China

China’s grade on US’ democracy: (F-)

The State of Democracy in the United States: 2022 2023-03-20 10:00 Contents I. Preamble II. American democracy in chronic ills 1. American democracy in further decline 2. Political polarization intensified by partisan fights 3. Money politics surged 4. “Freedom of speech” in name […]

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What’s blocking the antiwar movement?

A series of short pieces on building an antiwar movement in the US. One that can end the war in Ukraine. While we are at it, let’s also stop future war with China. How about end the economic wars of sanctions and embargos. Curtail electronic wars of hacking? Let’s also prevent a cold war. Then we can commit to global arms reduction. No nukes! Start closing down all 800 foreign military bases. How about we end the CIA and all the other shady things we do in other nations? Retire all the aircraft carrier fleets. Then we can ban drone wars, avoid clone wars and stop star wars! Finally stop Skynet before it starts. […]

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Targeted by whom?

I was targeted on Veterans Day. Waking up that day I discovered two truck tires flat. It was lucky that it was a holiday or I’d have missed my morning school bus driving route. Examining […]