Tag: Asia
Australia’s Newly Elected Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Rushed to Meet with Joe Biden in Tokyo After His Election Victory to Fortify Anti-Chinese Alliance
Murray Horton - 1
Australian Labor Party a pale shadow of what it was in the 1970s under Gough Whitlam—who was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup
On May 21, Australians elected as their new prime minister Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party, who defeated conservative Scott Morrison. CNN reported that Australians had delivered a...
Contrary to Relentless Media Demonization, A Swiss Businessman Who Worked in North Korea For Seven Years Found Much To Like About the Country
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 4
In November 2018, The New York Times ran a front-page article titled “In North Korea, Missile Bases Suggest a Great Deception.”
Co-authored by Pulitzer-winning correspondent David E. Sanger, the article cited satellite imagery and a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to argue that North Korea was continuing...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: EXCLUSIVE Eye-Witness Report from Shanghai on COVID Lockdown
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 3
The corporate media has been non-stop talking about the “dystopian” lockdown in Shanghai claiming people are starving in mass. The question “at what cost” pops up in articles across the news cycle questioning China’s lockdown policies. The logistical challenges for Shanghai’s local government to manage a lockdown in response to a mass omicron spread have been significant, but is that the full story?
West projecting its own image onto China when labeling it imperialist
According to many Western commentators—from the center-left to the far-right—China is the major threat to democracy, climate, peace and sovereignty in the 21st century. It is an issue where Donald Trump and Joe Biden are completely aligned. On the...
As Outrage Grows Over Civilian Casualties in Ukraine, Media Ignores Suffering of Yemeni People
Andi Olluri - 2
Some Victims Are More Worthy Than Others in Our Orwellian Media Landscape
The U.S. media have been dominated by images of Ukrainians suffering under the Russian invasion.
New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote characteristically that Joe Biden had “masterly and humbly helped organize a global coalition” of Good and Democracy—and...
Will the Decline of the U.S. Empire Usher in a More Peaceful World Order, or Will New Empires Emerge that are Just as Lethal and Exploitative?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 7
History does not bring confidence that peace and genuine human equality will prevail on Planet Earth anytime soon
Nevertheless, a new China century would likely be an improvement over the American, British and Spanish empires
In early February, just before the start of the Ukraine War, Russian President Vladimir Putin and...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: The Role of War Propaganda in Anti-Asian Violence
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
The epidemic of anti-Asian violence has grown exponentially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, Asian Americans have always been viewed as “enemy aliens” as the FBI and U.S. government had historically called it.
We are joined on today’s show by Amanda Yee, host of...
Top CIA Assassin Says U.S. Was Extremely Close to Using Nuclear Weapons in Vietnam
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 4
Billy Waugh Says He Wrote Recommendation to Drop Them on Mu Gia Pass Along Ho Chi Minh Trail on the North Vietnam-Laos Border
He and other Special Forces operatives planned to parachute a nuclear device into area behind enemy lines and then detonate it
Told General Vo Nguyen Giap’s son in...
The U.S. Government and its media echo chamber accuse China of committing genocide against Muslims in Xinjiang when, despite some persecution, China has attempted to integrate the Uyghur population into China and lift a disadvantaged minority
Long before hitherto unknown Xinjiang, a western province of China, became a focal point...
On February 2nd, eagle-eyed pro-China activist Arnaud Bertrand revealed that WEghur Stories, a podcast “working to create a conversation within and about the global Uyghur diaspora” that has been aggressively promoted on Facebook and Spotify, is funded by Washington’s French diplomatic mission—and that John Bair, its co-creator, co-host and...