Published: February 24, 2023
Written by: Patrick Wen Rui Leong

"As the world’s largest coal producer and consumer, China knows that its reliance on coal must be curbed if it is serious about its commitment to peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. Although growing concerns about national energy security are fueling a short-term increase in coal output and power, any net-zero pathway for China will require a phase-down, if not a total phase-out, of coal."

Published: March 11, 2023
Written by: Mersiha Gadzo

"China’s efforts in brokering a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been seen by analysts as broader signs of a “changing global order”.
During talks in Beijing on Friday, Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies within two months. The agreement also stipulated affirming 'the respect for the sovereignty of states and the non-interference in internal affairs of states'."

Published: April 7, 2022
Written by: Daniel Bessner

"The Iraq War was overdetermined in that tensions between the U.S. and Iraq were rooted fundamentally in Iraq’s perceived challenge to U.S. regional dominance. Consequently, in the “unipolar moment,” a U.S. effort to change the regime in Baghdad was bound to occur after some spark, such as the September 11 attacks, set it in motion.
Today, a similar desire to sustain dominance in Asia places the U.S. on a collision course with China. To avoid war with China, policy elites must reconceive their commitment to primacy and recognize that the United States will not be able to dictate terms in its relations with others in an emergent multipolar world."

Published: March 10, 2023
Written by: David Rovics

"Unlike the propagandists that publish most of the textbooks that we brainwash our children with in the US, reality-based historians have oft observed that the history of civilization is a history of the ongoing conflict between the haves and the have-nots, the rich and the poor, the ruling class and those they would like to rule.  One of the main factors that continually makes this conflict a very dynamic one that is forever unfolding in new ways is the obvious inequity of the whole thing, with a small class of rulers, owners, and landlords always trying to control a very large majority of subjects, workers and tenants.  In order to maintain such a state of constant inequality, particularly in severely unequal societies/empires like the United States, strategies of divide and rule are always in play, whether we’re talking about maintaining domestic tranquility, or running the global American empire."