Tag: Asia
Drinking Water, Rivers, Fish, Crabs, Breast Milk, Babies and Teenagers Are Poisoned
United States Forces Korea would like the South Korean public to believe that the threat to public health posed by its use of per- and poly fluoroalkyl substances, (PFAS) since the 1970s is not much of a problem...
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen Receives National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Democracy Service Medal for Transforming Her Country into a Launching Pad for U.S. War on China
In the corrupt era in which we live, horrible people are given honors for carrying out policies that have disastrous ramifications.
Henry Kissinger and...
CovertAction Bulletin – McCarthyism is Back: The Anti-China Red Scare
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
A recent article in the New York Times attacked peace groups and activists who oppose the U.S. government’s drive towards war with China. Just days later, Senator Marco Rubio sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding an investigation into Code Pink, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Dongsheng and others named in the article...
“Sanctions kill; we know it and we should not accept that,” said Kee Park, a medical doctor from Harvard Medical School’s Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, during a conference at George Washington University held as part of a national mobilization to end the Korean War.
Park cited the...
Barbara Lee and Other U.S. Congresswomen Call For End to Korean War as Part of Peace Mobilization Marking 70th Anniversary of Armistice
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
Three days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, Barbara Lee (D-CA) was the sole member of the U.S. Congress with the foresight to vote against an authorization of the use of military force that gave legal justification for the war in Afghanistan and the Global War on Terror.
Nearly 22...
Our faith in government, once based on trust Has now irrevocably turned to rust. Oh yes, there are a few whose loyalty us is true. But countless others felt the need To attach themselves to corporate greed. You think the president calls the shots? Then it's you who don't...
Was There Really a Massacre in Tiananmen Square–or Was It an Illusion Fabricated by U.S. Politicians and Corporate Media to Make Americans Hate China?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 5
In 1989, the American public was flooded with iconic images of brave Chinese students standing up to Chinese Communist tanks in Tiananmen Square—students who were then brutally slaughtered by the Chinese military. Or so we were led to believe.
But a startling new book reveals that the American public may...
CIA Has Been Working to Overthrow the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Since Its Inception in 1949
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 3
New book details saga of two CIA officers, Jack Downey and Richard Fecteau, who were imprisoned for 19 years in China following a botched covert operation in the “Asian Bay of Pigs.”
Six years ago, The New York Times reported that the Chinese government systematically dismantled CIA spying operations in the...
CovertAction Bulletin: Breaking Through U.S. Propaganda on North Korea
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
A recent Washington Post article titled “A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story” highlights the many appearances Yeonmi Park has made on right-wing news outlets over the past few years. Scholars and solidarity activists have been pointing out the serious holes in Park’s stories since she started getting attention...
Military Initiative by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States (AUKUS) is Another Major Step in Prospective War on China
Murray Horton - 3
Peace groups in all three nations need to rally against provocative alliance that is a pivotal component of war planning.
The AUKUS pact (military initiative among Australia, the UK and U.S.) came out of nowhere in 2021 when Australia broke a $A90 billion contract to buy French submarines.
Instead, it signed...