No matter what the Chinese government does to erase the massacre of the democratic protests that fateful June 4, 1989, the world will not fo...

trump is still obsessed with tariffs , even after all the economic chaos he's inflicted over the last three months. Unhinged [image or ...

I continue to say this: China should be free.  To the Tank Man, if you're still out there : I owe you a tea lunch.

I have on this blog since the rise of donald trump as a corrupt political force of doom documented how much of what trump was doing was out ...

Tiananmen Square in 1989 From Reuters (Jessie Pang and Ben Blanchard): Hong Kong police searched and detained scores of people on Sunday , f...

Still working on the -Isms book at the moment, but I needed to take care of a few items. The big story - almost literally - over the past w...

Gets to you, doesn’t it? That’s what a reckoning sounds like. You want it to stop, but it just keeps coming. It’s when it stops, that’s whe...

Another June 4th, another round of China squelching protestors out of fear (via AP News by way of NPR). Heavy police force patrolled Hong K...

'Tis the season for wishes and hopes as the winter solstice brings 2021 to a close. And I look out upon this world with all this going o...

( Update : Many thanks to Infidel753 for including this article on Crooks&Liars ' Mike's Blog Round-Up ! Please take the time to...

I woke up this morning to reports of the US Embassy in Baghdad under siege by protesters angered up by recent military strikes on Shiite st...

Christ, this day (via Fred Imbert at CNBC ): Stocks plunged on Friday after President Donald Trump ordered that U.S. manufacturers find ...

The months-long protests in the Chinese province of Hong Kong has moved to a more chaotic stage, with the protesters taking over the interna...

Back in 1989, by this date June 4, the democracy protests in China had been going on for a month or so. A combination of college-age, lab...

So this is a story that's been percolating for awhile, and I've only gotten around to writing about it because the plot twists are g...

Lessee: The trump trade war against China is escalating, and while Wall Street is doing what it can to send up the red flags - by sliding ...

Lemme see if I can show you how today's stock markets are looking right about now (1 PM EDT): Granted, the markets can still reboun...