras and …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/time-for-a-new-toolbox/

Canadian Media Launches Sinophobic Anti-China Campaign, Amid Years of Attacks on Chinese-Canadian Institutions
Aidan Jonah | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-24
Over the past few weeks there has been a ramping up of a sinophobic anti-China campaign by Canadian media. This campaign comes in total disregard of the clear links between rampant Sinophobia and the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes across the continent, including Canada. The core element of this campaign is a push to create the impression among Canadians that China is plotting to subvert Canadian "democracy" and infiltrate Canadian institutions. The groups used as proxies to push these dangerous narratives: Hong Kong "pro-democracy" dissident groups in Canada, and "Uyghur rights" groups and their imperialis…
orinocotribune.com/canadian-media-launches-sinophobic-anti-china-campaign-amid-years-of-attacks-on-chinese-canadian-institutions/

South African dockworkers to boycott Israeli ships until total liberation of Palestinian people: Union
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-24
The dockworkers continue to boycott work on the Israeli ship Zim Shanghai which arrived at Durban port on May 20. All ships carrying cargo to and from Israel will be boycotted by dockworkers, South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) told Peoples Dispatch…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/24/south-african-dockworkers-to-boycott-israeli-ships-until-total-liberation-of-palestinian-people-union/

A Biden Speech to Transform the Middle East
John Whitbeck | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
President Biden has a problem. He wishes to escape from the Middle East quagmire and focus American foreign policy on the perceived China threat. However, in the wake of the recent Israeli-Palestinian carnage, there is no escape. He must do something. But what? Doing the same thing yet again while hoping for a different result…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/a-biden-speech-to-transform-the-middle-east/

The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China
Michael T. Klare | thenation.com | 2021-05-24
The Future of Renewable Energy Depends on China…
thenation.com/article/environment/renewable-energy-war-china/

More Of The Same: Biden's Hybrid War Against China
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
US President Joe Biden's budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6% more than the $704 billion enacted under Donald Trump's administration. The outline states that the primary justification for this increase in military spending is to counter the threat of China, and identifies China as the United States' "top challenge." | Within the proposal is an endorsement of US Indo-Pacific Command head Admiral Philip Davidson's request for $4.7 billion for the "Pacific Deterrence Initiative," which will increase US military capabilities…
popularresistance.org/more-of-the-same-bidens-hybrid-war-against-china/

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_____ (2021-05-23). More Of The Same: Biden's Hybrid War Against China. popularresistance.org US President Joe Biden's budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6% more than the $704 billion enacted under Donald Trump's administration. The outline states that the primary justification for this increase in military spending is to counter the threat of China, and identifies China as the United States' "top challenge."

Staff (2021-05-22). China has Exported 700 Million Doses of its COVID-19 Vaccines Worldwide. orinocotribune.com In a recent column featured in Mundo Sputnik, Uruguayan journalist Raúl Zibechi provided some important data regarding the "vaccine race" taking place between China and the United States and its Western allies. | China "has been able to export no less than 700 million doses around the world, while the US has barely sold 3 million doses abroad," according to an Asia Times "Months ago, President Xi Jingping of China declared that vaccines were a 'global public good,' an…

Udani Samarasekera (2021-05-22). [Perspectives] Yee-Sin Leo: a leader in Singapore's fight against infectious diseases. thelancet.com In January, 2020, Yee-Sin Leo, Executive Director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in Singapore, and her team followed an unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, very closely for any evidence of human-to-human transmission. Given population movement in the region, they knew that if they saw that evidence it meant "that Singapore will get hit with COVID-19 cases", Leo says. So the National Public Health Laboratory at NCID prepared to detect and diagnose cases, drills were done to smooth workflow, and the COVID-19 Research Workgroup was set up.

Anand Naidoo (2021-05-22). The Heat: U.S.-ROK Relations and Global Health Summit. america.cgtn.com China pledges three billion dollars to help developing countries recover from the COVID-19 pandemic at the Global Health Summit. | And U.S. President Biden welcomes Republic of Korea President Moon at the White House.

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More Of The Same: Biden's Hybrid War Against China
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
US President Joe Biden's budget proposal for the next fiscal year was recently announced, and it requests $715 billion for his first Pentagon budget, 1.6% more than the $704 billion enacted under Donald Trump's administration. The outline states that the primary justification for this increase in military spending is to counter the threat of China, and identifies China as the United States' "top challenge."
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China has Exported 700 Million Doses of its COVID-19 Vaccines Worldwide
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-22
In a recent column featured in Mundo Sputnik, Uruguayan journalist Raúl Zibechi provided some important data regarding the "vaccine race" taking place between China and the United States and its Western allies. | China "has been able to export no less than 700 million doses around the world, while the US has barely sold 3 million doses abroad," according to an Asia Times report that Zibechi cited in his column. | "Months ago, President Xi Jingping of China declared that vaccines were a 'global public good,' an…
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[Perspectives] Yee-Sin Leo: a leader in Singapore's fight against infectious diseases
Udani Samarasekera | thelancet.com | 2021-05-22
In January, 2020, Yee-Sin Leo, Executive Director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in Singapore, and her team followed an unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, very closely for any evidence of human-to-human transmission. Given population movement in the region, they knew that if they saw that evidence it meant "that Singapore will get hit with COVID-19 cases", Leo says. So the National Public Health Laboratory at NCID prepared to detect and diagnose cases, drills were done to smooth workflow, and the COVID-19 Research Workgroup was set up.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01101-6/fulltext?rss=yes

The Heat: U.S.-ROK Relations and Global Health Summit
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-05-22
China pledges three billion dollars to help developing countries recover from the COVID-19 pandemic at the Global Health Summit. | And U.S. President Biden welcomes Republic of Korea President Moon at the White House.
america.cgtn.com/2021/05/22/the-heat-u-s-rok-relations-and-global-health-summit

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Udani Samarasekera (2021-05-22). [Perspectives] Yee-Sin Leo: a leader in Singapore's fight against infectious diseases. thelancet.com In January, 2020, Yee-Sin Leo, Executive Director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in Singapore, and her team followed an unexplained pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China, very closely for any evidence of human-to-human transmission. Given population movement in the region, they knew that if they saw that evidence it meant "that Singapore will get hit with COVID-19 cases", Leo says. So the National Public Health Laboratory at NCID prepared to detect and diagnose cases, drills were done to smooth workflow, and the COVID-19 Research Workgroup was set up.

WSWS (2021-05-21). Russia, China, Iran criticize Israeli onslaught against Gaza. wsws.org A class gulf separates the outrage felt by millions of workers worldwide at the Israeli slaughter on Gaza from the mealy-mouthed statements of the Eurasian capitalist regimes.

Paul Antonopoulos (2021-05-21). Moody's Highlights that U.S. Was Biggest Loser in Trade War with China. globalresearch.ca According to

Eds. (2021-05-21). Viral video of posh High School sparks heated debate on privilege. mronline.org After an alumnus of an elite Beijing high school made a video showing off its pristine facilities and supposedly laid-back pace, many online demanded that she and her ilk stop rubbing their privilege in others' faces. | May 21, 2021…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-05-21). Manufacturing Consent for War: 70 Years of CIA Coups, Assassinations, False Flag Operations and Mass Murder. covertactionmagazine.com A Review of Vijay Prashad's book, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, with foreword by Evo Morales (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020). During his confirmation hearing in February, the CIA's latest director William J. Burns continued a long Agency tradition of playing up the threat from Russia and China along …

Rob Urie (2021-05-21). China, the U.S., and the Idea of National Competition. counterpunch.org The idea of competition between nations that elected officials invoke to explain why trade agreements must be passed, certain industries must be supported, the largest military-industrial complex in world history must be sustained, and the living standards of working people can't be raised, points to the imperialist nature of capitalism. Capitalist competition— or economic competition

WSWS (2021-05-21). China successfully lands rover Zhurong on Mars. wsws.org The China National Space Administration achieved a new landmark in planetary exploration—having a successful orbiter, lander and rover as part of the agency's first mission to Mars, an immense scientific and technical achievement.

Pavan Kulkarni (2021-05-21). Prison is a university for activists, says Abahlali's George Bonono who was released on bail. peoplesdispatch.org George Bonono spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the conditions in prison and reminisced about the struggles of the shack-dwellers movement's eKhenana occupation.

Hyun Lee (2021-05-21). Biden and Moon Are on a Collision Course with North Korea and China. commondreams.org "Unless they reorient their policies now," writes Hyung Lee of the anti-war group Women Cross DMZ, "the United States and South Korea may squander a crucial opportunity to end Cold War divisions and prevent a nuclear escalation in Asia." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/kamala-harris-president-moon-korea-1300×681.jpg …

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