Another cartoonishly ridiculous anti-China propaganda piece has been published in the western mass media, this time by The Guardian, which at this point could arguably be labeled the single most destructive promulgator of empire propaganda in the western world. It is authored by Simon Tisdall, who could most certainly be labeled the single most destructive promulgator of empire propaganda at The Guardian.
One metric of a nation's veracity is the quality and quantity of its propaganda. Judge America and its vassals accordingly.
If Israel can have nuclear fucking submarines, China can have whatever weapons systems they damn well want.
Keeping the name of Jullian Assange alive anytime one of these effete bluebloods pinches out one of their dishonest screeds strikes me as an entirely appropriate way to keep things in perspective.
As Caitlin noted, stopping a war and raising the military budget ( a la Trump/Biden) means no one is really stopping the war; only shifting the battlefield.
The last time Chinese forces were in combat was 1979, admittedly, in support of the loathsome Khmer Rouge (which was also supported off and on by the United States).
Compare with the track record of the United States since 1979.
Tisdall accidentally lets the truth slip - the fact that China's economic power is starting to surpass the US is alarming to the existing hegemonic cartel, and the true cause of the desperate saber-rattling. One note: by all accounts, China's attempt at cultural annihilation in Tibet would qualify as oppression/subjugation.
Monopoly media CAN only see competition to be CRUSHED (at taxpayer expense; using our kids to murder, indenture, rob or enslave folks). Japanese Imperialists were valued trade partners; until we'd seen them as a THREAT over our subjugation of Chinese, Philippines, Malaysian... "protectorates?"
Imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism for a reason. It was literally the end of the line for capitalism, meaning it could go no further on its own. Socialism was thought by some to organically grow out of imperial states and transnational monopolies. Others saw the need for a worldwide class war to force the transition that would never happen on its own. Socialism, in order to be effective, has to reconstitute the imperial stage of capitalism. The dictatorship of the proletariat must be infinitely more imperialist than the dictatorship of capitalists. If not, we're doomed, and socialism wasn't what we thought it was. For clarification:
Thank you very much, Caitlin -- I also have a completely different question:
In all of these Covid-19 death statistics there is still a HUGE elephant in a room:
-- China has nearly four (4) time larger population than our beloved country, the US.
-- China reportedly had less than 10,000 virus deaths. We have so far about 700,000 deaths.
If these numbers are even remotely correct, we have almost 600 times higher mortality.
Are we a failed country with incompetence and massive corruption at every level of society? What is happening to us? Who we really are?
China's reported Covid-19 deaths numbers are usually dismissed as "fake" - without any convincing analysis. Here is one attempt by experts, however. Since I am NOT an expert, any competent review of the report below? Many thanks in advance.
The misunderstood—and misrepresented—Zero COVID policy in China --- 13 December 2021
This analysis of China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been submitted as a contribution to the WSWS Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. The WSWS is respecting a request that the author’s identity not be publicly disclosed.
Idiotic propagandists, at least Murdoch was clever bastard. Imaging the state and media hadn't treated Assange so fucking badly and just released him , they might have stood a chance of convincing the rest of us they have our best interests at heart. Whatever the MSM says cannot be trusted even a little bit. I think the majority now see this clear as day. The least among us (the thickest but most corrupt) rose to power and it is now destroying civilisation. Long may it continue.
Always the blindered Sinophile, gleefully hyperbolic and solidly anti everything American, you fail to acknowledge that China's economic expansionism is committing ecocide on the planet just as decisively as the USA's militaristic expansionism. Not to mention the oppression of the Muslim Uighurs. Though I won't deny that your evaluation of Biden's intentions to be accurate; by increasing the war toys industry's budget, he is just shifting the battlefields and he's writing new oil and gas leases in environmentally sensitive areas.
All the governments of the world are owned by the war toys industry and their co-dependent fossil fuel and mineral extraction industries. China's imperialist oligarchs have never really expanded much beyond their own borders, but they have always built a "silk road" to manipulate foreign powers economically. Beaten back into their own borders pretty decisively in the late 19th and early 20th century by the "F-UK-US" alliance that now includes the Zionist occupiers in Palestine and Wahhabist despots in Saudia Arabia, the 21st Century Silk Road has pretty much toppled America's dominance as a trading partner in most of the rest of the world, wisely investing in infrastructure over weaponry and expensive projections of force in multiple theaters.
Unfortunately, their technology and ways of inhabiting the world are just as unsustainable as ours and they tend to commit genocide against other cultures living within their borders, creating their own version of the complacent wage slave. They have to install nets around factories to keep workers from killing themselves jumping out of windows. They probably should legalize cannabis. American wage slaves are happier than ever.
As the song said, nobody can be right when everybody is wrong. The imposition of will on others without their consent is wrong and mankind has been doing it all wrong since they decided to start growing their own food and building cities, thousands of years ago. In all those thousands of years, little has changed for the warmongering sex fiends who take charge besides the sophistication of population management methodology and the efficacy of the implements of mass murder.
Otherwise, the world is cantonized into church/state fiefdoms in constant competition for the domination of the world's supply chains and there have only been a few dozen families in control of the logistics of resource utilization and distribution the whole time. The bloody footprints of Great Pirate families (Buckminster Fuller. Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth) such as Borgia, DeMedici, Guggenheim, DeBeers, Morgan and Rothschild are plain as day in Post-Columbian historical records. The only reason the NWO cartel has never been able to solidify their hegemony is because there's too much infighting for the top spot, yet the Rothschild's own the central banks in over a 100 countries. They're present in China too, but the party owns the central bank.
Fuller mistakenly theorized that the Great Pirates went extinct with the American and French revolutions and the rise of the so-called constitutional democratic republic, but they really just morphed into billionaire CEOs and megachurch pastors, manipulating everything from behind the curtain. It really seems like the only thing that's going to convince these greedy, stupid people is for us to eat one or two of them in a live stream. The rest of them will no doubt get in line and put their money into projects building everything back green from Main Street up, rather than Wall Street down. I vote for Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Bezos is the only one who is actually self made and the idea for Amazon was actually his ex-wife's. The rest come from old money and Gates is a perfect example of a genocidal psychopath from a long line of genocidal psychopath bourgeoisie who originated in central England, were among the early Massachusetts Bay Colony colonizers and were leaders of the western expansion and genocide of the original people of the Pacific Northwest.
Up until 245 years ago and the Industrial Revolution spearheaded by the American oil and steel magnates, fulfilling their Manifest Destiny, Mother Nature was able to pretty much heal herself without too much fuss from the scars of warfare and the monoculture of humans, their plants and animals on cemented over wetlands, plowed under grasslands, clear cut forests and dredged from the ocean floor. In that time, human industry has modified over three quarters of the planet's surface and caused the extinction of two thirds of it's flora and fauna. An ecosystem's stability, in terms of resilience to extreme weather, tectonic and volcanic events, is proportional to it's diversity.
We are the only species on the planet that sells resources to each other and commit mass murder to protect their sources. Predator capitalists, of both the American style and the Chinese oligarchs calling themselves communists have become an invasive species threatening the entire biosphere, We cannot kill the planet before it will kill us. The tornados in the Midwest this week were just a harbinger of things to come. The people of every developed nation need to stand up and demand a global cease fire and immediate greening of everything. More important than reducing emissions, we need to make huge efforts to restore indigenous biodiversity to our residential centers and agricultural lands or Mother Nature will do it for us, as we witnessed in Kentucky last week.
Great piece, I would suggest Simon Tisdall read Caitlin. I don’t think he is lying, conscious of what he is doing. I don’t think of his position as manipulation. I think he is fully indoctrinated in this stuff and he is telling his truth.
It's really astonishing how much Western media is just propaganda bullshit. This is especially embarrassing coming from the supposedly left Guardian.
One metric of a nation's veracity is the quality and quantity of its propaganda. Judge America and its vassals accordingly.
If Israel can have nuclear fucking submarines, China can have whatever weapons systems they damn well want.
Keeping the name of Jullian Assange alive anytime one of these effete bluebloods pinches out one of their dishonest screeds strikes me as an entirely appropriate way to keep things in perspective.
As Caitlin noted, stopping a war and raising the military budget ( a la Trump/Biden) means no one is really stopping the war; only shifting the battlefield.
All wars begin with advertising.
The last time Chinese forces were in combat was 1979, admittedly, in support of the loathsome Khmer Rouge (which was also supported off and on by the United States).
Compare with the track record of the United States since 1979.
I'm surprised this wasn't George Monbiot, who still takes the Guardian coin, but hasn't lent one word of support to Assange.
Tisdall accidentally lets the truth slip - the fact that China's economic power is starting to surpass the US is alarming to the existing hegemonic cartel, and the true cause of the desperate saber-rattling. One note: by all accounts, China's attempt at cultural annihilation in Tibet would qualify as oppression/subjugation.
Monopoly media CAN only see competition to be CRUSHED (at taxpayer expense; using our kids to murder, indenture, rob or enslave folks). Japanese Imperialists were valued trade partners; until we'd seen them as a THREAT over our subjugation of Chinese, Philippines, Malaysian... "protectorates?"
The Roderic Day reference was very good. His article is quite long but very informative.
Good article. I look forward to you writing about COVID19 government tyranny, including in your own country.
Nailed it... and the sickening display of the Lib/Lab duopoly falling over itself to play lapdog Deputy Sheriff in the Taiwan Straits
Imperialism was the highest stage of capitalism for a reason. It was literally the end of the line for capitalism, meaning it could go no further on its own. Socialism was thought by some to organically grow out of imperial states and transnational monopolies. Others saw the need for a worldwide class war to force the transition that would never happen on its own. Socialism, in order to be effective, has to reconstitute the imperial stage of capitalism. The dictatorship of the proletariat must be infinitely more imperialist than the dictatorship of capitalists. If not, we're doomed, and socialism wasn't what we thought it was. For clarification:
https://beforethedawn.substack.com/p/imperialism-after-history
https://beforethedawn.substack.com/p/socialism-and-capitalism
Thank you very much, Caitlin -- I also have a completely different question:
In all of these Covid-19 death statistics there is still a HUGE elephant in a room:
-- China has nearly four (4) time larger population than our beloved country, the US.
-- China reportedly had less than 10,000 virus deaths. We have so far about 700,000 deaths.
If these numbers are even remotely correct, we have almost 600 times higher mortality.
Are we a failed country with incompetence and massive corruption at every level of society? What is happening to us? Who we really are?
China's reported Covid-19 deaths numbers are usually dismissed as "fake" - without any convincing analysis. Here is one attempt by experts, however. Since I am NOT an expert, any competent review of the report below? Many thanks in advance.
The misunderstood—and misrepresented—Zero COVID policy in China --- 13 December 2021
This analysis of China’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been submitted as a contribution to the WSWS Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. The WSWS is respecting a request that the author’s identity not be publicly disclosed.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/13/chin-d13.html?utm_term=china-covid-policy-13-09-2021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=allnewsletters&utm_campaign=allnewsletters
Idiotic propagandists, at least Murdoch was clever bastard. Imaging the state and media hadn't treated Assange so fucking badly and just released him , they might have stood a chance of convincing the rest of us they have our best interests at heart. Whatever the MSM says cannot be trusted even a little bit. I think the majority now see this clear as day. The least among us (the thickest but most corrupt) rose to power and it is now destroying civilisation. Long may it continue.
GCHQ PRESS RELEASE
Always the blindered Sinophile, gleefully hyperbolic and solidly anti everything American, you fail to acknowledge that China's economic expansionism is committing ecocide on the planet just as decisively as the USA's militaristic expansionism. Not to mention the oppression of the Muslim Uighurs. Though I won't deny that your evaluation of Biden's intentions to be accurate; by increasing the war toys industry's budget, he is just shifting the battlefields and he's writing new oil and gas leases in environmentally sensitive areas.
All the governments of the world are owned by the war toys industry and their co-dependent fossil fuel and mineral extraction industries. China's imperialist oligarchs have never really expanded much beyond their own borders, but they have always built a "silk road" to manipulate foreign powers economically. Beaten back into their own borders pretty decisively in the late 19th and early 20th century by the "F-UK-US" alliance that now includes the Zionist occupiers in Palestine and Wahhabist despots in Saudia Arabia, the 21st Century Silk Road has pretty much toppled America's dominance as a trading partner in most of the rest of the world, wisely investing in infrastructure over weaponry and expensive projections of force in multiple theaters.
Unfortunately, their technology and ways of inhabiting the world are just as unsustainable as ours and they tend to commit genocide against other cultures living within their borders, creating their own version of the complacent wage slave. They have to install nets around factories to keep workers from killing themselves jumping out of windows. They probably should legalize cannabis. American wage slaves are happier than ever.
As the song said, nobody can be right when everybody is wrong. The imposition of will on others without their consent is wrong and mankind has been doing it all wrong since they decided to start growing their own food and building cities, thousands of years ago. In all those thousands of years, little has changed for the warmongering sex fiends who take charge besides the sophistication of population management methodology and the efficacy of the implements of mass murder.
Otherwise, the world is cantonized into church/state fiefdoms in constant competition for the domination of the world's supply chains and there have only been a few dozen families in control of the logistics of resource utilization and distribution the whole time. The bloody footprints of Great Pirate families (Buckminster Fuller. Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth) such as Borgia, DeMedici, Guggenheim, DeBeers, Morgan and Rothschild are plain as day in Post-Columbian historical records. The only reason the NWO cartel has never been able to solidify their hegemony is because there's too much infighting for the top spot, yet the Rothschild's own the central banks in over a 100 countries. They're present in China too, but the party owns the central bank.
Fuller mistakenly theorized that the Great Pirates went extinct with the American and French revolutions and the rise of the so-called constitutional democratic republic, but they really just morphed into billionaire CEOs and megachurch pastors, manipulating everything from behind the curtain. It really seems like the only thing that's going to convince these greedy, stupid people is for us to eat one or two of them in a live stream. The rest of them will no doubt get in line and put their money into projects building everything back green from Main Street up, rather than Wall Street down. I vote for Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Bezos is the only one who is actually self made and the idea for Amazon was actually his ex-wife's. The rest come from old money and Gates is a perfect example of a genocidal psychopath from a long line of genocidal psychopath bourgeoisie who originated in central England, were among the early Massachusetts Bay Colony colonizers and were leaders of the western expansion and genocide of the original people of the Pacific Northwest.
Up until 245 years ago and the Industrial Revolution spearheaded by the American oil and steel magnates, fulfilling their Manifest Destiny, Mother Nature was able to pretty much heal herself without too much fuss from the scars of warfare and the monoculture of humans, their plants and animals on cemented over wetlands, plowed under grasslands, clear cut forests and dredged from the ocean floor. In that time, human industry has modified over three quarters of the planet's surface and caused the extinction of two thirds of it's flora and fauna. An ecosystem's stability, in terms of resilience to extreme weather, tectonic and volcanic events, is proportional to it's diversity.
We are the only species on the planet that sells resources to each other and commit mass murder to protect their sources. Predator capitalists, of both the American style and the Chinese oligarchs calling themselves communists have become an invasive species threatening the entire biosphere, We cannot kill the planet before it will kill us. The tornados in the Midwest this week were just a harbinger of things to come. The people of every developed nation need to stand up and demand a global cease fire and immediate greening of everything. More important than reducing emissions, we need to make huge efforts to restore indigenous biodiversity to our residential centers and agricultural lands or Mother Nature will do it for us, as we witnessed in Kentucky last week.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/US-China-Trade-War-Shareable.jpg
Great piece, I would suggest Simon Tisdall read Caitlin. I don’t think he is lying, conscious of what he is doing. I don’t think of his position as manipulation. I think he is fully indoctrinated in this stuff and he is telling his truth.