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War Will Do China Good

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  The US Empire has spoken: China poses an existential threat to American global hegemony and must be subjugated at all costs.  The wrath of the world overlord, which has descended on China since 2017, continues unabated. With bipartisan congressional support, the White House under Trump and Biden has waged trade wars, wielded an avalanche of sanctions, rallied its allies in Europe, Asia, and Oceania, and conducted relentless smearing campaigns worldwide, with no end in sight. Taking it up a notch, Biden has been actively preparing for war against China. He crafted the AUKUS security pact with Australia, which will receive eight nuclear powered submarines, gained access to military bases in the Philippines, and promoted military cooperation between Japan and South Korea. Rather than cower in fear, China should embrace military confrontations with the US and its allies, under the right circumstances. Undoubtedly, the costs and risks associated with the use of force are high, but the pot

Profiting From Genocides and Land Grabs: US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

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The four former British colonies—Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the US (CANZUS)—stand tall on the world stage. They champion the Western values of freedom, human rights, and justice in their global crusades against autocracy. Sharing a common culture and language, they have come to incarnate the supreme form of human government. Despite the effusive praise for CANZUS, the dominant narrative ignores some ugly truths, those of intercontinental invasions, continental genocides, and continuous exploitation of stolen land. In all four countries, colonists and governments proceeded with systematically wiping out the Indigenous peoples. Once roaming the vast expanse of wilderness in the US, Indian tribes such as the Cherokee, Navajo, and Cheyenne were exterminated through warfare and diseases, while others went extinct. It is estimated that 12 million natives died between 1492 and 1900. The US federal government removed the Indigenous survivors from their lands and moved them to reservat