Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been jailed since May 2020 after filming and reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic from Wuhan. Chinese human-rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has long defended activists and the civil rights of religious minorities, has been “disappeared” since 2017. What point of leverage could the world use to compel the Chinese Communist…
Getting Answers From China on Its ‘Disappeared Dissidents:’ Is China in Economic Crisis?
December 4, 2021
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Volunteers Try to Save Starving Buffalos on Brazil Farm Where 500 Died
BROTAS, Brazil—A group of volunteers has been trying to save hundreds of buffalos that police say were abandoned on a Brazil dairy farm, where as many as 500 have already died of hunger, according to people involved in the effort. Environmental police in the town of Brotas, some 150 miles (250 kilometer) from the capital…
Republic of Barbados: Politicians’ Coup as Spectre of the CCP Lurks
December 3, 2021
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Commentary Australia’s so-called republicans, and those in the Queen’s fifteen realms, including the United Kingdom, would be foolish to take much solace from the constitutional change rammed through the Barbados Parliament by a political class who are clearly both wary and contemptuous of the their own people. Australia’s republicans tried the same thing in Australia…
How China Exported ‘Pandemic Tyranny’ to the World; Side-Effects of Stripping Away People’s Rights
December 2, 2021
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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin In certain aspects, China’s early “handling” of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak—in particular, its draconian lockdowns—set the tone for the erosion of civil liberties continuing across the world in the name of “pandemic response.” In this episode, I’m joined by…
Latin America’s Vaccine Rejection Stems From Sterilization, Experiments
In Latin America, vaccine resistance efforts persist despite continued pressure for governments to vaccinate populations against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Low vaccination rates, in part, are the result of a history of forced sterilizations and unethical medical experimentation, which has created distrust of Western medical initiatives by indigenous populations. In Peru and Bolivia, indigenous women of the Andes…
Emerging Markets Face a ‘Double Whammy’ in 2022, Citi Says
December 1, 2021
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LONDON—Emerging markets will face a “double whammy” in 2022, caught between limited growth and reduced risk appetite as a result of monetary tightening, David Lubin, head of emerging markets economics at Citi, said on Wednesday. “EM growth will suffer for a variety of reasons to do with weakening external demand growth, lower global trade growth,…
US No Longer Sees Colombian FARC as Terrorist Organization
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Nov. 30 the guerrilla group known as the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC) is no longer designated as a terrorist organization. The decision comes five years after a peace agreement between the group and the Colombian government in 2016. Blinken said that designations of two new terrorist…
US No Longer Lists Colombia’s FARC as Terrorist Organization
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Nov. 30 that the United States no longer designates the guerrilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, as a terrorist organization. The decision comes five years after a peace agreement between the group and the Colombian government in 2016. Blinken said the…
Brazil, Japan Confirm First Cases of Omicron Variant, South Korea Reports First Suspected Cases
Brazil, Japan, and South Korea reported their first cases of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes the COVID-19 disease on Tuesday. The news come the same day as Dutch scientists confirmed the Omicron variant had been circulating in the Netherlands prior to its detection in South Africa on Nov….
US Judge Sentences Wife of Mexican Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ to Three Years in Prison
WASHINGTON—A U.S. judge sentenced the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to three years in prison on Tuesday, after she pleaded guilty to helping the Sinaloa drug cartel. Before her sentencing in a federal court in Washington, Emma Coronel Aispuro, 32, pleaded with U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras to show her…
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