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Photograph Source: kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch You don’t hear much about it in the U.S., but Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative is a big deal in the Global South. That’s because it has installed infrastructure from airports to railways to ports to hospitals in poor countries with no other way to get such things. BRI also links Asia, Europe, Africa and even Latin America in an expansive, useful transportation and trade network. For a developing nation, what’s ...

Photograph Source: MattysFlicks – CC BY 2.0 By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) Mark Twain famously quipped that everyone always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it. (This was before global warming.) In the same vein, it is common for people to rant about billionaires, like Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk, controlling major media outlets and using them to advance their political whims. But, no one seems to do anything about it. There is a reason for inaction. For the

The Japan-US-Korea alliance (JAKUS) fuels the danger of war in the Asia-Pacific as part of the quest for a US-led unipolar world.

In the first 9/11 the U.S. was the protagonist and in the second the victim

Photograph Source: Susan Ruggles – CC BY 2.0 By W.T. Whitney / Counter Punch At a meeting in Havana on August 11 attended by government ministers and the press, Cuban National Assembly President Esteban Lazo communicated a message to Cuba’s Minister of Agriculture from the Assembly, whose recent session ended on July 22. The ministry would be “transforming and strengthening the country’s agricultural production,” to initiate “a political and participatory movement that would unleash ...

Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch Democratic presidents have a way of reaching out to undeserving Republicans to protect their domestic flanks on the right. Bill Clinton appointed James Woolsey to be the director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1993 in order to gain standing among national security conservatives. Barack Obama retained Robert Gates as secretary of defense in 2009 in order to appease Pentagon professionals. And now

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