You can’t easily point on who‘s the good and who’s the bad.

Hint: It's always the side perpetrating genocidal settler-colonialism that's the bad-der one (by far), okay?

But, I can find almost no information about it from reputable sources

What? You think this is some kind of secret? Israeli officials themselves have been admitting to this for years now.

Koreas "chaebol" system isn't just any kind of conglomerattion, though... it was based on the system the Japanese used to dominate Korea during it's colonization of that country, which the US simply encouraged after the war. The dictatorships that followed basically ran with it... and now you have these gigantic, government-subsidized "chaebols" that is the epitome of "too big too fail." South Korea is about as oligarchic as it gets.

It's utterly hilarious to me when "free market" cultists try to use South Korea as an example of how miraculous their fairy tale economic ideology is.

All the armaments the US supplied (most of which actually came from China) to the Mujahideen was distributed by Pakistani intelligence services - that is true. However, the US knew perfectly well who the Pakistanis were giving these weapons to - it had been longstanding US foreign policy SOP to nurture and support far-right, reactionary Islamism as a counter to middle-eastern nationalism. That's the reason the "big bads" in the middle-east now are people like Osama and not people like Arafat.

Just for the record (and for context) - China cooperated with the Apartheid-regime.

Putin has just screwed over a lot of African leaders with his grain deal shitfuckery, and now he's acting all surprised pickachu-face because they are showing his disdain for him by not showing up.

Putin has forgotten that the only use African leaders have for him and Russia is as a counter-balance to US neocolonialist policy in Africa - that doesn't mean they have to like him or his regime.

Nope... it's far worse.

The internet poses a threat to the status quo - my local library will never stock anything written by Emma Goldman or Noam Chomsky, but, thanks to the interent, this information is pretty much at my fingertips.

They don't like that - it's far too democratic for a status quo that wants to pretend it's democratic while ensuring that we never understand the idea of democracy in any way that doesn't keep them in power and in the money.

You conveniently remove the ‘undesirables’ from the system, and your colony of immigrants and their descendants becomes a “vibrant democracy”.

As someone who grew up during the Apartheid-years, I have to say... that's exactly how it was.

I know of no tattoo artist that would do that... and I know at least one that would beat the crap out you for even trying.

China is the number one

Sooo... a capitalist state?

Russia is near the top

Sooo... another capitalist state?

Fuck off tankies.

You don't know what a tankie is, do you?

I knew it was a bad day when we allowed liberals access to that word.

Have you noticed how liberalism is always pro-capitalism?