GAITHER STEWART—That the most traditional of races renounced the memory of its past, mythical or true, is no small matter. The Chinese had three thousand years of chronology (in those years, the Yellow Emperor and Chuang Tzu and Confucius and Lao Tzu) when Shih Huang Ti ordered that history began with him.
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CALEB MAUPIN—With his words, Ma is echoing an understanding the world economy similar to that which was articulated by Vladimir Lenin prior to the Russian Revolution. This is a world view that understands that the richest countries of the world have rigged things in their favor, so they can remain the top 20%, enriching themselves as monopolies while the 80% remain poor and become poorer, as captive consumers. This was Lenin’s concept of “Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism.”
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“Xi the Dictator:” a Myth Born of Ignorance and Prejudice
10 minutes readTHOMAS HON WING POLIN—With 85 million members, China’s Communist Party itself is larger than most nations on Earth. The “one-party dictatorship” of ignorant Western fantasy is actually a collection of many factions, with diverse interests, under a single roof. Differences among the factions are greater and notably more meaningful than those among, say, the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States.
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Debunking the flagwaving myths about an attack on North Korea
43 minutes readTHE SAKER—Twelve to fifteen percent of the entire population was murdered by US forces in Korea during the last war (compare these figures to the so-called ‘genocide’ of Srebrenica!). That is what Nikki Haley and the psychopaths in Washington DC are really threatening to do when they speak of taking the situation “in their own hands” or, even better, when Trump threatens to “totally destroy” North Korea.
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A Rising Tide: In Defense of Socialist Billionaires
22 minutes readCALEB MAUPIN—At the end of the day, billionaires who function in non-capitalist countries are completely different than their financial peers in the west. Unlike the ruling class of western capitalist nations, these wealthy people are not the rulers, but are merely well paid functionaries, helping to carry out the government’s agenda of development.