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Tag: McCarthyism

Posted inOpinion

McCarthyism 2.0: Kevin hopes to outdo Joseph

by Ng Weng Hoong January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

Nearly seven decades after it was discredited, McCarthyism is back in the United States with a bigger and more ambitious agenda. The original version to oust “commies” and “traitors,” named after Republican politician Joseph McCarthy, took America by storm during the first Cold War. From February 1950 to December 1954, the redneck first-term senator was […]

Posted inUnited States, World

Not a bad spy novel, but a national nightmare

by David P. Goldman November 24, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inBeijing, China, United States, World

US will regret persecuting Chinese scientists

by George Koo June 8, 2019February 18, 2020
The trade war between the United States and China has hit business confidence. Photo: iStock
Posted inChina

Paranoia not any good for US-China relations

by George Koo January 15, 2019
Children standing near the wooden boat on cracked earth. Metaphor for Global warming and Climate change. Photo: iStock
Posted inEuropean Union, Iraq, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Reality denial in the Anthropocene epoch

by David Simmons August 23, 2018
Medina del Campo, Spain - August 17, 2013: Several people take part in a reenactment of a burning witches. Photo: iStock
Posted inEuropean Union, France, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

US media is more neo-McCarthyism than journalism

by Andrew Brennan March 22, 2018March 22, 2018

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