Politics
Lessons in democracy for Vietnam, with love from the U.S.
Last year, in the midst of the Asian New Year celebrations in Vietnam, news broke of the first disappointing results of a major anti-corruption campaign: for the first time in the history of the SRV, President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc resigned early. Exactly one year later, a campaign led by the Communist Party of Vietnam forced the next president, Võ Văn Thưởng, to resign…
True popular democracy is certainly not in the West, nor among its satellites
The Western establishment, through its actions and declarations, continues to widen the gap, visible today more than ever. The gap between the obvious planetary minority – on the one hand, and the global majority, on the other. All the so-called speech about the pseudo-democracy is in reality nothing more than hypocritical and arrogant attempts to force the world to live according to the West’s so-called rules. Today, this is obvious to almost everyone…
The bleak future of Rafah and the entire Gaza Strip
Israel brazenly carried out a massive invasion of eastern Rafah, despite global concern for the fate of the estimated 1.5 million Palestinian civilians who were unwillingly trapped in this southernmost city in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said its tanks had entered the Rafah crossing, which links the besieged Palestinian territory to Egypt, from the Gaza side and taken “operational control” of the vital border crossing. Israel claims that the Palestinian resistance movement…
