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Three US-aided black ops that devastated Israel’s neighbors

Israel, with US help, quietly implemented three tech-based operations to lash out at neighboring countries: Iran, Lebanon and Syria. The operations were clever, ruthless, and outside international law. Jeffrey S Myers tells the incredible story. A STUDY OF THE TIMELINES leading to Israel's illegal attack on Iran reveals that the operation was planned long in…

4 days ago0Comments ByJeffrey Myers

China news Opinion

Why China has a father or ‘grandpa’ and the US has a commander-in-chief

Professor Wang Pei (汪沛教授), a young scholar at Hong Kong University, has recently published a new extended essay that draws on Jungian archetypes to investigate: “Hero and Father: Contrasting Leadership Styles in the USA-China Rivalry” (available here). AMERICA JUMPS THE RAILS Just over a year ago, at Fridayeveryday, I maintained that, “America bombs while China…

June 4, 20250Comments ByRichard Cullen

China news Opinion

Almost everything you read about the South China Seas dispute is wrong

China outrageously claims the WHOLE of the South China Seas with its nine-dash line! It does so, despite LOSING a UN court battle that ruled that the Philippines had sovereignty over the waters! Heard those arguments before? Such myths are printed everywhere, year after year. Now read what really happened. Pierre Herbst reports.…

May 15, 20250Comments ByPierre Herbst

China news Opinion

A hillbilly White House and the wisdom of peasants

In 2016, US Vice President JD Vance published a best-selling memoir entitled “Hillbilly Elegy”. Curiously, he explained on the Fox News network recently that China’s pivotal influence on American consumption was due to the US borrowing “money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture” (YouTube link here). Let's consider the sort…

April 23, 20250Comments ByRichard Cullen

Chinese history Hong Kong News Opinion

Today’s shifting allegiances reminds me a shocking true tale of wartime tragedy

HERE'S A SHOCKING TRUE STORY. Americans torpedo a ship. British victims are drowning. Japanese soldiers fire guns to kill survivors. Chinese fishermen come to the rescue. This unbelievable but true story is a complex real life incident. It took place more than 80 years ago, during World War II, but I was reminded of it…

April 22, 20250Comments Bykenneth Li

News Opinion

The dollar will stop being the global reserve currency. Watch everything change

THERE IS A GIANT problem that commentators are ignoring. The United States’ trade deficit is of incredible proportions and is only sustainable because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency – a status it is going to lose. The US trade deficit in 2024 was approximately 1.2 trillion dollars. GDP was approximately 30.1 trillion dollars.…

April 14, 20250Comments ByCraig Murray

Features News Opinion

America unhinged: it has become a danger to the world and itself

MORE THAN 15 MONTHS AGO, I explained how “America, itself, has verified that it is no longer a normal country” (see this link). Since I wrote that article, America’s grave political deformity has been stunningly ratified. NORMAL VS ABNORMAL Some Americans relish the idea of the US not being normal because they view it as…

April 3, 20250Comments ByRichard Cullen

Hong Kong News Opinion

US is sanctioning the Hong Kong people who stood up against violence

How do you react when brave investigators successfully arrest arsonists and bombmakers? Most people would be happy. If you're the US government, you punish Hong Kong police chiefs. If you're a western journalist, you look the other way. Grenville Cross reports. “GREAT POWER INVOLVES great responsibility,” said the former US president Franklin D Roosevelt.…

April 3, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

Rule of law in Hong Kong faces existential threats from the west

Once again, Hong Kong scored higher on the global legal index than many western countries. But our legal sector is under international attack, warned Grenville Cross, in this extract from this 14 March 2025 speech he gave to undergraduate lawyers at Chinese University of Hong Kong. OUR CITY FACES existential threats to its rule of…

March 19, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross

Hong Kong News Opinion

How Hong Kong’s solicitor group steered their ship through stormy waters

The actions of certain lawyers were a key reason why the months-long 2019 violent insurgency in Hong Kong hit the community so hard. But while a worrying number of barristers became hyper-politicized, the city's body of solicitors worked hard to keep the boat steady. Their professionalism deserves to be recognized, says Grenville Cross. …

March 13, 20250Comments ByGrenville Cross