- The Right to be Let Alone: What to Do When COVID Strike Force Teams Come Knocking by John W. and Nisha Whitehead from Global Research.
- The Fed Has Approved 3,576 Bank Mergers in 15-1/2 Years; Denied Zero. One Business Day after President Biden’s Executive Order Warns Against Bank Concentration, the Fed Approves Another Bank Merger. By Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
- Are the protests in Cuba a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism? by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left.
- New Great Game gets back to basics by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
- Belt & Road: The China-Laos-Thailand Corridor by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook.
Beyond derision across the Western media, Western governments have mobilised opposition groups in Thailand in a bid to oust the current government primarily because of its close and growing ties with China.
We can expect in the next several years for this opposition to intensify and for both them and their Western sponsors to resort to increasingly desperate tactics as these projects near completion.
If China’s regional ambitions are realised, this opposition along with Western condemnation will become irrelevant as the vast majority of people in the region will see with their own eyes the tangible benefits these projects afford them in their daily lives, rendering moot the well-funded propaganda campaign well underway trying to convince them otherwise.