Matt Ridley | 10 Nov 2015 The abolition of China’s one-child policy brings to an end one of the most futile and inhumane experiments in top-down social engineering the world has seen. I say futile because it did not work. China’s birth rate roughly halved in the decade before the policy was introduced, then…
Sputnik | 10 Nov 2015 This week the “story” was of alleged systematic drug abuse in Russia’s sports. And the Western media are full of howling headlines impugning Russia for running a “state-sponsored” doping program among its athletes. The unverified findings have swiftly led to predictable calls for the Russian authorities to be sanctioned and even for its athletes to be banned from next year’s Olympic…
Moon of Alabama | 11 Nov 2015 On October 30 an international conference on Syria agreed on a framework for ending the conflict in Syria. The communiqué states: While substantial differences remain among the participants, they reached a mutual understanding on the following:1) Syria’s unity, independence, territorial integrity, and secular character are fundamental. … 6)…
Eric Zuesse | 11 Nov 2015 On Saturday November 7th, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, who had started his career at the Defense Department during the Reagan Administration as an aide to then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Cold-Warring against the communist nations U.S.S.R. and China, delivered a speech saying, “We are in the middle…
TWSP | 11 Nov 2015 The anti-democratic nature of the aggressive and oppressive NATO alliance is once again on display in Portugal, as a reactionary minority government headed by Prime Minister Coelho fell from power today thanks to opposition from the larger anti-austerity and anti-NATO leftist coalition. NATO is now revealed as the prison house…
The Canary | 6 Nov 2015 A BBC journalist, John Darvall, has lambasted his own career at the BBC. The insensitive way the tragic death of his daughter, Polly, has been handled by several outlets led him to lay bare his thoughts about the BBC and the British media industry as a whole, in a…
Counter Punch | 11 Nov 2015 The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) achieved its greatest victory in the four year-long war on Tuesday when it recaptured the strategic Kuweires military airbase in North Syria. Hundreds of ISIS terrorists were killed in intense fighting while hundreds more were sent fleeing eastward towards Raqqa. The victory was announced just hours after…
Prison Planet | November 11, 2015 Deborah Lee James, secretary of the United States Air Force, admitted on Tuesday the end game for Syria: occupation and governing Syrians who have not fled to Europe. James said “air power” (i.e., bombing) “can’t do everything” and it “cannot occupy territory and very importantly it cannot govern territory,…
CBC | 11 Nov 2015 Alberta health officials say vaccine problems could be partly to blame for two long-standing outbreaks of whooping cough in the province. “In some cases the vaccine may be waning, so the protective effect may wear off just before kids get their Grade 9 booster,” said Dr. Digby Horne, central Alberta’s chief medical officer. “And in some cases there is…
Tech Insider | 11 Nov 2015 The US government is unwavering in its support of the annual flu vaccine. “The single best way to protect against the flu is to get vaccinated each year,” the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, says in bold letters on its website. But researchers are concerned…