Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) There was much concern, in international circles, about the the U.S. Government’s recent efforts to open a NATO office in Tokyo so as to extend its military alliance against Russia to become also a military alliance against China. When that initiative scared some other NATO members, it was stopped, and […]
“Civil War,” the latest and ostensibly final film from director Alex Garland, has a lot on its mind. From the first scene in which the unnamed U.S. president, played by Nick Offerman, addresses a divided nation, it’s clear that this film was intended to comment on modern times. What’s less clear, however, is what it
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) As has been documented by such authorities on U.S. military spending as Winslow T. Wheeler, Robert Higgs, and others, America spends each year around $1.5 trillion for its military but hides at least around $800 billion of it (so as for the U.S. not to be publicly recognized as spending […]
For those of us who love A24, Civil War is a milestone: It earned the quirky indie distributor its highest opening weekend box office to date. Granted, built-in controversy surely drew many viewers to this dystopian drama from English writer-director Alex Garland (Men, Annihilation, Ex Machina), which depicts a U.S. civil war in the present day. The deal We join said war already well in progress. It all appears to have started when the unnamed U.S. president (Nick Offerman) decided he...
The China Coast Guard said on Friday it patrolled the "territorial waters" of Diaoyu Islands, also known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands, in the East China Sea. Japan Coast Guard said in a separate bulletin that its patrol boats had asked four Chinese coast guard vessels to leave "our
William Astore The genocide happening in Gaza today may foreshadow one possible future for this planet.
Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered an address to Congress on Thursday and declared China the "greatest strategic challenge" facing the world. "Close coordination between Japan and the US is required more than ever to ensure that deterrence that our alliance provides remains credible and resilient," Kishida said, according to The South China Morning Post. Japanese Prime Minister...
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: China is not just any country. It is the ultimate surveillance state, obsessively watching its citizens and spying on the rest of the world.
Here are the facts: The world is using more coal now than it ever has. Coal, oil and natural gas still meet about 82% of our primary energy demands, way down from the 86% they supplied in 1997.
Photo: DEA.gov India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC – The Chinese Communist Party uses tax rebates to subsidize the manufacturing and export of fentanyl materials, a House panel which has Rep.Raja Krishnamoorthi as a ranking members, said in a report released on April 16. The House […]
A congressional report says Chinese firms are subsidized via tax rebates to export fentanyl raw materials
Some 28 of the 61 authors and translators nominated for awards had withdrawn their books over PEN America's stance on Gaza.