BEIJING DISPATCH

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Featuring Jeff Brown’s Special Reports
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A SPECIAL SELECTION OF ANCILLARY MATERIALS ON CHINA AND THE PACIFIC BY DISTINGUISHED OBSERVERS

Jeff Brown giving a talk on “Fear of the Future.”

Cross-linked with China Rising Radio Sinoland, SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio and iTunes.
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Jeff J. Brown—TGP’s Beijing correspondent— is the author of China Rising- Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations (Punto Press, 2016), Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015), and 44 Days (2013), He is currently writing an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, due out in 2017. Jeff is commissioned to write monthly articles for The Saker and The Greanville Post, touching on all things China, and the international political & cultural scene. He is a member of The Anthill, a collective of authors who write about China, and also submits articles on Oped News and Firedog Lake. His articles have been published by Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Unz, Alternative News Network and many other websites. He has also been a guest on Press TV, Truth Jihad, Daily Coin, Shadow of Truth, Wall St. for Main St. and KFCF Radio 88.1 in Fresno, California.

Jeff also podcasts and conducts interviews himself on 44 Days Radio Sinoland and can be heard at SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio and iTunes.

In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm Literary Festival, the Capital M Literary Festival, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at international schools in Beijing and Tianjin.

Jeff grew up in the heartland of the United States, Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University. He went to Brazil while in graduate school at Purdue University, to seek his fortune, which whet his appetite for traveling the globe. This helped inspire him to be a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia in 1980 and he lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, China and Europe for the next 21 years. All the while, he mastered Portuguese, Arabic, French and Mandarin, while traveling to over 85 countries. He then returned to America for nine years, whereupon he moved back to China in 2010. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife, where he writes, while being a school teacher in an international school. Jeff is a dual national French-American.

Jeff can be reached at 44 Days, jeff@44days.net, Facebook, Twitter and Wechat/Whatsapp: +86-18618144837

The truth about China’s economy: Debunking Western media myths

BEN NORTON—Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by Beijing-based scholar Mick Dunford to discuss China's economy and ...

If The Mainstream Worldview Was Accurate, Gaza Wouldn’t Be Burning

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—If the mainstream western worldview was accurate, we wouldn’t see western officials standing behind podiums justifying the mass slaughter ...

For What Is Worth: Fact Sheet— Ballistic vs. Cruise Missiles

EDITOR—Missiles and rockets have been around for a long time, as part of artillery and—as in the case of ICBMs—as ...

Alexander Mercouris, Alexander Christoforu, Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson—WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BUSY TRYING TO SPARK COLOR REVOLUTION IN GEORGIA; AND ME WITH THE BOYS OF THE DURAN

LARRY JOHNSON—I am always honored to be invited to appear on The Duran with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris. They ...

A Textbook Case of Genocide

RAZ SEGAL—Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba, in which ...

Dmitry Medvedev on Borders & Boundaries

DMITRY MEDVEDEV—For any reasonable person who is not infected with Russophobia and has not been duped by Anglo-Saxon propaganda, the ...

Patrick Lawrence: Could the Russians Seize Congress?

PATRICK LAWRENCE—As the November elections draw near, let us brace for another barrage of preposterous propaganda to the effect Russians ...

Are there bounds to collective West’s cynicism? (Apparently not).

STEPHEN KARGANOVIC—The false narrative of “Srebrenica genocide” has been picked apart relentlessly over the last decade and a half, knocking out ...

The Gaza Genocide as Explicit Policy: Michael Hudson Names All Names

PEPE ESCOBAR—The key question remains: what will happen to Gaza and the Palestinians. Prof. Hudson’s judgement is ominously realistic: “As ...

Gaza: The Strategic Imperative

MICHAEL HUDSON—Well, to prevent this kind of embarrassment, and to prevent the embarrassment of journalists who were doing all this, ...

Prospects for World War 3 [i]

ALEKS—It is not feasible to destroy Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during the winter. Moreover, it is not possible or acceptable to ...

MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH EPISODE 10 – IRAN STRIKES ISRAEL

EDITOR—Garland and Laith discuss the facts defining Iran's carefully calculated (and announced) attack on Israel, an attack not meant to ...

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