Perspicacious Chinese View of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute

    This Chinese view seems pretty perspicacious to me. The factor it omits to mention is the American angle in the background. Every time over the past 20 years that either Japan (e.g. under the Hatoyama and Kan governments 2010) or S.Korea have made efforts to develop better relations with China, some fracas has suddenly developed to throw the development off track, and behind...
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The China-Japan Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands

  I think a key in all this is the links between Governor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara and US rightwing circles. All the rapid escalation that is happening now, is the result of Ishihara’s speech at the Heritage Foundation in April 2012 where he first floated his idea of buying the islands for Tokyo. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Gavan-McCormack/3821 Troubled Seas: Japan’s Pacific and...
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SHINTARO ISHIHARA – A DANGEROUS INCENDIARY in the JAPAN-CHINA ISLANDS DISPUTE

    If we look back to March 2010 we see a much more hopeful scenario developing between Japan and China. Clearly, this was not perceived to be in the interests of rightwing forces in the Anglosphere (‘Anglo-sfear’)   So a certain question emerges, looking very similar to scaremongering arguments in the West over 100 years ago about whether Germany was trying to “drive a...
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Permanent injunction on Obama’s attempt to suspend habeas corpus

  A welcome victory for Chris Hedges. On 12th September Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruled that the temporary injunction she had placed in May 2012  on clause §1021 (b)(2)of  Obama’s infamous National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), which he had pushed through Congress in December 2011, a clause which in effect suspended habeas corpus in the USA, is to become a permanent injunction....
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Japan’s nuclear weapons

http://www.dcbureau.org/201204097128/national-security-news-service/united-states-circumvented-laws-to-help-japan-accumulate-tons-of-plutonium.html United States Circumvented Laws   To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of   Plutonium   “The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens...
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Chalabi II? ElBaradei II? Syria’s Bassma Kodmani and other “opposition activists”: CFR, BIlderberg assets

After Hilary Clinton’s aggressive and vicious comments the other day, when she reviled Russia and China and said they would “pay a price” for supporting the Assad regime in Syria, we see that those remarks appear to have been swifly followed by a suppsoed ‘massacre of civilians’ (Tremseh) and now (18th July) a suicide attack in downtown Damascus which kills...
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