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GLOBALISTS: The New Money ChangersWhen the People’s Republic of China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in late 2001, there were many in the Western political establishment who assured working-class skeptics that admission into the liberal world order would change China. Once fully integrated into the globalist regime, we were told, China would learn how to live like late-capitalist Americans and Western Europeans. The Chinese would give up on their old Communist ambitions and learn to be content with the material comforts of the twenty-first century, the argument went. Even today, there are those who still argue (https://www.aei.org/op-eds/to-compete-with-china-we-need-the-liberal-international-order/) that the...

Afineevsky About Francis: “We Are Friends” The preparations for the film Francesco started three years ago, the producer Eleonora Granata told Cinecittà News. She wanted to stress Francis’ usual characteristics: social commitment, sensibility for “the poor,” environmentalism, and his fight “against the infamies perpetrated by capitalism.” It was Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, the ex-Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, “who gave us true access to the Vatican.” Granata admits that she hoped that Francis’ statement about homosex partnerships would cause a media uproar, “It is so important to all of us who worked on the film that the message was...

Bolivia Files Charges for Crimes Against Humanity Against Evo Morales at The Hague The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague received a petition Tuesday to open a case against socialist former president of Bolivia Evo Morales and several of his senior cabinet members for “crimes against humanity” committed in the aftermath of his resignation in November. The government of Bolivia filed the charges citing evidence of a “campaign of terrorism” against the Bolivian people intended to ensure Morales returned to power. Morales resigned on November 10 willingly in the aftermath of the publication of an Organization of American States...