CLAYTON MORRIS—How free is free speech in the U.K.? Well it isn’t a good sign that the Grayzone reporter Kit Klarenberg was detained when landing in England due to his war coverage that is antagonistic to the government. Should we start fearing our government now when journalists are detained for telling the truth? We speak to Klarenberg about this chilling turn of events.
AMERICAN STUDIES
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PAUL EDWARDS—It would be difficult to say, at this stage, whether the myth of Christianity or of Capitalism has the strongest hold on humanity. What is undeniable is that both are myths that have long exerted tremendous influence over the minds of much of mankind.
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“Free Trade” as Revealed in the China-United States Paradigm
18 minutes readWEI LING CHUA—It took China 15 years of negotiation with the US before the US allowed China to enter the WTO in 2000. During that time, the West was happy to transfer polluted and labor-intensive industries to China: they were happy to allow China to set up factories to assemble iPhones for Apple. Why not? Apple pays the price of a cappuccino to the Chinese factories for each iPhone assembled while selling the iPhones back to Chinese consumers and the rest of the world for hundreds of dollars per unit of iPhone.
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The Empire’s clumsy and reckless attempts to stem its loss of global hegemony is causing enormous trouble to its vassals around the world, beginning with the European bloc, where the cost of energy and other essential inputs has climbed considerably since the anti-Russia sanctions and Nord Stream pipeline sabotage took place.
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C. MOTT—The advocates of American primacy within the United States foreign policy establishment historically rely on prevailing ideological trends of the time to justify interventionism abroad. The new ‘woke’ face of American hegemony and projects of empire is designed to project the U.S. as an international moral police rather than a conventional great power—and the result is neo-imperialism with a moral face.