JEFF J. BROWN—Since 1949, the Mainland has told the world loudly and clearly that it will reunite Taiwan by force, if the island tries to become an independent country. No wiggle room, no ambiguity, no bullshit. In Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent 19th Communist Party Congress speech, he alluded that the goal is to have all of China reunited by 2049.
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EDITOR—A war on off- patent, FDA-approved, inexpensive, safe “repurposed drugs” has been waged by the pharmaceutical industry for decades in an attempt to preserve profits for novel, patented, high-profit drugs. Ivermectin, a well-known antiviral and anti-parasitic drug (currently a generic, hence its low cost) is at the center of a huge controversy with establishment entities—government agencies, industry groups (Big Pharma), and most media trying to badmouth and criminalise the upstart drug in favor of much more expensive and profitable new drugs patented by Pfizer and similar pharmaceutical oligopolies which may not work as well as Ivermectin.
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EDITOR—This 21st-century fascism, spearheaded on behalf of the globalist 0.001% by the US Democrats in cahoots with powerful sections of the Deep State, and their media lackeys, is now caught in an existential dilemma: It has accumulated so many crimes that it cannot “come clean”, as that might trigger a catastrophic class rebellion likely to overthrow the reigning affiliated oligarchies across the planet. The pent-up frustration is so widespread and profound at this point, that axes, pitchforks, and even the guillotine come to mind.
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‘The Horror! the Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine
14 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—To dominate assorted “primitive” peoples, Britannia replaced the iron and the sword with trade. Like any monotheistic faith, they believed there was only one way to be; one way to drink your tea; one way to play the game – any game. Everything else was non-civilized, savage, brute, at best providing raw materials and acute headaches.
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THE BROADER VIEW: How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World
7 minutes readEDITOR—Dr. Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator and journalist. Dr. Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. A post-Keynesian, he criticizes neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. Our conversation examines the false dichotomy of capitalism v. socialism and considers the true dichotomy, which is industrial capitalism v. finance capitalism. Hudson and Keen argue that the transition to finance capitalism, where unearned income is considered economic growth, has truly sown the seeds to ruin the world. Tell us what you think in the comments!