Now West Should Sit On Its Backside, Shut Up, And Listen To “The Others”!
We were always told what to think; what is correct and what is wrong. By the white dudes living in or coming from Europe and North America. They knew everything.…
Andre Vltchek
“Warrior” Steve Bannon Arrested As Trump’s America Is Crumbling
It often happens this way: extreme right-wingers, or call them 'ultra-conservatives,' either in the United States or Europe, suddenly fall from grace, after committing the most heinous crimes. Sometimes it…
Anti-Racist Uprising In Minneapolis Infiltrated By Extreme-Right Hooligans
Text and photos: Andre Vltchek (Reportage from Minneapolis) The city of Minneapolis is where it all began. It is where the last drop fell on the surface of a proverbial…
Beirut Goes Up In Smoke
To see Beirut and its port area with a huge mushroom cloud hanging above is a truly surreal sight. But what is not surreal in battered Lebanese capital? A big…
Our Planet Missed Opportunity To Unite And Fight Side-By-Side Against The Pandemic
It is time to stop irresponsible finger-pointing. All over the world, as this essay is being written, well over 17 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, and 676,000 people died.…
Racism in Chile
Recently, when a retired Chilean U.N. employee tried to enter ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Santiago de Chile) to claim her pension…
The Tremendous But ‘Secret’ Success Of Socialist Vietnam
Some twenty years ago, when I moved to Hanoi, the city was bleak, grey, covered by smog. The war had ended, but terrible scars remained. I brought my 4WD from…
Some Italian Thinkers Are Now Resisting Lies About The Soviet Union And WWII
Lying about world history is one of the main weapons of the Western imperialists, through which they are managing to maintain their control of the world. European and North American…
How We Sold Soviet Union And Czechoslovakia For Plastic Shopping Bags
For months, this has been a story that I want to share with young readers in Hong Kong. Now it seems to be the really appropriate time when the ideological…
Do Not Belittle Protesters In U.S By Calling Their Struggle A “Color Revolution”!
For almost a decade, I have been covering “Color Revolutions” in virtually all parts of the world. While making a film for TeleSur, I was facing Egyptian tanks, risking my…
It Is All About Race. Awful Hypocrisy To Say It’s Not!
While I am following closely various discussions on Western mass media and social media, simultaneously engaging in several direct exchanges, one overwhelming leitmotif that I see is clearly emerging: “What…
Western racism and the world
Erkin Oncan interviews Andre Vltchek EO: How do you evaluate the George Floyd protests? Do these actions lead to a positive permanent change in the country? Is there a possibility…
COVID-19 Will Devastate Indonesia Which Is Already Collapsing Under Brutal System
In Jakarta, doctors are dying, while common people do not know which data to believe, anymore. It appears that even some government officials do not trust government statistics. People in…
Anti-Communism Is A Fundamentalist Religion, Now Followed By Billions
Happy Birthday Comrade Lenin! 150 years ago, on April 21, 1870, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, was born. According to many, he was the greatest revolutionary of all times, a…
“The World Cannot Breathe!” Squashed By The U.S.-A Country Built On Genocide And Slavery
More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. One man’s death triggers an avalanche of rage…
“Battle” Against COVID-19 In A Fragmented World, Has Ruined Billions Of Lives
It is not only about physically surviving the pandemic. People miss people, and places, sometimes desperately. And they die, when separated. We are bombarded by briefings and numbers. We are…
The Soviet Victory Over Nazism 75 Years Ago, And COVID-19
How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the…
Cold War Of Trump/Navarro Vs China: More Dangerous Than COVID-19
It is getting ugly, extremely ugly. It is increasingly looking like a war – at least a new ‘cold’, ideological war. But in the shadow of COVID-19, it goes almost…
New Indonesian Capital In Borneo- From Rural Misery To Grody Dreams Of Urban Glory
Text and photos: Andre Vltchek and Mira Lubis An old road between Balikpapan and Samarinda passes through the poor villages, through rural slums, as well as stalls selling second-rate local…
The White House And Western Media Are Smearing, And Humiliating The WHO
For decades, the United States has been antagonistic to the most important international organization on Earth – the United Nations. It is because the organization has periodically rebelled and refused…
Peter Navarro: A Man Who Smears China Without Knowing Much About It
For many years now, it has been obvious that in both North America and Europe, smearing and provoking China has become an extremely lucrative business, even career. There are entire…
In Prague, A Disgraceful Act: They Desecrated And Removed The Statue Of Marshal Konev!
Soon, there might be silence. The liberation of Prague, as well as the liberation of Auschwitz and or Warsaw by the Red Army will be forgotten. At least in…
COVID-19 And We Are Not Allowed To Watch, Listen And Read What We Want, Anymore
Now, that almost all of us, all over the world, have been forced into staying in what could be easily defined as house arrest, there is suddenly plenty of time…
‘Chinese Virus’ Rhetoric Shows Ineptness Of U.S. Politicians
The Western mass media is extremely busy frightening its own citizens and the entire world with statements like: “A leaked government document has suggested up to 500,000 people could…
How Will The World Look Like After COVID-19?
Fabrizio Verde of L’Antidiplomatico interviews Andre Vltchek [During this exchange, both men are “locked up”. Verde in Naples, Vltchek in Santiago de Chile] * FV: How will be the…
8 Day Journey From Hong Kong To Chile, COVID-19 On My Tail
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Imagine that you are in Hong Kong, in a city where “you are actually not supposed to be”, in the first place. You are ready…
China – US Media War
The U.S. is insulting the Chinese media. It is affecting both countries. My colleagues in Beijing believe, correctly, that Washington should have tried to increase communication, not to bring it…
The Thuggish US Imperialism
Frankly and in summary: recently The United States of America has crossed several lines, committing atrocities, in many parts of the world. In the past, no country could get away…
Could The Latest Outburst Of Ankara’s Temper Lead To Escalation In Syria?
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek So far Turkey, militarily the second mightiest NATO country, has been able to get away with virtually anything it has chosen to brew in the…
The Philippines Are Choosing New Allies – Asia Is Watching
Now what? President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is outraged. He wants an end to the U.S. military presence in his country. He wants to curb all cooperation with the…
Western Anti-Chinese Propaganda Exaggerates Coronavirus Danger, Creates Panic
Now it is becoming obvious who China’s friends are, and who her enemies are. In the West, many nations and individuals are celebrating the short-term difficulties that the Chinese nation…
Italy Tries To Kick Out The Right-Wing Extremist Steve Bannon From The ‘Gladiator Cloister’
Steve Bannon, a former White House strategist and Breitbart editor,was finally kicked out of an Italian monastery, which even Newsweek wittily described as a“far-right boot camp”. This author, along with…
Coronavirus-China Fights Determinately, While Others Smear!
Testimonies from inside China China has been hit by coronavirus as if by a brick over the head; heavily and mercilessly. Instead of help, Beijing has received criticism, even…
How Is Washington ‘Liberating’ Free Countries
There are obviously some serious linguistic issues and disagreements between the West and the rest of the world. Essential terms like “freedom”, “democracy”, “liberation”, even “terrorism”, are all mixed up…
Western ‘Political Correctness’ Does Not Make All People Equal
In the West, there is a new wave of political correctness at work: it is all about one’s sexual orientation; who has sex with whom, and how.Suddenly, the mass media…
Iran’s Hero Has Fallen, And Now The world Is An Even More Dangerous Place
They say he came from a humble background, and worked himself up the ranks, becoming, as many believe, the second most powerful man in Iran. They say he had…
America, Where Great Literature Kicked The Bucket
Once in a while, people ask me: “Why did you accept the US citizenship, many years ago?” “After all,” they say, “now you are one of the most vocal critics…
Colombia- Where Life Has To Defeat Death
In one of the poorest neighborhoods of Bogota, Belen,I saw two people bleeding in the middle of the road. One person was clearly dead. A group of onlookers was moving…
In The U.K – Do Subjects Deserve Their Rulers?
I constantly receive such letters; letters which repeat, again and again, year after year, basically the same thing: “If only we would have an opportunity to vote out our…
I Never Saw A World So Fragmented!
It is amazing how easily, without resistance,the Western empire is managing to destroy “rebellious” countries that are standing in its way. I working all corners of the planet, wherever…
Indigenous Bolivia Ready To Go To War Against Fascism
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Bolivia, December 2019, three weeks after the fascist coup. It is devilishly cold. My comrade’s car is carefully navigating through the deep mud tracks. Enormous…
Quo Vadis, Lebanon?
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Good bye, Lebanon, metaphorically and truly. Good bye to a country which, many believe, actually has already ceased to exist. For five long years I…
Lies Which The West Manufactures And Then Consumes
After my work in the Middle East had finished, at least for the time being, I was waiting for my flight to Santiago de Chile.In Paris.I could count on…
Evo Morales Overthrown, But Bolivian Socialism Will Be Victorious!
They pledged to do it, and they did - Bolivian feudal lords, mass media magnates and other treasonous “elites” – they overthrew the government, broke hope and interrupted an…
Abandoning Jakarta, Moving Capital To Borneo – Cynicism, Corruption, Murder
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek It is wrong, totally wrong to abandon Jakarta and try to build some Potemkin village in the middle of Borneo, an island known in Indonesia…
Qatar: Education As A Weapon
Text and photos: Andre Vltchek There seems to be no limit to Qataris tossing around their wealth. This tiny kingdom with 2.6 million inhabitantsis full of ridiculously lavish gold-plated palaces,…
Beirut Is Burning: Rebellion Against The Elites Has Commenced
Tires are burning, smoke is rising towards the sky. It is October, the 18th day of the month, the capital city of Lebanon, in the past known as the…
Steve Bannon – A Profile of a U.S. Apparatchik. From China To The Pope
Individuals like Steve Bannon, often greatly influence leaders like President Donald Trump.Then they fall out of grace, sometimes because of some personal quarrels, and “get fired”. But, regularly, at…
The Last Moments of Indonesia As We Know It
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Student protests, West Papua independence struggle, monstrous forest fires, an assassination attempt against Coordinating Minister, sinking capital city, earthquakes and a collapsing economy –…
Is it the US that has weakened or have countries that resist become stronger?
MOSTAFA AFZALZADEH INTERVIEWS ANDRE VLTCHEK FOR FARHIKHTEGAN Q: Do we see an increase in the number of countries resisting the bullying of the United States and its allies? What makes…
US-China “Trade’’ War? No Way. Only The Defeat Of Turbo-Capitalism
It is very popular these days to talk and write about the “trade war” between the United States and China. But is there really one raging? Or is it, what…
Saudi Arabia Is Opening Its Doors: But What Will You See Once There?
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is opening up to the world. It used to be absolutely impossible to get a visa to enter, unless…
Why I Stand By The 70 Years Old, Communist China
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Happy Birthday, People’s Republic of China! Heartfelt Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday, and thank you for being here, for standing, for not bending down and never…
Some In Hong Kong Feel Frustrated, As Their City Is Losing To Mainland China
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Hong Kong is losing to Mainland China. Its poverty rates are high, it suffers from corruption and savage capitalism.It is now the most expensive city…
Juan Guaido, Joshua Wong: New Generation of Pro-Western “Saints”
The new generation of “pro-Western heroes” and “saints” is clearly failing to impress the world. Juan Guaido and Joshua Wong are definitely as right-wing as Mother Teresa was, but not…
Hong Kong Is Scared – Of The Rioters
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek It was once a British police station, as well as the Victoria Prison Compound. Hong Kong inhabitants used to tremble just from hearing its name…
Western media portrays Hong Kong hooligans as heroes. But are they?
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Whenever Hong Kong protesters are destroying public property, there are no cameras of Western media outlets in sight. But when police decide to intervene, protecting…
Both Israel And Hezbollah Imagined A Horrid Black Hole And Stopped
There are rare moments in history, when even the most determined enemies can suddenly recognize the futility of battle. Sometimes, just for a moment or two. Sometimes, for longer. Such…
The West Oppressed The Third World So Long That It Became Third World Itself
Many have already noticed: The U.S. really, really doesn’t feel like the world leader, or even as a ‘first world country’. Of course, I write that sarcastically, as I detest…
Several Reasons Why West Papua Should Get Its Freedom… Immediately!
More than ten years ago, in Nadi, Fiji, during a UN conference, I was approached by the Minister of Education of Papua New Guinea (PNG). He was deeply shaken, troubled,…
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