National News
Labour MP’s anti-Chinese remarks ‘harm UK interests’
Global Times
A senior Labour MP is attempting to hype fabricated “forced labour” issues in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by reiterating his call for more scrutiny of Chinese cross-border e-commerce giant Shein’s possible London listing, which Chinese analysts debunked as politicising and instrumentalising human rights.
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Chinese ambassador visits Cambridge
by New Worker correspondent
Zheng Zeguang, the Chinese ambassador, went to the University of Cambridge last week for talks with its Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deborah Prentice and other academics as well as representatives from the Chinese student community.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
Scottish politicians marked the 10th anniversary of the 2014 independence referendum with the nationalists promising a “better tomorrow” when and if independence comes and Labour saying the “best days lie ahead” now they’re back in office in London.
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International News
The Crime is the Message: Why the Americans are sanctioning Russian media
by Ian DeMartino , Sputnik
On Friday, at a press conference announcing sanctions on Russian media including Sputnik, Russia Today (RT) and Novosti the Director of the US Global Engagement Centre, Jamie Rubin, cited the lack of support for the NATO proxy war in Ukraine among the Global South as a reason the action was taken. “
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Victims of the dictatorship
by María Josefina Arce, Radio Havana Cuba
A large part of Chilean society refuses to forget the tens of thousands of victims of the military dictatorship established in the country, after the coup 51 years ago against the Popular Unity government, presided over by Salvador Allende.
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US Imperialism: an accomplice, not a mediator
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
On 21st July 2006, nine days into the 34-day Israeli war on Lebanon that killed 1,200 people, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opined that “an immediate ceasefire without political conditions does not make sense”. In response to a journalist’s question at a press briefing, the secretary declared that she had “no interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel to the status quo ante”. In addition to manoeuvring to delay a ceasefire, the US also expedited shipments of precision-guided bombs to Israel to assist in the mass slaughter
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Features
The roof of the world
by Jerry Grey Global Times
A personal journey that defies Western narratives.
After almost 20 years living, working and travelling inside China, this was the first opportunity I'd had to visit Xizang, the modern name of Tibet. The trip was arranged by the Information Office of the Xizang Autonomous Region. Of the 30 or more personalities, social media influencers and delegates on the tour, I was the only foreigner. I consider myself to be very lucky to have the opportunity to visit Xizang and what I saw surprised me.
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A watershed in British politics
by John Maryon
BRITAIN has been in economic decline since it's empire started to collapse in the early 20th century. During the Second World War the country amassed debts in excess of £21billion and by 1947 this had risen to 238 per cent of GDP. A lack of investment has since led to the collapse of British industry. What had once been the workshop of the world saw factory after factory close, being un- able to compete with the research, innovation and automation in Japan and West Germany as their advanced, top quality and affordable products became widely available.
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The Media, the Full Truth and Western Fascism
by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, Pravda.Ru
We are in a dangerous place, where the term ‘fake news’ has been hijacked to censor out everything that does not follow the Global Thinking Project, which is basically a unilateral straight-line-on-a-map dogma defining how we should think.
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