In this blog I write about world affairs, presenting a view of the world free from NATO propaganda.
Peace Anthropology and Development Anthropology and History are the tools with which I analyze international affairs, as part of a world-wide web of people working for peace through Transcend, UNIDIR and other agencies. Terrorism? This is largely political propaganda: my EPES Mandala Consulting group specialized in “terrorism” and far more people die each year from road accidents or from the flu, than from terror attacks. A lot of news is fear-mongering and most comes from a small number of corporate and government sources. Investigative journalists are a threatened species.
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
The Nonzero Newsletter by Robert Wright criticizes David Sanger at the New York Times for orienting the US-China meeting towards a specific aggression interpretation of China’s actions. While it is clear that China flexing its muscles in the seas around its coastline, any world map of US and Chinese military bases would show very easily that it is the US that has surrounded China, and not the other way around.
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