AULD LANG SYNE Rod Stewart @ Stirling Castle 🥳
BANGSA MALAYSIA WORTH FIGHTING FOR? nathaniel tan
FALL OF MALACCA SULTANATE TO THE PORTUGUESE ○■○ 13-min
ROYAL COVID19 VACCINE sarawakreport
KLEPTOCRATIC UMNO limkitsiang.blog
WHY NOT THARMAN, ah?; SINGAPORE’S LEADERSHIP CRISIS sudhirtv
COALITION SWEEPS KERALA ELECTIONS peoples dispatch
THE ECONOMY
CAPITAL and IDEOLOGY socialeurope: an interview with Thomas Piketty
REVERSING THE ROTS K.Kathirgugan
DIGITAL TECH TRANSFORMING CHINA’S ECONOMY Yiping Huang, Peking University
PLATFORM CAPITALISM LSE Lit Fest 2017 DIGITAL LABOUR under PLATFORM CAPITAL (simple version): EXPANDED VERSION HERE storm
EU BACKS CHINA INVESTMENT DEALS scmp; Bloomberg; FINANCING INNOVATION IN CHINA eastasiaforum
MORE PAIN THAN GAIN: US-CHINA TRADE WAR HURT AMERICA brooking institution
US-CHINA TRADE WAR by Zhiming Long, Zhixuan Feng, Bangxi li and Rèmy Herrera: capitalist system would show that the extent of the inequalities between exchange countries can be found to depend on the differential in labor remuneration, lower at the periphery Global South than at the center…………………; DELINKING AMID NEW COLD WAR by Sit Tsui, Erebus Wong, Lau Kin Chi and Wen Tiejun : rejoined the United Nations in 1971, China was obliged to seek development within its own borders and thereby achieved some extent of delinking, as Samir Amin called it: a refusal to succumb to U.S.-eurocentric globalization and an embrace of a people’s agenda of development………FANSHEN anyone who wants to understand about the Chinese revolution of our time, the reading of this book is an absolute necessity – Joseph Needham, London Tribune; MOVING MOUNTAINS ONLINE CGTN ○■○ +29-minute
MALAYSIA-SINGAPORE TERMINATE HSR PROJECT thestar; Bloomberg; theedgemarkets; CHINA-LAOS RAIL
SABAH SAGA
SANDAKAN BECOMES GHOST TOWN thevibes
MAMUT MINE storm
SARAWAK SHELF
BIG CORPORATIONS BEHIND BIG CLUSTERS dayakdaily
NEGOTIATING SARAWAK’S RIGHTS theborneopost
DATUK ? Francis Paul Siah: newsarawaktribune
WORKERS AND WORKPLACES
RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN INDONESIA newmandala
MONKS MILITARY MYANMAR ○■○ 47:34-minute
Controversial art depicting the subjects of HALAL AND HARAM sparks honest dialogues
INDIA BIG NATIONAL STRIKE ○■○ 19:41-mon jacobin; ASSAM BANS ISLAMIC SCHOOLS theguardian
ANTI-ZIONIST & ANTI-SEMITISM ○■○ 10:24-min
ZERO CHINESE SCHOOL FUNDING sinchiew
NO MERRY XMAS ON CAKES & OTHER SILLY THINGS……… financetwitter
FLIGHT TO NOWHERE newmandala
WOMEN
PRESS AND FREEDOM
THAI YOUTH PROTEST eastasiaforum
JAKIM XMAS SPIRIT mariammokhtar
why-is-the-guardian-promoting- more-pentagon-propaganda
Remembering ABDUL KADIR and the heroic ‘Penang 20’ freedom fighters; four men who had been trained in Malaya to fight the British colonisers in India were hanged in Madras Jail exactly 77 years ago. This is their story…….
MALAYSIA CHINESE FILM-MAKERS ABROAD scmp
ECOLOGY THE ENVIRONMENT
THE IPCC REPORT
TIMOR-LESTE SUCCESS WITH COVID19 eastasiaforum
NOW, COVID19 IN THE ANTARCTIC ○■○ 1:32-min
WHO-warns-vaccinated-travellers-could-still-need-2be-quarantined sydney morning herald
COVID19 VACCINE: PLAY SAFE Dr. Jeyakumar Deveraj
FOREIGN AFFAIRS GEOPOLITICS
US CONFRONTS CHINA TO PROTECT SUPREMACY thegrayzone
TIANANMEN THAT WASN’T liberationnews
Liang Qichao “the new rules for destroying countries” [mieguo xinfa] – how domination “imperialism” [diguo zhuyi 帝国主义] can, and does, get imposed at a global and local level simultaneously: Japanese capitalist-imperialism was “carving China up like a melon” [guafen; 瓜分]
CHINA RETREATING FROM PAKISTAN’s BELT AND ROAD asiatimes; Europe and Asia to cut colonial Western ties and prosper rt
USA-NORTH KOREA cnn; THE NON- PROLIFERATION TREATY OPTION counterpunch; BIDEN STRATEGY theguardian
UNBREAKABLE CHINA ? martin jacques ○■○ 28:00-min
DECLINE OF US EMPIRE ○■○42:00-min chris hedges; REPAIRING TRUMP’S CARNAGE counterpunch
LATIN AMERICA LOST DECADES foreignaffairs
US COMPLICITY IN CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE; THE “JAKARTA METHOD” ○■○ 9:00-min
MILIBAND’s The State in Capitalist Society tribune
CHINA – A MARXIST ANALYSIS ○■○ Dec 28, 2020 Vijay Prashad
MOMENTUM 