Tag: The Wide Angle

How the CCP’s Bad Business is Costing Americans; Behind Student Protests on 2021 Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is quietly altering its glowing projections of China’s economy into 2022 and beyond to a more realistic appraisal. Beijing authorities recently held a closed-door meeting of the Central Economic Work Conference, during which Xi Jinping revealed that China’s economy is in dire straits. What he neglected to mention is that…


‘Quarantine’ Camps in Australia; COVID Policy, Media Causing Feelings of Hopeless, Division, Social Isolation—Feat. Lee Smith

“Imagine that phrase: a woman in a camp in Australia is being detained. That, in itself, tells you where you are,” says investigative journalist Lee Smith, commenting on the alleged detention of a woman in Darwin, Australia in a so-called quarantine facility, without a positive COVID-19 result. In this episode, I’m joined by Lee Smith,…


70,000 Russian Troops (and Growing) at Ukraine Border; What’s to Stop Putin From Invading Ukraine?

Recently, the world’s focus has been directed heavily towards the U.S. hosted “Summit for Democracy.” However, the phone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the eve of the Summit warrants as much, if not more, attention. Russia presently has at least 70,000 troops stationed at its border with Ukraine,…


More Countries Boycott Beijing 2022, but #WhereIsPengShuai?

As of Thursday, the UK and Canada are the latest countries to join the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. This comes just days after the White House’s corresponding announcement. The United States cited the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as the primary reason for its action. But, are there other motives underlying its…


‘Russia Collusion’ Hoax Reveals Dangerous ‘Evolution’ of US Media Since Watergate: Feat. Lee Smith

How high does the Russia-collusion hoax rate on the scale of U.S. political scandals? Veteran journalist and author Lee Smith would say it tops them all. With the Watergate scandal, the American press uncovered corruption and crimes at the highest levels of government, leading to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation. Fifty years on, we find…


Getting Answers From China on Its ‘Disappeared Dissidents:’ Is China in Economic Crisis?

Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan has been jailed since May 2020 after filming and reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic from Wuhan. Chinese human-rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, who has long defended activists and the civil rights of religious minorities, has been “disappeared” since 2017. What point of leverage could the world use to compel the Chinese Communist…


How China Exported ‘Pandemic Tyranny’ to the World; Side-Effects of Stripping Away People’s Rights

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin In certain aspects, China’s early “handling” of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak—in particular, its draconian lockdowns—set the tone for the erosion of civil liberties continuing across the world in the name of “pandemic response.” In this episode, I’m joined by…


WHO: Omicron Could Trigger Global Pandemic Surge; Will Existing Immunity Work Against Omicron?

Why has the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the new, heavily-mutated coronavirus variant Omicron a “variant of concern?” How is it that the next-in-line letters of the Greek alphabet, Nu and Xi, were skipped in the naming of this strain? Observing the different responses around the world to Omicron triggers recollection of the “early days”…


NBA Star Tackles China’s Human Rights Abuse; How the Peng Shuai Scandal Could Impact Beijing 2022

“Where is Peng Shuai?” Pressure on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to present legitimate proof that Peng Shuai is safe and free to speak continues to mount. By and large, the seemingly-choreographed photos and videos that the Party has released have failed to quell international concern. If anything, they’ve added to suspicions that Peng is…


‘Happy’ Peng Shuai Videos & Photos Raise More Suspicions; Why IOC Accepts China’s ‘Peng’ Propaganda

“She is safe and well … but would like to have her privacy respected at this time,” the International Olympic Committee (IOC) relayed, this message apparently from Peng Shuai. Certainly, in many of the videos recently released by Chinese Communist Party media, she is smiling. But I think I would find a way to smile…