Tag: Asia
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...
Confidante of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Wrote Defamatory Book About Hiroshima Pilot Who Expressed Anguish over Dropping of Atomic Bomb
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
In the decades after the U.S. dropping of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only one serviceman who participated in the bombing missions came forward to publicly declare that he felt remorse for what he had done and reached out to hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) by making charitable donations...
MIT Professor Was an Important Whistleblower Who Exposed Brutality of U.S. Military Occupation of South Korea After World War II
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 3
Richard D. Robinson was forced to flee South Korea and destroy the first draft of a manuscript he wrote, Betrayal of a Nation.
Richard D. Robinson (1921-2009) founded the study of international business management at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), authored 16 books...
Growing Protests Are Unfolding in Japan Against U.S. and Israeli Policies, Fitting a Worldwide Pattern
Emanuel Pastreich - 1
Although the Japanese were not a presence on the Sumud flotilla to Gaza that was recently seized by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), resulting in the arrest of major political figures from Italy, Spain, France and England, and setting off massive protests in Europe, nevertheless, thousands attended a carefully...
The $300 Billion AUKUS Security Pact is a Boondoggle for Arms Merchants that Heightens Military Tensions in Asia
Gabriela Gavrilov - 1
AUKUS, an acronym for Australia, United Kingdom and the United States, is a trilateral military partnership established in 2021. Its primary publicized goal is “to promote a free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific region by enhancing collective deterrence and accelerating the joint development of advanced military technologies.”
Former Malaysia Prime Minister...
The March 8, 2026, issue of The New York Times Magazine featured an article by Matthieu Aikins and Wesley Morgan entitled “America’ Secret Veterans: They Fought For the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. Now, 10,000 Former Zero Unit Soldiers Are in the United States and Living in Fear.”
The article focused on...









