Anna Chen – 31 July 2023, Julian Assange Julian Assange punished for informing the public There’s something monumental and mythical about the Promethean figure of Julian Assange having his liver pecked out every day by the US eagle for taking information from the self-styled gods and giving it to us humans. In Graeco-Roman mythology, Prometheus […]
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Anna Chen – 17 May 2023, Taiping rebellion What the Guardian’s review of the British Museum’s Hidden Century exhibition doesn’t tell you about the Taiping Rebellion The Guardian’s review of the British Museum’s Hidden Century exhibition continues the 19th-century mindset rationalising British imperialism in China past and present while omitting the driving force behind the
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By Anna Chen / 11/05/2023 VIDEO CHAT WITH JERRY GREY. Last Sunday, I was an online guest of Jerry Grey, the British-born China commentator who caught our attention with accounts of his marathon bicycle trips around China, including Xinjiang, China’s Belt And Road back door which leads across the Eurasian continent as far as Barking in the far
A poem fit for a king. Eating Placenta — Lines on the Royal Birth Anna Chen reads Eating Placenta: Lines on the Royal Birth Call me a coronation chicken but I’m sorely tempted to duck out of the Big Event this Saturday. I’m only one of a vast swathe of increasingly disenfranchised, pauperised Brits who
Stopping the Iraq War 2001-3, from race war to 9/11: How the press was done By Anna Chen 13 February 2023. Wednesday 15 February marks the 20th anniversary of the unprecedented million-strong anti-Iraq War demonstration in London. 2001 was a busy year for presswork even before the September 11 attacks in the USA. In March,
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Happy new year to one and all. A welcome mild spell of weather in the UK takes some of the pressure off us from spiking energy prices under the new world order’s decoupling from China, our global lifeboat and factory. Every country that refuses to come to heel in the Rules-based order that has quietly
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