Article Archive for 3 December 2012
By Christian Gomez, The New American On November 25, 2012, China’s Xinhua state news agency reported that China successfully landed a J-15 fighter jet on its only aircraft carrier, the Liaoning CV-16. Earlier this year, while addressing the National People’s Congress, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stressed the importance of enhancing its military in order to [...]
The Watcher’s Council Every week on Monday morning, the Council and invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum with short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: The Fiscal Cliff: Let it happen or Grand Bargain? For those of you whom may not be aware, ‘the Fiscal cliff’ refers to [...]
New Zealand troops and taxpayer’s money have been employed for several years to build former Portuguese colony, East Timor, into a self supporting independent nation. I’ve reported here and here, how Cuba has been exploiting our good work, for their own purposes. Now it appear that China is moving in. From TV3 News: The New [...]
The US left is preparing to get militant. Their friend, Barack Obama, is about to get some pressure from below to give him the excuse he needs to do what he wants to do anyway. Bill Fletcher, Jr. of Democratic Socialists of America, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, founder of Progressives for Obama and a long [...]
