2021-08-10: News Headlines

Kim Petersen (2021-08-10). Targeting Cuba and China: Disinformation and the "Fear of Communism" globalresearch.ca

Kim Petersen (2021-08-10). Targeting Cuba and China: Disinformation against Communism. dissidentvoice.org I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. — Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state on how the United States conducts its business One of the filters in the Propaganda Model propounded by professors Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky is stoking a fear of communism.1 The establishment's anti-communism has never abated …

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-10). Secretary of State Blinken blasts Russia, China, Iran. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Secretary Antony J. Blinken At the United Nations Security Council Meeting on Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Maritime Security [China] In the South China Sea, we have seen dangerous encounters between vessels at sea and provocative actions to advance unlawful maritime claims. The United States has made clear its concerns regarding actions that intimidate …

Joseph Gerson (2021-08-10). Toward Preventing a Catastrophic US-China War. counterpunch.org U.S.-Chinese relations are worse than at any time since the renewal or relations began in the early 1970s. As in the late 1940s, we are witnessing, and suffering, the restructuring of the global disorder into a new, extremely dangerous, and totally unnecessary confrontation analogous, but not identical, to the Cold War. As Zhu Zhiqun, my

Pepe Escobar (2021-08-10). How Myanmar Fits into China's New Silk Roads. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2021-08-10). Why time's up for China's 'shadow education' industry. mronline.org Last month, China announced strict new regulations on academic tutoring and training classes for young children. How did the industry get so big, so fast?>

ecns.cn (2021-08-10). COVID-19 lab leak theory doesn't hold up to scientific scrutiny, says virologist. ecns.cn The virologist also said it is "far too divergent" for RaTG13, a coronavirus detected in horseshoe bats in southwest China's Yunnan province in 2013, to be the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 that caused the first human cases, as the two viruses differ in about 1,100 nucleotide positions.

Joris Leverink (2021-08-10). Economic Update: A US Left Rises to Remake the World. roarmag.org On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the Friends reunion and what it teaches us; how China outmaneuvers US tariffs; and how Yellow Vests plus French unions defeated Macron "reforms." | On the second half of the program, Wolff interviews Astra Taylor, filmmaker and debt rebellion activist. | You can support this show on

Rick Rozoff (2021-08-10). War against Nagorno-Karabakh opened way for Central Asia-Caspian Sea-Black Sea corridors. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Opening of Zangezur corridor to stimulate development of route between Uzbekistan and countries of Caspian and Black Seas The Zangezur corridor "This project envisages the connection of the railways of China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan with the access to the Caspian Sea — to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey," head of the South Caucasus Political Scientists Club [said]. …

Rodolfo Koé Gutiérrez (2021-08-10). China avanza como potencia económica en América Latina y el Caribe. globalizacion.ca En 2020, si bien las fusiones y adquisiciones chinas disminuyeron en Europa, América del Norte y Asia y el Pacífico, aumentaron en las economías latinoamericanas y caribeñas, al grado de representar una quinta parte de la inversión extranjera directa (IED)…

Anonymous007 (2021-08-10). Russia And China Hold Large-Scale Military Exercises In Face Of Mounting Pressure On Beijing. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On August 9th, Russia and China have begun holding a large-scale joint military exercise in China's north-central Ningxia region. | The Sibu/Cooperation-2021 exercises launched on August 9th and will run through August 13th. They will involve more than 10,000 ground troops and air forces. | The Russian military said that it had sent Su-30SM fighter aircraft, motorized rifle units and air defense systems to China as part of the exercise. | As reported in the Central Military District of…

Anand Naidoo (2021-08-10). The Heat: Beijing Olympics 2022. america.cgtn.com As the Summer Olympic Games close in Tokyo, Beijing looks ahead to the 2022 Winter Games.

ecns.cn (2021-08-10). U.S. fails miserably in COVID-19 response. ecns.cn A research report jointly released on Monday by three Chinese think tanks in Beijing revealed the truth about the U.S. performance in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

Staff (2021-08-09). China's Wuhan completes citywide Covid-19 testing in SIX days, finds 37 cases & 41 asymptomatic carriers among 12mn residents. rt.com The city of Wuhan has tested virtually every resident, except for children under six and those on vacation, in a sweeping effort to prevent a new Covid-19 outbreak in the metropolis where the pandemic is believed to have started. | Mass testing in the capital of Hubei province was launched on Tuesday, after authorities discovered a handful of locally transmitted cases, marking the first time that Covid-19 infection has been registered in the city since June 2020. | With an army of 28,000 medical staff mobilized to test 11.28 million residents at over 2,800 sampling sites set up across the city, the sweeping ca…

_____ (2021-08-09). The COVID Challenge ‚àí Cooperation Or Competition. popularresistance.org Once again, in confronting the greatest immediate challenge facing humanity, U.S. imperialism has played only a disruptive role. The drive to maximize profits and assert global dominance has pushed Washington to recklessly exacerbate the deadly COVID-19 health crisis. | What does U.S. imperialism hope to gain by blocking the World Health Organization's inquiry into COVID with the demand that the WHO Inquiry focus on blaming China? This intentionally blocks an international initiative which needs full cooperation. | Regarding the 18 intelligence agencies, nine report directly to the U.S. military. The rest coopera…

Brian Berletic (2021-08-09). US-led Information War Targets Southeast Asia (and China). asia-pacificresearch.com

Dan Cohen (2021-08-09). NY Times, WaPo national security reporters serve at pro-war Pentagon-funded think tank. thegrayzone.com The Center for New American Security provides residencies to top national security correspondents while raking in massive funding from the arms industry, Pentagon and State Department. This was originally published by Behind The Headlines at Mint Press News Imagine a country where there's no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it's a perfect description of the United States today. Located in Washington, the Center …

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