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May 16 2026 
‘Argentina Stopped’: Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity
A family sleeps in front of a closed office building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next to posters calling for a general strike against President Javier Milei’s cuts and privatizations. (Photo: dpa)
Common Dreams
“It is a day of resistance and demand,” said trade groups that organized the action “in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the living… Continue reading
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May 16 2026 
Bolivians Declare a General Strike Against Their President
Indigenous movements in Bolivia are mobilizing against a land rights law, which they fear could be setting into motion the dissolution of their collective lands.
Olivia Arigho-Stiles – Jacobin
In Bolivia, the unions representing miners and peasants have declared an indefinite strike, seeking the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. They are protesting a new law that undermines… Continue reading
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May 15 2026 
Zionism Has Poisoned the UK’s Central Nervous System
Craig Murray
Unquestioning Zionism has for decades been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment. Anybody who was not a fully certified and compliant zionist would find their career limited – as Jeremy Corbyn, Alan Duncan, Robin Cook and David Mellor all found. Most others, of course, were never allowed to progress that… Continue reading
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May 13 2026 
The Emperor has no clothes and no cards
© Photo: SCF
Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture
Business Shanghai is not exactly impressed by the arrival of the Emperor of Barbaria.
SHANGHAI – China’s powerhouse moves on like a speed-breaking EV. The atmosphere is electric. At a business dinner in a landmark Cantonese restaurant, Trump’s visit to China at least propels the conversation towards something more tangible:… Continue reading -
May 12 2026 
‘Gray Rhino’ of Japan’s Remilitarization is Running Toward Us, Chinese FM Warns Amid Tokyo’s Security Policy Shift
Global Times
The “gray rhino” of Japan’s remilitarization is running toward us. Many international experts, scholars and media have noted that Japan has abandoned pacifism, and is undergoing its most dangerous shift in military and security policy since WWII, posing great threats to peace and stability in the region and beyond, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo… Continue reading
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May 12 2026 
Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?
Global Research
Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Port Said, 5 November 1956.Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between… Continue reading
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May 12 2026 
‘Ways of War’ Are in Metamorphosis: Lessons from the Iran War
Alistair Crooke at Strategic Culture © Photo: Public domain
A U.S. carrier no longer induces fear as once it might have; It now radiates vulnerability.
Although the Iran war largely has been viewed through the lens of conventional western warfare, its lessons are anything but conventional. They are in fact insurrectionary.The post-war western approach (especially in… Continue reading
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May 10 2026 
Join Evelyne and Me for a Mother’s Day Calligraphy Class, Learning Oracle-Bone Characters That Trace a Woman’s Life.
Eight Images Fully Explained and Translated. Stupendously Fascinating!
Radio Sinoland
Introduction
One common feature of Mother’s and Father’s Day in China is the children thank their parents for all that they do, as shown in the picture below. The two big red characters to the left, 感恩 = gǎn ēn, mean “grateful and thankful”. Below is the Mandarin,… Continue reading -
May 09 2026 
Russia to Show no Mercy if Nazis Try to Disrupt Victory Day Celebrations – Lavrov
From Tass News Agency
“Problems continue to pile up every day, created by those who have turned Zelensky into the direct instrument and the tip of the spear of the aggression against Russia,” the Russian foreign minister added
MOSCOW, May 8. /TASS/. Moscow will respond without mercy if Nazis try to disrupt Victory Day celebrations in Russia,… Continue reading
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May 09 2026 
Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End
The New Atlas
Brian Berletic – The prospect of US war against Iran and around the globe continuously escalating in the near to intermediate future is inevitable because the wars taking place now are being fought specifically to prepare for a future confrontation with China itself. For this reason, the prospects of the US arriving at… Continue reading
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May 07 2026 
Chinese Explorers Surveyed Western United States in 2,250BC
Jeff J. Brown at Radio Sinoland
No Joke! Charlotte Harris Rees has the map and written Emperor’s records that prove it. Ian Hudson at 1421 Foundation concurs!
I saw the article in the South China Morning Post, referenced below, about how the Chinese beat Westerners to North America during the voyages of Zheng He, in the 15th century.… Continue reading -
May 06 2026 
US Pressing Others to Help Reopen Hormuz is to Socialize Liability of Its Self-Made Trouble
China’s Diplomacy
This is an editorial from China Daily.
History’s recurring lesson is that great powers often mistake ultimatums for rational strategy. The Middle East crisis offers another tutorial on that error.
United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pressed allies in Europe and Asia to contribute to a US-led effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, arguing… Continue reading
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May 05 2026 
Who’s the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ in China-Latin America Cooperation? The US should look in the mirror.
By Global Times
On April 27, US Ambassador to Peru Bernie Navarro drew an unprovoked comparison between China and the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood – the fairy-tale villain who deceives and devours the weak under a mask of goodwill – in a deliberate attempt to smear China’s cooperation with Peru and other… Continue reading
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May 05 2026 
Israel Has Kidnapped Two of Our Most Important Pro-Palestine Activists
Two foreign activists – Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek – from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were brought to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May the 3rd (Photo by Ilia Yefimovichvia Getty Images).
Chris Hedges – The Chris Hedges ReportNothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than… Continue reading
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