The New (Cold?) War With China

[Share with Facebook] [Share with Twitter] [Share with LinkedIn] [More Share Options] [Like This] [The Fearless Voice of the American Left Since 1993] CounterPunch NEWS UPDATE 12-27-2016 [Donate][Today] [The New (Cold?) War With China] Alan Nasser on the global ambitions of China and the US. [The End of Arab Revolutions?] Robert Fisk asks; do the tragedies of Syria signal the end of Arab revolutions? [Syria and the Antiwar Movement] Judith Deutsch writes that the continued slaughter of people in Syria poses urgent questions for the fragmented Left. [Post-Truthers, Bullshiters and Politics] Kenneth Surin on backlash and surreal politics. [The Final Obama Doctrine] Edward Hunt on Obama's mounting body count. [Trump and the Phantom of Democracy] Nozomi Hayase on Trump, WikiLeaks and the democratizing power of the internet. [My Satirical Christmas Tweet] George Ciccariello-Maher on academic freedom and the backlash to his satirical tweet. [View all of CounterPunch's Recent Articles] Media of the Day [A Syrian Dissident on How a Fight Against a Dictator Became a Proxy War] Quote of the Day Jean Baudrillard: "America is powerful and original; America is violent and abominable. We should not try to deny either of these aspects, nor to reconcile them." [Dan Kovalik on] [CounterPunch Radio!] This week CounterPunch Radio host Eric Draitser sits down with Dan Kovalik to discuss recent developments in Colombia, and how that strategic US ally fits into the broader politics and geopolitics of Latin America. [Listen Today!] [Exclusively in the New Print Issue of CounterPunch] [Trump and The Failure of Identity Politics] Yvette Carnell explores the failure of identity politics; Mike Whitney dissects Trump's economic policy, which looks like the same old trickledown with a few troubling wrinkles; Chris Floyd charts the rise of Trump on the continuum of American politics; Jeffrey St. Clair dissects the Democrats' abandonment of the working class; Anthony DiMaggio reports on the street protests against Trump and Alena Wolflink examines how Trump's campaign hit all the right nerves. Plus: Jason Hirthler on whitewashing the crimes of empire; Joshua Frank on climate change and the future of the grizzly; Seth Sandronsky and Dan Berman on the struggle for workplace safety; Ruth Fowler on police violence and gentrification; Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark on the refugee crisis; Robert Hunziker on spiking radiation levels in the Pacific Ocean and much more. [Subscribe Today!] [SIGN UP for the email version of CounterPunch magazine and save 37%] What is a subscription? CounterPunch Magazine has exclusive articles for subscribers only, plus special features you can't find on our website. As an email subscriber you get discounts on books and everything else in the CounterPunch store. [Subscribe] STAY CONNECTED WITH COUNTERPUNCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA [Like us on Facebook] [Follow us on Twitter] CounterPunch, P.O. Box 228, Petrolia, CA 95558 [SafeUnsubscribe™ {EMAIL}] [Forward this email] | [Update Profile] | [About our service provider] Sent by [counterpunch@counterpunch.org] in collaboration with [Constant Contact] [Try it free today]