Day: October 13, 2022

Western Media Rely on Dubious Sources in Smears Directed Against China

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Thursday, 13 October 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By Felix Abt

Inside 'The Epoch Times,' a Mysterious Pro-Trump Newspaper - The Atlantic[Source: theatlantic.com]

Much of the disinformation is drawn from the dissident Falun Gong sect whose leaders believe that aliens brought science to the world so they could take control of human bodies.

By now, everyone in the West should know that there is mass slave labor in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where Muslim Uyghurs live. The slaves have to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and without pay. Worse, they are not even Uyghurs, but foreigners, and Americans at that. The inhumane owners of the cotton farms, most of whom are Uyghurs themselves, force American John Deere machines to do unlimited slave labor on their 90% automated farms.

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Two potentates meet up at St. Petersburg

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Wednesday, 12 October 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
A 19th century painting of Konstantinovksy Palace, St. Petersburg

There was something profoundly meaningful that the President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan undertook a visit to Russia amidst the gathering storms in Ukraine. Conscious of the symbolism, Russian President Vladimir Putin received Sheikh Mohammed on Tuesday in a grand setting befitting a monarch — at the gorgeous Konstantinovksy Palace in St. Petersburg whose heritage dates back to Peter the Great, a symbol of the revival of Russia and its cultural heritage.

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When Will the Stars Shine Again in Burkina Faso?: The Forty-First Newsletter (2022)

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Thursday, 13 October 2022 — The Tricontinental

Wilifried Balima Burkina Faso Les Trois Camarades 2018 768x768Wilfried Balima (Burkina Faso), Les Trois Camarades (‘The Three Comrades’), 2018.

Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

On 30 September 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré led a section of the Burkina Faso military to depose Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power in a coup d’état in January. The second coup was swift, with brief clashes in Burkina Faso’s capital of Ouagadougou at the president’s residence, Kosyam Palace, and at Camp Baba Sy, the military administration’s headquarters. Captain Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho declared on Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB), the national broadcast, that his fellow captain, Traoré, was now the head of state and the armed forces. ‘Things are gradually returning to order’, he said as Damiba went into exile in Togo.

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