AMERICAN DUPLICITY

Shahamad Khan Professor at Milan, Italy (2010–present): What is happening to Uighurs within Chinese concentration camps?

China is doing nothing wrong. I have personally visited China as one of my projects about how to uplift Muslims and clearly these camps are uplifting them and turning them to modern Muslims. They are given proper food and shelter. they are being trained in life skills like shoemaking, pisciculture, food processing, etc. They are also given the Chinese Quran which is a modified and progressive version of the Quran, I was shown an English copy of the same and they have removed verses that demean non-Muslims and teach them how to eliminate them. It has also modified prayers to one time from actual five but tells to do it five times in the evening. which helps to increase productivity at work. They are being taught not to take more than two children which is good for the modern world. Overall I believe all nations should back and adopt the Chinese model to help Muslim communities. So please stop this western nonsense that China is torturing us and if possible then invest in re-education camps like them. Those are far more useful than dropping bombs in our home. China is the only true friend of Muslims outside the Islamic world.

JOHN RACHEL—Within kinetic warfare itself — bombs, missiles, soldiers, planes, submarines, tanks — there’s also a profound asymmetry. And the asymmetry is the difference between OFFENSIVE WARFARE and DEFENSIVE WARFARE.

First off, let’s be clear about something: Defending one’s own nation is much easier and less expensive than attacking another nation, because first of all the positioning of military assets is at the outset opposite, then what is used in the engagement of the enemy and how the enemy is engaged is dramatically different.

PHILIP GIRALDI—Yes, the United States has an office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism and it is always headed by a Jew, as has been also the office in the Justice Department that continues to be dedicated to rooting out 90 year old Nazis. Meanwhile, the Republican Party, most particularly in its Trump version, is so close to Israel that it might reasonably be regarded as part of the Israel Lobby. And the Democrats are not much better, though there has been some dissent from progressives, which has led to the creation of a Zionist pressure group within the party called the Democratic Majority for Israel. It exists to defend Israel against any and all criticism while also protecting the billions of dollars and other benefits that the Jewish state receives from the US Treasury and government annually.

RUSSELL BENTLEY—There are laws in Europe today that imprison people for questioning the Holocaust and the genocide of  6 million Jews under the German nazis, but there is no law there against disputing or disparaging the sacrifice of 27 million Soviet citizens. US and British hypocrites and revisionists make much of the Non-Aggression Pact signed between Molotov and Ribbentrop at the end of August 1939, conveniently forgetting the capitulation to nazi aggression in the Munich Pact peace treaty signed by Britain, France and Germany almost a full year earlier in September 1938. And it should never be forgotten that it was US and UK oligarchs, along with German corporate leaders, who gave the financial and political backing that brought Hitler and the nazis to power in the first place, beginning in the early 1930’s.

Hard to believe, but the Putin-Biden summit may have actually opened the road to an improvement in the global situation, at least a recognition by the US that its power is not unlimited, and that endless hostility toward sovereign nations like China or Russia may prove ultimately counterproductive and downright deleterious to American power. As well, if this summit opens a path to peace in the Donbas, everyone will be the winner. Russia’s rapid and highly impressive military mobilisation during the last US-precipitated crisis in Ukraine may have opened the eyes to some Western planners, forcing them to accept the fact Russia is a major world power, capable of global strategic muscle.