Contempt for the Arab population is deeply rooted in Zionist thought. — Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians, 1983, 2015. This is the holiday season for various groups of people. Some people will celebrate Xmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc during the winter season. Others will celebrate just because celebrating is […]
This week’s News on China. • Syrian president returns to China after almost 20 years • 19th Asian Games started in Hangzhou • Particle accelerator to produce semiconductors • ‘Comfort women’ film debuts in Japan
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (7/15/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth Read More...
This week’s News on China. • Alibaba Cloud will broadcast 2024 Olympics • Taiwanese leader’s popularity slumps • World’s largest hydro-solar power plant • Village basketball and football championships
It all began with baseball. I was growing up in the 1940s in Rochester, N.Y., a farm team for the St. Louis Cardinals. I couldn’t get enough of them in the first newspaper I ever read, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The instant it came I grabbed the sports pages, flopped myself down on the […]
Profligate, a betrayal of public service, a misspending of state goods, a fiscal barbarism. By any estimation, recent efforts regarding sport in the small Australian state of Tasmania, unmoored from the mainland, distant, and, in many ways, depressed, has become the unexpected centre of a debate: Why on earth should the public purse at both […]
My title comes from a 19th century author whose name does not matter nor would it mean much if I mentioned him. It’s an old truth that has not changed a bit over the centuries. I think, however, it would be more linguistically accurate to say that most people want to be deceived, for the […]
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This week’s News on China in 2 minutes. • Bolivia and China agreement for CBC consortium to mine lithium • 892 million trips for the Chinese new year • Extension of rights for migrant workers • The challenges of football in China
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Most people have heard capitalism described unerringly as the “law of the jungle” and a “dog-eat-dog world.” The pathos of capitalism is currently playing out in Vancouver, where grown-up millionaires are playing a kids’s game called hockey. Professional sports serve as a microcosm of rampant capitalism — a, perhaps necessary, distraction for the masses. Many […]
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