Tag: Asia
First CIA Station Chief in Vietnam Oversaw Kidnapping Operation and Torture on the Pacific Island of Saipan
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
Paul Springer also assisted the French during the 1st Indochina War and ran spy networks against the Vietminh
Paul Springer was an all-American type right out of Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American, who served as the first CIA station chief in Saigon from 1950 to 1953 and as CIA...
China is a modern superpower, as is the U.S., but a qualitatively different one. The U.S. uses military aggression, coups and sanctions to impose U.S. corporate interests worldwide. China is a predominantly peaceful power that respects national sovereignty, mutual development, and non-interference.
Despite opposing imperialism, too many in the Western...
On June 29, 2020, the CIA-linked Jamestown Foundation—which was set up with the help of former CIA Director William Casey (1981-1987) and appointed ex-CIA Director James Woolsey (1993-1995) as Vice Chairman and former CIA Director Michael Hayden (2006-2009) to its board—published a “research report” by Adrian Zenz, which falsely accused the Chinese...
The Original “Gung Ho” Marine: Evans F. Carlson and his Strange Place in the History of the U.S. Empire
Anthony Newkirk - 1
“ would be a voice in the wind…warning without being heard as the…hopeful wartime alliance spiraled into disaster…. In the transpacific world we inhabit today…we are still paying the price for what happened at the end of World War II. And Evans Carlson saw it coming.”—historian Stephen R....
China Officially Stands for World Peace Yet Cooperates with U.S. War-Making and Promotes Alienation
Ron Ridenour - 3
Part Three: Artificial Intelligence = Alienation Instructors
I am conscious of being alienated. Feeling, knowing we have no real control over our lives, or over what happens around us throughout the world. Many of us who look honestly inside feel isolated, estranged from people, society, ourselves. Hopelessly living limply with...
China invests in U.S./Israel Wars and supported Pol Pot’s Genocide and South African Apartheid
Che Guevara’s revolutionary humanist perspective led him to “reject any notion that included using capitalist tools or fetishes. The pipe dream that socialism can be achieved with the help of the dull instruments left to us...
Back-to-School Special: Students in Many Elite Universities Will Be Taught a Distorted History of the Vietnam War This Year that Recycles CIA Talking Points
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 5
The Vietnam War was a horrific war rooted in U.S. government lies that resulted in the deaths of some two million Vietnamese civilians.
As young men facing the draft in the 1960s learned about the conflict, they began protesting the war in massive numbers, and a critical literature developed that...
China Officially Stands for World Peace Yet Cooperates with U.S. War-Making and Promotes Alienation
Ron Ridenour - 2
My morality and thought processes, and much of my writings have I learned from Che Guevara’s meaning about building a socialist society in which people begin to shed themselves from being alienated commodities.
My evaluation of China is based on what Che meant, in order to develop the “New...
When Imperial China Had a Vietnamese Prime Minister: The Surprising Origins of Meritocracy—And Why It Outperforms the West More Than Ever
Felix Abt - 6
Political legitimacy thrives on competence and executing the people’s will—not on money and endless election campaigns
Long before the West ever seriously discussed equal opportunities, sophisticated concepts of meritocratic selection already existed in China. The Tang Dynasty state, in particular, is considered an early example of a system based on...
Wilfred Burchett: One of the Greatest War Correspondents of 20th Century and First Western Journalist to Expose Horrors of Atomic Attack on Hiroshima
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 3
On September 5, 1945, Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett published an article in London’s Daily Express, “The Atomic Plague,” which helped reveal to the world the horrific effects of the atomic bomb that had been dropped over Hiroshima.
Burchett estimated that 53,000 people were directly killed, with 13,000 having been seriously...









