by John Feffer | May 4, 2016 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
The final of the World Snooker Championship took place this week in Sheffield, the hardscrabble town in England’s north perhaps best known as the setting for the movie The Full Monte. Sheffield is a former industrial center so snookered by globalization that the...
by Russ Wellen | Apr 26, 2016 | Redev, Uncategorized, War & Peace
Russia, Iraq — the list of countries that the United States has threatened with a nuclear attack is short. Some may know that China was in our sites when we used to lump it in with the Soviet Union. But Americans today are aware that we threatened China with a nuclear...
by Russ Wellen | Jan 11, 2016 | Redev, Uncategorized
Right-wing mass media, for instance, Fox and its publications, has demonstrably affected public opinion. Progressive sentiment is frozen out, but sometimes it does find its way into centrist or once conservative media. An example is the once conservative, now more...
by Keith K C Hui | Dec 14, 2015 | Environment, Food & Farm, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
Renowned American journalist Robert D. Kaplan warned the West that, in the light of the quick deterioration of the arable land quality in interior China due to “deforestation, loss of topsoil and salinization”, when China’s population has reached “1.54 billion by...
by Henry Rosemont | Oct 14, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
President Obama did not distinguish himself as a statesman during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recently concluded state visit. Nor did he do any better with President Vladimir Putin when they sparred a few days later at the UN General Assembly. China and the...