although Malaysia claims parts of the South China Sea over which Beijing has staked out near-blanket sovereignty.
Interestingly, Taiwan also claims the same “near-blanket sovereignty” over the South China Sea but western media never bothers to mention that
a war with each other that neither actually wants
When have you ever known the US to not want war?
Nice shot. I love Chinese temples, so much atmosphere. Where is this one?
Foreign interests recognize the obvious weakness in our social fabric, and they have been taking advantage of it to great success.
First step is to learn to stop blaming other countries for America’s failure.
INCREDIBLY conservative
Is this American for “full of shit”?
Count up all the times he’s told the truth. Now how many fingers do you have left?
America wants control over the world’s four main “chokepoints” for sea trade.
As well as taking control of Panama, the US wants to build the Ben Gurion Canal, an alternative to the Suez Canal, running through Israel close to the Gaza strip.
It also wants control over far northern sea routes, including the “northwest passage” that runs through Canada, and the Russia-China “northeast passage” that runs near Greenland.
most Western journalists remain silent
Most Western “journalists” just sit at their desks rewriting what is sent to them via the AP/Reuters/AFP newswires. If it is not carried by those wires it didn’t happen.
The United States of America protects Israel and all it’s atrocities.
I don’t hate all Americans, I’ve met some really cool ones over the years. But I do hate its fake democracy, its vulgar, parasitic oligarchs, its deceitful propaganda networks and the lust for war and global domination that drenches all three.
at what many believe
Straight from the Fox News school of journalism 🤣🤣
I can’t remember where I copied this from originally but it seems pertinent here
Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. they know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism.’
Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions.
This is is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores.
An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete.
They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone too irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover).
One might think that a people who once rebelled against the mightiest empire on earth on the principle of no taxation without representation would not meekly accept taxation without adequate government services.
But we accept what we have become used to, I suppose. Even so, one has to ask, what state apparatus in the “free” world could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return, solely in order to enrich a piratically overinflated military-industrial complex and to ease the tax burdens of the immensely wealthy.
But it is even easier to believe that the CIA and their toady media are lying again
But the once controversial theory has been gaining ground among some intelligence agencies
ie someone at the CIA who wont put their name to it, and a couple of corporate owned German newspapers who they fed it to
And this is a country whose people have been fed heavily pro-Israel propaganda since the day they were born. What does the rest of the world think ?
regular elections
Regularly overthrown because the winner wasn’t who the US wanted
Another persistent security concern is China’s pledge to bring Taiwan under its control someday, by force if necessary.
By force only if Taiwan claims independence, which it can’t do without first amending its constitution.
I wonder what percentage of the $1.6 billion Bloomberg got for that little bit of disinformation.
Can anyone provide a trustworthy source?
Also, it is fine for the US to enable genocide, to slaughter thousands of innocent children, but wrong for anyone to try and stop it? The US government, both sides of it, is just fucking vile.