Category Archives: CN politics

The rape of Burma proceeds full-bore …

View Larger Map Massive Land Confiscation for Copper Mine Over 7,800 acres of farmland in Salingyi Township, Sagaing Division, has been confiscated for a copper mine project with landowners forced out of their villages, according to local sources. A number … Continue reading

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Human rights? … depends

Details emerge of China activist’s escape The president tries to “balance our commitment to human rights” while continuing “to carry out our relationships with key countries overseas,” John Brennan, Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, said on Fox News. In China, the … Continue reading

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Which country is more threatened by its “extractive elites”?

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Sino/Thai Power Players wreak dam havoc

Firms Look Abroad to Plunder SEA Rivers Corporations owned by governments are at the heart of a relentless push to build hydro-electric dam systems in Southeast Asia. Three of the biggest corporations involved are China’s Sinohydro Corporation, the China Power … Continue reading

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It can happen here…

View Larger Map China’s rebel village holds council polls Unlike the many flare-ups over land grabs and corruption across China every year, Wukan residents have now moved beyond organised protest to organised politics in a bid to win back illegally … Continue reading

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The brutal ‘communist’ plutocratic dictatorship in the PRC

21 December Wukan: China’s Rebel Village Chinese village protest gains wide support It is not only in the Arab World, in Greece and Europe, and even in the USA that the people are being pushed to the wall by the … Continue reading

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The way I used to love you baby, that’s the way I hate you now

The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism As the Asian Development Bank Institute indicated in a 2010 study of iPhone production: “It is almost impossible [today] to define clearly where a manufactured product is made in the … Continue reading

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The ‘natural’ development of capitalism in the Plutocrats’ Republic of China

View Larger Map Deadly accident at illegal Chinese mine Hundreds of rescuers have descended into an illegally operated coal mine to search for 23 Chinese miners trapped by a gas leak that killed 20 others, in the country’s second deadliest … Continue reading

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413 USA billionaires – billionaires PRC 600

America: The land of poverty The census bureau figures that came out Tuesday, showing the largest number of Americans living in poverty since records began in 1959, are a damning indictment of American capitalism and the entire political system. In … Continue reading

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