Empire managers: Putin invaded Ukraine! Public: Oh no! What should we do about it? Empire managers: Greatly increase military spending, work to weaken Russia, and censor dissenting opinions. Public: Wait, aren’t those things you’ve always wanted to do anyway? Empire managers: Hush. ❖ Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the western world than […]
When viewing the war in Ukraine one has the experience of reading the Western media and having to ask oneself, where do these people gather their information from? There is almost a complete detachment from the events on the ground and the way it is reported in the Western media. This is more readily apparent […]
The Two Sessions, part of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, held last week at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, were a pretty serious deal. Not only because the sessions set the framework for Beijing to confront serious economic challenges ahead. But also because of the stellar performance by Foreign Minister Wang […]
