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Salute the Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 17/09/2026

Lots of incisive -- and very funny -- writing here. I particularly loved the line "the Mitochondrial Eve of the Chinese diaspora." Read Anna C on Anna M W. You'll enjoy it.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bizarre mention of Anna May Wong's absence from The Good Earth. She lobbied earnestly for the part in the Pulitzer Prize-winning story as it would have transformed her career. www.annachen.co.uk/china/anna-m...

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

How the press was done - following 9/11, the anti-Iraq War movement takes off when Bush/Cheney neocons pursue their world domination goals with Blair's help. (He's later paid £2m a year by JP Morgan.) substack.com/@annachenwri...

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How the press was done - following 9/11, the anti-Iraq War movement. 25 years ago, I spent 2001 on three press campaigns, culminating in the STW anti-Iraq war movement. 9/11 began two years counter...

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Social media's reactionary hierarchy only has itself for the "professor" Jiang fiasco. The post-Gamergate manosphere is now the norm for purported progressives. Jeez, how did it get like this? substack.com/@annachenwri...

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Social media’s reactionary hierarchy only has itself to blame for the Professor Jiang fiasco. There’s been a thorough post-Gamergate exclusion of women from the debate by pundits who were late to the...

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

To save the world, first we had to destroy it. In wildfire Europe, among calls for war, a reminder that the military is one of the biggest polluters on the planet. Bigger than farting cows, bigger than the school run, bigger than your annual holiday flight. www.annachen.co.uk/2026/08/03/c...

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Climate change: To save the world, first we had to destroy it – Anna Chen

The military is a major polluting cause of climate change. Europe is on fire & deindustrialising into poverty, so why is the West turning to war and away from public necessity?

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

1) I thought we were told women had to cover up in Iran. 2) Increased accuracy in repelling an illegal & unprovoked war means civilians - and schoolchildren - are unlikely to be hit. 3) Self-defence is no offence. 4) Andy Burnham should stop dragging the UK into this conflict.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Andy Burnham, man of the people, makes the UK complicit in yet another illegal war. His magic money tree prioritises conflict we've provoked for the MIC over human need. Appointing war hawks Healey & Streeting to Treasury & Defence clearly signals the UK has dumped its people. #Iran

CND statement condemning the escalation of the Iran war

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

AI can't do subtext so this must be a treat to read. 🙄

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Lovely. Thanks, Jack, it's new to me.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Can China TRUST the USA or is Trump laying a TRAP youtu.be/cH-_cEVfmLc?... via @YouTube Jeff Rich interviews Anna Chen for Burning Archive

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Can China TRUST the USA or is Trump laying a TRAP

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My interview with Resistance is Fertile: America's 21st century war on China. Simmering away for years despite China's role as shock absorber, global lifeboat and growth engine, is it really a surprise China is the US #1 target?

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A personally curated starter pack of people associated The Orwell Prize with @orwellprize.bsky.social @liamthorp.bsky.social @annachen.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @danigaravelli.bsky.social & many more. Please follow & repost #starterpack

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is where we are. Monitoring the situation with Emperor Trump - Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen. youtu.be/R3LpLaWIrXQ?...

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Monitoring the situation

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Death Star Britain transforms into war machine. Former NATO chief George Robertson demands UK switch public funds to the military in Washington's wake. What is left to defend? www.annachen.co.uk/2026/04/15/d...

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Death Star Britain transforms into war machine – Anna Chen

Europe & the UK told to follow the Washington line on militarising at the expense of the wider population, turning the West into the Death Star ready to take on Russia & China in Apocalypse.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

PEACH: The Fall of the West. Written in 2011, this poem sensed the unwinding of what lay beneath our seemingly rock-solid society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l44f...

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PEACH: The Fall of the West - poem and intro

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I'm interviewed by Jeff Rich at Burning Archive about the Trump world crisis, how we reached this point & what we need to do to steer us out of danger. A big ask. Which is why we have to work together. Difficult when old hierarchies rule. open.substack.com/pub/jeffrich...

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The World has a Three Body Problem | Anna Chen

On USA's Death Star, China and Europe, and life as a cultural outrider.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Bird With Two Right Wings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, read by Anna Chen. A poem still valid in the US electoral swings between Democrats and Republicans in ever declining cycles of awfulness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=laFf...

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Bird With Two Right Wings - Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem read by Anna Chen

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

He grabbed the world by the pussy and squeezed. He can pardon himself on the way out. And he’s just bought himself two weeks to regroup after the Iranian uranium seizure debacle. (Try saying that fast.) The Iran War: So you think a food stockpile is going to save you? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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So you think a food stockpile is going to save you?

The Iran War is existential for everyone except the billionaire elite now making its move behind Trump's Madman persona

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

3) You might end up staring at those KGs of rice & dried chickpeas if we run out of water purification chemicals. Learn from Mad Max, grasshopper, & stash your pets' kibble. That stuff is radioactive & will last until World War IV. Or we could always return the compliment and Eat the Rich.

Mad Max II eating dog food out of the can. Food stockpile 2026. Strait of Hormuz closed.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

2) However, don't count on your food stockpile lasting like the famous cans from Scott's 1910 Polar expedition. Anything acidic like tomatoes eats through the PBA plastic lining, through the metal & into you. 2010/17 Heinz baked beans & soup. >>> #StraitofHormuz

Heinz baked beans cans from May 2010 blown in 2026. Food stockpile.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

1) Oops! UK establishment realises we may be in serious trouble if the Hormuz Strait remains closed thanks to the Don's shakedown. Shame that every Heinz baked beans & tomato soup can in our cupboard from pre-2017 has blown. Peace might be a better solution than stashing food. >>>

UK food stockpile article Guardian 4 April 2026. Closed Strait of Hormuz, Iran war.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

OH NO HE HASN'T. Iran denies "productive conversations" with Trump. I bet his mates sold on the rally. Craig Murray has an interesting nugget that Trump & Netanyahu cooked up the destruction of the Middle East deliberately in order for Israel to become the region's energy hub. Trump Towers galore?

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

😂😢😱 Netanyahu demanded this ever since he called for a joint attack on Tehran at the UN General Assembly 22 September 2023. I wondered at the time how he was going to get his wish.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tucker Carlson: the West doesn't kill innocents but the East believes in collective punishment. From the Yellow Peril depths of his propagandised psyche. Both these speakers are delusional in their own way. #Gaza #sinophobia #China youtu.be/tox2hr4dddM?...

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

WMD 2026: "Iran can reach London," says Israel. Distance between Iran & UK is variously given as: 4,398km (London-Tehran) 4,401km 4,435km 5,000km Missile range is 3,800-4,000km Nah, still not joining in. #Gaza

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Destruction is his one talent.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Funny. That's my fear about the US. Trump tries to take down the world before his sins catch up with him. It's his guilty conscience, not JC, that's pointing him at Armageddon in Iran and the Middle East.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Please come back. US HIGNFY is no longer on the BBC or the CNN channel on Virgin's streaming service in the UK, only highlights on YouTube. Please cheer up the fans who made the original a hit over decades. Even the Titanic had an orchestra to play them out..

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Please make this available in the UK for the fans who made the original a hit over decades. US HIGNFY is no longer on the BBC or the CNN channel on Virgin's streaming service. Only highlights on YouTube.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

AMERICA AS SUPERNOVA Who of us will still be here by the time the American Supernova burns itself out? An astro-metaphor for the mess we're in. youtu.be/KRIImnLyosQ?...

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AMERICA AS SUPERNOVA imploding and exploding all at once: the US Death Star

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Straw man argument. He probably will cling on especially if he does more dirty back room deals with Trump regarding China, Chagos and elsewhere.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We wouldn't have supported Israel's rampage in Gaza. Big tech & corporations Palantir, Blackrock & others would't have gained such a foothold. We wouldn't have nailed ourselves to the USS Titanic & fought its proxy war in Ukraine. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/09/09/w...

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Will accidental leader Jeremy Corbyn fire up Your Party? - Anna Chen

Jeremy Corbyn was always the accidental leader. The 2001 anti-Iraq War campaign had transformed him into the Left's figurehead and pole of attraction. Can he avoid his previous missteps?

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Ha, I knew you didn't mute.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

You're fighting with the voices in your head, not what's being argued. "The undeclared money is said to have paid for polling and campaigning that supported Starmer’s rise to the Labour leadership." Today's news. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/09/09/w...

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Will accidental leader Jeremy Corbyn fire up Your Party? - Anna Chen

Jeremy Corbyn was always the accidental leader. The 2001 anti-Iraq War campaign had transformed him into the Left's figurehead and pole of attraction. Can he avoid his previous missteps?

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We didn't think we were voting for a continuation of the Tories.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It was his team so of course he was culpable. Doesn't change the fact that his politics served the Labour constituency and not the elites as we see in Mandelson/Starmer.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Corbyn was genuinely popular and came within 3,000 votes of winning 2017 - his team's fault for pushing Brexit when 70% of Labour voters supported remain. What happened after was a democratic travesty orchestrated by Mandelson & other dark forces, now exposed.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

He helped bring Thiel into the UK. And Blackrock into Downing Street.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

While we accused Venezuela of election fraud, Mandelson's boy was being used to oust Corbyn whose popular support gave him the biggest party in Europe with 500,000 members. Keir Starmer is the least popular PM ever. But even this would not have mattered had he not restored relations with China.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Excellent insights. Do follow Nel for great writing and analysis in these dark times.

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Word War III: Whoever owns language rules the world. In this video about the war for reality, I discuss how language was turned into a weapon by empire to shape our perceptions. Marx vs postmodernism was one battleground on which the class war was fought. youtu.be/-_Xiypk_Iuc

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Word War III: Whoever owns language rules the world

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Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Ah, yes, born 1905 in Los Angeles. Happy birthday, Anna May Wong. ❤️

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