That's illustrated in the best of the segments, an overpowering film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu of Mexico, best known for "Amores Perros." He keeps his screen entirely black for most of the 11 minutes, occasionally interrupting it with flashes of bodies falling from the burning World Trade Center. We realize after awhile that the muffled thuds on the soundtrack are the bodies landing.
PEKING: China’s decision announced yesterday [Jan 5] to open an Embassy in Chile will provide Peking a foothold on Latin America. In less than three months China has succeeded in establishing three diplomatic missions in the Western hemisphere, north, east and south of the United States: Ottawa, then Cuba and now Santiago.
Washington is now in a sense surrounded by the very regime which it had traditionally tried to isolate. A comment by the official “Hsinhua” (New China) News Agency yesterday hailed the “bankruptcy of the US overlord policy” in Latin America.
After President Salvador Allende had promised to establish diplomatic ties with all countries irrespective of their regimes, China responded by promptly sending two Central Committee members to the President’s inauguration. In his congratulatory message, Premire Chou En-lai called for “new developments” in relations between the two countries.
America Enters the Weimar Era The unravelling of American politics
By mid-February 2021, American deaths from COVID-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May, more Americans will have died from COVID-19 than during the Civil War, which killed 655,000, and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, when 675,000 are estimated to have perished.
Yet America’s largely self-inflicted COVID-19 disaster may be eclipsed by the US’s political unravelling, which has proceeded with warp speed in the last few weeks, with the once celebrated American way of succession in power via the ballot box dealt a body blow by a large sector of the electorate that has marched in lock step with their leader in refusing to accept the results of the presidential elections.