Economics

US vs. China in Laos: Two Nations, Two Approaches, One Obvious Difference

The United States has elected to lock itself in a zero-sum conflict with China, attempting to stop China’s inevitable rise as the world’s largest, most powerful economy and thus nation. The narrative the US employs to justify political, economic, and even military measures it is targeting China with, revolves around US claims that China’s rise […]

China and the US Continue to Compete for Influence in Africa

Africa is a vast continent, rich in resources of every kind – in addition to its famous diamond mines and hydrocarbon deposits, it has 50% of the world’s gold reserves, and 90% of its reserves of platinum, cobalt, chrome and other minerals required by modern manufacturing industries. And the continent’s vast and largely very poor […]

Rocketing Energy Prices Were Part Of The Plan All The Time

By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | January 29, 2022 https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/sixth-carbon-budget/ The above excerpt comes from the CCC’s Sixth Carbon Budget. It shows conclusively that high energy prices have always been the official policy, in order that expensive renewables are made viable. EU carbon prices have already risen from 32 […]

Biden Regime Escalates War on Supply Chains

By Stephen Lendman | January 30, 2022 Effective on January 22, the Biden regime’s Department of Homeland Security ordered the following: “(N)on-US individuals seeking to enter the US via land ports of entry and ferry terminals at the US-Mexico and Canada  borders  (must) be fully (jabbed) for (flu/covid) and provide related proof” of kill shots gotten. The draconian mandate does not […]

China’s Belt & Road Already Delivering for Southeast Asia

The West’s propaganda campaign against China is attempting to convince the world that Beijing and its policies pose a global threat. China is accused of everything from presenting an outright military threat to its neighbors and the world, to sinisterly trapping nations in debt for infrastructure projects the West insists are unnecessary in the first […]