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De-Dollarization Accelerates: The Beginning of the End for US Dollar Hegemony in Southeast Asia?
By Timothy Alexander Guzman Source: Silent Crow News The US is facing major moves by the global community to de-dollarize their economies. The reserve status of the US dollar will eventually come to an end, maybe not anytime soon, but … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Neoliberalism, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technocracy
Tagged Africa, Cambodia, CEIP, China, devaluation, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, Russia, US Dollar
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Win-Win vs Lose-Lose: The Time Has Come for the World to Choose
By Matthew Ehret Source: Strategic Culture Foundation It is a tragedy of our age that society has been locked in a zero-sum operating system for so long that many people living in the west cannot even imagine a world order … Continue reading
Posted in CIA, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Neocons
Tagged Cambodia, CIA, Deep State, Donald Trump, Economics, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Malaysia, Mike Pompeo, Neocons, Philippines, Thailand, Wang Yi, Xi Jinping, Yang Jiechi
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To Liberate Cambodia
By Robert J. Burrowes A long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, including … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, History, imperialism, Labor, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged activism, Cambodia, Dictatorship, Economics, Hun Sen, imperialism, Khmer, Labor, Nonviolence, politics, protest, war, Worker's Rights
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Who’s the “Low Life Scum:” Kissinger or CODEPINK?
By Medea Benjamin Source: Information Clearing House A very angry Senator John McCain denounced CodePink activists as “low-life scum” for holding up signs reading “Arrest Kissinger for War Crimes” and dangling handcuffs next to Henry Kissinger’s head during a Senate hearing on … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Augusto Pinochet, Cambodia, Chilean Coup, Christopher Hitchens, CodePink, East Timor, Henry Kissinger, Information Clearing House, McCain, Medea Benjamin, Salvador Allende, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Victor Jara, Vietnam, war crimes
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A Public Service Announcement From Adbusters
There will be blowback Adbusters, 10 October 2013 Even in the seconds before their heads were about to roll away form their bodies underneath the blade of the guillotine, it still puzzled the opulent Paris elite how this could be … Continue reading