The New York Times Struggles With Russian and Ukrainian Strawmen
Larry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989-1993, and CIA operations (1984-1989)
https://sonar21.com/the-new-york-times-struggles-with-russian-and-ukrainian-strawmen/
1945
Ukraine Needs a Miracle to Drive Russia’s Military Out of Kherson (actually 3 miracles, as Lt. Col. Davis notes in his analysis.)
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (USA ret.), Senior Fellow and Military Expert for Defense Priorities
MR Online
How the Pentagon dictates Hollywood storylines
Jonathan Cook
The Money Illusion
Changing of the guard (about Chinese population decline. Scott Sumner ignores the reason for the one-child policy in the first place— limiting population to a number China could reasonably feed. It was hardly an arbitrary decision at the time, as many suppose it to have been. It was a response to what China considered to be a looming insurmountable handicap, if not existential threat in the event of famine. As Sumner notes, China recently relaxed the policy but not abandoned it. Achieving self-sufficiency is important to China and even though mechanized agriculture has changed the supply-demand equation by increasing supply, population growth still needs to be limited to achieve its social, political and economic objectives of first-world status. It is actually a highly rational policy and plan to support it. with China aiming at first-world status in the foreseeable future and not the distant future, or never. India is digging itself a hole on the other hand. But the entire world faces a culling as a result of climate change, so all this is up in the air anyway.)
Scott Sumner | Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Russian Military Calls Kiev's Shelling of Zaporozhye NPP Nuclear Terrorism (If Ukraine is a hotbed of neo-Nazism, as evidence suggests, then it is by definition a terrorist state.)
RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
IAEA ‘alarmed’ over shelling at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
Ukraine Needs a Miracle to Drive Russia’s Military Out of Kherson (actually 3 miracles, as Lt. Col. Davis notes in his analysis.)
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (USA ret.), Senior Fellow and Military Expert for Defense Priorities
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/08/ukraine-needs-a-miracle-to-drive-russias-military-out-of-kherson/
The Vineyard of the Saker
The United States responded to Griner’s sentence by kidnapping a Russian
The Saker
The United States responded to Griner’s sentence by kidnapping a Russian
The Saker
http://thesaker.is/the-united-states-responded-to-griners-sentence-by-kidnapping-a-russian/
How the Pentagon dictates Hollywood storylines
Jonathan Cook
Originally at Middle East Eye
https://mronline.org/2022/08/06/how-the-pentagon-dictates-hollywood-storylines/
Changing of the guard (about Chinese population decline. Scott Sumner ignores the reason for the one-child policy in the first place— limiting population to a number China could reasonably feed. It was hardly an arbitrary decision at the time, as many suppose it to have been. It was a response to what China considered to be a looming insurmountable handicap, if not existential threat in the event of famine. As Sumner notes, China recently relaxed the policy but not abandoned it. Achieving self-sufficiency is important to China and even though mechanized agriculture has changed the supply-demand equation by increasing supply, population growth still needs to be limited to achieve its social, political and economic objectives of first-world status. It is actually a highly rational policy and plan to support it. with China aiming at first-world status in the foreseeable future and not the distant future, or never. India is digging itself a hole on the other hand. But the entire world faces a culling as a result of climate change, so all this is up in the air anyway.)
Scott Sumner | Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
https://www.themoneyillusion.com/changing-of-the-guard/
Russian Military Calls Kiev's Shelling of Zaporozhye NPP Nuclear Terrorism (If Ukraine is a hotbed of neo-Nazism, as evidence suggests, then it is by definition a terrorist state.)
https://sputniknews.com/20220806/russian-military-calls-kievs-shelling-of-zaporozhye-npp-nuclear-terrorism-1099343688.html
IAEA ‘alarmed’ over shelling at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
https://www.rt.com/news/560377-iaea-ukraine-nuclear-plant-shelling/
Jacobin
We Shouldn’t Underestimate the Incredible Danger Posed by the Taiwan Crisis (important backgrounder by an insider. Interesting he would be talking candidly to a "leftist" publication. He is clearly concerned with the dirction this is heading—or lack of direction.)
Consortium News
Big Chip in US-China Crisis (Was this the real reason for Pelosi's trip? Without bring Taiwan chip manufacturing, the US cannot reasonably confront China over Taiwan owing to the cost.)
Maria Ryan, associate professor in U.S. history, University of Nottingham
We Shouldn’t Underestimate the Incredible Danger Posed by the Taiwan Crisis (important backgrounder by an insider. Interesting he would be talking candidly to a "leftist" publication. He is clearly concerned with the dirction this is heading—or lack of direction.)
Branko Marcetic interviews Lyle J. Goldstein, director of the Asia Engagement program at Defense Priorities. Formerly, he served as research professor at U.S. Naval War College for 20 years. In that post, he was awarded the Superior Civilian Service Medal for founding and leading the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). His main areas of expertise include both maritime security and nuclear security issues. Major focus areas have also recently included the Arctic, as well as the Korean Peninsula. He has published seven books on Chinese strategy, including Meeting China Halfway (Georgetown UP, 2015). He speaks both Chinese and Russian and is currently writing a book on China-Russia relations. He has a PhD from Princeton, an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a BA from Harvard.
https://jacobin.com/2022/08/us-china-taiwan-crisis-pelosi-visit-nuclear-war/
Big Chip in US-China Crisis (Was this the real reason for Pelosi's trip? Without bring Taiwan chip manufacturing, the US cannot reasonably confront China over Taiwan owing to the cost.)
Maria Ryan, associate professor in U.S. history, University of Nottingham
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/05/big-chip-in-us-china-crisis/
3 comments:
A democratic society cannot impose a 'one child' policy.
Since China does not accept immigrants, they are less able to face demographic challenges in the future. Among Asian nations, Japan is further along this path.
I wonder if China is authoritarian enough to impose a compulsory 'two child' policy. Nah...
Homo sapiens doesn't have the wisdom to view procreation as a privilege subservient to longer term considerations, namely population control.
Russia getting bogged down in Ukraine. Tide might be turning?
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