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"The World Turned Upside Down"—a critical review (Part 1) This may be the most difficult book review to write. I have decided to break it into two parts. Writing it is difficult because one has to have huge admiration for Yang Jisheng, a former journalist, now a historian, who has amassed an incredible amount of information about the political maneuvering, personal relations, events and, most importantly,  victims of the Cultural Revolution and presented all of this in his new book “ The W...

AFP The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has allowed public access to the grave of Jiang Qing, former member of the Gang of Four and widow of late supreme leader Mao Zedong, ahead of its centenary on July 1. “This was sent to me by a friend mainland China, and I am forwarding it here," former CCP Party School professor Cai Xia, who now lives in the United States, said via her Twitter account on April 5, the traditional grave-tending festival where people make long journeys...

5 Apr 2021 Sunday on FNC’s “The Next Revolution,” host Steve Hilton opened his show with a call to take on so-called “wokeism,” a phenomenon he argued was being led by the country’s elite institutions. Hilton said it was something Americans must fight back against “wokeism” on levels of society, including at the local levels. Transcript as follows: HILTON: On this Easter Sunday, there’s a new religion stalking our land and it is rapidly becoming the dominant religion, certainl...

Opinion: Dalai Lama is still the “emperor” of Tibetan hearts Share on twitter His Holiness the Dalai Lama reaches Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh in 1959 following his ardous escape from Tibet (Photo:Tibet Museum) By Vijay Kranti nd anniversary of Dalai Lama’s daring escape from Tibet Many times, the direction of events taking on a special moment in the life an individual can give a new direction to the history and the destiny of nations. Dalai Lama’s dramatic escape to India on 30 th...

Antiwar.com Original The False Promise of Universal National Serviceby Doug Bandow Posted on War fires the imagination, especially of those who never suffered its horrors. Washington, D.C.’s faux heroes find nothing so courageous as sending other people off to fight and die in one grand cause or another. Of course, some professionals glory in death and gore, such as World War II’s Gen. George S. Patton. In his infamous speech to the Third Army he declared: "Men, all this stuff you hear abo...

Toward The Anniversary Of The Tiananmen Square Massacre – Unlike Mao And Deng, President Xi Will Not Allow Another Beijing Spring March 16, 2021 | By Prof. Vera Schwarcz Introduction Will there be a mass uprising for democracy again in Tiananmen Square this year? Probably not. This is because Chinese President Xi Jinping has learned key lessons from his predecessors, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) and Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997). Both Mao and Deng had dared to open periods of free thought during their...

The Dangers of the Growing ‘Snitch Culture’ in the US Has the US become a nation of snitches? Doug Casey: Without doubt, the US is transforming from a nation of whipped dogs into something much worse, a nation of squealing rats. It’s because fear is being used by the powers that be to “unite” the country, much the way the inmates of a prison are united. We’ve always had snitches, of course, starting with the silly little girls in Salem that turned in “witches” for keeping to the...

The fragility of Liberalism The aim of critical social justice theorists is to replace our current system with one that they themselves have socially engineered. Revolution, not equity of treatment, is their ultimate goal. 07 Mar 2021, 00:05 Liberalism is under attack. The attack is not coming from the supposed “superiority” of the Chinese model, authoritarian leaders like Turkey’s Erdogan or even the rise of right-wing populist movements in the West. These pale by compar...

The red and the black Black American radicals once forged links with Chinese communists Now only echoes remain O N FEBRUARY 23RD, from a basement in Queens, New York, a little-known organisation announced that China would be receiving a special honour. “We present [the] People’s Republic of China with the H.R. 1242 Resilience Project W.E.B. Du Bois Award,” wrote the group’s president, Victor Mooney, in a letter to the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations. The award celebrates China�...

Bird Song of the Day From Peru, another tour de force. Macaulay supplies waveforms for each audio clip, which is a good way to sort for what might be interesting. Most bird species have similar waveforms for all the clips (differences come from other birds, or buzzing insects, or automobile noises). Not so the mockingbird! Most of the waveforms differm even within species! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is ...